The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-30 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

ties; and, to crown all, Don Miguel, the leading an-'
thor of the late movement, whom his father q a little
week" ago declared a rebel, and of whom be said " I

abandon him as a Father. and I shall know how to

punish him as a King," has b en declared Commander.
in-Chief. The time, the c'-^n -::lances, and the result,
all tend to satisfy us, th. 1415 is not a Portuguese

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movement, bat an episode :rated by the intrigues and
bribery of the Holy 41lk: ! J fist at the period when this
counter-revolution occarred, and which mat bane been
long in preparation, it was expected that the French

would reach Seville; and, calculating upon a want of cou-
rage in the Cortes, to proceed to extremities, it was hoped
that the capture of Ferdinand, and the treason of John
of Portugal, would annihilate the Constitutional systems
in the Peninsula, and destroy all hopes of their future es.

tablishment. We s^e no trace of the will of the people, in

the late movement at Lisbon. On the contrary, none

but the regular sulki:ers raised the cry of " Live the
absolute King !" The militia waited upon General
Pepe, and requested that he would lead them to attack
the revolters ; and it is much to be regretted, that this
officer did not feel that the extraordinary situation in
which he was placed, gave him a commission to do so,

as a champion of the general liberties of the world.—
The people tore down the traitorous proclamations of
the King;—and, if they had the means, they would
have subdued the treason, and punished the traitors,
as became the dignity of the national justice. There
were none of those spontaneous acclamations, amidst
which the Constitution was proclaimed. A small body of
deluded soldiers leave the city, to declare their enmity to
equal laws, and equal rights. if the people bad been
anxious for the old system, why was it not proclaimed
amongst them? Why did the Prince Miguel steal assay
to join his recreant fellows, and at a distance to proclaim
their treason, if the people wished the Constitution de-
stroyed ? Why did the King, when be knew the army
was seduced, affect to be still faithful to his oaths, if the
people were ready to absolve him from them? No, the
people of Portugal have had nothing in common with
the royal, noble, and priestly conspirators against their
liberty. The whole was a plot against the people. The
affair of the Count d'Amarante was the reconnoitring
band of the conspiracy. Tben an appeal to the people
was made; and the answer of the people was to hunt the
traitor from post to pest, until he ceased to pollute
the territory. An attempt had then been made upon the
fidelity of the troops, and some of them had been
corrupted ; for one party sent to attack the traitor,
d'Antarante, went over to, him ; bat the people remained
firm to the Constitution ; and it was necessary to wait
until the soldiery were generally corrupted—and the no.
suspicious confidence of the Cortes in the honor of the
King, afforded an excellent opportunity, which the King
has availed himself of, in the way that Kings in general
repay the confidence of the people. The journals tell us
that there were illuminations and rejoicings when
the King returned to Lisbon ; but if the dispo-
sition to such matters had existed, why did
be steal away from Lisbon like s slave, con•
ciotms that he was running from merited punish-1
menL He knew the army had been corrupted into a
host of traitorous blockheads, lie could fear nothing
bat from the indignation of the people against his mani-
fold perjuries :—and from this apprehended indignation
he fled, in order to acertain whether be bad succeeded
in disarming it from any effectual means of expressing
itself. And when he returned, instead of trusting to the
people, be bad the streets lined with his soldiery! The
source of the illuminations may be easily and safely
guessed. It is said the King persists in his determina-
tion of rejecting the ancient order of things. This is
sheer nonsense. What such a man professes to do, de-
serves neither credence nor reliance. A copy of the
perjured King of Naples, who can believe his word ? But,
granted that thej old system is not formally restored—
granted that be gives the people a Constitution, as it
may he called ; it will be such a one as he pleases, be ad_
ministered by his creatures, and will neither afford
_nor
offer any security to the people. To restore the authority
of the priests and the nobles, will be to plunge the peo-
ple again in that depth of ignorance and credulity in
which despotism delighteth. Nothing that is good can
emanate from such a being, surrounded as he is by so
many who are even worse than himself. He has shewn
himself weak, submissive, and hypocritical. In such
soil no virtue ever grew. It is with some satisfaction
that we remark, no act of outrage has yet been com-
mitted by the Royal party against the Constitutionalists—
but we do not place any reliance upon the professions that
none will occur. Nothing but the dread of rousing the
public vengeance will give impunity to the honest advo-
cates of public liberty. There is not a Russian force at
Lisbon, to enforce confiscation of property, or loss of life ;
as at Naples, an Austrian Banditti carries into effect the
wishes of a perjured Monarch : but when the worst ob-
tain the ascendancy, the worst is to be feared.
The Rebel Regency at Madrid is raging with absolute
fury at time " horrible crime" of removing Ferdinand to
Madrid. They had hoped that the Cortes were formed
of the same materials as themselves, and only wanted a
decent excuse for treason to their country—and find-
ing their error—discovering that they cannot take
the royal poppet out of the hands of his legiti-
mate masters, they are seized with absolute fren-
zy. The rebel regency confesses itself "confounded"
at an act of so much energy ; and dictated by so deter-
mined a love of liberty in preference to life, and talks of
punishing its authors!" Gramercy! They will, no
doubt,be punished when they are caught. But, we trust,
the Regency of the Holy Allies will be yet more con-
founded, ere that shall happen. Leta French fleet, if
it can, (and England will permit the destruction of the
Independence of Spain as a nation,) let it blockade Ca.
diz—let the last citadel of Spanish Freedom be closely
invested by sea and land—letj its walls be stormed—
let Its battlements be gained—still the virtuous and de-
voted members of the Cortes can prevent Ferdinand from
falling into the hands of the enemies of Spain :—they
still can prevent his name from being used to rivet the
chains of future generations ; nor would it surprise us,
though it might Y confound" an universe of slaves,
were the Cortes to assemble on the last rampart that was
to be polluted by foreign footsteps, and placing their
-wretched Monarch in the midst of' them, compel him to
plunge with them Into ;be ie4 ; and, in derision,

bid the conquerors follow, to consummate their victory.
The laat, the only hope, of European freedom for ages
I yet to come, rests on the Conduct of the Spanish Cortes,
and the resistance of the gallant peasantry of Spain.
Portugal is detached from the common cause. Nothing
is left but Spain and Spanish Patriotism. These has e
been found sufficient in a period as fraught with unfa-
vorable portents; and we will not despair, while there i-
one Spanish band that bears a sword against the invad-
ers, or one Spanish heart that beats for the freedom of his
country. As men, as Englishmen, this hoite is equally
dear to us. As men, we cannot but wish that the freedom
which is essential to individual happiness, and national
prosperity, may be firmly established ; and, as English-
men, we can only look forward to a liberal Government
in Spain as the means of prunoting a beneficial inter-
course between the tiro countries. Free Spain must .be
not only our Friend, hut our Ally. Despotic Spain I
not only be no Friend, but our Enemy.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL, June 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Hope, Wilson, from Tobago ; Caroline, Dunlop,
from Sierra Leone; Margaret, Ruck, from Demerara ;
City of Edinburgh, Wiseman, from Calcutta; and Ruckers,
Soper, from Grenada.—Came down the River and remain,
the William Harris, Bencroft, for Quebec; Union Packet,
Roe, for Bordeaux; --, Martin, for Alicant.—
June 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the —, Ross, from Ja-
maica ; Rosslyn Castle, Hepburn. from ditto, and Per-
cm!, Livingstone, from Grenada.—Came down from the
River and remain, the Mary, Poyde, for the Cape of Good
Hope, and Echo, Swordy, for the Ray of Fishy.
PORTSMOUTH, June 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Ann,
Langridge. from Gibraltar.—Sailed the Mitchell, Irving,
for London.—June 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Susan,
Hamilton, from the Downs for Bengal, and Zephyr trans-
port from Cork.
FALMOUTH. June 29.—Witid W.—Arrived the Duke of
Kent Packet (I). from Lisbon, in I I days ; Lord Sidmouth
Packet from in 13 days, and Duke of Kent Packet,
from ditto, in 17 days.—Arrived H. M. brig Trinculo,
from Cadiz. in 20 days. with messengers and despatches ;
Hope. Wilson, from Tobago, in 59 days.
PLYMOUTH. June 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Har-
mony, Woodall, from London for Demerara.—Arrived the
Shannon from Rio Janeiro, leaky.—Off the Port the Eliza,
from Batavia for Ant werp.
The Constentia, Davie, from Bristol to Quebec, was
wrecked the 13th ult. on the Island of Cape Breton, crew
and passengers saved: cargo expected to be saved.

Extract of a Letter from the Agents to Lloyd's, at Havre,
dated June 27:
" Intelligence has been received here that the Penelope
struck on a rock in going up to Bordeaux, and, it is said,
has filled. This information was transmitted to Paris by
telegraph. This is the valuable ship that was reported a few
days ago to have been taken. She is insured at Lloyd's at
100,000/.
The Amelia, Perrier,from Havre, to Senegal, was car-
ried into Corunna, the 6th inst. by the Heruique Mins,
Spanish privateer.
The Severn, Field, from Marseilles to Gibraltar, was
carried into Malaga the 26th ult., by the Santa Anna,
a Spanish privateer, front Algesiras.
PARIS, Jtme 25.—Bordeaux papers state, that the
Amelia; from Havre to Senegal, has been taken and car
vied into Coranoa by the Heroique Mina Spanish pri-
vateer.
GIBRALTAR, Mar 23.—The Algesiras privateers have
detained and carried into that port a Gibraltar Mistico
returning from Sales with a quantity of spice, and a for-
tnguese craft from Portugal also, with Honey for this
place, hot it is expected they will be released. They
have likewise detained and taken into that port this day
a Dattisb ketch and Hanoverian galliot, both from the
East.
Admiral Sir L. Halsted is appointed to the command
at Jamaica, in the room of Commodore Sir Ed ward Owen,
who returns home in consequence of ill health.
The Sybille frigate is to be paid off at Deptford di-
rectly, and prepared for being recommissioned, and Cap-
tain Pechell appointed to the command.
The Spartiate, of 74 guns, is fitting at Chatham for
the flag-ship of Sir George Eyre, on the South Am-rican
station ; and the Iris, of 30 guns, at the same port, for
the Jamaica station.
The following extract of a letter from Malaga, though the
date is considerably behind that of the last accounts from
Seville. may not be deemed altogether uninteresting, either
in a political or mercantile view :
" MALAGA, May 7.—" As this port will be thrown open
on the 10th for the introduction of bread-stuffs from foreign
countries, we beg to call your attention to the quotations in
our price-current. Presuming, however, the harvest will
be gathered from the Ist to the 20th June, it is not probable
any material alteration will take place in the article of wheat,
before the autumnal months; but a sanguinary and destruc-
tive war just commencing, we are led to believe great cliffi•
catty will be found in procuring labourers to work the Gelds,
The French armies, their allies, the rebels, and the large ar-
mies raised and raising to repel the invaders, together,
with a great number of guerilla parties, almost co-
ver the face of the country, and many of the pea-
santry throwing away their implements of husbandry
and seizing their arms, altogether combined will tender this
noble country a scene of great distress and misery, and
most probably cause a demand for heavy foreign supplies,
particularly in rice, as the beautiful province of Valencia,
is almost entirely ruined by the factious, in that part of the
province devoted to agriculture. Wines have rather im-
proved in value, owing in part to the last scanty vintage, sad
likewise to the demand for them in the Havannah and va-
rious parts of South America. It is too soon to form as
opinion of the next vi.dage ; but the vines and fruit trees
never appeared better, and we have lately enjoyed an abun-
dance of rain throughout all parts of the country. The-
ports are not declared open, but the whole province of An-
dalusia is declared in a state of war, and consequently
every port is open. The French will have cause to regret
Having entered Spain, as they will be beaten, without any
doubt."
Letters have been received from Oporto of the •lth and
sth, and some from one of the Gentlemen who ;accompa-
nied Sir R. Wilson. From what is stated-by the latter,
there is reason to fear that our distinguished country-
man is rather in a critical po'ition, and that at all
events he will find it difficult to leave Portugal for some
time. The following is an extract from one of the letters
referred to : . . _

About eight o'clock in the evening two Aids-du-Camp
came from the new Government, end desired Sir Robert and
his Staff to attend the Junta, they having received a Pro-
clamation from the King; but he retuned going, except by
compulsion, stating that he had nothing to do with the Pro-
clamation, or the new Government, and that he intended to
return immediately into Spain. Some time after they sent
a letter requesting him to give his word of honour not to
interfere in any shape with the political successes obtained
on this memorable day (4th June). He very readily agreed
to this, having previously made up his mind to quit Purtugal
on the 6th."
iiitaTecisto ELECTION.—On Thursday last the Election
took place of a Member for this Borough, in the roam of
Lord Cranhorne, now Marquess of Salisbury ; —two Can-
didates appeared on the hustings—Thomas Slingsby
Duncombe, of Duncombe Hall, in Yorkshire, Esq , and
Thomas Byron, of Hayford, Esq. The show of hands
was declared to be in favour of Mr. Duncombe; but a
poll, having been granted, he declined the contest the fol.
lowing day.
Previously to the removal of the Kinz to Cadiz, the
Cortes and Government were actively occupied in prepa-
ratory steps in order to repeal, for the mutual benefit of
England and Spain, bat only as far as it concerns the
British commerce, (an exclusive preference which proves
bow decided a predilection this country enjoys among the
Constitutional Spaniards), a great part, if not the whole
of the prohibitory or restrictive system of florin. es,
which had been established by the loaner Congresses.

THEATRICALS:
!IA Y .11 6T.—The close of the winter theatres .
day will double the alreaJy erne:ire strength of the
Haymarket. Theatre; and this popular eßtobl.,Ll:t:
wiltelt hes reaped honours awl profit for the I.ist r-, ;-
night, may confidently look f.rnard to the
possible surres ilurincthe remain,ler of the scasonifi.o.is
the united tilents of Liston, Terry, Harley,
Vining, ill:Ikons, Me, loon: bee, So.; with
I is, Miss Chester, Miss Paton, Mrs. Chatterley,' :i;;.,
Live, &c. &c. The house hai been welifille I every
EN:i1.1.7,11 OPER liv!eTheatre, &glut ',hi,
recess, has been entire:). re-rteeoro...ed. The columns ha:o
been re-gin in burnished gold.
The upper and lower circles are cocereil with a rich y-rol
ornament in burnished gold. and the tl,.st cirle of boxirs i A
hung with a rich green velvet and gold stesiiery. forming nca-
nopy over the dress boxes. A new lonic Portico
strutting for the front in the Strand, wide!' %%id he comfy-t,
ed within a very short period after the (Timing of I,iia
Theatre. The only reason that this addition was not roii:-
pleted before the commencement of the Season. has I. •••••
we understand, in the difficulty of gaining the peru]isioit•?..-C
its erection. - -

Saturday, at one o caucft, of le
assembled .at the Council Office, which was a'tende•t Is?
nearly the same numerous assemblage of their Lord-
ships, as the t,-.o preceding Saturdays, to heir tile a;+•
peal of I,Drci Douglas against the fink. of Hatu;ilo
a
enjoying the honour and privilege of tarrying the'
King's Crown, by virtue of tbr the Earl of An-
gus. Their Lordships continued int a:it:ern:llv tint
three o'clock, when their Lordshii s separated in cfr;;;.••
quence of those who are leinhers of the Cabinet being
summoned to attend a Cabinet Council at the L•ureigis

,f tb

Council

Office.
On Satnrilay, at three o'clock. a Cabinet Council ens;
held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by t',e
Lord-Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool. the Earl of Hoe -
Jeswhy, the Earl of Westmoreland, Mr. Secretary Peel,
Mr. Seerc'ary Canning, Earl Bathurst, tile
of the Exchequer, Lord Maryborough, Mr. Wynn, VI--
count Sidmouth, &e.—The Cabinet sat in delibera
till a quarter before five o'clock.
The Marquess of Bath, it is said, is to have the filar
riband, vacant by the death of the Marquess of Saiishut e.
THE LATETHUNDER STORlits.—Onrinc the heavy storm
of lightning, thunder, and rain, with which the metrop, -
lis was visited on Friday afternoon. part of the electric
fluid struck near the Swan public-huuse at London-bride.,
and shivered one of the mooring posts into splinters.
man was struck by the lightning in Fenchurch-strert,
and was carried speechless an l insensible into the slims
of Mr. Roper, where he shortly af.erwards recovered, ai d
did not appear to have sustained any material injury.
The lightning struck the house of Mr. Goodwin, 1!,
Mulberry-street, Whitechapel; it entered at the suttee
and shivered the front wall from the top to the bottom,
shattered all the windows to pieces, tore off the shnttees,
and destroyed the furniture; the house is so much dams
aged that it must be pulled down. Mr. Goodwin, who
is 65 pats of age, and his wife 73, fit a very paintal
sensation in their heads, and were deprived of their heat-
ing for three or four hours, but recovered,. there were res
other persons in the house at the time. The next house,
No. il, and the two opposite houses, hail each ever:
window broke, and were otherwise much injured; happi-
ly no lives were lost. An old man and his son who I.:d
a horse and cart hawking pea., stood at a door for shelter
from the storm, leaving tjus poor beast in the street as
some distance from thern,when the animal was struck(' ran.
Another severe storm of thunder and hail burst over t',.l
middle of the metropolis, yesterday afternoon. Near
New Church in the Strand, the hailston..s, which were
usually large, continued to fall for many minutes with a.t.
common violence ; and a quart basin-full, which pout-4
down the chimney, was shovelled off the carpet of a sitting
room. The quantity that fell was so large, that more tha3
an hour after the storm abated, some of the hail remained
unmelted on the south side of the Church. The storm, how-
ever, was very limited in its extent. The same was the case
respecting that on Friday; but where it fell in the country,
it was fatal to many of the feathered tribe. In a Hirai:
rookery, in Essex, it was computed that not less than a lion-
deed dozen young rooks had been killed. The damage do:te
by the lightning on Friday, to the house in Mulberry-street,
Whitechapel, has been ingeniously converted by the inh
bitants into an advantage. The sum of sixpence a h-ad,
was levied on Saturday on the curious, as the terms of ad-
mission to sec the sight, and the number of spectators, hue
been so great, that it is expected sufficient money would he
raised to repair all the injury occasioned by the storm.
OLD RAI LET.---THis MORNING.—At the Old Bailer,
this morning, Samuel William Miles, a young man of •
very genteel appearance,and fashionable dress, was tried
on an indictment for uttering a forged M. note, pur-
porting to be of the Bank of England.—The verdict was
not returned when our paper went to press.
It is expected that Cottle will be discharged by prs
clamation, at the end of the Sessions ; the second hul
against him having been thrown out by the Grand Jury.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE, THIS MORNINO.—We are sorry
to state, that this morning Mr. Killpack, senr. of 'Eitel.-
tock-st., Covent Garden, who for many years was a re-
spectable inhabitant of that parish, and had retire.l
from business in favour of his son, was found by his ser-
vants suspended by a cord from a beans in his front
kitchen, quite dead. He was instantly cut down, and a
Surgeon sent for, who stated that life had been extiect
for several hours. though there remained a little warmth
in the chest. The old gentleman hail been in a de-
sponding state a mind for some tirue,and had threatened
to destroy himself. An inquest will set on the body
this evening.
TheE.rtraordinary Case—Cuthbert v. Browne, for de-
ceit in recommending a wife to the plaintiff, was tried on
Thursday last, in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin,
and a verdict returned fo the plaintiff, Damages, SIMI/.
CORN ExcHANnE, June 30.—The arrival of Grain in ge-
neral was short, except of Oats from Ireland. This raw n-
ing there are very few freshaupplies of any sorts of Corn.—
The late change in the weather is considered very favorrable
to the crop. The priiaest samples of Wheat have exceeded
last Monday's quotations. There has been very little
ness done this morning.—Barley is rather held at better
prices than this day se'nnight.—ln Beans no alteratiao.--
Peas of both kinds fully maintain last quotations.—More
money is asked for Oats, and the prices obtained to-day ere
rather higher than this day week, but great sales bare tot
been made.—Flour remains unaltered.
SMITHFIELD MAttaitT, JUNE 3U.—There was a good
supply of every description of Cattle at Market this
morning. Good Southdown Sheep obtained sixpence p :-
stone more than the other sorts of Mutton. Beef, of good
quality, obtain a higher price, for which there is a demand.
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