The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-25 00:00:00

ravens.

DR. O'MEARA.

We ghoul/ have inserted to-•lay the extract from the
Quarterly Review, which extract we spoke of yesterday.
But as the Review says that the original leitcis of !he
Doctor are lodged with Mr. Murray, to be %boon to
whoever may wish to see then., we wished to •ee them
first; and accordingly made application for that purpose
yesterday ; hut could not see• them owing to Air. Mur-
ray's absence. We shall, in all probability, see• 1411$
day, in which CASP, the extract still be insetted to-mor-
row.

STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST TWELVE O'CLOCK —•
The intelligence that the Royal Family of Spain Gad
kft Madrid for Corunna, has caused great surpr.so in the
City this morning. This step is attributed to the inter
ference of the British Government, a hu may nuw say to
the French, and the other Continental Powers, that the
King of Spain is placed in security, and under the eye
and protection of England, and thus du away with
the pretext of the French Cabinet to enter Spin. Co' •
sole opened this morning at 7:11-,t1, at nhich price they
are at present, with little business doing. To-marrow he-
ing settling Jaya: the Stock Exchange, very little lluetm-

ft; i; expected, nod atter the account is adjusted, as
west of the parties are preparing their accounts.
FOREIGN Ft:a:pc—There has been some luetsation
la the above market this morning. New Spanish opened
at 323, 33f, 34 with little doing, u most people are
waiting for the confirmation of the intelligence from
Spain.

Chili, 691, to 70—New Spanish, 32H, 33-01 d, 44 to 4b
New Prussia, 741-01 d, 79—Rugsia, 721—Danish, 781—
Colornbian, nothing done.—Spanish Scrip, 341.

Paris papers which have been received to the 23d
Instant, are chiefly occupied with the reports of the pro-
Teedings of Friday in the Chamber of Deputies. The
vo projects of law for the vote of credit and the recal
of the veterans, which hall been referred to committees,
were reported; and the result was, of course, a sanction
to the measures proposed.
FeNDs ON FRIDAY.—Five per Cents. opened at 7SE
6'Jc.; highest price. 79f. 20c.; dosed at 7Sf. 95c.:
Rank Shares, 1,430 c. Neapolitan Stock, 666 f. Spanish
Bonds, 36f.

A Jamaica Mail bas arrived this morning in 33 days.
Ey the Royal Gazelle of the 11th of Jan. we learn that
Santa Martha was taken possession of by the Royalists
en the 11, after a spirited resistance. Every vessel, that
could, got away ; and property of every kind was said
t 3 be conf, seated. Subsequent accounts, however, state
that the Independents expected soon to recover it. as
General Montillo bad arrived with 700 men, and Col.
Padillo was off the port with an equal number. In the
mean time, according to the Royal Casette of the 181,
Vie Royalist Governor had given a written assurance
that British merchants and their property should be
r..spetted.

Papers and private letters from Madrid to the 19th
inst. have been received, and despatches of that date from
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, have, it appears, also reached
Government. The Spaniards seem apprised,of the (Its-
tination of the Brest fleet, and being also aware of the
danger to which Cadiz stands exposed, have selected an-
other dry as the seat of the Royal Family, and probably
of the Government, during the approaching contest.
This city is Coronna. In the Sitting of the 15th instant
(aecording..to advices received yesterday) the Cortes re-
s deed that the Cortes should repair to that place in-
stead of Cadiz, and on the 16th the Royal Family set out
• fur Corunna. With respect to the choice of Corunna, as
a city of refuge, it is one which presents many advan-
tage.. Coronna, in the first place, cannot be reached on
the side of France, nor even on that of Spain, without
passing through a succession of steep, barrel, and dif-
teult mountains, which extend through, or rather com-
pote several provinces, and in the deep gorges of which
armies may be destroyed by Guerrillas before they can
make any dangerous progress. Secondly, Corunna is
within to short a distance of Portugal, that in a very
short rime it would be possible, on any emergency,
is remove the King and Government intothat country.
'By i Flanders Mail arrived this morning, we have an
extract front the Journal °lila Province of Leig which
states, that in the secret sittiags of the second Chamber
of the States General, two questions of great importance
to landlords and tenants have been decided, relative to
•gazne and tithes. Respecting the former, it bas been
:adopted as a principle that every person bee a tight to
Lig game on the land of which be is the proprietor or
tenant; and respecting the latter, the Übanaber has
'owed its opinion that existing tithes shall be redeem-
able.
His Excellency the Marquis Wellesley, we are happy
to state, enjoys perfect health, and will remove from the
Plaaais. Peak to the Castle shortly. All the rumours
which have been circulated of his wishes to retire from
the Government of this country, have no mere foundation
ill an " the baseless fabric of a vision." The Baronet ,
1,3°10,105,1nd Cap a:n!..tre as much at fault. The late dis-
missals have operated wonders in all those departments
in which the ultras presided. The subalterns diligently
aptly themselves now to their respective duties, and pru-
&nib/ ah.tain from vilifying the Lord Lieutenant.—
(Partiin Patriot.)
. We are sorry that we have to announce that Crick-
bowel bank has stopped payment.—(Bristol Mercury.)
Several French officers are in Plymouth on their way
is Spain.- • West Briton.
Mr. Serjeant Bullock is made one of the Barons of the
Exchequer.
A meeting of the burgesses and inhabitants of the
Royal Burgh of Selkirk has been held, and a petition to
Parliament for a thorough reform, and an immediate re-
duction of taxation, passed almost unanimously, and or-
dered to be 'presented to the House of Commons by Mr.
flume and Sir BMA. Heron.—lt is the first petition for
reform ever known in Selkirk, or in that part of Scotland,
and may be contideirly and. justly regarded as a proof,
io less gratifying than convincing, of the powerful and
ratidly extendirg attachment to that great cause. A
few years aro, a petition of this nature would not have
been even attempted in any burgh of Scotland ;—in the
present instance it received nearly 3410 signatures in the
course of twenty-four hours.