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

SPAIN.

. An intrigue is said Mbe forming among certain nto'
dove Spanish leaders to arrange matters with France ;•
but it is to be remembered that the great strength a
Spain does not lie ei:bcr in the wisdom of the Cortes,.
in the lirtue of the political chiefs, or in the talent of
ber military leaders, though all these might contribute
materially to her success. Her chief dependence is upon
the persevering determination of the people not to be
dictated to by foreigners : and, so far from its being cer-
tain that a treaty for the modification of the Constitu-
tion would lead to the establishment of peace, the con
trary may be inferred as the more likely result. Jo..
sepb Buonsparte succeeded in reconciling the nobility,
and the supposed influential men to his Government ; but
be never could reconcile the peasantry. Neither threats
nor promises, had any effect. Mortal hatred to the
French was the only feeling cherished ; and Spain owed
her ultimate liberation to her peasantry. The same thing
would happen again, were the Cortes base enough to
betray their trust.

We are glad to perceive that Public Meetings, in be_
half of Spain are at last to be held in the city of Lon.
don. On Friday next,a general Meeting is called,at which
Lord W. Bentinck is to preside, for the purpose of insti_
tutinr a national Subscription for the assistance of the
Spaniards; and on the Tuesday previous, a Court of
Common Council isto be held to consider the propriety of
a contribution out of the city funds, to promote the
same noble object. It is the anxious wish of the Com-
mittee of the General Meeting, to request that Meetings
throughout the country may be arranged to follow as
speedily as possible. In addition to a subscription, we
would observe that the ordinary method of confining
the political business of the day to contain formal reso-
lutions, will not adequately. express the feelings of this
country ; and we would suggest that a declaration on
the part of the British Public should be proposed at the
London Meeting, that it -might be adopted in other part'
of the country where Meetings may be held.

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we base but little room to recoounend to notice A.A.
jects of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Dis,
cipline, of whose Anniversary Meeting an aconat is --•

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ea hi the first column of our paper. Respecting the ch.-
rector of our Criminal Code, the opinions a the public
ire divided ; but respecting the propriety, as well a• duty
of effecting the Reformation of offenders, especially of
the young dainquents, there cannot be a question. The
objects of this Society, therefore, need only to be pointed
out, in order to obtain the concurrence they require.

A 111 e of Chtrieston Papers have We morning been re-
ceived to the bth of May ; but they do not contain aoy in-
telligence worth extracting.

STOCK EACH ANON, 12 o'CLocx.—Consols opened this
morning at 81i fur the Account, and Reduced at 801—but
on the arrival of the messenger frotn Paris, the marker
became flat, owing to the report that the King of Spain
was going to be removed to Cadiz ; this, though only a
mere report on the 'Change 'at Paris, had caused the
French Funds also to fall off one per Cent.
FOREIGN FUNDS.—Spanish ponds opened at 37 I
with some Sosine=s doing. •
Chili, 70—Now Spanish, 37I—Now Prussia, 6411—Oirl
Prussian. tiM—Rassia,Bl4—Danisb, 891—Neapolitan, 764
Colombian, 614 to 62.

ADDRESS
PRISZNTSD To HIS STAI. SIGHNIISS Tilt DVKK OF AN-
GRANDIsz• or snot.
_ _

" Monseigneur—The undersigned would believe them.
-selves unworthy of the name and the titles which their
fathers have transmitted to them, if they delayed for a
single moment the respectful expression of dirk grati-
tude to your Road Highness, and the free manifestation
of their pure and invariable sentiments towards their King
and their Country.
" The Graafian of Spain feel themselves especially
honoured by the duty which is imposed on them, of dis-
tinguishing themselves by the sacrifices which the safety
and dignity of their legitimate Sovereign demands, And
the prosperity and glory of tile loyal natio* lowborn th.ir
destiniefand their interests are united.
". By a singular combination of circumstances after our
class bad furni-thed the attendants (le service) fixed for
the fatal journey of the august family of our Sovereign,
the presence of other Grandees at Seville, or in the
toons on the road most be considered as usel.so to
the interest of the King and the State, and per-
haps even serve to give arms to the enemies of the good
canoe, or tosvealcen those with which they are attacked.
It is here, excellent Prince, in the capital of the. Spanish
Monarchy, where, as in its centre, the unsullied loyalty
of the Spaniards to their King, and their profound re-
spect for their laws and customs have shown themselves,
that vie find the post of utility to objects so sacred, and of
honour to ourselves. The faeolty uf lightening our op.
pressed hearts, and of uniting our wishes and our efforts
to obtain a desired restoration, has been given ns on this
happy day, when be who by love is the son, and by blood
the heir of his most Christian Majesty. has appeared in
this Capital surrounded by so many-thousand brave men,
and announcing to us the generous design to restore li-
berty to our King, and to bring back among us order,.
peat*, and justice.
" These are the precious words of your Royal High-
ness. The oath which accompanies them is the august
name of the Bourbons, so dear to France and to Spain.—
I The illustrious Prince takes Heaven to witness, and we
invoke with noble boldness the remembrance of the fide-
lity, and that the patriotism of our ancestors and our own
conduct during the captivity of our King, as a pledge
of the uniformity and the energy of the wishes which
we formed, that such great blessings may be soon restor
ell, and for ever secured to this great nation, so unhappy,
in this last melancholy period, and so worthy of pos-
sessing them. Accomplish, Sir, accomplish speedily. and
happily your noble mission. Unite the liberty of a !ling
ofyour blood to the put hopes of a nation, the friend of
France. May the united efforts of these two generous
people produce their common good, and a new sal eter-
nal bond of friendship. Let mean and fatal passions
yield to beneficial concord. Let there be henceforth
around the Throne only ore family animated by the
same spirit ; let a happy and wise harmony be restored
between the Spaniards and the civilized nations of
Europe. Far from the intrigues of in arbitrary state of
Government (let intrigues dun orbitraire), the forerun-
ner of disasters, as from a destructive anarchy, may we
in a happier day, and may our children say ineffable and
durable joy,' King FERDINAND VII. a BOURBON, a cap:
' tive in the palace of his ancestors, to the great grief of
• his faithful subjects, and the magnanimous Spanish
nation subjngated by a similar faction, small io number,
• revere their liberty and. their laws, they behold the re-
turn of the beneficent and necessary yoke of a ho'y tell-
' pion, of public morals, and the salutary empire of the
laws, by the succour of France, under the direction of
its august Prince, the Duke of ANGOULRMI.
" • We ourselves, or those who gave us existence were
the witnesses, and desired to be the partakers in this ge-
nerous enterprise, and offered from the bottom of our
hearts, for its success, our fortunes and our lives.'
" GoD preserve your Royal Highness for a long term
of years."
" Madrid, May 28, 1823."
(Signed)—" Le Comte de Vineries°, Le Comte de la
Nubia del Maestro, Le Disc de Castroterreno, Le Curate
de Carbellon, Le Marquis de Villafranca, Le Comte de
Montijo, Le blaiquis de San Martin, Le Marquis de Al-
bsyda, Le tomte de Punonrostro, Le Dec de Liria et de
Beroik, Le Marquis de Fuenteriso, Comte le Gand, Le
Marquis de Hansa, Le Due de Fedsri, Le Dne de Villa-
hermosa, Le Marquis de Cersalbol, Le Due de San Fer-
nando, Le Duo de bledluarelli, Le Due de Montemar, Le
Comte de Miranda, be Marquis de Morjedar, Le Marquis
de Mirafiores, La Comtesse de Mon, La Comtesse de
Afuentes, La Comtesse Duchesse de Benevente, La Du-
cheese de Monteliaao' th% La Cointesse de Mea Le
Comte de Saliatierra,
Le Marquis de blns, Le Cointe de
Colomers, lie Due de Fartrimes, Le Marquis de Yelp
raiso."—(blonitenr, Jane 3 )"

The Genoa Gazette of the 24th ult. contains the fol
lowing paragraph :
" Gloms, Mar 24 —The English frigate Glasgow,
arrived here ou the 22d, direct from CalenKs, having
on board the Marquess of Hastings. late Governor Ge-
neral of India. It is said be is to succeed Sir Thomas
MaitLnd in the general command of his Britannic Ma-
jesty's forces in the Mediterranean. By the statements
of several Captains from the coast of Spain, we leave
that the French- ships of war cruising there, blockade
the port of Barcelona, and sutf•r no vessel to enter.
Some of those which they have warned off, have already
retitraed to this port."
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the King yesterday:
Notwithstanding the remonstrances of a once official
personage, he has been under the painful necessity of em-
barking from a port in the sister kingdom. on a certain
mission, without bring permitted to take leave, agreeably
to the customary etiquette.
SUMMER ASSIZES.
IMP POINTMINT OF tEI JUDGES FOR tUE ENSUING SUMMER
ASSIZES.
Nonrose.—Lord Chief Justice Abbott and Mr. Justice
Richardson. •
Boum—Lord Chief Justice Dallas, and Air. Baron
Graham.
blinuartn.—The Lord Chief Baron, and Mr. Baron Gar-
,
FOSS.
NoRTRERN...—Mr. Justices Bayley and ifolroyd.
Ozroxe.—Mr. Justice Park, aad.llr. Baron Bullock.
vv. Wittrzast.—Mr. Justices Best and Barrough.

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SPAIN.
The following requisiion was yesterday presented to
the Lord Mayor
TO Till RldaT UONOILIARLR ?RI LORD MATO*.

We, the nnslersigne.l, request your Lordship to
,con.
vene a Court of Common Council, on an early dsy, to
take into consideration the propriety of coitribiting out
of the City's cash. such a sots as May be expedient, in
behalf of the brave and suffering people of the Peninsula
of Europe t and which may assist them to triumph elfeir.
pally over the nnifrincipled invasion of their country by
the ambitions Bourbon tiovernment of France, which in-
vasion nut only militates again.t the .principles of the
British Constitution, but the 'very existence of civil
wscietv.--
Mailiew Wood, Wm. Rawlins, Alex. Galloway, Georre
Turner, Vincent Figgins, W. A. Beckwith, Rirhard
Taylor, Samuel Roberts, J. W. South ate,
Routh, Thos. !Tut, jun. Wm. Mathews, V. A Peacock,
John Stirtevant, Samuel Joyce, J. Diggens, Robert Car.
ter, Wm. Patten, Joseph Howell. James Berridge, Thor,
Kelly, N. Saunders, J. Carter, T. Pewtress, J. Dickson,
T. Cartwright, T. (Hover. Win. Gale, James Crook, A:
liming. Wm. Rice, J. Ilurcombe, S. Benhett,
Whitey, Thos. Parker, J. •Petikahl, jun, T. Wiltshire,
John Downes, W. Itielihrtison, 0. Stevenson. T. Cole.
n:an, P. Fenton, jun. 'l'. Watkins, K. Slade. J. Rey.
noldi, T. _Conway, E. J. Bond, J. Nelrbon, T. C. Han-
sard, W. E. Reeves.
His Lordship immediately complied with the wish of
the requisitioot.ts, and appointed Tuesday next for the
consideration of the
.sul j. ct.