The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-20 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY EVENINO, AUGUST 20, 1823.

STOCK EXCHANGE, Twenvao'Cnocx.—Consols opened at
RN, and got up to ;.
The Expresses from Paris have brought the French Funds
at 93-I3.—Spanish 42. In consequence of the fall of Spanish
Bonds at Paris our market has lowered.
Spanish Bonds opened at 36, fell to 33, and are now 34—Rus-
sia, 84—Columbia, 67—French Scrip, 2f.

We bave this morning rrceived, by Entre4s, the Pi/oic
of Tuesday, from which we extract the following:—
NEws FROM THE FRONTIERS.--ENVIRONS OP Say, Atm. 8.

The musketry continues firing every day from the forts
and town. Not a day passes without some persons being
wounded or killed on one side or the other. For some
days past not any bombs have been thrown on the town,
but, it appears, they are going to recommence. Yesterday
in the afternoon, 6or 7 bombs fell in the town. .

Mina has imposed a contribution or a Loan of 201),000
piastres, on the principal merchants of Barcelona. Pro•
visions are abundant in that town, but the want of meat

becomes scarce.
It is Said that Marshal Moncey ha immediately &mand•
ed to he reimplarel. General Donnadieu arrived this ever
lug at Perpignan.

gooier's' has divested the Regency of Madrid of its au-
thority. This intelligence is communicated in the following
IMPORTANT DECREE :
« We, Louis Antonio de Bourbon, Infant of France,
Duke d'Angouleme, 'Commander in. Chief of the army of
the Pyrenees ; Considering that the occupation of Spin
uy the army under onr command, places us under the indis-
pensible obligation of watching over the tranquilli,y of
that kingdom, and the security of our troopi, have com-
manded, and do command as follows:
" I. The Spanish Authorities shall not make any pri-
soners without authority from the French Commanders of

our troops.
" 2nd. The Commander-in-Oder of the corps under our
command, shall demand the release of all prisoners who
may have been imprisoned in an arbitrary manner, for po-
litical motives, especially soldiers, that they may return to
their homes; excepting such who after liberation shall
give cause of complaint.
" 31 The Commander in Chief of the corps are autho-
rized to seize all such persons as shall disAcy the present

order&
" 4th. All Publishers and Periodical writings shall be
ander the direction of the Commanders of our troops.
"sth. The present decree shall be printed and wade known
all over the world.
" Given in Andajar the Bth August, 1623.
(Signed) " LOUIS ANTONIO.
" By Command, " GUILLEMINOT."

Bayonne papers, to the 13th instant, which have arrived
this morning, contain some speculations on the effect of
Ballasteros's defection, which it is useless to repeat. They
say that the addresses sent to the Regency, still continue to
desire there-establishment of the Inquisition and the Je-
suits; and that the formation of the national guard, decreed
by the Regency, does not go on very well. The Regency,
according to some of the Royalist Journals, has decided,
that henceforth none shall be arrested for political opi-
nion:, but such as have made part of particular Juntas, or
of secret societies, the political Chiefs, and those who have
caused Cadiz to rise.
Letters from Cadiz say that General Valdez had armed
in the port three frigates and two lar:te vessels, which, with
the gun boats, already equipped, bagle, in 40111 C degree, the
aeons of the ereneb blockading squadron, by facilitating
the entrance of vessels with provisions. There was a report
in Bayonne, on the morning of the 12th, that an
extraordinary courier bad arrived with information
that the King and the Cortes had agreed upon
certain modifications to be made in the Constitution, and
that in consequence of this agreement, the Regency was
dissolved. 'll. his news, however, seemed doubtful.

There was a report at Bayonne that the Emperinado has
shewn himself on the banks of the Ebro, and that a re-
giment has been sent against him.
Ammunition, cannon, &c. continue to he sent for the
siege of l'ampeluna, and the Sappers, and Miners, were
expected every moment; but before the siege can he com-
menced in form, and proper effect, it is added, there must
be some more troops ; the force now before that place not
being sufficiently strong to carry on the works, and prevent

the numerous garrison from making sallies.
On the 11th was beard the report of cannon in the
direction of St. Sebastian. It is said to have been to an-
swer the order given by Ilallesteros to sot render the place.

That nos negotiation ought to take place between the j
Cortes and the French invaders of Spain, is evident enough
from the language and conduct of those who invited the
French to attempt the enterprise of restoring Ferdinand to
despotic authority. The avowed object of the different
bands of the Army of the Faith, was to restore an absolute
King, and the Holy Inquisition. The proclamations of the
French commander•in•chief went to the same point; and
although circanistances have induced, perhaps compelled,
the French to modify their tone, yet the Spanish Royalists
retain their old creed ; and the bands of the Faith would be
as strenuously oppased to any Constitutional Government,
as they are to the Government of the Cartes. A curious
proof of this is given in an address from the Ayutaniiento
of Cordova to the Spanish Regency, printed in a supple-
ment to the Restsurador of Madrid, on the Ist inst. This
document, probably originating with the Russian Embassy,
is a formal declaration against all concession to the consti-
tutional party; and a hint is given that the French are
threatening the sovereignty with " new dangers," by al-
lowing any report of intended negotiations to be circula ed.
The contemptible folly of this document is such that, in an
ordinary crisis, we should have deemed it the ootnpositien
of a Bedlamite. What, for instance, can he grosser raving
than the following:—" Faithful Spaniards speak their senti•
`t ments, and give tuthewholepolitical world proofs of their
" abhorrence from every thing which is in contradiction to
" their ancient laws, and of their desire to have afree and
" absolute King, who would promote the happiness of his
" people without the aid ofinstitutions. which are unknown
" in the annals of their history, and which are as Armada-
" bk, and as ominous, under existing cireutnstances, as they
" are opposite to the ilJeas and customs of the nation." What
will theNcterimes say when not only theSpanishConstitntion
is thus denounced, but also " the envy and admiration of
the world:"—for this document arlsis—" Such is the sys-
" tem of the two Chambers, which by imposing restraints
" on the authority of the Ring, and by essentialy vary.
" ing the established fact without the will of the King,--.,
" would contain the same radical nice as the Constitution
" itself; and every negotiation or adjustment which is un-
" dertaken upon these gronntls, for the liberatinn of the
" captive King, will always be vain, and mill compro
mite the peace and tranquillity of the Nation." Tnitt
is a plain declaration on the part of the Royalist faction,
that they will be content with no concession whatever, and
' fully justifies the view of the case originally taken liv the
Cortel, who saw that to agree to any modification of the

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Constitution, would only be to enter upon a task scotch
could have no termination until the despotism was com•
pletely restored. The following passage is so clearly Rus-
sian, that we ahould think Alexander had penned it nitit
his own hands:—" If the legitimacy of Monarchs cannot
" be rendered compatible wit le the pride of their people,
" when these wish to give themselves laws which those
" have not dictated, still less compatible would it be with
" an institution which his Majesty had so clearly and so
" openly abhorred, and which surprise and moral violence
'ss alone would induce him to accept." It is then state:,
that " the wish of the Spaniards is never to lessen in the
." slightest degree the sovereignty of their beloved Mo-
" narch."—" The absolute and free King has been the
" greatest echo of their emotion, and it does not yet cease
" to resound in their hymns and acclamations." Then
conies a sweeping condemnation of " the System of the
two chambers," which, it is said, " have been, and always
" will be, dangerous to the minds of the coldest tempera-
" tare, awl long accustomed to tranquillity ;" and " mira-
" culously prejudicial to a nation which is heated, agitated,
" and still disturbed Ity the violence of innovations." Ti..
" liberty of the Press" is declared " truly impolitic, an 1
" chiefly the origin of all dirseutioas ; and the traiterous
"weapon that is most abused—the popular character deice-
" tions which has always provoked the passions,the intrigues
" and the ambition of parties; the public tribune, which is
" more fit to flatter vanity, to exalt the passions, and to agitate
"the people, than to illustrate any matter in dispute; and that
" generic liberty, as ominous as it is badly understood,
" whirls is the inseparable eh'eractcr of cries ii:Acrql 45-
" vernment, are all so many institutions which the system
" of the Cleimbers would perpetuate fur us; and which
" would render those political oscillations interminable,
" which have occasioned us so many misfortunes and hisses:"
This is the very Reading Made Easy" of the " litt;:aiets
" Royal Creed ;" and we trust the New Times will venture
t give us a commentary upon its merits. The Duke d'Ato
;,,oulettie may well be tired of his Allies of " the Faith;"
fur if he lends himself to denounce " the system of Chum.
" bcrs," the good people of France may imagine, that when
the French army shall have restored the absolute King in
Spain, a Spanish army, under the Baron d'Eroles, or the
Trappist, may march to Paris, to return the compliment,
by freeing Louis from that curb to legitimacy, " the syste4
" cf the two Chambers," which happens to exist in France
Now; however well Prince Hilt might like to free buns If
from the system, it would be impolitic to make such a de-
claration, while the French army is so fully employed in
Spain ; and he must be anxious, out of mere policy, to re.
move all idea of his participation in such sentiments;
which, at present, are only calculated for the meridian of
Petersburg. lint these are the sentiments avowed by the
Regency which he has appointed ; and in the face of this
publication of the views of the Royalist faction, bow cal
the Cortes listen to any propositions ? It ii utterly Wipes.
sible that they should consent to negotiate with such et*
mica. The first elements of confidence are wanting; aal
no treaty would be held to be binding fur an hour beyond
the deliverance of the King. The fact has received a still
more positive demonstration. No sooner had the fa-
bricated intelligence of the liberation of the King
reached Madrid, than the rabble was instigated by the
Royalist faction to murder and plunder those who were
attached to the Con'titutional system. The same fate
would attend the Cortes if they were to accompany the
King to Madrid. Th, re little excesses of massacre and
plunder, are very slightly estimated by the New Times,
because, like another massacre, they are the offspring of as
" excess of undebauched loyalty ;" but the Cortes,who would
have to bear the evil, may not think it so very trivial, nor
find any consolation in the excuse. At Saragossa too, the
French have been obliged to interfere, to prevent the mur-
der of some Constitutionalists by a misguided rabble. To,
prevent the plunder was impossible; and the parties seized
by this Royalist mob remained in hourly apprehension of
their lives. Even the Morning Post, so lung devoted to
the cause of power against right, exclaims, on the recital
of these atrocities—" Surely, after perusing these detail,
" and those of the late massacres at Madrid, we shall DO
" longer he told of the excesses of the revolution of 1820,
" which shed no blood, and persecuted no individuals ; and
" of the isinoeentx and blessings of that of 1823, whose
" pastimes are pillage and assassination! It is a singular
" fact, and is in some measure a redeeming consideration,
" that the chief object of the French now in Spain should
" be, to keep down that spirit of lawless outrage and blood-
" thirstiness which the iniquitous policy of their Covers•
went excited, perhaps unintentionally, when it created
civilevar in that country, and which would never hart
had the means nor a field to act in, if foreign iu;asioa
had not opened a track his its fury."

It is preposterous to find some of our journals persist is
the statement that the surrender of the Cortes is an erect
which is likely to happen. That it may occur, is barely
possible: but the probabilities are all against such an occur.
rence. Their prospects are certainly improving. The
Icnown difference between the French and the rebel liegrol
are importantly favonrable to them. In Catalonia, their
armies are strong enough to have taken the field. A vend
which left Catalonia on the 2d, and reached Genoa on the
ith inst. brought intelligence that on the flth of July,
6111), Unbent, and 31anso, attacked the French near Mar.
rem, and, after two days' bard fighting, took 3,000 priors'
era. The Spaniards, it is said, burned Manresa, which wai
a strong position, occupied by the French, and from which
they must have retreated. The second battle was fought,
or rather began, on the 29th. (In that day Mina himself
and General Rotten, the Governor of Barcelona, sillied
from that city with their whole fume, and attacked the
French on the 311th at bleier°, where Moncey was in pent,".
The fighting had not yet c.essed on the 2.1 inst. and the res.
sel sailed without knot% ing the resu't. A j ,urnal giving
ibis intelligence, calls it a" melancholy glory," because Meus

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ertbAirolii out, aiiiithe Bohm ission of the Cortes. h
chis .° certain? Why should Le submit in that event
We do Mt comprehend the doubting augury of our totem-
* • ; any more than we did the. argument that we
should do nothing for the Spaniards, because their cause
wiped desperate —the very reason, as it appeared to us,
why we should have done the more. Should the news
of these battles prove correct, and it may do so, notwith.
standing the French do not mention it, the face of affairs
win be completely altered. If Moncey is defeated in
Catalonia, either a fresh army must he sent from France,
ee the troops in Oallicia anti Andalusia most retire upon
the frontiers. A few days, we trust, will put an end to all
woods of negotiation ; and then the affairs of Spain will
be in a right course.

Advices from Gibraltar to the 627th ult. announce the at-
field, on the preceding day, of the British Minister, Sir
W. A'Cuurt, h is Lsily, and Suite, from San Luear, on board
his Alai-aryls ship Tribune.
Letters from the North of Spain, mention that Lopez
Banos was advancing by the line of the Tagus, with a
force that was daily irwr-asing, and
.it was thought he
would push on towards Madrid, by the way of Talavera de
Li Itryna. to form a jiinction with El Empecinadia, who was
already in the neighbourhood'of the capital, and establish.
ed communications with the Constitutionalists left there.
lie daily received advices of the movements of the Regency
and thel.'l4lA g prison, through the medium of his con-
fidants. In Estremadura, all the towns through which the
French passed. it is said, had risen up, and restored the
tablet of the Constitution. Several new guerilla parties
were forming, as fast as they could obtain arms. .
General Ito ten, who commands in Barcelona, is a Swiss.
The Baron de Cardoroielet, who is at the bead of a strong
Constitutional guerilla, operating chiefly in the mountains
between Arr 'gun raid New Castile, is a 'Belgian.
MASSACRE 13 MADRID.—it appears, according to letters
of the II di .instont, from Madrid, that the belief of the
intelligence of the liberation of Ferdinand prevailed in the
Spanish capital, where it was disseminated, with what mo-
tives cannot be conj., Gored, on no less authority than that
of the Members of the Regency, who at the same time issued
an order for public rejoicings on the occasion, Tiiis tiles.
sore, by unchaining the furious passions of the d-luded
rabble, produced in the issue the most fatal consequences.
During the niolit of the 1011 i, the fanatic Royalists of all
clasp s paraded the wreeta with frightful acelaturtions and
menacing gestures. After continuing this conduct till the
night was pretty far advanced, the word was given to attack
t ar Iwo es of the Constitutionalists. The pillage commenced,
being rendered snore easy by the Nomination ; and from
pillage the mob prolieerled to massacre. No less than IS
or '2O persons fell victims to the infatuated and unrestrained
fury of the partisans of royalty. They were at length only
check-oil by the exer finals of the small body of French troops I
remaining io garrison at Madrid.
FRENen ilounse.—" It is now generally understood,"
says a letter from Paris, " that there a ill shortly appear a
Royal Ordinance respei tint the troth.; in Realm, according
to which sales and purchases fur lime will be legally recog-
nised, hot that no judgment shall be hail upon arrests in
cases of non-payment. The lookers (veils de change)
will be declared competent to cover themselves by culla
Oral security fir the risk of the transaction. The number
of brokers to he limited to sixty—none to be admissible
who have not been ten years 011 the Fxchange."
Letters by the Leeward Island Mail were received in
Glasgow this morning (Saturday, pith inst.). The crops
in the Leeward Islands were amid, but exceedingly late,
front the continued heavy rains at the period when the
packet paiiled, the first week in Jitly.—(fioagoie Courier.)
Joseen lioNar IRTE has fonnded, in the United States, a
city called La Ville de Joseph. There are already 5,01./0
inhabitants, mostly French.
The Spanish ,brig, Maria Didotes, peso to the Patriot.
brig Aguilar, arrived -;:t liarhailors. June 7th. When cap-
tured, seven men here put on board, and the original cap-
tain oas sail: red to remain in the vessel. At sea, a quarre
arose, x hen the Si anisli captain, prize-no-der, and three of
his crew, were murdered. The report is, titat the Spanish
Captain was shot, three of the prize crew tin own overboard,
and the prise-master tied down to a ring drove into the
deck, placed in all agonizing siinatb n,and starved to death!
The ringleolle.r, on arriving off Barb Mites, came on shore,
inquired fur a navigator, informed a hat the vessel was, and
as the story goes, told the murders i.e had commit ed. The
wad was immediately taken possession of, and this man
(said to be an Englishman) was committed to prison, and
pmt in iron.. His two accomplices acre also soclined.—
(Phitodaplics Gaz-eite)
An attetnpi is shoat to hr marls in Ifolland to naturalize
certain Japanese plants, which the fattish trade with Japan
affords faiili•i-s for procuring. in a proper state for ettltiva-
lion. Though the latittyl-r of Japdt is tar more southerly
than the Netheilamis, yet the northern parts of tin it coati-
try are.vcry mountainous and cold, and it is expectial th .t
the plants which grow there as ill he capable of enduring
the Dutch climate : it is with then,, therefore, the experi-
ment is to be made.
The Berlin papers boast of a reform which is working in
the mode of travelling in Germany. It is stated that the
postmaaters are discarding the old sluggish movement with
which they have so long been reproached, and endeavouring
to emulate the expedition of English mail coarliea. The
spirit of improvemeut is said to have extended itself to Bo-
bentia. A Diligence is established b. tavern Prague and
Vienna, which goes forty-too German post miles in thirty-
nine hours.
The Catherine, Swaa, arrived at Greenock from Ilondu•
ras, confirms the accounts formerly published of the deplor-
able condition of the Poyais settlers. On their destitute si-
tuation beirig ina:le known at Honduras, the chief magis-
trate, Mr. Bennett, with the great.st humanity, dispatched
a schooner to Black River, and in oorr trip, in the beginning
of May, brought off WS men, women, and children, in a
state of destitution, and perishing ender the noxious in-,
flume of the climate. These were part of the emigrants
who sailed from Leith in the Kinnersley Castle in January
list. At the second trip the schooner brought away the
remainder of the people, together oith a Colonel Hall, the
Governor of Poyets, and the effects of the emigrants.
Every attention and assistance which humanity could aug
gat was paid to the unfortunate people at Honduras. Tire
emigration to Algoa Bay and to Poyais is one of the
strangest delusions that ever entered the mind of man. It
is truly unaccountr.ble that people should go ta places of
which they know nothing except from interested represen-
tations,instead of going to Upper Canada, where so many
of their countrymen are so comfortably settled.—(Co/edo. '
nice Mercury.)
Mr. how°, the popular preacher at the Caledonian-
Church, is going down to Scotland to lie married. We
have heard, that his great master, Doctor CHAMDERS, CODICS
to town to supply the place of his promising pupil, during
his absence.—(Morning Chronicle.)
On Friday, being the anniversary of his MansTr's
landing at Leith, the Magistrates in the forenoon placed a
tablet on the spot he first set foot on his Scottish dominions,
bearing the followiog inscription :—" Geo. IV. Rex." A
crown, " 0 Fclicem Diem."—" Here our Most Gracious
Sovereign first touched Scottish ground on Thursday, the
15th of August, 1022. WILLIAM (And), Admiral of
Leith ; JOllll Afaerte and (111ORGZ RIMER, Magistrates ;
Moon VllTctt, Town Clerk." Upwards of 150 gentlemen,
consisting of the Public Authorities and principal inhabi-
lasts of Leith, afterwards dined in the Assembly Room
there, for the purpose of celebrating the anniversary of the
leading.

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