The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-27 00:00:00

procx Erpj:iNGE, HA LT-P.IiT TWELVE K
IVicst parties are busy this morning in settling the diEer-
enees of their accounts ; in consequence of which there
has been but littlo doing in the market up to this hour.
Consols opened at 73band went op to 714, at which p-ice
they remain. Two expresses. have arrived from Paris
this morning bringing the French Funds Sof. 25c,
STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.—Among the many
failnres which have taken place in the Stock Exchange,
we have to announce one declared this morning, that of
a gentleman of the Hebrew persuasion, of some come-
tplence. We understand he pays 14 shillings in the
pound, and is allowed to keep his books. Consols are
rather lower,-73n.
FOREIGN Id A RKIIT.—Some besineSS has 1,..en done in
the above market this morning. Spanish Bonds opened
at 3213, and went up 33. The moment it was known an
Express had arrived from Paris, they went to 34, but af-
terwards lowered to 331.
Chili, 69—New Spanish, 321-01 d. 42—New Prussia,
76-01 d, SO—Russia, 74—Danish. 74—Neapolitan, 67
Colombian, ss I—S in aI sh Scrip. SS.

The Paris papers to the 25th instant which have
arrived contain a report of a very important debate on
Monday in the Chamber of Deputies. The debate was
on the motion for voting 100 millions of francs, (abut t
four millions sterling) for extraordinary expences incur-
red by the military preparations now going on. It
was on this occasion we suppose anticipated that M.
Chateaubriand would have made the exposition we re-
ferred to yesterday, as the galleries it appeared were filled
by an immense concourse of persons in the expectation,
(in which they were disappointed) of hearing M.Chateats-
briand deliver a speech. The decision on the motion was,
very singularly, postponed, because the number of m.m.
hers present became at last too small to carry on the dis-
cussion ; but the discussion was carried fur enough to be
unequivocally decisive, of the question of war. M. Royer
Collard, apposed the war as unjust, uunecessary, and dan-
gerous to the French. M. Lahourd otnaye, on the oiler
hand, abused the ministers for not going to war sooner.
A series of 'rakers followed, supporting the differer t
sides of the question ; after which lien. Foy, with grert
eloquence, lamented that an army, which he as
an old soldier could not help wishing to succeed,
should be employed in a ,mice in which lie,
as an honest man, must hope it would fail.—
Of the impropriety of the war, he said, he was convinced
the Minister, M. de Villele, entertained the same opinion
as the opposition, but that he was induced to engage in
the contest by the fear of losing his place. This called
up M. de Villele, who fairly acimittt d that he had Ices
desitous of place. "Such also," lie added, " was the
desire of the Monarch, and there is no Minister who
would have remained Minister, had he advised the ling
to make an unjust war. Yes, had it been possible to have
avoided war, we should have done it—and we have tried
every thing to preserve peace. We have even made all

the sacrifices we could to remain in that situation. No
doubt peace is preferable to war—hat war rather than
disgrace—war rather than ccmpromise the dearest in-
terests of my country—and that is the situation in which
the Spanish Revolution has placed us."—After assuring
the Chamber that France had never proposed to impo.e
her Charter upon the Spaniards, M. de Villele concluded
in the fallowing manner It is because peace appears
to us more dangerous than a state of war, that we pr -
pose to you to rote the scppli.-s demanded."—Aecording
to these papers, the Franca treops were to be placed (st
cnchelon about the end of thi. month along the exmesue
frontier, and 5000 additional sailors were to be rend at
Bast. The internal state of Fraire, ho never, it appears,
is by no means tranquil. Front the alwrireor we learn that
on the 16th inst. there was a disturbance at Lyon:, oerr.•
sinned by the opposition offered by the Anttiorities and
the Military to the progress of a procession of masks,
which, under the privilege of Carnival, repr,s,,nted
Funeral of Trade. The ear was talc• n and retaktr, and
the military ultimately beaten off. The next day, iu the
afternoon, an individual uttered aloud several times ore
the Place Bellecoar, the forh'dd .n cry or rive 1. F;utp.-
rcur. Attempts were made by Gen !armee and officere to
arrest him, but he was sudden!y surrounded by a numh, r
of persons wlso struck them and rescued him. The
crowd increased, and menacing rres of "into the
Rhone ! into the Rhone!" were heard. A strong mili-
tary force having at last been assembled, order •aa et-
stored, anal with much difficulty the offending individaal
was seized and placed in the hands of ,!ustime
FRENCH FUNDS, Fan. 24.—Five per Cents. ooed at
SUE 2.5 c„ closed at 79f. Sltc. Wink Stock,l4:ol.—Nea-
politan Five per Centq. 671.—Exchange on Lands's:
one month, 2af. 55c. ; three mon the. 2,3!. 35c.

German parrs have beer. eceived this mo ning cot -
tieing an article from St, Petersburg, (Wel Feb. '.
In that article is announced the arrival o tlie Emperor
on the preceding day, and this announcement is folio% ed
by an article from the ( vaservatcur lntperiol contaiainic
the imtructions sent from Verona to Count Ballad Charge
d'Affaires, from the Emperor to his Catholic Majesty.
Our limi.s will ailow, of these ins!rnceons,hat the fade.
extracts :—" In the instructions it Web you receive to.
day we have attacked, without reserve, the Coasitntinn
viced by the Cortes in btll ; and we ha% e. .0
impute to the mode of adoinistration witielt a establishet,
almost all tin' evils under which Soain So malty
facts demonstrate their t uth, that certainli nobody in
Europe will venture to qn• s• ion it. A charter wisich
eitshiialtes f,r the pe. pie the right of cover is theta,
ercise of which is happily impossible, b 0 the mere
theory of 060., if once admitted, still prodOces calami-
ties, a shorter which cells to :hl feminine of the laws.

the only elms intere.ited in the absenix of laws,vehich t!o s
not even leave the monarch the free power of choosing a
consort, and which diss-tainatra, as it were, the public
power antothr the nuliberless authorities, instituted by
the 510 articles of which it iscomposed, each a charter car:-
not find a defen :er in any enlighte.:ed publeist in any of
those men who know that order aad peace are OA
' first objetis as well as the first diluents of the happiness
of societies."

An attempt is then made to set wide the treaty made
with the tortes in the year and afterwards a con-
fession is made that " ttossia i, to frank, tun sincerely
3 friend to the Spanish n ition, to staffer any treaty what-
ever, to wake it desire the prolongation of a system,
which his brought o's that glorious and estimable na-
tion, all the cells of anarchy —all the excesses of a
-anguinar; revolution—au,' all the loins which follow
the train of crime, united with rant of foresight.
In suck a situation his Majesty cannot recognise any ha
hut that of the welfare of Spain, and this is the only one
which he is resolved to billow.
" Serb, Cutout, is the laugua,:e you w:11 be sts good as
to hold,"

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