The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-04 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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his companions of his journey from Madrid into Andalusia,
of the places where he found acquaintance, &c. The
guides concluded from this unguarded conversation. that
he was the famous Riego. From that moment the brave
Lopes Lora was only occupied in devising means for de•
liverine this notorious criminal into the hands of justice.
At day-break they found- themselves near the fsrm Bogue-
visones. Riego said they would demand an asylum there;
on which Lara knocked at the door, and itso happened that
it was one of his own brothers, named Mateo, who emit
and opened it.
The greater part of the foreign battalion perished in
this affair ; sod almost all the superior officers of the co-
lumn, Spaniards as well as foreigners, are lilted or
wounded. The garrison of the fort of Figueroa made no
sortie to assist them, nor did it make any attempt to get
possession of the provisions of the town of Figneras. while
the troops which formed the garrison were with General
Demos. It is said that the Spaniards, on
.the 16th. did
not second the efforts of the foreign soldiers, who fought
with desperation."
Belgian papers to the 3(1 inst. pave arrived, of which the
following curium article is an extract

" NEW LINE OP POLICY ADOPTED AT THE NINO OP
HANOVER.
'• It appears that the approaching opening of the Ger
mart Diet, Hanover trill continue to beat the-head of the
opposition which has been formed in that Assembly since
the declaration made by the Ministers of Austria. and
l'russia,in conseqnence of the decisions of the Congress rat
Vienne. This opinion is strengthened by the important
news which we hare received,that according to instructions

transmitted from London, the Hanoverian Government
has taken the resolution not to send any more a Commis-
sioner to Mayenre to form part of the central U 0011124401
of Inquiry sitting in that town. ,This resolution is of a
nature to cause a great sensation among , the members of
the Germanic Diet."—(Journal de antzellee.)
" Wego, fearing that ton numerous an escort would
betray him, would only permit three of his faithful followers
to enter with him. One of these was an English Colonel,
who, impressed with mistrust, hastily closed the door, locked
it, and pocketed the key. They fed their hoarsely and re-
posed thetnselves in the stable with their drawn sworthiby
their sides, Riego, on awaking, peremptorily said .to
Lopes Lira that he must get his horse shod. Well;
replied the latter, who felt all the importance of the occa-
sion, I will go and get it done at Ar.adllos.' niers
refused, and expressed a desire that his brother Mateo
should undertake the commission, 'witty leading the hors*
to Arguillos, but by fetching a farrier. Lopes had only
time to whisper his brother—' Plis man is Riego ; give
information to the Magistrates, and say that we are pre-
' pared to-do our
" Po. d of the same intelligence as leis brother.
Mateo agreed upon the way in which he would act, and
he promised so to manage that Welt() should be at
breakfast when the armed force should surround the house.
" Riego, in (wt, sat down to breakfast. immediately
on learning from Mateo that the farrier was COWIN/ forth-.
with: lint the Englishm in, ronstaittly impressed • with
his fears, did not gni; the window, from which, with a
telescope, lie kept a look-nut all round. Suddenly he ex-
claimed, Commandant, u•e are lost ! —here are armed'
persons advancing,'
•' Ann! cried Riego, hnt that last Hit Lopes and Mateo
seized the carbines and cocked and levelled them at the
traitors, saying the first who moves is a dead man !"chey
had already grasped their swords, but the resolution oT
Riego all at once forsook him. lie let him tie his hands
behind hie back. Ile even said politely to Lopez, calling
him (rucsira mereed)--• Have alte goodness to tell the men,
who are coming. not to hurt us, since we are your
priso• er
"'I he Alcade entered, followed by an armed force.
Riego supplicated him in a similar manner not to do:
him any harm, and, as a pledge, to embrace him.
The Meade felt much repugnance to embrace a man
who bad brought so many evils upon his coUntryt but
the indulgent Lopez urged him to do so in the name of
Christian charity. Riego then offered the Alcade's men
all the money,lie had about him to be treated wait humanity,
which the Meade forbade any of them accepting, ao•l
addressing the prisoners, said—' Justice will decide your
fate.' •
" The civil Commandant of Argailloi soon after arrived,
with a mounted guard, and took away the prisoners.
"The hermit and the two countrymen showed through,
out this affair a devotion and intelligence which insure to
thent the gratitude of all loyal Spaniards."

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From Petersburg we learn, that the department of foreign
trade is gobs; to be organized in a new manner. The
business will be accelerated, and; placed under a supreme
board, at the head of whitely, it is said, Count Lambert will
biplaced. An Ukase of the Ist of June, prohibits Chris-
tians from entering into the service of Jews. Not' only
Sarepts, but the Government town Neschni Novogorod,
was destroyed by fire during the great annual fair. The
magnificent new Bazaar, however, was saved.
The harvest in Rest Prussia ;has been very productive,
-and the warm weather favourable for getting it in. Peas
alone have here and there failed, and nothing is wanting
to relieve the farmer bat good price ; those which
he now obtains being barely sufficieet to cover
the ezpenres of the cultivation. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cumberland has returned to
Berlin from Carlsbad.

tier Majesty the Queen of Sweden had the misfortune to
slip as she was stepping out of a carriage, and to dislocate
her arm ; she has, however, recovered, antetook an airing
-on the 16th.

From Broils), we learn that it is understood that the
King, ;smart. to introduce more uniformity and celerity
in the adminieiration of public business, has just formed
a Council of Ministers to examine the projects of law
decrees, Ste., before they are laid before his Majesty and
the Council of Government.—ln order to promote the
practice of Vaccination, the Minister of the interior has
signified to the provincial administrations, thazlt is his
Majesty's express desire, that all Schoolmasters and
Schoolmistresses already established, or who shall be
established in future, shall engage not to receive any
pupil, who is not provided with a regular certificate
of having been vaccinated or bad the small pox.—The
Duke of San Lorenzo left Brussels on the 30th nit. to
make a abort tour through the Northern provinces of the
Kingdom. Tile ill health of the Duchess would sot permit
her to accompany him.
The followieg are further extracts from the Brussels
papers :
Avosneno, Sept. 20.—Letters from Schaffhausen say
that a very active correspondence has lately taken plate
between the government oldie presiding Canton and those
of the other Cantons, relative: to certain secret associations,
which agents of the. great power affirm to exist in the
Swiss territory. It is said that the answers of the Cait-
tonal governments have not been very satisfactory, because
they have considered the question put to them as having
been, in some measure, induced by foreign influence.
Nunamouno, Sept. 22.—We have received the impor-
tant news that the Hanoverian Government, in consequence
of instructions from London, will not send a Commissioner
.to form part of the central committee of Magence. This
resolution is calculated to excite much attention in the
German Diet, and denotes that H will' continue
to be at the head of the kind of opposition which has been
remarked in that assembly. •

The English Ultras are now beginning to fear that they
have done too awls iskSpain; tied that ia pulling down'
the temple of rational • Freedom, the ruins are likely t.
cucumber the ground so prejudicially, that it may be found
impossible to build up a mixed monarchy, a representative
of two chambers. 'and a tolerant church " as by law esta-
blished." The New Times " earnestly prays," for a system
which may limit the power of the Crown, by clear and
definite laws; to which, of course, the Crown would pay n•I
regard; but the Ultras of Spain demand an absolute
King, and the re.establishmeat of the horrors of
the Holy Inquisition. Nothing less will content, them;
and they are already in treaty with Russia to procure
these blessings for them, in the eirent of Prince Hilt either
opposing their desires, or refusing to assist in their accom-
plishment. The New Times also wishes, or says so, for a
system which may " secure to the nation the right of
being taxed by its representatives;" but to this the uitiss
of Spain will lever consent, because they are not such
tiicksters io politics as to imagine that such a system can
be established-in name. as in Englaa, without any repre-
sentation in filet. Then the good Doctor adds, the
syitem may " allow to the :superior nobility and
" clergy, a pardon of that share Iti the legislature
" to:which they
.haett claims as ancient and legal
-. ~ .
4s the King to his prerosatire.", The cloven foot is
,hereobeious enough. It is " the envy and admiration of the
world"--the plunder of the million by the hundred, accord-
leg.to the forms of law—which the Doctor wants to see
transferred to Spain ;and It is in this silly hope. that France
has been permitted to make's proeiqce of Spain; for as
' .thing elm can Spas be to France, should the despotiC an-
&Drivel Ferdinand be restored. France has been laughing
1 le hip ;dame& the hopes of England; hulas been herself
ameurasseehr:lseneelved iunlttbraesideoai that
ni:p.alear..7.lidny.ceepntoulsgerh
. - .. a
spilt 44/10111.1011b ; :WAG tbs tappet of Governnseet,
I
lbsysre .all Soles,. compared with the Ultras of Spain,
wboivill listen to Sidles bat to the suggestions of minds
Neer etiggiossell h importance, *and now inflamed to
seadeene ley ••the -anticipation of soccer. No coup-
-premise will he. based of by them. They will either
have all or nothing.- The qbsolate Kiag, or. a free re-
public. is tbe only alternative for Spain. Could the forms
of a mixed Goverament be introduced. which is impossi-
ble. the essence of a tyranny would remain, and all the
evils of despotisms weld ensue. The present prospects
[ et /Simla, ate a 'natation) for many' years. and the
(metals triumph at last, of the repablican party.—
&Ws as men lease enlightened, they are weaned from
the silly patersees of that political babyism which looks
' fat pitaatates is swathing cloths, and legislators is the
wareny; and as's:tale as reams prevails,. the Represents-
, dm System of seventies the whole by the whole, is certain
I se &Mak peeselyses. The seseessfal example of North
. Asimits is *lag adds Ur Reyil playthings, ii:istasd-

jag lesson to the world that monarchy is not utential to
the growth, prosperity, or happiness-of nations; and
though it becomes less mischievous, as it iemore limited,
the argument chews that the limitation cannot be carried too
fall and when we bare arrived at the 'conclusion
that a King cannot have tee little power, we are net far re. '
moved from the conviction that he need not be treated with •
any. Beghod, however, tarnishes an example of• the feet,
that aKiag(may be deprived of his anthority,and the nation
be no gainer by the circumstance; for it is here transferred
to the hands of usurpers, who are u absolute, and as mis.
chievous as any despots, without the reponsibility which
attaches to a single tyrant.

The fall of Flit:eras, and the probable fall of See, renders
it necessary that the Constitutionalists of Catalonia
should exert themselves even still more than they have hi.
therto done,, They seem to be fully aware of the crisis in
which they-are placed •; and we arriuformed that Lloberas
has issnediroM Timone with 2000 men, and is marching
epos Lerida;: while Milan. has resumed the consinand of •
that fortress.. bietking,.certainly, can look more gloomy
than the Constitationsi cause at present. The French
though 'held' gillently at bay in one or two positions, bare
by diet of superior numbers, better organization, and an
unsparing application of bribery, hitherto succeeded in
every quarter, either in maintaining their ground, or in the
accomplish meat of their enterprises. This is not to muck
a matter of surprise, as of regret ; for the disadvantages
under which the contest was commenced, rendered h im-
possible to oppose force to force. on the part of Stain; and
the treason of the commanders completed the destractios of
all the means of open warfare, 'in the tented field:—
Still there were hopes that incidental reverses won'd maks
' these odds more even;' but the French have had a
' cool summer, and a dry autumn ; and no signal muse
has yet been sustained by them This gives an eclat to their
tense which its infamy Ent little deserves; and has a ten.
dency to prolong the apathy which we tear is too general
in Spain. The projected attack on Cadiz is therefore as
object of the greatest solicitude. if defeated, the objects of
' all the previous success of the campaign will be destroyed.
The approaching winter will afford time for the rallying of
the dispersed constitntiooal bands; and before the French

are is a condition to take, the field again, the
state of affairs may put on a far different aspect. Bat if
the attack upon t'atliz succeed, there is a consequence
worth consideration, which may result from it. Ferdi-

nand,and the whole royal familyinay perish in the assault;
or they may be destroyed in the frenzy of the moment by
the indignant multitude. This would be agreeable enough
to the French Government.: The throne of Spain weahl
then be to be filled by the conquerors; and the two cons
tries would he united. la this ease, how would Englael
act? She would have no alternative, upon the policy of bet
presents Ministers, but to acquiesce in such an armoring,

leaving the balance or power to regulate itself. li ths
Cortes are at all worthy of the character which their past
conduct has entitled them to, it is certain that Ferdinand
will not survive fist raking of Cadiz. The prospect beyond
inch an event fer the Cortes, or at least for the most mimes
amongst them,is an ignonti oio its death upon tbetwaffold.Will
they submit even to the chance of this, with the choicest
falling so gloriously in the operations.of the principles to
which they have shewn such devotion ? A few days tesy
donvince our Ministry, that the indolent repose upon els.

cial beds of roses, which they have chalked out for them-
selves, may be rudely interrupted by circumstances Per
which they have foolishly .resigned the chance of &Molt—
and they will too late regret the refusal to interfere,wbes a
single word would have kepL the French army at home.

Lettere received from Cadiz, dated the 12tb, tsalo,l2l
ca'e the following part'culars :—" The town still bolds
u'ut, notwithstanding the very marked desire of the Cortes
and the Government to oprn the Gates of the French. TM
sacred battalion, composed of persons most iniplicatrO, sad
the nio .1 decided of the liberal party, amounting
2,100 men is the sole support of the exalted party, mita
refuses to listen to any terms. These warriors have nst
a moment's repose. They watch the operations of the
Curies and the Government, and are resolved to pettish
the least symptom of treason with the utmost amerity. They
are commanded by General Quittoo.s, and several for. ignite
belong to them. An illustrious Englishman, Lord Nuanst,
who is in the town, sees the Ministers and the principal
Members of the Cortes very often, and has declard very
openly for continued resistance."
setters from Ferrol, of the 10th Sept. confirm the ac•
comfits previously received through other channels of the
fortress of Conlon& having been surrendered by Novella,
the. Governor, to the traitor M orillo, iu consequence of A
secret understanding between them, effected tbrosgi
Colonel Questa, the officer who entered the latter on the
9th of Angola. They alto describe Oallicia as being
overrun by Guerilla parties, composed of the remains of the
Constitutional Army, sito intercept the communicatiom
between Villa Franca, Logo. Grease, and Coronas, stsi
have been successful in many. affairs with French detach.
meats. The writer. who is an officer of tank and talents
adds, tuat it is his op.nion "Ali, war in the Peninsldals b/
114),Illeana at an end, iralt;ilgb monksh missionaries was..
der through the valliel; arid' preach faith and obedienctie
the it+geney."
From a letter in theGlargoso Courier,it appearr,that sysiP
toms of immbordioatiow have been manifested among de
negroes in the Island of Lucia. The writer ascribes this
spirit to the intelligeact of Mt. Buxton's motion hoist
reached that ;stood ; as if the lash of the slave driver bad
never, before Banton, Wilberforce or Clark were born, mill'
ed in the West Indies resentment and attempts at revolt--
According to Ibis notion " philanthropic speeches" so
productive of " misery and bloodshed," and the agentsaM
abettors of Hover!, the true friends of humanity, "ram/
and order."
A ,King's Messenger arrived at Windsor Cutle late
Thursday emus. in a post-chaise and foar, and almost
at the same Otwiseat the Duke of Wellington. who had
left in the heatioss for London, returned to the Castle.
His Grace slept at the Castle, and returned to L0n404
early in the mrsesint. It was reported that the Mews*
gee was the beater of Important despatches received 880
Spain. sad that the Duke of Welling on *eat dons 10
the purpose of batiste an audience of his Majesty on the
subject.
A Topographical, Military, and Scientific &Nuevo'
Ma of eshdiut, accompanied with 48 References, tells'
.
from day's *mug Cirolricle (in which Jourtaas u
Vitissiesi), will appear in To-morrow's Oitaems.