The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-16 00:00:00

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t:n l:nee their attack.

We are assured that M. Agar, President of the pre.
visional Junta of has trtitten to the haft.
hurting him to yield to the wishes of the nation, ay to
content himself with a Constitutional poster ne
opinions of the Council of State are divided apes 0,4
point ; lout it is certain, that one of the Members 6,
proposal to his :Majesty to sign, without delay, ;hetes.
stitntional Art ; there is no doubt but that he emu
timely secede to these terms.

All our Ministers have become excessively may.
The Counsellors of Castile speak already, as if they had
never erased to profess and protect the purest liberalia,
We shall not long remain in a state of unernailey
—Cadiz still holds out, lint this fidelity must ,;al,l
shores-; one-fourth of the inhabitants are crsfised is
their own houses. The number of persons flew"' is
the prisons is truly alarming. The Insurgents are a,
the gates; the Cortadura is in their Newer; such, at
least, is the purport of letters re% eire4l from thence of
the TM ult. The capture of this place is not ess,-e;,l
to the future operations of the Insurgents.
dron in the harbour have orders to save Ilienneivr,,
should the Insurgents he admitted. Freyre, Maim.
has remained inactive. Seville is much in the sataer,.
tuatiun as Cadiz. The houses of arrest are not int.
cicutly large. These measnres of violence sill use
terminate. We know nothing of Riego, nor of Ws.
well. The couriers of Andalusia only bring letters kir
such p!aces as are on their rontr. They are visited sal
examined previous to their entering Madrid.

Ilavossc, 3latten 7.—(Extract of a private letter).-
" You know that at first I considered the rerolatiet
merely as a temporary insurrection among the militsr.
lam deceived. It is a general movement protokell br
the insupportable system pursued by an arbitrary thleg.
meat. .A generous and high spirited nation is at last tinti
of the dominion of the inquisition, and the abases( le.
ere* des cachets. Under the apparent calm °retitled.%
the tempest remained long concealed ; it burst he di
every where at once! The revolution is general. la
Arragon, Navarre, Valencia, the Constitution has beta
published. For many days the whole of Oallicia
been governed by it. This great change is praiser►
without opposition. Should the King yield is ph&
opinion, and indeed be must yield if such an oppoftsift
be still afforded him, our eomtuercial affairs will was
more activity than ever, but in the mean time
entirely suspended.
The paper money of Madrid is always negociats4tta
low price, and we shall not be surprised if, i■ a Ins
days, it recovers the value which it possessed prise
to the recent events.

The Oracle of Brussels announces, that the ame
from Spain has excited considerable hustle in Brigitte',
and that every thing of a folio:oat-int nature, thearit
previously very active between the two coestrin, has
experienced a total stagnation.

The importance of the subject at pretest wider
debate in the French Legislature, ceaveot be better
described than by recording the fact that &Clim-
ber of Deputies, when complete, minim WI
Members, and that on Saturday, when the law on
individual liberty was under discussion, no few,
than 247 actually voted. Of the 11 dellcient 4are
not constituted ; so that only seven could be midi
be absent, and who might well be supposed ima-
pable of attending from real personal came er
prevention. This may and ought to be made nat-
ter of observation and example to our own Legisla-
tive Bodies, who have often passed Bills dee*
the lives of their fellow-creatures and countryside,
when two-thirds of their constituted number haw
been absent, aid without inquiries made sky
them. We do hope that the privilege of the
HOUSE of LORDS voting by pros, will be serial*,
inquired into the coming Sessious. It is a mass
which, most undoubtedly, will be more bmweralie
—at least, more humane, in the breach than is
the observance.

In our STATESMAN of 'este:day we prowled Is
resume the topic of the Elections ; the subject be-
ing peculiarly apropcs at this moment of time.
When we wade this I.romibe we had in our view
the circumstance so much to be regretted, Wail
had just happened, viz. the failure in reboil
one of the longest tried City Champions to his nest
in the House of Commons, which he had bees
far from dishonouring, that his first speed) waist
only applauded as much for its correctass •
its constitutionality, but that not a simile *FP
since has been made against any part of his 4lr
poetment in that notorious body of Ueda*
This has appeared a sad requital for the !wadies st
public virtue; and, in some measure, countesams
what a sensible but cynical writer has said to en
fickleness of popular favour. This circeenstasK
so disbonountble to the character of the city
London, has not arisen so much from the oriel
of the electors, in general, as from the coward*
of a part of them, who wanted intrepidity to Pe'
form a second time an act of patriotic selkleta
They did not look directly forward to the Ins
and ashes, perhaps, but they looked, so dolte,
trospectively to the biscuit*, from which a NW
over-bearing mass of family wealth has beeoralliv
to the absolute danger of the extinctive sf eta.
virtue, and heroic patriotism, in the cosissoli
city of the world !!! It is a melancholy nisalisz.
that the opportunity of setting an example OP th.
whole United Kingdom, has been so Wilms*
lost. Think, Citizens of Londe'', d thew
lion you have fallen into 1 when sus of Yrs all.
didates, at once so odious in polhissi •