The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-25 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

himself before the town, and apprised General &pieta
of his intention to publish the proclamation; the General
replied that be was about to do the same thing himself,
and that he should be happy of General Mina's company
to dinner. The people are inquiring what has become
of General Eliu, the most inveterate agent of the most
cruel despotism ; and of M. Emits, Captain• General of
Grenada, not less abhorred than his colleague.
While Spain has been restored to this happy state of
things, our stupid Consul at Bayonne has continued to
publish and circulrte the• most absurd reports of the
various defeats of the lithely, on the authority of letters
said to have been received from Malaga, Madrid, Cadiz,
Curogne, and Santander.

To the details already given, respecting the members
of the Provisional Junta, we are enabled to add the fol-
lowing:—

M. de Mechuaean, Bishop of Valladolid, was particu-
larly odious to the Inquisition, who prevented the King
from appointing him 31inister of Grace and Jmatire.
M. de Larilizaliel was Member of the Supreme Tribunal
established by the fortes: he is author of an esteemed
work upon crimes and punishtuents. M. die Vali!mores,
Prefect of Valencia in 1,414, was iserseented by Elio and
other intriguers, who urged the King not to accept the
Constitution. The Count de Taboada, ancient Counsellor,
is also esteemed for his talents as well as his principles.
Col. Sancho, still very young, excites the respect or
even• one. M. Tarrins was Prefect of Avila tinder the
fortes. 31. de Pegnele was at the same period Minister
of disci el. 31. Crespo was one of the Deputies. This
as,easlilage of omen dear to the nation is a most I.ivour.tbie
augur•.

American papers arrived this morning to the
29th February.—The following is an extract of a
letter from St. Thomas's, dated Ist Fe4ruary :
The grand expedition destined to the Ntaine hail not
sailed from Marizaritta. 31arvatio Montilla is the Com-
mander in Chief of the force., who is an experienced
othrrr, having served With Bonaparte. The expedition
is Loom! for La linira. The army and naval squadron
united will exceed 15,000 men, with stores, ■utmani-
nitiun, &e. tieneral Bolivar left 3largatitta some time
since fur his head quarters on the Apnre. The next ac-
count, you may expect to hear of the final success of the
Patriots, ant! the entire po.session of the Maine.
Tl•is expedition has been raked and equipped, and
will be in operation in les; than three months from its
contemplation : tvh the great Cadiz armada, of
which xa touch has been said, yet remains in Cadiz, and
more than half its original force have fallen victims to
the fever.

witted to their decision, whenever those matters are
connected, in the most remota deletes, *kb the object of
their fears. In such cases, if justice be imperfectly done,
the blame lies with those who, having it in their power to
try the alleged offence in another county, choose the
very place where opinion has manifested itself so strongly
as scarcely to leave any doubt of the result. It is evi-
dent, from the admission of the upright Judge himself,
that Sir Fitsarcts might set aside the verdict on the
ground that the alleged offence had been couttuitted
and ought to have been tried in Middlesex ; that if real
justice had been intended on the part of the prosecutors,•!
they would not have qui..teil the precincts of Westminster
11.10. There, however, then must rime at last; for the
Honourable Baronet will, no dolib*, avail himself of
the opinion delivered from the Bench, and move for as
a of judgment. At a distance from all those irritating
circnntstances which bias the minds of men, iniper-
reptibly to themselves, the result will, Ate trust,
he widely different, and the country will have to rejoice,
instead of tamrn•ini, that such a charge should have .
been brought a_ainst her most able, most faithful, and
most actiie Patriot.

Whilst Revolutions are changing the fire of nations
abroad, one, less sudden in its :aeration—less compre-
hensive in its nature, but not less certain in its results,
is gradually, and almost ifspen eptibly, accomplishing
its:•!f in this country. The minds ot• stern Irate expe-
.riesenal a great an.! important change. Deep-rooted
parkediees and antipathies have creased to exist, though
their extinction is yet too recent to be openly acknow-
le4lged ; fur consistency is still the COUI/011 idol, and
m►en sunt:nua to preserve its attributes long after
they have discarded its worship. Reform is nu longer
the dread of the higher classes, though it may still re-
tuain the object of their misrepresentations. In their
hearts they feel its necessity, and in their moments
of sincerity and confidence, they confess it. They differ,
it is true, as to the mettle and extent of its operation;
but they declare that it ►venal hr alderman,; and that,
in order to prevent the task f falling into other
hands, they are u illing to become Reformers themselves.
This is an important admission: little to be trusted till
it shows itself beyond the secrecy of private assurances,
and prroltices public and tangible results ; but important,
because it reveals the constant and mighty progress of
the good cause, and announces the certainty of its ulti-
mate triumph. If the truth of this assertion be doubted,
on account of the of me:mores directed by the last
Parliament against our liberties, we appeal us those very
measures, as convincing proofs of the rapid advance of
liberal and patriotic sentiments through the great mass of
the fiction. For had not public opinion assumed a degree
of unanimity alarming to the tools of corruption, they
would not have thought it necessary to the existence of
their system to pass hews of so desperate a character—
laws which rend asunder the veil of policy so long and
so artfully spread over the real nature of their designs,
and expose thew to the worhi in all their nakedness and
deformity. Neither would they have had. recourse to
the unwise, but, iu a public sense, Arteriole expedients,
in the laborious travail, and, as all England expects, cer-
eainaleortion of whirls they are now painfully and trent-
bli aptly engaged to. They wo aid Batt Lira WO& AIWA to dun-
getotil to he tried fur offences which they have not yet
been able to prove by evidence. They would not hare ex-
pos'! the weakness of their cause to all mankind. 'I teey
would not have deceived Parliament, by an assurance
that inquiry into the Manchester transactions was not
necessary, because the whole case would be investigated
when the trial of the alleged conspirators %Imola take
place, whereas evidence on that part of the subject, by
far the most important, has been authoritatively re-
jected. lastly, they would not have attempted to wreak
their vengeance on ar. individual, whose manly and
patriotic spirit forms a distinguished, and therefore an
offensive contrast with the weakness and servility of
their own. They would not have made the just indig-
nation, which, not an Englishman alone, but every man
worthy of the name of man, millet feel on hearing that
multitudes of his peaceful brethren have fallen victims to
their confidence in the strength of that C'oustitution by
which they fancied themselves protected—they would
nut have needle the first ungnanled, but natural espies-
' stun of that indignation a• charge of sedition, and the
' object of a State prosecution : They would not have
run SO decidedly counter to all the feelings of no), and
the sense of their country. But strong necessity was
upon them. Partial murmurings had ceased; the universal
yoke rose in thunder, and t he universal indignation might
strike in thunder too. The storm was awful. It rolled on
the surface of our waters in darkness and in terrors. The
powers of the State scented shaken t lout where could
they look for support?—To a sincere and salutary union
of interests with the people. This was the true remedy—
, the impenetrable shield—the panacea of the times—but
it was nut then to be thought of. Deleperate measures ap-
peared the only rocks of safrt•. They might break the
concentration of the tempest, and once disunited, hawse-
' dering masses might be easily repelled and dissolved.
Desperate measures were therefore. adopted, and their
I success appeared complete for a time. But they have
created a new source of dangers. They served as
auxiliaries to the weak at the hour of battle, but in that
of triumph they are become their master". They have
a re-action of their own ; and that re-action begins to be
felt. The result of lluN T 5 trial, should even the ver-
, diet lathe Jury differ from that, which on reading the
evidence the u hole nation leas already pronounced, will
be the first blow struck at thepreseut system of men mid
•
, measures.

STOCK► ENCIL4NGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

The Fungi* have retooling in the same state as they
were last week, without any particular variation.
Consols for the Account have been from 6tlf to 61.1,
and are now 61,1. This complete stagnation of besi•
ness can only bs attributed to the inactivity of the
pithiic with regard to operating; nor ram there be any
alteration until the elecdoseering husiss is pat to rest.
Honey is net trite so plentiful. Exehagear Bills at 31.

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NAVAL INTEL ZIGEXCE.

DP.AL, Mason Bt.—Arrived, and sailed for the Riser, the
Julius Cesar. luckie, from Dent , Georgiana, Warren,
from Berbiee; Gamblers, Donovan, from Cadiz ; Moline
ton, Wheatley, frum Buoy rna ; Lord Esainath, Mills, from
I Odessa ; George Dash, Edgar, front Si. Micharl'.:; Mer.ort.
Dromatood. from Charenti ; Ranger, Remelt:Stun ; and Jo-
seph, Christopherson, tram Demerara ; Enterprise. Shatton,
from Boardroom ; Cyrene, Barrett, from Derbiee ; George
and Thomas, Sadler, from Gibraltar; hleretry, Haver*:
Betsey, Thou..; and Vigilant, Strong, from Lisbon
nerva, Gregson, from Gilboa; and Aplin, Bassett, loom
Berbice.—Came down from the River the Earl St. el.
Simpson, for New South Wales ; and Cato, Murton, fists
Antigua.
POUTITIMAII, MARCO, St —Arrfted his Majesty's sl,lO
Sapphire, from the Cape of Good Rope, with Lord Charles
Sobterset and suite on board; Sir Joseph Banks, Stat r:
from London, for Jamaica ; London Packet, Tracey, from
tonti.gi fur Roston ; Christiana transport. from Mi:tn: Ct
corolla, Jansen, from Amsterdam, for Genoa; Couentd,
Drandford, from St. Michael's ; and Venus, Ftmard, from
Havre.—Passed by the Isabella, WNiell, from l harlestr:,,
for London.

Alsacit 24.—Arrived the Bullet's, Rrou n, front Cork;
Gat welt Jones, from Waterford; and Expedition,
from Dunganon.—Passed up Channel the Brixton. Pidtle.l,
from the Cape of Good Hope, for London ; sin; I7•a 1:c r
passengers here.
LivEarook, MAaru 22.—Arrived the Mcrtha, Nusdar.
from Demarara, sailed ffikh Jan. ; Commodore Barry. Sylio.
for New Orleans; Caraquette, Huntington, from Mal Ara;
Wanderer, Dixon, from Sicily; Jong Wllkeleo, Parlerllct,
from Rotterdam; and Joseph and Thomas, Soper, front
Lisbon; sailed Ist March. On the 20th, off Tuslar, spoke
the Mat is, from Alexandria, for this port, with Ler redder
broke.

M.►acn 93.—Arrived the George Canning, Tobin, from
Demerara ; sailed on the id Feb. ; the Budget was to
on the 3d, and the Grace, on the 4th Feb., for this port.—
Also arrived the Maryland, from Chariston ; Dr)ade, front
Savannah; John Echlin, Dallgell. from Mul•a; John, and
Perseverance, from the Mediterranean ; iris, nutriter;
Freedom, Edwards; William Pell. Douglas; Mar). tr.tn
Lisbon; and Mancliestcr. Hancock, from Oporto.
MAZGATI, Muria 93.—Arrived the Young Prot.:: a,
Holmes. from Rosa, for London, with loss oc an anchor. .A
writing-desk, containing papers of the vessel's
Ac. belonging to Captain Storey, of the Flora, late!y (ro•a
Shields, hat been picked up near the Secuivers.
PLYMOUTH, Msactt 43.—Sailed the Dame Collet!.,
Kiornesieg, for ()steed.—Passed up Channel the
Thotaiss, from Lisbon.
FALMOUTH, MARcH 21.—Salied the Unity Thompl.:n.
for Amsterdam ; Crisis, Skiddy. for Havre ; Fortitude,
James, fur Lisbon ; Darlington, Wheatley; Lo►d Exmouth.
Mills ; Providence, Jones ; Hunger, Thomas ; Hoye,
111'Quey ; and Rebecca, Bent, for London.—Arrived off tae
port the Elishat Wilkie. from Charleston, for London.
M ARCM ft.—Arrived the (lope, Scott. from Claw, in 30
days. for Jersey.—She spoke on the lith inst., in let. IN.
long. O. 30. the sloop Courier, from the Western Islands,
for London ; and on the 90th, in lat. 40. li. long. 7. 30. tue
brig (iambic., from Cadiz, for London, out I t days.—Sei:rd
the Enterprise, Hoskin ; and Four Friends, BrokctiAler, for
London.

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