The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-08 00:00:00

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From Portn4al we learn, under elate of ti,: 2.71 h
of October, that in the sitting of the Cortes on
17th, there was a discussion of the 711 h at i..le "f
projet of the Constitution, which proposes that « c„.
Members of one Session might be reelected for the f,.
lowing Session." The discussion %ilea very live;I:
IThe Members who spoke in favour of the areicte,„id
that this arrangement was conformable to the pried-
pies of the French Constitution of 1791, which weed
as a model for the Constitutions of Spain and Pot.
tugal. Their opponents replied that it was it
consequence of the power of being re-elected to the
sovereign functions that Bonaparte, when Pirst Come%
became a derpot and a tyrant. One speaker, the Ah'e
de Medrones referred to the examples of Rome asd
Athens, and strove to demonstrate that the toPereipty
of the people would be compromised by this re-eles.
tion. The article, nevertheless, passed by a mirth.,
of 64 votes against 32. On the I.Bthof Ike month,
was celebrated in the Church of Saint Domingo, wo
the express permission of the King. magnifiem
obsequies in memory of the authors and abetters
of what was called the conspiracy of 1817, who
perished on the scaffold. A subscription
opened to raise a monument to these persons. In the
Sittings of the Cortes on the 18th .a very warts dig.
cussion anise on the question whether the Portnguis
government should send troops to Pernambuco. Nagy
members alleged that this measure was useless. A estes•
mission was appointed to make a report on the subject.
In the same sitting, the Deputy Fernandez worths
raze the buildings of the Inquisition, and to erects.
their ruins a column, which should bear this inscripties,
" Eternal execration on every Portuguese, who tent
not horror at so infernal an invention." This props
sition was postponed to another sitting.
Letters from Madrid of the 25th ult. represent the
tranqnillity of the capital not to have been materially
disturbed on that day. Trifling agitations in other
parts of Spain are given in detail, but they are scarcely
worth notice.
French Funds (Monday) 89f. 75c.

The speech addressed by the King of France to the
two Cha►►►bers was looked for with anxiety, in the
pectation it would have annon need something decisive
on the points in dispute in the East. It will be fotuvi,
however, to have been as vague on this and other
points as any speech ever wade to Parliament. The
points, however, on which the King speaks oat are
those on which we believe he is well warranted, the
protection his navy has afforded to his own and other
people in the-East, and the improvement that is tail%
place in the Finances and the general state of France.

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The hirelings of sber press, loons here ana sa Ire.
land, bare lahourid to persuade tho.cOintry. thmtLe
insurrection in the county of Limerick is coeskei
with political societies hero-had Is 'ltaly, and pally
slur over the atrocities of the Orange murderers, sell
now and then setting them off as inoffensive 1941
gentlemen, the Kirin's most affectionate subjects. The
immortal Sim said, " when you tell a lie, you deist
know the great risque you run, as you are afterse ids
forced lo tell half a dozen to support it." The cope
of the Gang, and his loyal Wreckers at the COL
ROYAL, unknowingly did the people a piece or ser•
vice; they left them no longer in the dark, as to. tie
characters who support the exterminating system is
this country ; and a precious groupe they are, to b
sure. " When the Toast Master proposed, The
Master of the Ordnance and the Aldermen
of
Skinner's Alley," there must have bees a lane
laugh. Has the great Captain fallen so low ss
to be mixed up with such company, to be toasted es
their ally? Shocking, shocking !!! We bare oho
beard the remark, tell me your company and! hoe
what you are." Col. _ P !ATOM, of Manchester, tes,
was not forgotten. What the hero of Peterloo! NW
the mild, moral, humane, generous gentleman, lad
YARMOUTH, whose name created so much unmake
how very civil in the Ultra not to furnish a was
faithful report of the day's rejoicing; be could hit'
had it from two of his scribes who were there; be
knows who we mean—in pity we shall not notice the&
Our readers ought to thank those who exposed to es'
tire this base, this exterminating Society to the repro.
bation of honest Englishmen, those fellows whose 101'
alty to the KING rests be place, profit, and esPeeeseeb
and do eon care more for him thou for ag•
Aid cer-
tain it is, that the most visionary Radical cum" be
half em dangerous a subject as such motley Loyalisto.
Let his MAJUTT but " deprive them of those sumo-huts" and they would, within one solitary week, Pe°"
as rank Jacobites as ever were attached to the Freati
Mows:ails. It is such as these that are the promoter's'
the insubordination in Ireland, who goad the peer P°°'
pie to madness, and then would bring an army to
them down. But all will not do, the deception is sees
throngh.TheOrange wreckers in the county of Limerick,
who have destrained and ejected the unfortunate/ivies
end drove the poor to beggary and madness, now bees
eo feel the effects of their tyranny. The people of LI.
Enrich are kind and grateful to those who tent
tliS
like human beings, but what can be expected by 'bele
who use them worse than dogs ? They look for Pei°
in vein ; they have no money to go to law ; they bi!
no hope but in resistance. If they emigrate to doe
country, nra they idle, or lacy ? Do
ead they Braille I
en labour, to be enabled thereby to get br for tbeLl
distressed families ? Is It then to be *prof tte.l
were Ins industrious at home? No; Os ileln.t•
heating and a kind word, you may lead thee any ww:
'Force may break but never bend ibis. The Picket