The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-23 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, ISO.

STOCK EXCOANOS, 12 o'CLoca.—Consols opened this
morning at 8.311,, with scaredy any fluctuation during the
morning.

Although a report prevailed that an Express bad ar-
rived this morning, and brought the French Renter at 90,
85, and Spanish at 27i, we could not ascertain the fact.
There ib a hope that when Ferdinand arrives in bis capi-
tal, and the stew Cortes is installed, his former decrees will
he revoked and new ones will be adopted. There is also a
talk of an Alliance between France, Spain, Portugal, and
Russia, by which means the above Powers will secure to
themselves the commerce of the Mediterranean.

Fon IG Ft,N DS. —Scarcely and business is doing except
in Spanish Bonds, and that to no great extent. All other
forrign securities remain stationary this morning.
New Spanish. .20-0141. 23 to i—Russian, 83 Si—Chili,
Sl—Columbian, Ss4—Poyals. lU. nomical.

There Is inch a mixture of cant and hypocrisy in tto
columns of a certain Morning Paper, that one knows not
whether to treat it with levity or indignation. We find in it to
Jay the following sentence :—" The King of Spain is
bound In duty to God awl Man to bring to trial a wretch-
like Riegn, if it he true that ltiego at Malaga caused eight
respectable Citizens to be shot without law or form of
trial: and that it is true, we have ourselves seen the
written,declaration of an English 6-ntlensan who was et
Malaga at !the time." The idea of connecting in any way
the name of Ferdinand, with his duty to thrd and Man, is
truly ridienlons, bat above all, with reference to the punish-
ment of guilt; witb Iris own hands stained with the blood of
his' best 'friends. It is hardly possible to conceive the idea

of a nunzmorft.-41eeply involved in all the crimes that stip
fyiatifit dein 'the ititi4rof Tlidee ieL
preserved for him a crown, which he had meanly sur-
rendered, perished by his orders; and yet he is invoked,
"in the name of Gov," to punish Riego! The accusations
preferred against thit gallant soldier, we happen to be
aware. are entirely false. The knave of the New Times
has furnished enough of proof on the sabject to de-
stroy his own statement. The first statement was that
Riego had caused fourteen monied Spaniards to be
shot at Malaga. This lie was not the invention of
;be Editor of the Ntic Tines ; bat he adopted it
with alt tbc. afiectstioa of a natural father, and was quite
ready to. vouch for its authenticity. The " written de-
claration of the English Gentleman," we have no doubt,
was an entire fabrication of the Editor himself. It is a
document upon which we have before commented, as it
appeared in the A'cw Times. in the shape of a letter from
some one who had run away' from Malaga, and had
rt•aehed Gibraltar. But this letter did not COT•
ruborate the story before told. Perhaps Dr. Slop had
forgotten the number; and he reduced the fourteen to
e'ght. Falstatrs men in buckram encreased as he went on,
in the full confidence of the falsehoods passing current ;
the New Times, edifying by his detection, thought the
story would be more 'probable by a contrary conduct. The
" English gentloman," too, removed the . ,as well as di-
minished the number of the sufferers, lie did not state
that any were shot at Malaga, n here he pretended to be,
hitt at Velez, where be certainly was not; and he moreover
told us that Riego had not Hine to commit at
Malaga suck atrocities as had been committed
at Alicant. Barcelona, anti other places. New, the unpro
yoked slaughter of fourteen men, seems, to us, an act of as
great atrocity as could be committed aoywbere.Somo of our
!itider's may think this exposition unnecessary. because
the character of the print in question is well known, as
deliberately falsifying every statement. for. the purpose of
slandering, and uniting to the destraction of those. who are
Deposed to it on political subjects. It is necessary, how-
ever, that this character should be constantly kept in
view; for the nabinaling impudence of its general tone is
such as might deceive the unpractised in newspaper mysti.
fications. Those who are aware of them will laugh heartily
at this wretched
_falsifier pretending to expect that
Ferdinand will give his people a good system. and govern
wisely:—qnotiog, as the basis of that hope, a declaration,
which it calls his, bat which was in fact written by men
similar to those whom the New Timer now calla upon him
to murder, as an act of duty to Lion ! The wretched King
of Spain is a man without any mental degrader. He is
Fit mere animal, and acts only from the impulse of his
animal passions. 'He Is totally inespable of compre
Imsliag either what is good, or what is bad, is policy.
ikatitade, mercy, and justice, are three words to which be
attsehes no meaning. Already be has commenced die
display of the qualities fur which be is remarkable. A
, South of the perdetioe of Madrid, and those the most ea

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