The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-02 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1823.

MR. CANNING AND THB GUARANTEE.
A French paper, called the Journal of the Debates,
has the following remarks on what was said by Mr. Can-
ning, relating to our guarantee of the Bourbon Throne.
They are well worthy of remark.
"The five powers are invariably leagued against every
" attempt to revolutionize the states of some tine among
" (hen.. The value of the guarantee has never been eon-
' tested, and England approves of it *slouch as any one of
" the Allied Powers. The question of whet line of conduct
" they should pursue with regard to Spain was foreign to
" their stipulations, since Spain is not one of their corn-
",pany. England ham been able to judgwthis particular
" question under a different point of view than that of the
" other Powers.-with,oit giving us a right to ennande that
" site throws off the obligation contracted with her Allies,to
" oppose every revolutionary attempt directed against one
"of them. Although neutral with regard to the Spanish
"revolutionists, Ens/hind is still a party to an alliance
"against. she revolutionists who may disturb France,
" Sue's is the sense of the article of the Treaty mentioned
"by Mr. Canning. Stich, certainly, was his view in re-
" rising to enter into the discus:ion, which Lord J. Russell
" desired to bring forward ; for it must be recollected that
" in all his speeches. and all his actions, Mr. C inning has
" shown that he is one of those who abhor Inv revolutionary
" spirit, because lie is one of those who know it best."
Tb is, tben, we are not only bound to sippr.ss all 4..
tempts at Revolution in France, but France is bound in
a like manner towards our pretty thing; that tweet',
thing aces us under over-production and Anise at the''
same time! In short, according to thi, writer, France is
bound to support (or make us support)" nationalfailli,"
tithes, Cation and Old Sarum, the Game Lairs and the
new Law of Trespass! This is very kind of the French ;
Ihot, one good turn deserves another: we did all we
could to restore to her the inestimable blessings of No-
biome, Clergy, Tithes, and Game Law a; and, though we
frilled, she, doubtless, took the will for the deed, and is
I ready to show her gratitude accordingly. The THING
was too far gone in her case. She had actually destroy
ed the precious articles, root and branch ; and, therefore,
though we gave her basal the form, we could not force
on her the substance, anxious as we were to do it. The
Bourbons do then guarantee our THING! According
to this writer, they actually guarantee " the Envy of
" surrounding Nations and adniiratirai of the World!"
Brave Bourbons!—For Gon's sake let us have this made
clearly out!, Let it be proved, that the Bourbons do
really guarantee Gatton and Old Sarum. Faith, tie must
look into the Treaties ; we must look into those Tre.diee,
which Castlereagh had just signed, alien he ttaS re.
eeived with stouts of applause by a crowd of the basest
reptiles that the sun ever warmed with his rays.

INVASION OF SPAIN.
There nprears to be no fresh intelligence on this sub-
ject. The King of Spain Wel, it seems, removed from
Madrid on the 20tli of March, and in a manner which
leads es to believe, thatthe Cortes found some opposition
from ►he people. That city must now be in a horrid
state! Want of business amongst the tradespeople,
and want of employment and of food amongst the arti-
zens and labouters! We should not be at all surprised
to hear, that the Royalists ha 4, by this time, erected a
Regency in Madrid. This decamping from the capit:tl
is, sorely, not a mark of confidence in the Cortes they
that have the Flower to resist the French.

wife of ►lle inuiviilual at the head of the stow:el A. a
Party given by the Duke D'H.%VRE, " that her hus-
band had just saved the Monarchy." The French
ChamLers have lately transacted no business of
interest or importance; but in the absence of their
discussions, the Journal des Debate presents a lung
and laborious article, which is noticed in a preceding
part of our paper, .to show that, in spite of Mr.
Canning's construction of the treaties between this Go-
vernment and that of France, England is bound, with
all the Powers of Europe, to maintain the Bourbons
on the French throne, against the efforts of Itevolvtion-
lets, as well as of any other enemies. The Moniteer
contains three ordinances, signed by Viscount !Agron.—
The last is signed by him as Secretary of State for the
War Department. Several Lyonese Gentlemen pres►nted
to M. Manuel, on the 29th inst. the Civic Crown voted to
him for his conduct in the Chamber of Deputies, after
which the lion. Member was invited to a grand dinner
given in his honour by the Lyonese then in the capital.
Letters of the 20th of February frism Ipsara state, that
a Dalmatian vessel had brought a cargo of poisonedfida
at that place, which was sold to the inhabitants, and oc-
casioned many deaths among them before the true cause
was discovered. This act tsas attributed to the Turkish
Government. An article of the 20th ult. from Vienna as-
serts, that the Porte had accepted the propositions made
by Lord Stanford, but does wit explain their nature.

Bayonne papers, which have arrived this morning to
the 26th ult. give a different colour to the affairs of the
frontlet from what was given in the former Joarnals.—
While our warriors, say they, hoped, and even proclaimed
beforehand that the Army of the Faith had even extended
the sphere of its exp'oits beyond the Ebro, we At
on the controls', the theatre of pear comes nearer to our
frontiers. After g iving a Microns description of thetroope
of the army of the Faith, the account proceeds to state that
Oen. Qttestda, *hose he:►d quarters are still at SL Jean de
Luz, had given orders to the band of Gorostitli, to ap-
proach the tanks of, the Bidassoa, and even to attack
!run, to facilitate the communication in case of success.
In fact, on the 231., that partisan, with SKI men; apt
tooted before that town, and, at first, got possession of
the approaches to it; but Colonel allonnel, at the bead
of 200 men, promptly attacked him, tied dislodged hiat
even from the heights of St. Martial, where the ltayalists
hal posted themselves.
On the 24th, a part of the column of the Pastor an 4
the French battalion, consisting of 300 refugees, curling
the Spanish and thu tri-coloured flag, arrived at V ray,
and immediately made a military promenade amidst the
repeated cries of Vine is Con:ligation—Vine la
It is even affirmed that more troops are expected on this
point, to observe u hat passes oa the Bidassoa and lo
cover S. Sebastian. A report was spread that Orneral
Quisada, entered Iron on the evening of the 23:1. but
news seemed to be premature.

STOCK EY.COANGE, 14 O'CLOCK.—We are very barren
of information in the City, to this hour, and there is hut
little doing in the Funds. Consols opened at 743, at
which price they remain steady. We have no account es
ye t of any Expresses from Paris this morning. It is slid
that Government have received despatches ftwu Aladris%
hut their contents, have nut as yet transpired.
FOREIGN FUNDS.—tipaoish Ronda opened this mornirg
at 29a, and went down to alt parties are semi Atsly
waiting for accounts of the Ist April, from the Pyrenees.
the day when hustiliCes were espeeted to hate commenced.
Chili. li7—!,,lew Speekh, 29Z-01d. 36—Neer Prussia, 7111
—Old, :32—Danish, tnt —Culotneia, Zetii—Russia,

Letters dated the 21st ult. were received yesterday
frosts St. Sebastian. AU hope of avoiding war had tang
ceased, and the inhabitants of this place acre pn p wing
to meet it with firmness This being the nearest forti-
fied town to Biyonne, there was reasan to expect that
one of the earliest operations of the French would be to
make 4lierusekres masters of it, and preparations were
therefore making to sustain a siege. All the women and
children had been removed to Paysages, a small village
in tie nelghbonrhood, on the sea coast. Bitsini sr was
fur the must part suspended in St. Sebastian, moat of the
merchants and their clerks having entered their
oawrs
as volanteers to join the force embodied far the defence
of the province of Biscay against the French. :tinny
isail set out for the different stations at wwhieh detach-
ments of troops were placed. T..e military force us
Biscay was estimated altogether at about 15,003 men.
Generally licalting,th re exi-ted in the province a very
high constitutional spirit, lint not althea, sum excep-
tions, as a few vonng men of family, a'arnied at the
ri-
gam of the military service that awaited them, list at-
tached themselves to the Army of the Faith or Royalist
party. The, number of these degenerate persons was,
nowt ver, wholly insignificant; nor aas their cowardly
purpose likely to he iniaiced, as the avowed intendant of
the French Generals was to place them in the van, an 4
expose them to the brunt of the first attack uimu attic
own countrymen.
By the Mary, Captain Parnell, arrived at Liverpool
from Lisbon, hiving left the Tagus on the morning of
the lahls Mt., letters of the 13th have been received from
the Portuguese capital. By these it is asceriained that
the rebellion in the province of Tras os Montea was emu.
pletely quelled; that General Rego heti entered Chaves;
and that Countil'Atnarante had tied into Spain. prohablg
intending to join his ultra friends, or his old colleague
Qoesada. Most of the troops whom he had dtceived by
false statements of the support they were likely to receive,
bad previously abandoned him sod joined the Constitu.
tional army under General Rego. Captain Parnell re•
ports, that as late as the 14th the Duke of Keot packet
(Nu. 2.). which sailed from Falmouth oa the 6th ult. bid
not arrived at Lisbon, which accounts for no packet hat-
ing left since the Marlliorough, which sailed ou the 9tb,
and reached England last week.
Extract of a letter dated Rio Janeiro, January IQ.---
"The decree of this tioverunietit for titling out priva-
teers to cruise against the Portuguese flag, is of counsel
declaration of war. Letters of marque were some months
aao sent to North America, but with institm ions that
they should not be issued till the 30th of December.—
There is little doubt, therefore, that by this time a swarm
of privateers have sailed from the United States. Today
an order has been sent don't to the Custom house, that
all red wine shall in future pay 12 milreasper cent. duty.
a Ishii is the same rate paid by the Portuguese on port
aim's. Formerly all foreign wines paid six niitrcas ditty;
and the order further adds, that all articles mannfac-
tared in Porttigal, shall pay 24 per cent. ad calurem,
which is the Sailleas paid by all foreigners with the ex-
ception of the English. As yet no alteration has takea
place in the 15 per cent. paid by the English: hut should
England refuse to recognise the Emperor, there is no
&min but we shall he obliged to pay the CCM duties as
~titer foreigners."
A Literary and Scientific institution Is about to be esta-
blistiettaill Use Bette Of the Lower H.OUtIIS at Beth.

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