The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-08 00:00:00

GENERAL II GLASTEROS.

LATTER FROM GENFRAL RALLASTROM TO NIA ROYAL ITISIUSILSS
TRU DIVER Or •NOOL/ LEW:.
Most Serene Lord,—When I, In4uced by my ardent patriot-
ism, and my desire to co-operate with the grand and botevolent
views of your Royal Highness, signed n convention with Gen.
ltiolitor. which was to put an end to the frightful evils w'tich
nTieed my ceuntry.l eyes far from believing that the blackest
iveratitude weidd be the recompense of my devote:hiess—that
' those whose interests I then defended would he the first to ca.
11.rn!ate my intentions and punish my zeal. Your Royal High-
ness is informed of the recompense I hive received for so im-
portant a service; end your Royal Highness, who may know
so well the purity of my conduct, will not be less scandalized
titan I am myself, by the fate which is preparing for me.
We must cot deceive ourselves. Absolute power is going
to rule over `pain with a rod of iron; nod this power io as lit-
tle calculated for the government of Spain, as that democratic
'Co3 ;tit wi on %%Melt your Roynl Highness came to destroy, be-
cause it was opposed to the kn.wledge of the age, to the inter-
est of the thrones of Europe, and to the trangnillity of nations.
Thus has the essential basis of my armistice been destroyed
b? an imprudent hand—thus has the fruit of my sacrifice been
iost--thus those loyal intentions have been frustrated
which dictated to me an act that will he more correctly judged
ef when I can place before the eyes of Europe the motives of
my conduit.
Under these circumstances, it is my duty as a Spaniard, and
hayirg been honoured by the particular confidence of your
Royal Highness, to protest before your Royal llighness, and I
do protest in the most solemn manner, against the decree of
his Majesty of the Ist of this month; and against all the, acts
which bear the same character of intolerance, and which have
the same tendency to absolute power.
Your Royal Highness and General Molitor know very well
that my resolution was taken after long discussions, after se-
rious meditation, and niter having received guarantees o? an
august and sacred nature. Far from the audacious notio tof
reproaching either yourßoyalHighness or the worthy Gen. Mo-
I•tor with the non observance of my treaty. I dare to assert.
that the Monk who governs Spain is stronger than your Royal
highness, and stronger than the French Government. Your
Royal Iliehttess will be perfectly convinced of Luis, when your
Royal Highness sees all the fruits of your exertions destroyed,
and his result of your vast and prudent conibivations
atatihi-
For my own part, my time of life, my health, and my incli-
nsttion, keep me, and have long kept me. at a distance from the
public career into which I only entered from the force of irre-
sistible circumstances. I desire to retire int I a corner of the
world, there to deplore the innumerable evils to which my be-
loved country is about to become a prey.
Deign to take me under the powerful protection of your
Royal Highness, and to grant me an asylum in that France
which exists under the best of Kings, and which will never
cease to be the first nation of the world.
May your Rol Hehnesa accept, Zee.
FRANyaC I St'iUS BALL iSTEROS.
Port St. Mary's, Oct. 7, Inta.
CA ntz, OCT. 17.—General Ballasteros, fearing to
esperiencs some unpleasant treatment in travelling through
Spain, to retire to his own province, Arragon, has solicited
anti obtained permission to make Port St. Mary his tem-
porary residence. He vegetates there in a melancholy
style, abandoned by every one.
Sevt t.t.a, OCT. I•2.—General Ballasteros has arrived here
under a strong escort, coming from Port St.' Mary's. He
is imprisoned to a barrack. As yet his trial is not spoken
of, neither is it known who will be his Judges, nor of what
crime he is accused. An express was sent away from this
city yesterday, with an order to put Morillo in confinement
also --The Canons of this Cathedral have presented two
millions of reals in gold to the King.
Advises from Bayonne, dated Oct. 30, say :—" Private
letters still speak of the increase of Itallasteroesforees, the
chief corps of which is in the environs of La Carolina,
where it endeavours to interrupt the communications.—
Some even go so far as to pretend that the King and Court
are far from feeling at their ease in Seville, and that they
rather think rf retrograding, and placing themselves in
safety at Cadiz, than of attempting to proceed to the capital
the military position of which is not such as to secure it
from a comp de main. General Zayas is in the mountains
of ItOnda, with a corns which daily become more numerous.
If these circumstance; are as they are represented, it seems
probable that it wit be a long time before our troops can
be recalled from the provinces where their presence is so
needful.

An Act of Parliament was passed in the last Session,
authorising the transport of convicts to any. of oar Colo-
nies, for the purpose of being employed in any of the
public works carrying on in them for their improvement,
and in consequence the Antelope has been commissioned
at Cliaibam by Lieut. Hire, for the purpose of conveying
a considerable nnumbrr of them to Bermuda, where
docks are forming. and other considerable naval plans
are projected. The Antelope will lie at the island live
years.