The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-07 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

Cur.‘coA, .ItAy 9.—We have to day received ad-
rites nhikli are cons!bred positive that Puerto
Cabello is actually in possession of the Patriots.

The intimation we gave yesterday, on the tottliority
of the ['rend, papers, of a tumult in Madrid, has been
cenfirn,ed by subsegnent arrivals. Though much to
be ret7retted, it does not, however, appear alarming.
General Molt im.o, it had been first reported, had used
his sabre against the populace. This the General de-
nies. "My sabre," said he, " which I will never

draw but ngainst the ene:uics of the country, remained

in its ,cahhard." The mistake arose from the 6, neral,
in dispersing a crowd that had assembled near the pri-
son where the Guides (14 Corps, involved in the late
conspiracy, wt re confined, laid about him with his
cane. No such weapons were resorted to as were em-
pl.)yed in Ilyde-park, and at Cumberland-gate; and
yet the people of Madrid were so exasperated at the
t;oner:il's conduct, that they demanded his bead, and
induced him to send in his resignation to the KING.
We manage such affairs, (we wish we could say much
better) hut very differently in London. When military
violence has been ernployedagainst the populace,and peo-
ple have been shot, and when, according to the whole-
some custom of our ancestors an inquest has been sum-
moned for the purpose of enquiring, as the Jurors are
required, with diligeuce, and making true presentment
how the decewied had come to their death, such obsta-
cles and embarrassurents are presented to the Jurors as
if there were a legal and acknowledged right to perplex
aniklefeat their investigation. This, however, is not all.
After the death of one of the unfortunate men is pro-
nounced by the inquest to be "Wilful Murder," a set of
men assemble, not for the purpose of promoting the
ends of justice, or following np the case according to
a legal course ; but for an object repugnant to the
Laws and Constitution of the land, the sanction of
the severities which the verdict of one of the most
ancient and valuable Courts of our country has
condemned. Nut satisfied with passing resolutions
in diametric opposition to the judgment of that
Court. and with commending the conduct of a
corps which had proved so deadly to two un-
offending victims, this meeting is so destitute of,
English constitutional spirit, so divested of all fellow-
feeling with their fellow-countrymen, and so anxious
to exasperate the animosity between the people
and the soldiery, that they propose to remunerate
the men who had been employed on this deplorable oc-
casion and odious service. A paper of this morning has
the insolence, in cruel irony, to term this attempt " a
subscription to reward the military for the forbearance,
good temper, and discipline" they displayed on the
occasion. It is of the Military's mercy, then, -that the
mischief was so limited. Is it credible, is it possible
that any Englishmen would have had the folly and
wickedness to engage in such design ? The attempt
can only tend to cover the projectors with indignation
and disgrace. The dissection of their subscription
list, which we yesterday exhibited, exposes them com-
pletely to contempt and derision. The artifices to which
they have recourse ; to have it understood that theirob-
ject can be countenanced, by anybat the slaves of corrup-
tion, who Would destroy the spirit aid Independence of the
people, are as despicable as their intellects and motives.
To make such men believe that the subscription is po-
puk?" among the middling and lower 4.14111.14" some
paltry fellow divides his paltry pound into.los. 6d., 75..
and 2s. bd.Land then by annexing unknown names to
these paltry.sains, induces his dupes to imagine that
these an the ceinsibtaitos of the lower orders I.

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