The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-23 00:00:00

1111 E STATESMAN

SPANISH GALLEONS!
At the sound Of iiese words. we think we behold rush
forward crowds of gallant youths, Lord Johns and Lord
eta rleses and Lord Henries, clad in blue and buff and
gold, and eryingott, "Were! where!"—ln the bands of
the French, most noble youths I And now hear the pi-
tiful story from the Comae.
" Amounts have reached Lloyd's this morning of the
tore of a Sourish cor:ette, leaded with treasure; and
" bound for Europe, by the French squadron. Tne prize
" was fakes into Martisigste. This circumstance has
'created souse aithinfsinitent in the city, as it shews that
• orders must have been given for the capture of Spanish
a.' vessels, by the French Government, early in February.'.
Oh ! Astonish sent, has it ! Time will reconcile
" Lines" to things like this. The COURIER says, that
is this Galleon was taken in the West Indic., "the
French Government must have issued its orders in
.Febreery, to capture Spanish vessels." And, why
f Wby should this surprise you? The French knew
that you would not go to war; but, it is curious enough,
that the French Government should have issued these or-
ders,just at the ti me that our stock-jobbbing press thought
that It was frightened by the noisy speeches and the bully.
paragraphs; just at the time when it thought that the
" united voice of parliament and the country" Lad
stopped the motions of the French ! This is, however,
serious work. This plundering of Galleons really be-
longed to us, of this most pope/Des kingdom. This is
the first stroke of the kind that the French ever made.
What! And the " pliant tars" obliged to stand and
suck their thumbs, while the French, the French that
we conquered, only the other day, are taking Galleons !
However, this is the price at which we have Gatton and
Old Sarum.—The Stock Jobbing press rails in grand
style against the French, on this occasion. It is Gat-
ton, good stock jobbers, and not the French, that you
ought to rail at.
NEW YORK GULLS.
" Letters from New York, received yesterday, state that
" the Exchange with England bad fallen front IS and 11.
"premium, to 3 and 4 on account of immediat ell expected
" hostilities in Europe. All articles of commerce had risen
"fron. IS to 30 per cent. There was the greatest interest
" emitted as to the attitude of England, and it was reported
" there were great armaments going forward in the dock-
" yards,. &a."
,Braro 'Hew we should have liked to see the greedy,
the rapacious,. crew running about, showing to each
other the warlike speeches and paragraphs of London!
What ruin there must have bcen amongst the sprcu.
lators! Thanks to our blessed Debt, there will be nu
blood shed to fatten these harpies!

ROYAL DRAWING ROOM POSTPONED.

About one o'clock to-day, intelligence reached our
Office that the Royal Drawing Room which had been
appointed to be held this day, and which had been
expected to eclipse every former display at Pimlico Pa-
lace, in point of magnificence and number of visitants,
was suddenly postponed. On proceeding to Carlton
Palace to ascertain the grounds of the report, we
found not only the avenues, but most part of the vi-
cinity, thronged with crowds of anxious enquirers. The
feelings indicated in the countenance of the multitude
who had expected to have been spectators of the brillian-
cy of the day, when they found the sad tidings confirm-
ed, may be better imagined than described. The occa-
sion of the postponement was conceived to be commen-
surate with the greatness of the disappointment; and
the moat gloomy apprehensions prevailed. We are some-
what relieved, however, by the information we collected,
I that it is owing only to a sudden return of the gout
which bad affected leis Majesty's hand.

Paris papers to the 21st instant have been received,
and, subsequently, the contents of a Telegraphic de-
spatch of the above date. The Journal des Debate, of
the 20th, announces the following as " news from the
army in Spain."--" The port and citadel of Guetaria
have been taken by our troops. Two hundred men,
among whom were two Colonels and ten other officers,
have been taken, together with five pieces of cannon,
and provisions. It is said, that the enemy have evacu-
ated the fort of Pancorvu, and that they have abandoned
Burgos since the 14th. Every where the French army
meets with the best reception." The following are the
contents of the subseqnent despatch:—" Paris, 21st
April. A Telegraphic despatch announces that we have
found at l'ancorro, which place the enemy had evacuated,
thirty-one pieces of cannon, besides several bombs, and
a great quantity of cannon -shot. The head-qnarters are
at Vittoria, where his Royal Highness has been received
. with enthusiasm." M. de Lostande, Aid-de-Camp to
. General Guitleminot, lately brought to Paris by the
Gendarmerie, as a Conspirator, bat been set at libery,
and has been allowed to return to the Army.
FRENCH FUNDS.-92f. 75c.—Neapolitan Reotes, 71.
—Spanish Ditto, 34.
Since the above was composed, we have received, by ex-
press, the Quothltenne of Monday. It contains, however,
no fresh intelligence from the army.

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CITV, TIVRLVE O'CLOCK.— This being a close holiday both
at the Bank and Stock Exchange, only the foreign market is
open. Spanish, bonds were done at 31 I. On the Royal
Exchange some few bargains were done ;.: consols at 76
We do ntil hear but of one Express from Paris, and it is
said the French funds came at ti 3, SO, Monday's price. There
is a report in circulatioa,that Letters of Marque are expect-
ed to be granted by the Spanish Ambassador, but as yet We
know not if the rumour,be entitled to credit.
Fonsicis FUNDS.—Spanish bonds opened at 824 I. Little
is doing in the above stock this morning, as the failures have
caused great sensation in the above market. Columbia
bonds are on the decline, owing to the information from Bo-

gato.
Chili, 6S—New Spanish, 3211-01 d ditto, 40—New Prus-
sian, 61-01 d, tili to 62—Russian, 751—Danish, 65—
[Colombian, 631 to 62—Neapolitan, 711 to 72.
_

Bayonne papers to the 16th instant hare arrived tit.
morning-, but no mail had lately reached that place from
Seville or 31aalrid. At Pamplona the French were ex-
pected with firmness, as a reinforcement of men, bring-
ing cattle with them, bad entered the town. That place
it is suppostd, will stop the French longer than was ex•
pected c and St. Sebastian, it will probably be neces-
sary, to besiege in form. The French army is
very much emborrased for want of hores.—The
occupation of Bilbao by the French troops was at the re-
quest of the inhabitants, who feared t hat the Army ef the
Faith would be guilty of excesses, and a line has been
drawn which the troops of the Faith are not to pass. The
Trappist, it is stated, has been arrested by order of the
Duke D'Angouletor. for hating violated his orders by ill-
treating the Constitutionalists. This has given great offence
to the adherents of the Faith. An Ambassador of the Holy
Alliance had just arrived to the Junta which is at Orthes.

By a Flanders Mail, arrived this morning, there are
accounts from Bale that the Greeks who are now in 1
Switzerland, cannot obtain permission to embark either .
at Marseilles, Leghorn, or Antwerp. This unexpected
difficulty, whiob has stopped them for a time, has induced
them, it is said, to rote Hamburgh, there to embark for
some port in England, whence they will proceed to their
destination. The letters from Warsaw again contradict
the reports that a Rassian army was going to march to
join the French army in Spain• From Brussels we learn
that the Queen of the Netherlauds would leave that
sty on the 21st to go on a visit to Berlin. The Kist
' was to make a toar towards the end of this month to

inspect thii fortresses in the Southern provinces. Let -1 COURT OF MAIO% EVENCII, Warrutsress, Arms.
ters from Vienna still express a belief that neeciations I
will be renewed between France and Spain. The Court
of Vienna is said to coincide in all the sentiments of the
Court of St. James's on the subject of the contest.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held
at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Earl
of Harrowby, the Duke of IVellington, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Peel, Mr. Canning,
&c. The Cabinet broke up soon after four o'clock.
The Marquis Wellesley has written to the Secretary of
S'ate,t hat his expectations respect' n grestoriug tranquillity
in Ireland have been disappointed; and that he fads the
system of outrage has been almost completely organized.
concludes by expressing his conviction that the wir-
dom of his Majesty's Government and of Parliament, will
not delay the renewal of the Insurrection Act.
'Several additional State Papers relative to France,
Spain, and Portugal, were laid before both Houses of Par-
liament last night. A confidential minute of the late
Lord Castlereagh on the affairs of Spain, contains the
deliberate opinion of the Duke of Wellington on the ef-
fect of foreign interference on the Spanish Nation, and
the obstinate resis'ance that would inevitably be excited
ban such attempt ; but the most important of all, is
thy e memorandum of the Spanish Ambassador, M. de Ja•
bat, relative to the conduct of Spain. Not only did the
Spaoish Government, it appears, refuse military assist-
ance to the Junta of Oporto and the Government of Na-
ples, whilst the self-named Regency were organizing
" Bands of the Faith" at Bayonne and Perpignan ; but
they actually declined " the service of three regiments of
the (French) Army of Observation."
The capture of the Guerriere would seem to rest on
something more than report. The Pilote of Saturday
evening stated, that it had received a letter from Brest,
announcing this capture, after an engagement of eight
hours. But the miracle ceases, when we learn, that it was
a vaieseau, a name given only to large ships of war, and a
frigate, which took the French frigate.
A letter from Barcelona, dated the ffth, confirms what has
been already announced respecting the great amber of
Spanish privateers waiting only for the entrance of our
troops into Catalonia, iu order to put to sea. It states that
those ready to sail from different ports of Catalonia are esti-
mated at more thenBo.—(Journal de Paris.)
Advices of a curious nature, and to the following effect,
have been received in the United States from Guatemala.
It would seem that the Province of St. Salvador, the
largest in Guatemala, having been disappointed in au
offer made to the Mexican Empire of becoming incorpo-
rated with it, on certain conditions, the local Govern-
ment there had determined to make an offer to be re-
ceived into the American Union, and become a section
of the United States, on condition of being placed on an
equal footing with the other States. The Local Govern.
meat in Guatemala bad further declireJ, that in the
mean time till this affair was concluded, they would
defend and administer their Province in the name of the
United States' Government, to which they consider them-
selves an appendage."
A speculator of some note in the Foreign Stock Market
has suddently absconded, leaving the payment of his dif-
ferences to those brokers through whom his business was
transacted. As his known connexion with en eminent mer-
cantile house gave him almost unlimited credit, the extent to
which his disappearance has involved those who trusted
him, is said to be truly disastrous. It was on Saturday
that he absconded, though the circumstance was not gene-
rally known till yesterday. Efforts were made to trace his
route, but as he had taken the precaution to order the chaise
himself, which drove off from an hotel in Bridge-street, af-
ter waiting only a few secopds at the door. they were
wholly ineffectual, lie is supposed to have earned off pro•
party with him to the amount of near 10.0001.
DUKE OF SAN LORENZO'S 'VISIT TO TUC COBOURG Tara.
TRE.—Yesterday evening the Doke of San Lorenzo, late
Ambassador from the Court of Spain at Paris, honoured
this elegant end popular place of amusement with his pre-
sence. The announcement of this intended visit had attract-
ed a fashionable and overflowing audience, comprising many
foreigner.; of distinction. His Excellency on his arrival,
about nine o'clock, was received and conducted to his box
by Mr. Rorauer, box-book and housekeeper, and his assist-
ants, and Ina entrance was hailed by the nutnerous assem-
bilge with a degree of enthusiasm that seemed highly gra-
tifying to the feelings of his Excellency, who noticed it with
evident complacency. The performance of the popular spec-
tacle of The Siege of Saragossa commenced shortly after
the arrival of his Excellency, and the avidity and enthusiasm
wish which every allusion that bore, in tile slightest degree,
on the present state of affairs with Spain. was seized by the
audience, must have removed all doubt on the mind of his
Excellency as to the feelings of the British public on that
momentous subject. The Duke seemed pleased with the
Spectacle, and on retiring expressed himself highly detight-
ed with his visit to the Theatre.
CORN EKCIIANGc —The arrivals of all descriptions of
grain to this day's market are only moderate. Very few
tine samples of wheat are to be seen, and Monday's terms
are folly supported. Barley has no alteration.—Beans
and Peas support last quotation.—The trade for Oats has
nut been lively, and prices remain as on Monday.
PROLIFIC Eivs.—A small ewe, of the true South Down
breed, it is said, has this season, on the Singleton Drove
Farm, belonging to Cul. Wyndham, veined four lambs,
which are now upwards of a month old.

vt.awattso V. rte ollutas.
Mr. Caereseir. 'sieved for a rule to show cause why the
verdict in this ease should not be set aside and a new trial
granted. It was an action tried before Mr. Baron ()arrow.
at the last assizes for the county of Norfolk, in which the
jury gave 901. damages; but io which he should show that
Duly the smallest damages ought to have been given. The
plaintiff kept a gin-shop at Yarrouth, and the action was
brought for disturbing a rout given by his lady.
Mr. Justice Balt Lay.—An unlawful assembly, Mr.
Campbell I
Mr. Castrast.z..—No, my lord ; the lady was at home.
To this elegant entertainment a young lady named Lyoiai
Simmons was invited. She was an orphan, of 17 yearn
of age, of considerable fortune, whose guardians had
placed her tin ler the care of widow of a cler-
gyman. Altheugh she was related to the plain-
titf, her guardians did not think it was proper for
her to associate with the company who assembled at
his house, and therefore forbade her to attend this party,
which was to be given on the 14th ofJao.last. Notwith-
standing this prohibition, the plaintiff took her freest the
house of her protectress in order to grace the entertain-
ment to which he bad invited his friends. Her guardians
undertaking that she was there, gave a written authority
to the offitier of the mayor to remove her, and be teak with
him the two other defendants. On their arrival they went
into the kitchen, which was one of the rooms apes
for the reception of the company, and there stated the
business of their visit. It was probable that their
object would have bsen peaceably attained, had not
the party been blessed with the presence of a young
attorney from London, named Bousfield, who resolved
to dazzle them with a display of his professional skin.—
" Have you," said he, addressing himself to the racer%
" provided yourselves with his Majesty's writ of habeas 'w-
pm ad subjeciendem?" (A general laugh.) They confess-
led that they had not, butsald they hail a written authority from
the guardians. " Thee,"-rejoined he," you are liable to an
action, for you have bees guilty of a gross daytime fruit."
(Renewed laughter). At length it was suggested, that
if the officers would retire, the young lady should be
conducted home ; and one of the officers webt to ob-
tain the consent of the guardians to this arrangement,
which was given, and the defendants withdrew. Suds
was the substantial cause of action and the aggrava-
tious stated were, that one of the officers had said, " 6th
seconds make a minute ;" and that another had said,
" Nice tarts, ladies," alluding to some tarts which the
female visiters were eating. For this trespass the Jury
had given given 2111. damages, which were utterly extra-
vagant and absurd, and quite unexpected by the Judge
who presided. The learned Counsel proceeded to read a
report of Mr. Baron Harrow's summing up, in which he
lamented the case should be brought before the Jury,
and animanverted on the,
conduct of the plaintiff, but was
stopped by
The COURT, who granted a rule to show cause.
DALE V. 31EADOIVCROFT.
Mr. Comma moved for a rule to show clime why the ver-
dict in this case should not be set aside, and a new trial
granted. It was nn action for a breach of promise of mar-
riage, tried before the Lord Chief Justice, at the last sit-
tings for Middlesex, when the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff, with bOUL. damages. He moved, first, because
the damages were excessive; and secondly, on an arndas it,
which showed that his client had no opportunity of making a
complete defence at the trial. To support the case, -letters
were put in, none of which contained a promise of mar-
riage ; but one witness was called who swore to a verbal
promise, without whose testimony the action could not
be supported. This witness was a servant who could
give no satisfactory account of herself, and no ascount
whatever of the previous life and character of her mistress.
The plaintiff and the defendant had cohabited together, and
do ing that cohabitation the promise was supposed to be
given ; but no proof had been adduced of the previous cha-
racter of the plaintiff—no evidence of Cie felicity which she
enjoyed in the bosom of her family—no facts, even, front
which the jury could infer that she was endowed with mon!
purity before she became acquainted with the defendant.—
That acquaintance might, for any thing proved in the
cause, have originated in a mere casual encounter in the
street, without any seduction on the part of Mr. Mee-
dowcroft, who was scarcely more than twenty-three years
of age when the intimacy began. Whatcould induce the Ja-
rs, to gise &MK. in such a case, he (Mr. Cooper) knew net.
'the learned Counsel then read the affulavit, which :Jet
forth that the defendant was in France when the hill was
filed against him ; that he only returned three days be-
fore trial ; and that lie had not time to procure the attend.
ance of witnesses. Under these circunist slices, he tru:,-
ed the Court would allow the case to be submitted to the
consideration of another jury.
'Flue LORD Cuter JUSTICE said, that the Court were
clearly of opinion that the affidavit disclosed no ground'
for a new trialffor it did not even suggest any one topic of
defence of which the defendant could avail himself on a
s-cond trial ; but they thought hint entitled to a rule to
show cause why the verdict should not be set aside ou the
ground of excessive damages.
Mr. COOPER took his rule on this ground alone.

DEAL, APRIL 21.-31oR0ER.—A Coroner's In..,uest was
this day held on the late Mr. J. Bell, of this place, and, by a
voluntary confession made by his son, just turned of the spy
of lei years, it appears that the youth, alone, formed the de-
liberate intention of murnering his father, and carried it into
effect in a manner which his youth and appearance scarcely
would warrant as being possible. Although Warilt d by the
Coroner of the consequences, on his trial, of any confession
he :night now make, he freely disclosed every particular
connected with the melancholy transaction. On Wednesday
evening last he bought a gun for the purpose, and basin( •
loaded it with a bullet, went at the back of the house shout
nine o'clock, and, firing through the whn low. shut his fa-
ther as be sat in his chair, his mother sitting in the same
room. He then threw the gun into a ditch, and went to pay
a lad for it, about half an hour afterwards, having purchased
it of him the same evening ; soon after he joined his compa-
nions, sad after staying out all night, returned to his father's
house in the morning. He did not make the least attempt to
elide the inquiries which resulted in his apprehension; when
first examined, however, before the Magistrates. he stated.
that one of his Companions had shot his father all which tie
has since retracted; and the jury having returned a verdict
of Wilful Murder against him, he will accordingly be com-
mitted fur trial.
ELLG,NT GLASSES, FURNITURE, &c.--The Nobility and
Gentry are invited to inspect the Ware-rooms of Course
and SON, 93, Bishopsgate-Within, where it exhibited an as-
sortment of neat and second-hand Plate Glasses, admirably
suited to every description of Drawing or Dining-Rooms.—
The prices are just reduced 40 per cent. on Plates measuring
100 inches by 72, and upwards; and on those of smaller di-
mensions the alteration will he found equally important.—
The extensive preference given to this Establishment IS
thankfully acknowledged by the Proprietors, who, in their
endeavours to evince their gratitude, by manufacturing arti-
cles in a superior manlier, at prices suitable to the times.
hope to merit a continuswe of public support. In the gar-
niture department, Is comprised every new and elegant arti-
cle of Upholstery, Cabinet, aid Chair Work, regulated ups
such a scale of economy. as to demand and ensure the ps-
t-onnge of rank and fasition.

MARRIED.—On Tu,sday, the trod lust, at Richmond,
Lacy Rumopy, Esq. to Ellzobeth, third daughter of the Ho.
John Spencer.
On Tuesday, at Clapham chureb,
W. H. Dutton, of St'
Martin's-court, Leicester-square, to Louisa Sophia, only
daughter of Thomas Hill, Esq. of Belmont-row, V 311%.
DIED.—On the the 18th inst. S. Billingay, Esq. of PlaistoC,
E 911“, ill his 70th year.
On Saturday. the 19th inst. at his house, is Cook's-eoart,
Berle-street, Lincoln's-inn, Mr. T. Sudlow, aged 63. 110
was the last surviving brother of John Sudlow, Esq. late of
Monument-yard.

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