The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-18 00:00:00

LONDON:
SATVRDAY RIMING. JANUARY 18, 1823.

Our express from Hereford, owing to the state of the
roads, had not'arrived till our paper was going to press.—
Thu result of the County Meeting, will, therefore, be pub-
lished in a Second Edition.

:STOCK EXCITANOIt, HALF•PAIT TweLve o'CLuca.—At
the opening of the market this morning, a great panic
prevailed in consequence of the Cep from Paris,
bringing the French Funds at 87, and Spanish at 481.
Soon after,* note was posted up in the New Room, inti-
;totting. that the three foreign Ambassadors had lent
Madrid; but this note was taken down, because it was
1,4 signed. The Afoniteur of Thursday contains the
three notespresented to the Cortes, from Austria, Russia,
and Prussia, which we understand are moderate in style,
end do not recall their Ambassadors. The accounts,
however, from Paris, state that these Ambassadors have
astmi for their passports, which is a demonstration of
their intentions to leave Madrid. It is supposed that
the French Ambassador will not quit that capital until
be finds he cannot bring the Cortes to any reasonable
terms.
Cnnsols opened this morning at 7941, and went down
to H. Spanish Bonds opened at 50/11, went down to 491.
Chili, 73 to 76—Naw Spanish, 49]-01d, 68 to SO—New
Pru.4siazt.B3 —old, S6—Rassia, 611—Danish, .861—Nea-
po:itan mi—Colombiss. 64-8 y anish Scrip 16 dis.
We iia4thilia#ltiajr received Gibraltar Chronicles
to.the 191tatiFIMiber, from wbicb we extract the fol-
lowing:— •
iris Majesty's brig, Chanticleer, arrived this morning
from Corfu. She brings intelligence, that a most vio-
Nnt storm had done coseitleraide demure to the ship-
pily4 CM particularly to his Majesty's ships of war
the ,laying in the harbour. The lightning appears to
have been very destructive. The Chanticleer lost her
mainmast, the ltedpole her main topmast, and the Media
one of her arii.fr. At Smyrna the greatest tranquillity
prevails; the KAI' having lately received a reinforce-
meet of troops, and, u an example, decapitated some
of the most turbulent Janissaries.

Bayonne papers which have reached us to the 10th
inst. represent the situation of the Army of the Faith
in Navarre as most deplorable. O'Donnell had been
compelled to leave* larilia.ulausours of his soldiers, or
rather the intrigUrs a the ether Chiefs, who had not
been pleased at being compelled to resign the command
into his hands, thouigh they dared not at the time dis-
obey the orders of the Uriel Regency. (laving re-
fused to giv.r battle to the Constitutionalists, because he
felt thatthe only way to preserve his army was to avoid
a -general action, a sedition broke out in his own camp,
aiid he retired to St. Jean pied de Port, where .he re-
milueti on the 10th instant, " with his feet frozen, and
the malediction of his soldiers for his recompence."—
Meanwhile Tonle., wholtad -occupied all the strong
positions in Navarre, and driven the Royalists into the
v4llts,issued a Proclausation,which induced many of the
I.,tnieto abandon their colours and to join his army.—
Tire intelligence from Madrid does not come doWn lat.
el.:A.6n the 2d instant. Alll was then tranquil in the
Sisals!. espial. In consequence of the refusal of the
Pope to sanction the division of the dioceses and the
We of the Archbishops who had proved hostile to the
p: sent system, a proposal was to be made in the Cortes
to render the Spanish church independent otitorne.

•The Earl of Liverpool had u long interview with 31r.
Canning at the Foreign Office yesterday.

Yesterday, the Lords of the Treasury proceeded io
further hearing. of Counsel in the appeal to their Lord-
ships by the Marquess of Hastings and Sir Thomas
Ifislop,
Yesterday. the Prussian Minister transacted business
at the Foreign Office.

It is rumoured, that the Lord Chaneellor has appoint.
ed the time and place fur the working of the commission
dr &notice* inqiiirendo, concerning Lord Portsmouth ;
namely, in about a month from hence, at the Freema-
sons' )'stern. Counsel to snpport the lunacy, Messrs.
Wetherell. Brougham, and Denman ; Sergeant Pell, Mr.
Wilda, and Mr. F. Williams on the othek side. It is
also acid, that more than one hundred witnesses are or
will be summoned, and that the copies in the proceed-
ings will cost 3,0001.
A gentlemen of the name of Turner is appointed to a
special mission to Madrid.
The Requisition for the County of Surrey is already
numerously and most respectably signed. It is headed
by the Duke of Nonrot.w, and the names which imme-
diately follow are Lord OwsLow, and his son, Lord
Coes tar. Lord Oset.ow has hitherto been a strenuous
supporter of Administration ; but he now shares the
almost universal conviction among all who are not par-
ticularly interested in the continuance of the system of
corruption, that it has become absolutely necessary for
the salvation of the conntry there should be a great
reflection of taxation.—(Morning Chronicle.)
There has been an unusual bustle at the Admiralty
floriog the last two or three days. All the Junior
Lords, with their Chief, attended by Mr. Secretary
CROICR, have repeatedly assembled, and the object of
their meeting has been kept a very profound secret.
There have been several interviews between the First
Lords of the Admiralty and Mr. Secretary CANNING.—
(lbit)
Mr. Clay, late Speaker of the House of Representa-
tires of the Coiled States, has been recommended by the
General Assembly of Kentucky, his native state, to the
pelple of the United States, as the successor of Mr.
Monroe in the high functions of President of the Unioo.
The period of Election is the year ie2s.

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