The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-21 00:00:00

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Toys. remain still is Seville,_ with which place all coma
munications sire cut Mt —A Portuguese corvette has
boded Isere the new Ambassador of Portugal for Spain.
Neither the King nor his brothers leave the? Palace,
where his Majesty amuses himself in the afternoon pliy-
ing on ts e terrace with his suite, in which way people
• can serand bless him —The Cortes continue in their suss
• tires in the same church where the Constitution wit
established id the year 1812.
The snicide of the laze War Minister, Don Sanehes,
elaa•'l.llTvador, is attributed to his co-operating in the plot
&deb was discovered shortly before the departure of the;
p. .Government from Seville. The English General Downie,-,
who was Governor of the King's-Palace in Seville, with
the other conspirators, are confined in the prisons of Ca-
rare, near, the arsenal of Cadiz.
Our communications by lamd are all cut off, except
through the eastern coast, whence we expect to- receive
important news, as well from lialhisteroe as from Gene-
. re Is Mina and Morillo.
The blockade has rinsed already a heavy ansmenta-
t;on in the priers eemsundities, for which•all prohibi-
tions for importation have been given np. -
Our 'population has increased by thirty to forty thou-
sand souls -from the emigrations of Madrid and Seville.
No clisorder is knonn ; and if the Spaniards remain
firm in their resistance, the French will not improve • in
their progress.

NEWS ARRIVED.BY EXPRESS.
J ' Six o'clock.

June 96, Six o
Creat.disprder exists in Madrid: the Duke of Angosi-
'ewe begins to oppose the Regency, and to rale its every
thing. To.morrow is fixed to reinstall. with the great-
. 4-4 solemnity, the tribunal of the Ingnlsition. The sol-
diers of that wise nation, formerly called great nation,
are to preside at suck an illustrious and uninteresting
formality. A few days ago a rumour was spread tbat
ll7llmcteros was toapproach the capital, and a general
sawn' took p ion of the Frenth. .
' Yesterday the French stationed in the Contado de.
• Niclla, not far from Seville,. set out with great precipi-
talion. It is affirmed that 700 of the guerillas formed
by the Constitutionalists emigrated from Seville, lave
destroye,l French'assembled At Osune. .
Caiiiz Papers'of :Nth of Jane, have strived; and
thongli they dti not routain' any thing of much import-
ance, yet, considering that they come from the blockaditd
`Seat Government, they still not be read ttithout
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CORTF.S.--Srrvtxn Or THE 25.rit.• •

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The Act of the Anterior Strssion was read and ap-
• roved.- •
t.•-• Thellemorial of Don Gregorio de Condon, Editor of
• the Jostreal of Corfes, requiring some pecuniary assist-
: ;are* in consequence of his having been robbed on quit-
•ltleg Seville; was referred to the Al inistry of the I nte-
-2 • Tite law coarse was taken with other petitions
trf a similar fixture.
• A proposition made by Senor lstnriz, relative to the
• . Juntas of Health, was read a second-Time, and ordered
• SO he referred to the Commission of Public Health.
• 'A proposition was made by Senor Canga, authorizing
the Coccrnment to provide for the vacancies caused by
those tiic.rs, who, being bound to follow the Govern.
so 4.1, af•andoned it, and to confer the offices upon
rrs,ms who were entitled to them from rank, suspend-
to c the provision for those places which should, by these
yromotions, be rentbred • vacant.—Read a second time,
apd passed to a Special Commission.
oe Commiasion'of Legislation, in compliance with
the confided to thew by the Cortes for supplying the
less of Papers which occurred in their removal to this
ei iv, r• ported that it allB absolntely necessary that they
should state of •ss hat nature were those which were ohm-
Wet% lost without a copy being preserved. They accom-
paniol this Report with a list, formed according to the
mcmory of each person on the Couunission, of the Papers
o t ich easy have been lost, and requested that a copy of
it Oionid b' referred to t:overnment, in order that it
wicht fay it it had any of them in its hands. Approved of.
The Commission of the Liberty of the Press recum-
'wooled the nominvion of Dm Joaquin Lumbreras, as
P-one of the Secretaries to the Protectoral Junta of the Li.
Fero of the Press, in consideration of his being Supple-
-.lmmo! Deputy for the province of Madrid, and of the
reat poverty to which he and his family are reduced by
• Paving followed the 6overnment and the Congress.—
•A ',proved of.

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, EDINBURGH,
JULY 14.

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10411 OF •:11E " FRIENDS" OF Otsscow.
The Conti this day met for the trial of James
f.,rnierly fish-curer of Glasgow, who stood in-
dicted on live different charges, implicating him in the
casting. away, sinking, Or destroying of the above yes-
: eel: To all of Ouse charg.s the panel pleaded ..N'ot
Mr. Mermen, counsel for the panel, then rose and
arced ebjectionsitis the relevancy of the indictment, '
TheSoLIeITOR-I;ENSRAL said he should lind no diffi-
cmby in anomie ing the objections of his learned friend;
he peeingto the absence—he would• say, the wilful ab-
, settee. ore principal witness, Daniel Bannatyne, he per.
csived that hesbould now be compelled to give up the
case, seen tbongh lie were to succeed in establishing the
reiceenry of the indictment. lie would confess that be
Lad allowed his learned friend to proceed in his argue
meet, in the hope that at the expiry of the time thus oc•
~ctip'eti, some tidings of the absentee would have been
• recelved; bat no intelligence of him Laving beer re-
, celled, he did not feel jitstilied in longer detaining the
Conrt,-)sinee, thought the indictment were to he sus-
tainid, Le should he still quite unprepared to go to
srid. He should therefore content himself with moving
for an order of apprehension lout coannitinen t against
the witness.
l'he Junce ADMIRAL.—Then, Mr. Solicitor, do you
mew) to give up all the charges against the panel ?
r•ve MOLICreou•tieNr:SCAL replied that he bad no al-
ternative..-The panel was then discharged thnpliciter.

. WEEKLY REGISTER OF WEATRER.—Every day last week
was showery. sod some of them, especially Wednesday and
Thursday. were truly dreary. The morning of Friday was
like a morning in Autumn, distil guished by a fine rain or
mist, that soon wets to the akin. We have annually at this
season of the year, warned our readers who might be pre-
paring for country excursions, to be also prepared against
rain ; hut this season being reckoned the middle of summer,
and summer and fine weather being with some persons
synonimous terms, our admonition his been often lightly
treated. The common sayings respecting St *vitiates
Day, which this year, on Tuesday last, was uncommonly
rainy, might, as evidence of 'popular and ancient observa-
tion, be regarded is corroborative of the grounds of our
warning. ' But wedo not derive our opinions from popular
P,iporstition. From a summary of the weather in Mr.
White of Selborne's Natural History, we find that, except-
ing November and January, July is, on an -average, the
wettest month of the year. The quantity of rain that has
fallen here fine Our lest report, is 0-fourths of an Inch.
sound, Jodi .

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16, T..... 67 -64 ap 77 Showery
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17, Th...... 61 116 67 ,96 Fair
18. r....: &I 66 60 .84 Rainy
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?Mt *tatcontast.

MA M.

On Saturday the Parliament was prorogned to the
13th of September. The " speech" was, as such things
geneeally are, a meagre tisane of common places. His
'ttsjesty makes his acknowledgments to both Lords and
Commoners, for their assiddous attention to the various
business which has been brought before them, since the
'opening of the Session ; and,it must be confessed,that if
they have done but little, they have talked a great deal,
and appeared as busy as if they were import.ntly em=
ployed. His Majesty then "entertains a confident ex-
pectation that the provisions of internal regulation,
adoptcd with respect to Ireland, will, when carried into
fleet, tend to remove some of the evils which have so
long afflicted that part of the United Kingdom." This
isspeaking very modestly; but yet the "confident expecta-
tion of his Majesty will scarcely be entertained by any..
"body else. Themlesurrection Act" is the only measure
Vaely to be carried into effect ; and that is much more
likely to add to the mischief than to afford a remedy. It
is next promised that the exercise of arbitrary power
shall be firm, and temperate. Such promises are mere
matters of form. Over the administration of justice,as it is
called, in Ireland, not even the Ministers have any power,
Matters there'must be left to the ruling faction. It will
surprise some people to hear that " it is with the great-
" est satisfaction that his Majesty is enabled to content-
plate the flourishing condition of all branches of oar.
" commerce and manufactures." This is saying. much
more than many people are aware of. We have before
us letters from various parts of the country, which tell
a very different tale; and we are sadly afraid they are
written by 'people who know more about the matter than.
his Majesty, or. his Majesty's Ministers. One of them,
from Dundee, says :—" From whatever cause, or causes,
since the present year began, we have experienced the
most disastrous state of trade that ever could be imagined
by man. The consequences must soOn prove most ruin-
ous; as not an article can we put our hand to, that will
Ibear its own value; and every merchant is urderselling
his neighbour tb get money," This is the common cry
of all quarters; and yet his Majesty contemplates " with
I great satisfaction the flourishing state of ail branches of
I commerce and manufactures." Tise taxes are paid, cer-
tainly ; and if this be the evidence of prosperity, we are
at present asprosperous as need be. His Mejesty next thank s
his faithful Commons for the supplies; and congratulates
'them on the " large" reduction of taxation., Since it
has been the fashion to talk of conferring boons upon
the people, we are of course expected to be very grateful
for any mark of Mlaisteriel favour, howeier small ;—and
certainly the reduction in the amount of the taxation is
something, since it would otherwise hare been eery
largely encreased, instead of remaining stationary, or
nearly so; but we must yet hare some millions taken off,
before we shall participate in the pleasure of his Majesty
upon the subject. His Majesty next tells us that he
continues to receive from all Foreign Powers the
strongest assurances of their friendly disposi-
tion towards this country. These " assurane "
would be male, as we made them to Denmark, up
to the very period of hostilities. They are mere
matters of course; and if our Ministers are honest, even
In their neutrality, the assurances at this moment are not
very sincere. The messenger from the Rebel Regency,
has been formally dismissed. How will the Holy Alli•
anre brook this insult to their Ambassador ? They have
all acknowledged the Rebel Regency as the actual
Uorernment of Spain. If our Ministry honestly persist
in refusing to acknowledge it, how much longer can
they expect to receive assurances of a friendly disposi-
tion from Russia, Austria, and France? His Majesty
talks of the concurrence of the two Houses in the course
of policy pursued by his Ministers ; but the conse-
quences are not yet fully seen. We must wait a few
months, before we can tell whether there is any 'cause
' fur consolation. We confess that we see liet yet. We
omitt•d to comment Upon the "gradual abatement" of the
agricultural distresses. That prices have mended, is true;
but men reduced to the brink of rain do not always find
their affairs retrieved by the alteration of circumstances.
They are often so deeply involved,that nothing can save
them ; and this is the case with thousands of our agri•
culturists. But those Treasury reasoner.. have nothing
to do with such matters. One man is ruined, another
steps into his place ; and that is enough for them. They
will, however, one day find, that it is not enough tor the
country ; but, in the interim, they will "eat, drink, and
be merry."

Several official com iiiii nications were read from the
Ministers of War and the Interior, stating certain nomi.
nations which his Majesty had ma le from amongst the
Members of the Cortes to various offiees. A mons: them was
one appointing Din Cayetano Valdes, Political Chief of
the province, .td interim, in addition to We office of
Commandant General of the same —Curies June 25.
Three columns of the E.:peek:4r are tilled with the
projects of law reported by the Commission for the Li
berty of the Press. A column and a half are given to
news from Vera Cruz, and nearly as much to extracts
from the Corunna Journal of the .7th of June.
The only articles under the head of Cadiz, are the fol.
lowing :
A S% dials frigate and a brigantine have been prevented
from entering our harbour by the Frenck

Two French frig les, a French brigantine, and a brig
of the same nation, together with an English merchant
frigate, are croizing off the third quadrant.
This morning at eight o'clock, a French column, con-
sisting apparently of about 2,000 men, infantry and
cavalry, were seen to march from Port St. Mary's towards
Puerto Real. This evening two companies of infantry
were observed to move in the same direction. In their
centre they had some pieces of artillery.
There is a long account of a funeral ceremony, which
was occasioned by the removal of the remains of some
of those Spaniards who, on the memoraJle 2d of May,.
0403, were the first who " were sacrificed on the altars
of independence, by a Government that would have de-
served to be called the most perfidious and immoral in
the world, if that of Louis XVIII. were not in exist-
ence." These remains, which had been brought from
Madrid, were interred with great pomp in the cathedral
church.
Yesterday the French showed themselves near the
peocadero; the Provincial Minister of War, who hap.
pened to be passing by that point, for the purpose of,
viewing the state of fortifications, ordered two guns to
be levelled at them. Two volleys were instantly dis-
charged, and the French dispersed. flying in the great-
est precipitation And disorder.—(El home:ado-)

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