The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-19 00:00:00

(PROM CONittIMMOINIII.)

The Journals of Horde:mix give sews from Madrid to the
9th inst. It was on the 4th that the Duke d'Angouletne
livered that capital. Major-General Count Gui Umlaut
Iwas to remain there for some days before he joined the
Prince. The Refaltdctor oTtIR6EIt cart: Mu a letter from
Truxillo of the 21 Nev. following. We do not as yet com-
prehend what is passing before our eyes. French troops
are marching into upper Ertramadura. The Empecinado
still ocoulletir Caceres and its tivirons, levying eel:tabu-
tires
A letterTrom Madrid of the 7th gives the following :
Ricgo does not any longer exist, He arrived at the place
hanged at a certain height,
n the prison to the scar.
The place' and streets
Intact. There were seen
of Priests. Riego was
experienced great pain, owing
heavy irons he bad worn
amongst the lower class
had under their cloaks
butyrate wastrel disturbed
doubt owing to PetkOrarVer.iier,
'•tft. A great.onsiber of Preach
As Owe of ozweation.
ltitt. • " We ars
reception of deo Lilo

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Al'Angonleme. A triumphal arch is erected near the
Spanish gate. We are also mounting the artillery on t.e
ramparts, for the reception of the Prince. The army
Courier arrived this morning. lie left the Prince six days
march from Madrid. lieneral lioursont is to take the
command of the garrison of Madrid.
They state front M4driJ, that the roads from that capital
to Seeille, are infested by a number of robbers, and there
can bi no travelling without a strong escort.
An officer wlto was prisoner of war, belonging, to the
corps of the Empecinado, was taken to Ouadalasara. The
peopee took him by force from the prison, tore off his
clothe., put a rope round his neck, and afteruards tore out
his eyes.

N.

Language falls, to convey any adequate idea of the
basesesa—thessean ityptscrisy„ and the horrid ferocity of
the New Times. It his, at last, ventured to speak of
Riego ; but in what manner? Why, in just such a mode
as a convicted knave would fabricate—a lie ; not to tare
a character which is lost, bat to maintain an impudent
atreeation of villainous consistency to the last. The Pilots,
a French journal, speaking of ehe martyred hero, uses the
foil >Wing manly language :
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" The execution of a man, whose life has not been tarnished
" by may of those crimes at which revolts humanity, and which
".provoke shameful passions, always excites a painful emo-
"#tion. !Lis an emotion of this nature which is felt in Paris
" at the execution ef General Riego, whose life has terminated
" after long and severe agonies. Stringers to every sentiment
" of pity for misfortnne, fanatical writers have endeavoured to
"throw rldicule.upon the last moments of a victim of political
" re.aetiovis; they accuse of cowardice the man, who, almost
" alone, came to reestablish, in the very heartof an astonished
" Capital. that Constitution which Spain had embraced with
" ardour, and who, almost unaided, made towards the end of
" the war the most desperate attempt that Spain had witnessed
",throughout the campaign. Wa will venture to affirm, that
" Riego,bas not died cowardly • death is too indifferent to
" those who have braved it a buedred times."

This just comment is wormwood to the soul of the Editor of
the New Time.; and with a despicable jeer„ the wretch asks
whether the Piloie believes the statement of the Morning
Chronicle, that" Riego shotfourteen indiciduals, because
/-1 they sere monied min. at Malaga, and would not
pad• the sutas demanded of them." Tlv! New Times is
perfectly aware that the Morning Chronicle made no such
statement ; tliongb such en account did appear io its
columns, evidently fabricated by the fanatics of the royal
party, to blacken the reputation of a man whose whole life
had been at variance with the description tons given of him.
The editor of the Ns/crimes then proceeds to second "the lie
"so oft overthrow'n," by saying: " We must, however, come
" in aid of our friend The Chronicle; for though we cannot
"speak to fourteen, we have seen a letter from an English
"'Merchant who was at Malaga at the time, and who said
that eight were sleet." Now this is a direct falsehood—'
wbetefaced untruth—a nicked lie ! The Eolitor • has seen
so such letter ; for no such letter ever existed. No English
Merchant ever saw one moneyed Spaniard shot, on such
account. The whole statement is an infernal falsehood,
and the New Times propagates It with the most diabolical
perversion.of good faith. The Editor knows this ground is
as • treacherods as quichstotli, and he immediately
runs to another point. We knew he would justify
the murder ; we knew : that he longed for the
blood of Riego, and that nothing less would content him.
Yet after he bad explicitly declared that he would not have
any man hnrt for his political condoct, we did not aopposi
li(would bare the impudence to task of the treason of
Riego. But we wt•ee strong in supposing him capable of
any degree of shame, or honour. Hear, what he now
say's; and if, after hearing him, there is a man who would
suffer the disarm of his company, we hare stink lower in
the scale of humanity then we would willingly suppose.—
He has the accursed audacitglo put down in print that :
" Riego was justly executed for high treason ; for if de-
" posing the Sovereign was not high treason, we should
" dc,ire to bear some new definition of that crime. He
" was executed as deservedly as Thistlewood or Despard
" and those who think his punishment unjust, must, in
" order to lie consistent, venerate those two worthies as
" Martyrs."

Whet a preposterous knave is this! Sydney, then, was
justly executed for 1411 treason! Hampden was a most
notorioos traitor, for he would have deposed a tyrant. The
ottani)t to fnwn upnn the opinion of the world f gai nst
Thistlrwood and Despard, is worthy of this assassin of
character. ,

The correspondence of the Canon Riego, now in this
country, with the French and English Ministry, on behalf
of his murdered brother, will be read with deep interest.—
When it is added that the Duke d'Angouleme sad; the
English Ambassador, were at Madrid, during the perpetra-
tion ef the murder, what success could have been hoped
for, is evident.

Ithas.been proposed, in some extensive tittles, to 'reel

a monument to the memory of Riego, in, or near the me-
tropolis. A plot of ground sufficient to leave a carriage
drive round the monument would be sufficient; and the
requisite evpenee would be easily defrayed. if the Spanish
Committee have get any funds indisposed of, a portion
of them would be well applied to do justice to the memory
of the greatest hero and best patriot which Spain has pro-
duced in the present struggle. The ceremony of laying the
first stone, would operate like magic on the suppressed
feelings of this country.

An attempt is making to revive the interest excited by I
the military murder of the Duke d'Boghien ; and several
pamphlets have been published in Paris by Talleyrand
Savary, Bonin, and others, in explanation of the respective,
parts performed by the authors in that tragedy. But since
the Bourbons dipped their own hands in the blood of 'Ney,
Labedoyere, and others, and while they are yet reeking
with the blood of Riego, the mind cannot be thrown back
to contemplate a distant atrocity.

The " rserLs of Spain" an, a curios. set of folks,ludeed,
if the new authorities*, not belie them; sad issued of baying
C4llditllll.lll proclaimed, and freedom dere& them, die

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whole kingdom should be declaredan immense bedlam;
and 100,000 could not be better employed Om i n Iteepisi
them in order. A letter from Madrid, says that in alltbi
towns which Ferdinand passes through, he is rec•ired *id
cries of " Long lice the a4solute King V! "The Ingagiaiti„
for erer !" "DEATH TO TIIE NATION !" "Doti nisi
Commerce !" "Religion foe ever!" " Down with to
Jewe and the Jacobins !" Dr. Slop quotes this with gilt'
delight. Ile would exult to bear the same exclamatiserh
Clieapside. 46 Up with the Ring, sad down wit:t
" Nation," is the Ossetic* of :the Royalist creed. It is
mentable, if there be such wietches •in Spain, that sit
gallant souls as Riego should be their martyrs,

remarks on the comments in a Morning• Ple

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relative to the eight of Judge+, or Magistrates, to proltiii
the publication of what transpires in an open court, bm
produced a reply, which, thusgb remarkable neither hi
candour nor civility,, nieiits is littht Notice. Whathi
are among the " ignorant ititil.dettcoperste advoidil
the press," it is not for us to-My; bit we hae ri iii m*
even amongst, that tlisit, than in the lists of its smftalitd
betrayer. ; Who' Meet to regard its liberties, and iii
its
,praise in. their Mouths'. ... while they are
ways ready either to, star.: firiTfrredgp!thenielrei
or to hold their cloak bereft: 4M, ilikaftiall giii my i
employed. It is said we talitif*,tiftiOff*.tfeisell
t. of the right of prohibition; and
....pletalltirtfill
had given authority is its flyrftA 4.....:. ltii. Tait leastri
deny. The prat/ire of the :134111iikAiti.:rtfilM1171iiti
practice. lila Must be siingli4..V:aftetbire, 444
shall be glad to learn whertiftatiiii •Iftbd.• Not 4to
reason, not is the justice of tbeifte. we are PrePareit
prove :=sod. we believe there is ft law in the mute
' Nor do we net give op any...44tisction between a cane

and incorrect rejortA_Akett iiy that a judge cant
prevent an. incorrect report' tiCiaggiiren; and,tbat therefore
there were no other reason, kreiaitt facilitate, rather
prevent the tinliicetion of wile'i:esSilly occurs. We
iofortned that we aid not deny ibbitssischiefthat mei
produced by a general publicationv,44: think.tre_did
distinctly deny this " mischief," it rule sot dem:4s
and fearlessly contend that the giMeetstitintl deorsedi:"
practice, no 'matter what Itifilurpinlisitil Mischief 14 b
sustained. ire mueb *by theieporui
boo that the right to be present in the Goon of
..11011;
" is bit a permission of the Judges, and a piespisin
which they in their discretion may real." This is nett
at least. We *were " ignorant" of this : though we
aware that " judge's bare requested ladies to withdrew
cases, when delicacy induced them to comply to
request." But let any Judge order;the gentlerlgred
court, and he will find they are neither these -by41,11
mission, nor removable at his pleastre. It is rather earl
in the renewed career which desper4seopbise to itseiti
England, to tell us that oar

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aLcting either I 1 Cebada, wane he ilia hanged
)1 their public con-
remit', either ser- During the whole of the way from tl
at-) 'Told, the gieatest silence reigned.
r the surrender of lle4 with au immense popular
yin/ are the 0017 Windows a great number o
resigned, bit he experiene
'ANC NOV. 17.
..11i1 legs belag swollen by the hee
its startaent• H Ain his arrest. There aPPoirld
H. the taunt do. ll_ •
/p itamotile a great number who bl
nominated Pndeit *bros, earalelnes, and pistols; heti
y took the usual
a immesh This was ao doubfotwit
Diplomatic Corps who erne piilseest 'with his Stift A g
wee M. the Prince paroles paterittlbe steer% Radtke
of the Dion d 0 Tb. 7 Au* keintartimpf tle r
int hen inetweesinieas for itis