The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-11 00:00:00

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to our precious DebtT Her; wi stand, looking at;
one another, those of us who can find the cos.l
rage to lift our eyes from the ground. The Duke
d'Ascout,Essa has sent us his first Order oCthe
Day. It is a pretty little billet-doux to be read by the
Conquerors of France, as we were called, in that very
place where Colonel Davis. was putting his question
last night. IVe remember the exultation of Gatton and
Old Sarum when the Russian and English soldiers got
to Paris: we remember how Gatton gloried, how Sarum,
sang songs of joy. Let them glory and slog now!---
We have not yet began to taste in reality of that age el
humiliation which is in reserve for us. The world is all
looking at us; and particularly the Americans. It is
impossible to disguise our disgrace. The consolation,
however, ig, that all that has befallen the country, and all
that is likely to befall it, is just and suitable to be ea-
dared by a country that contains Gavots and Old Sa-
rum. For our parts, as far as we ourselves are cono
cerned, we acknowledged no part of the disgrace to be..l
long to us. The disgrace belongs to that which we;
have nothing at all to do with. However, these die
tinctions, foreigners have nothing at all to do with. They
see us all in a heap together; and a pretty figure we shall
make, by the time that we come to the end
of the Parliamentary discussions, relative to this
this Bourbon War. These discussions will show
the real pitifulness of our plight ; for, what will
they do? Why, they will exhibit several Members repro-
senting the French as guilty of an act of abominable
argression ; representing them as doing that which is
injurious and dangerous:to England ; representing them,
in fact, as indirectly making war upon England herself ;
the discussions will exhibit several Members making
these representations ; bat not one single Member will
be found to say that we ought to go to war. That is the
light in which we shall stand before the world. That is
the figure that we shall make in the eyes of mankind.
No Member will say that we ought to go to war, because
every one knows that we cannot do it with gold pay-
'meats. We cannot do it because of the Debt : let it,
then, be recollected that this Debt was contracted fur the
far greater part, in order to prevent Parliamentary Re.
forest in England: let this be recollected ; and let every
free man on earth rejoice !

The Eloile of Tuesday evening contains a Royal Or-
dinance. by which the Duke d'Angouleme is authorised
to nominate to all posts in the army be commands, and
to confer and promote in the Orders of St. Lonis,Military
Merit, said Legion of Honour. Respecting the position of
the Spanish Constitutional Generals, at the moment of
the entrance of the French troops into Spain, the paper
says that liallasteros was at IWO& with some militia,
ready to retire upon Saragossa to join Mina, who has
under his orders from ten to twelve thousand men. The
corps of Torrijos, of from four to five thousand, had
abandoned the route from Madrid to Bayonne to post
Lim self on the right, in order to effect his retreat and
join Morillo, who is in Gallicia. The latter has accord-
ing to their account but a handful of soldiers. The
Count de l'Abisbal, with two thousand men is mica_
Touring to cover Madrid. It would be an Idle at-
tempt to defend the capital with such a force
against the French, and it forms obviously no part of the
plan of the Spani'b Government. His object may be to
defend the inhabitants from being pillaged by Bessieres,
who has re-appeared at Guadalaxara, and who, according
to a despatch of Abisbal, has had a main division of his
band defeated. Advises from Perpignan, dated the 31st
ult., inform us, that his Excellency Marshal Mon
cey has made known to the officers on half-pay, that
be intends to organise a battalion of Pyrenean Vol-
tiguere, and invites them to apply to him without
delay, if they desire to be enrolled. In an arti-
cle from Madrid, dated March 31, it is said that an
Oporto journal of the 24th inst. states, that a brilliant
victory has been obtained by the Constitutionalists, near
Amarante; the action lasted from nine in the morning,
to four in the evening. The rebels were finally routed,
leaving 230 prisoners in the power of the conqueror, and
56 dead on the field of battle. The same journal adds,
that a battalion of Ca, adores was particularly distinguish-
ed in this affair. After having been for a long time un-
der fire, the soldiers would neither rest nor take their ra-
tions when they arrived at Ammo, but rushed on the
enemy, with cries of " Live the Constitution!" After the
. action, when General Rego returned to Amarante with the
prisoners, lie was borne on the shoulders of the soldiers to
his quarters, amidst the most enthusiastic acclamations.
This declared champion ofliberty declared to his comrades,
that he would lose his life in the field of honour, or would
avenge the country outraged by its unworthy sons. The
same Lisbon Courier announced that his Majesty John
VI. has sanctioned the treaty mentioned in the Universal
of the 28th of March. This, perhaps, refers to the
Iseaty of alliance between Spain and Portugal. Th
following intelligence, it is also said, has been received
from Lisbon :—" A great number of eminent person-
ages have been sent away from this capital, amongst
whom are the Count de Labugal, San Lorenzo, and D.
Thomas de Mascareno. All the editors of the Journals
'who wrote egainst the Cortes have been exiled." Ato
legraphic despatch, transmitted in thirty-five minutes,
announced the safe arrival of her Royal Highness Ma-
'dame, at Bordeaux.

A Bayonne Mail, bringing papers to the 4th instant,
has arrived this morning, but it has brought no news
from Spain, as the Mail from Madrid had been stopped,
it was 'conjectured, by the Royalists, who were posted at
Began. lieneral O'Donnel had arrived at Bayonne, it
was supposed to take orders from the Duke d'Angouleme ;
but the Glenna' was reckoned more disposed to receive
orders than his troops were to obey thew. The political
chiefs of the Spanish frontier, it is said, have had a meet-
ing at Mondragen, to concert the final arrangements for
removing all provisions, forage, cattle, carriages, &c.,
and withdrawing the inhabitants into the interior, in
order to lrave the country bare. This measure, it ap-
pears, has already been executed in part, for private in.
dividuals, bare sent away all their valuable effects, parti-
cniarly provisions, at a distance from the probable scenes
of military operations. It seems that this want of re-
sources is foreseen by the French Commander-in-
Chief, for measures are taken to send to the front,
position and necessaries for the Army. Two top