The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-14 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

port, recommending an application to Parliament for an
Act to authorise raising a safficient inns of money effec-
tually to repair Black Mars Bridge, which was Ordered
to Ile on the table.
Mr. B. Davies was unanimously elected one of the
Anomies of the Sheriff's Court, in the room of the late
Mr. J. Lost'''.
Irhe Court then proceeded to the election by ballot
of a Carpenter and Assistant Beadle of the Court of
Requests, when Mr. ileorge Colebach was elected Car-
penter, and Mr. J.Shaw, Assistant Beadle.

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O Waterford 1 0 Mambo,' 4
O CI. di Jersey •0 1 9 Wows - - 0
O Whoa 9 I Flaodero - 0
O Gottonhurg - I 6 Brasil - - 0

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Beek Stook —235 74/ 761 India Stock. 237
3 per Ct. Red 7401 Ditto Bonds .. 10s 32s . pm.
3 per Ct. Cons.. 74 731 741 South See Stock 44;
31 per Ct. SOI 97 South Sea Old Ate.
4 per Cents
New Fours .... 93192 j 931 1000/.
6 per Ct. 1797. ---3001. Its 14s. pm.
Long Ann W 6-16 7.16 —Smell Ile 14e pm
Imp. 3 per Ct.... .. .. 711 i Con.for feet.... 741 731741
Irish 3 per Cents... LotteryTickets .... 221. 19s

submit to the like. We shall like to have Mr. Wells's
account of the details ; and particularly of the
pretty behaviour of the Great Font:Aire 11Vbrater
Here we shall, we dare say, have good proof of the
sort of RejOrns which he has in contemplation 1 Jnst
such is the Reform, we imagine, that Dun Carlos
wants. But, alas : the " tall soul" will become " a
cinder, scattered by the winds."

LOOK bN THIS PICTURE; AND ON THIS.

Old 7 fines, Feb. I I, ISIS.
" The political horizon,
" we regret to state, coati-
" nues thickening: we tin-
" eerely hope, that the bled:-
" ness with which it is over-
" spread may alarm the ma-
" gicians themselves who
" have conjured up the threat-
" ened storm, before it pours
" forth its wrath on the auf-
" tering world, and that they
" may be content to let the
" clouds disperse in peace,
"and the sky resume its
•cheerful aspect: if not, may
"they themselves be the first
" who perish in the tempest.
" It now seems, that not only
"Spain is to be Invaded, but
" that even those countries,
" few in number, Gedkaores,
" in which constitutional
„.." principles have been long
" diffused, and free WWI.-
" lions' have actually taken
"root and are bringing forth
"trait, are required to des-
" pet fee (if we may create
" such a word) their Govern=
" ments to the taste of the

Old Times, Cet. lA, ISIS.
" Next to the annihilativn
" of the late military despot-
" ism in Europe, the sabver-
" don of that system of
"fraud and malignity, which
" constitutes the whole po-
" Hey of the Jeffersonian
" school, was an event to be
" devoutly wished by every
" man in either hemisphere,
" who regards rational
li-
" berry, or the honourable
"intercourse of nations. It
" was an event, to which we
" should have bent, and yet
" must bend all our energies.
" The AmerieanGovernment
" must be displaced, or it
" will, sootier or laler.plane
" its poisoned dagger in the
" heart of the parent Slate.
" That ill-organised associa-
" lion is on the ere of disso-
" knoll ; and the world is
" speedily to be delivered of
" the mischievous example
" of the existence ',f a Go-
" refitment founded on de-
" mocralic rebeitiun."

"foreign absolutes,the mein-
" hers of the Holy Alliance.
•' Where this will end, Ilea-
•' ern only knows: u hen
" every germ of liberty shall
" have been nipped on the
•` Continent, Hogland, we
" sappose, will be the nest
" object aimed at; and
" should we sink, then the
" Genius of 7gransy will
" endeavour to extend its

" empire over America. avd
"to smeller the risiie hopes
" of the New World."

There! That is a specimen of the productions of
the base press of London ! The Morning Chronicle
blames the Bourbons for not letting their people read
English news-papers. We commend the Bourbons
for it. We wish the same could be done in England.
The country never would have had a debt of a thou-
sand ►aillions, bad it not been for this press. Theirs..
famous paper above quoted pushed the Government on
to war against the Americans, and now it would push
it on to war against the French, sad that, too, without
any reduction of the Debt!

STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF PAST TWELVE O'CLOCK.—
For a length of time there bas not been so great a con.
fusion here, as this morning. The moment the market
opened,Coorole we:* -tone at 74k to 1. Immediately after a
fame panic ensuesh,both is the Consols and Spani‘h bonds
is consequence of which Missals were dont cc 74, 73116-
731, but got up again to 730. In the Spanish Bonds,
however.. the depression was of great r magnitude.—
They opened at 361, 36, 331, 3t, 331, and went up
again to 34111, at which rite they are at present. The
cause of the above fluctoations is not as yet exactly
known. In the earlier part of the morning no
thing could be sold in Spanish. Various reports were
afloat this morning; the first was, that a eolum n of te oops
had entered the Pyrenees and blockaded the fort of
Urge! ; the second was, that a very great failure
had taken place at Paris; the third was, an expected
failure of a gceat house in Spanish securities; the fourth,
that the Spanish Government had drawn Bills on a House
.in London, on account of the New Spanish Loar, which
were refused acceptance; and the fifth, that press n ar-
rants were expected to be issued immediately. All the
above reports, however, may be resolved into one—the
current rumour of some extensive failure on the eve of
taking place.
FOREIGN MARKET.-.-Tbe bustle and confusion this
morning in the above market was exceedingly great and
all persons were selling Spanish-Bonds The Expresses
from Paris bring the price of French Funds. 76f.
ChM. 72i—New Spanish, ttliii—Old nothing done—New
Prussia, 71-76—01 d, 79—ftussla 701 77—Danish, nothing
dens—Colombian, bl —Spanish scrip, tit 4 32.

By the Paris papers to the 19th inst. we learn that
the report of M. de Villele's speech, in the Secret
Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, has produced
as much sensation in Paris as in London, but has
operated unfavourably to the publishers. A process
has been instituted against the Courier Ftameui3 and
the Journal de Commerce, in which it appeared. The
charge against these journals is two-fold : First, the
publication of a pretended account of a secret sitting
of the Chamber of Deputies. without authority of
the Chambers, which is an offence punishable by law ;
and Secondly, a passage which has for object to excite
hatred and contempt of the Government of the King,
by calumniously attributing to it Minister of the King
a speech he has net uttered ; an offence also provided
against by law. IVhat portion of the speech M.
Villele may maintain he never made, we shall of
oourse soon know ; but what the precise words
were that he uttered, we are now nevet like-
ly to learn. As no professional reporters were
on that occasion allowed, different versions of the
speech were circulated, and that which is given to us
as more correct, is scarcely less discreditable
to the Minister th.o that which is about to be prose-
cuted. On the 10th the same Minister opened the
budget of the year, in the Chamber of Deputies.
From his statement in that sitting it appears that the
finances,of France have been gradually improving, and
arc now in s most flourishing condition, the receipts fur
the last year having exceeded the expenditure by
42,945,907 francs. lie demands a supplementary
credit of 100,000,000 francs to defray the expiates of
the war, "if it take place," and the creation Of, four
millions of remits, to compleke the means of satisfying,
the eventual wants fur the stoic(' of the present year.
The Minister of War, it is understood, demands an ex.
traordinary levy of 40,000 men, but, according to the
above arrangement of the Minister of Finance, it is
expected the first year. of war may be carried on with.
oat an increased tales. .M. Villcle indeed sagaow
ledged that if war. once began the financial prod.
perity of triune wouldbe retardedin its progress; but