The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-05 00:00:00

give in relurn.

It appears that the Frenrh fanatics fear that the liberty
of Spsin will not he entirely extinguished, and than sonic-
thing will still rentaiu in that country of the revolution of
1e.20. Counsellors more wise than those who dictated the
decrees if Saint Prter's, Xeres, and Seville, have caused
Ferdinand the 711 i to listen to the interests and opinions of
the public. It is said that the King has yielded to the
pressing-solicitations of his true friends, sad that the Pen-
insula is on the point of receiving a Constitution in ex-
change for that which existed before the entrance of our
troop•. • -;

The JoKrual (ks 'kW, of Monday, 3d Nov. does not
contain any news of importance.

New York Papers have arrived to the Ist Oct. but do no,
costvin any intelligence of public interest, except what we
have copied in a pteceiling column.

The Kicg of Spain has found it necessary to affect to
modify his sweeping decrees of proscription and conflicts-
tion ; u implication a greater number than it would be
either safe, or practicable..to strike at once. His incline
tion, however, must be gathered from his first decrees.—la
them he gave a free scope to his feelings of hstred, and to
his thirst fur a sanguinary revenge. The nature t•f the
man is registered in them alone. All the modifications,
1 they may receive, will be merely the result of the sugges-
tion of policy t and all who were proscribed in the first
instance will do well to keep out of the reach of the Royal

fury! However, plausibly circumstances may compel him
to smile upon any who have been either actively or pas
sively the agents of Us past controal, be will take,
care to pay off the debt be owes them, when opportunity
shall serve. The childishness of this admirable specimen
of kaitimacy, and the goooral fogy of the ilespotic principle

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Is excellently illustrated, by the fol.loNfag Rittutißri
recent decree :—.. When I shall arrive at lOndold,anci he
.'surrounded by the lights with which to Y (founsellOrsk
;.t' with all their selection,. andivell tried.. wietktat... Will
s• supply mr, I IVH,.malm known my rloye quip t regulat-
" ing that will byrayleaturgifcesesey,!cc.4e.%H!,re we.
bier &legitimate Monarch displayed in his lead;c striiigt !
~'l4O poor absolute king does not know Istsuk„lsjelhAje ,
authority, until his Counsellors bring tom a. littler:gibe
light of their wisdom. It is not he, then, whil iiieecni.—
The Royal will is made up of his Counsellots' opinions.—
Her is not King : the connsellors ate his prompters, and
his toasters. lie knows not how to act, but as he is direct.
ed. •The wisdom of others is necessary 'ro'aid this Vice-
gerent of Heaven '. A finer sarcasm. on Mo:
narchy was never penned. ft speaks •aloud, that
no one man is • competent to.• . the . government
of a nation : Kings are .only. the vehicles of the
opinions of theiriuteisers. This &imitate tier the miracle,
as some folks deem it, of Anitirlea being able to manage
.without a King. The eon:smilers there earrptiseinepinions
ieto elf, ct thernielves;witholitlasistObeliiropian ine,quin
of action,—o misapplication of the machine Of Government
which saves both expence and trouble. The gonaequence
of this appeal to his counsellors, en the. part of-Feedinand,
will not be thi less to &liver up to the ;Itoyil .faction,lbe
prosecution of all who may be obnexious to them; but as
the counsellors are much wiser than the King,;,tbe piiiiie
cation will take a much more circuitous coarse. It will be.
as relentless as the royal vengeance; bat it will Iteiiptified
in a more cautious manner. Ferdiaand isAie, mere fury,
Islao would sweep off ell his *modes at laiii;llp* The
!Toll Inquisition is, .a • fined, which delights to
satiate- its appetite upon the deception of its
, victims into its snares, and in the enjoyment of their length-
card tortures.
A Madrid Paper of the 28th nit, gives the arraignment
of Ringo at length. The sacrifice of this hero appears
determined on ; though whether by open, or by secret
murder, is not so certain. ,Ruiumirst :Love beat ciiculated
that lie lied poiswserl himself: This may be preparatory
to the administering of poison to hiM; if the dread of
retalfalion should prevent a public execution. It would' '
probably be *query pith an honest English Minister,
•whether-lt was not the duty of this country to interfere at
1;40(4 this gallant soldier. Be was a leading member of
a Government with which we were in alliance—with which
.!te had treated—which we hail publicly recognized; and
isis had formally protestA against the attack upon it by
+ranee. We reserved the right of interfering against the
Comes. should any violence be offered to the King.
.Does- it not follow, that we shouhr endeavour to,
save the life of a leader:, in that cause, for -the
snrcess of which our MinKtry affected to pray so
, fervently ? The execution of Use French King was con-
, sidered a jit,tifiabte reason for a war with Prance. Sorely
then .the jeopardy of Ringo would justify a remonstrance
against his murder ! and humanity, as well as justice,
seems to require it at the hands of the British Ministry,
'as a trifling evidence of the sincerity of their professions.
IVliile France is actually regulating and dictating all the
movement of the eonrt of Madrid, the pretence of the in
delicacy of interference could not be made : —and Sir
•W. A'Court might make seine reparation for the mischief

lie has done to the cause of hotitanity in Spain, by
endravoorin;,• to rave the life of almost the only Spanish
leader who has dune his duty.

Loan, are the favourite speculations of the day. The
Pogais Loan,lias not at all checked the rage of lending
" for a consideration ;" and Sir Gregor Ill.6regor is suc-
creded by the Knights of Malta! The Gentlemen have
conic into onr money-market for ■ loan ; and the security
they oiler is very alluring. It was once a sovereign order

—raised armies, equipped fleets, and coined money.
This is one recommendation. Then the order is 700 years
old ; there •is another. Its seat of government was first
Jertisalein—then Rhodes—then Malta! but it has been
successively driven out of all three, it has now no seat
of government at all! This is the third recommendation.
Than it his certain estates in France, which it is to be put
in possession of, when it shall hare obtained another
seat of eovernment. This is the fourth recotuwendation ;
and the fifth is that the order is in negociation
with the Greeks for a seat of government ! Now, we pre-
same, the Greeks will only agree to ad/ them a seat of
government; and the loan is to pay for it. We have not
the least objection to all this. Certainly, we should not
think of lending money to the Knights of Malta, any more
than to any othea Knighteof the Pillar, or the Post; but
other people may. We facie there Is so much money in
London, that the holders do not know what to do with
it ; and there are certainly very ingenious schemes to find
out ways for its disposal. One thing seems certain, that
the security of the Knights of Malta is as good as that of
Ferdinand of Spain; far the difference between the bonds
which he does not recognize, and those which he does, is
but S per cent; a matter which very clearly demonstrates,
that neither possess any value, beyond the chance that
something may restore an economical and liberal govern.
°tent ; and this it is as a hundred to eight, will
not happen in the life of the bond-holders.

Yesterday a loan of a very singular kind was proposed on
the Stock Exchange. The proposition was to,
contract for a loan for she service of the .6 Order of St.
John of Jerusalem." This excited no little surprise among
the monied interes►. The object of this loan is said to be,
the establishment of the Knights of Jerusalem, commonly
called the Knights of Malta, once more in the situation of a
sovereign order, and confiding to them the government of
oppressed and enslaved Greece. in order that a barrier may
be formed against the Turks, and the Greeks supported in
their straggle for liberty.. with•ut the necessity for anv of
the Powers of Europe to take part on either side. Tbe
fesidence or Court of the Knights is to be fixed in one of the
Greek islands, which is to be ceded to them for that pur-
pose ; end the nosey raised is to be employed in intredacing

a betterntgahizalion into tl,e Greg: arnaies,lMenabli tig the,;-
th• more eff,•ctusily to resi,t their iuvatlers..aod fina:ly to et.
'Wish their independence. It is tortber stated, that the whole
plan (Alt/tined the sanction of the Powers lately assembled
at the Congress of Verona, and has only been suspended by
the late conteq in Spain. Upon this project, it is
observable, ttiat Eagl slid stood bound by the treaty of.
. Amiens to re,store the island.uf Malta to the .Kpigtata ,of
St. Sohn Whenever their order was completed f that linen&
parte, at the reeornmencetnent of the war, assigned as one
cense for hostilities on Lis part, our perfidy is retaining rite
ialand ; and that the justificatien was, that Awe were no
Knights to wbotu we could restore it, and that there was
no possibility that toe Older ever could be restored.
Another chief topic of conversation in the English Stock
Market ye.terrlty was a large transfer of Redneed Annui-
ties from the East l full. Company to the Bank of Enzlarah
!in pursuance of an arrangement made between the Direct-
' ors of each ltstabli*liinent, and h 7 which the Rank has lest
the Ea.: India Company 2,500,000/„ at the iow rate of in.
terest of 3j per rt•ist., acmirriiatto report, for the 'space of
two years. The amount of Stock transferred, we wader.
Istail, twneajly
.2,71.10,001.11, .
An official report 1,45. been received of the Spanish
Governor of the Castle of St. John de Vilna, to the
Capt,in General of the Island of Cubs, respecting certain
Frenchagents who had been s-lit to Mexico, for the pur-
pose of intriguing among the inhabitants of that concur.
These ages tt bought with them, it appears,bßhaßLexchange,
payable 111 Veyd Cn.z, to the isniount of 111i,110O dtillars;
and the dikaileeies stitch the Governor triette eotwerning
thein,'laelittrei is follows :—"sl haie iseeertairted that the
prineiPsl of ihtin is Mr. Julia; Schmelte, a Colonel of
Iteginetri, Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis, who
cp tri appointed Ambassador Extraordinary of his Most
Chyratinu.Majesty to the liovernMeit of Mexico. The
Wier is .his .Secretary;. his twee is, Aeltiele de la
Mitte,t her is a • Ktight of the Order of
Mali. Tito. iostrastions . they base brought over %tiro
them frusta the French Minister of Foreign A (Lire,
direct them to extend their observations respeotinz the
hiss, character, anti way of ottioking of tile inhabitants of this
country, as regards the reception *met would begiven to a main-
berof the French family of the Itoseboos, who might come over
to reign here ; the resolt of which they are to comiaimicate to
the alaressid. Minister through the medium of the French fri-
gates, which at different periods are to orrice at this port. is
ease there are 'no hopes of realizing the views of the French
Government on the above subject, the aforesaid persons ate
instructed to make proposals to the Government of Mexico re.
spechng a treaty of commerce between the latter and Frithee.
Finally, the oilowonces granted to these persona by their Go-
vernment amount to ttf),ol.llldollars annually." It is snpposee
that the discovery of the proj:sct contained. in tois devoid),
hastened the nominalioo and departure of our Consuls to South
Americo.

' Letters; we understand, are in town from Santiago et Chili,
whieh announce there the receipt of the speech of the kin; of
Francs on the opening of the Chambers in January last. This
oppesrs to base created some uneasiness there. and the atith,e.
rates were on tho alert. in consequence nt • report that emissa-
ries from the remnant of the South Amxieae kOylitiatb had
been intriguing in those pasts.
Excnset or A LETTER FR.IM GIRRALTAR, OCT. 16.
We are crowded with the witOrtnnate Spaniards who have
taken refuge here to escape the miseries of a dungeon, or
the torturer' of the blood) Inquisition. Among them are
upwards of. sixty Pepuries attic Colleen( the most dive
illngnisheil, at retie.; Alava, and Internet ;:cliiiroga, YAW
diol4, Alanzanares, and Calatrava. are Au here. They
seem much at a lore to select a point of retreat and security.
Airiest it•was their intention to have ;;one over to Ceuta,
and maintained themselves as Constitutionalists; hot hav-
ing practised a reconnoissance, the want of supplies, and
incapaltility of the works to withstand a siege, induced
them to abandon the project, as they knelt they might im-
mediately expectio lie au:et:lced by all the Piencli dispose-
Me fusee, who no etoobt isoald be most bripiry to have suck
an emiiillent plea forsobtaining possisiion of that highly
important fortress, which they might hdlil 'as a coriven•-
cot check on this garrison. There is a warm (reit m4.41116011'
the inhabitants of the rock iu favor oftlseil;ansuecesful pa-
triots.—We have had many French men of war lying in the
Bay; on their first visit they worloOl in an eats aoidinary
untrantintlike mariner, but are now improired. I dined ea
board the Preemie feigate, Guerrie, *the other day, at Al-
gesiras. and was meat agreeably sneprisid to hear theta
sing the Spanish Caltistrtutional songs with great life and
spirit ,• the whole of her crew appear to be animated by
liberal sentiments, which they sheered a few days since in
AO sarong a manner, en being unused to attack the Island
of Tarifa, that it wcs deemed prudent to carry the unites
into effect.
Sir Robert WHAMS arrived here R few weeks since from
Cadiz and Tarifa ; be was at first undecided as to his fa-
ture destination, but has determined at last to return to
England, in the first packet ; the Spaniatds insinuate, he
wished to negociatr, but I think the eircumstaeces of his si-
tuation and elevated character on the contrary, have
impelled him to an opposite line of conduct; however, all
these lat les will doehtlass be bought over again by his
friends and Constituents, and due credit will be given him
fur his actions and sacrifices. _ _ _

A curious 6ccoutit is reported to base come thratigh the
tnedivm of is letter front Paris. of the circomstaners that
led to the celebrated decree issued by Ferdinand on his
first landing at Port St. Mary's from Cadiz, tit which 143
annulled 611 the acts of the Cortes, in direct opposition to
a decree made public on the preceding dery in Cadiz. ht.
Ouvrarl, the ostensible contractor for the it •geary 'non, it
is stated, had put forth from Port St. Mary's in a boat te
meet the King, and fell in with the royal vessel in Ike
middle of the bay, sod was gra. inusly permitted to coma
on board. Ile were made a dire et tender to Ferdinand of
a slim, in money, atnomiting to 2,000,0;10 francs (shuat
SII,OOII/. sterling), with -promises of-, further aid to any
ex I oil, be might require train the leaders of the it!tf•a-
Royalist party in Psris, provittod he would at nal, fa the
most unqualified manner, on his landing at Poi: st. al ary' a
aU the acts U! the Curter. Varinna argument! net.. ad laced
by M. Uuvrard to obtain the King's consent, the pi ineipail
of which was the necessity of extinguishing the hope et
all future revolutions, by sii. wing that all Hose capitalists
' who ventured to assist ti.eal with money itoutd be steed
if the canoe ilid-viet ultimately estaisliali itself: The *Mx
'the money, which M. Ouvrard is soli to lase t. n !peed is
money and notes, procured of Ferdinand acinieseence;
and thusrhe intrigues of the ultra-ruction at Paris, secie If
encouraged and supported by t.e Russian
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triumphed over die bitter system which
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extorted from his French ativiseis, a ~rei'lia a *alma
between Ferdinand and his follower.. •
CoRN EXCHANGE, Nov. 3 —The at titaiii of all des Nips
tions of grain, this week, are utiiy.,•...,04.• it.e, and ter
attendance of buyers being bet email. there is col to Al
business doing let the corn trade to-day —Wbsit t (goad
quality fully maintiiiis Alotiday's prices. ilarley ler
malting is still ranch wanted. and Ilk prices of title article
are readily maintained. Beans soil: Pr.ae are unaltered.—
There is a fair show of Oat sample*, which ga ult • lowly at
the rates of last market day.
The arrivals are—Wheat, 221,d •I's —Barley, 131111.fre.-0
Oats, 4S') qrs.—Flonr, 4100 le 1-!ts.
CANTIIIs Ruhr. November I.—:'here was no Waists& w.'•at-
eyer doing at our Market this day. tiro buyr.% ire Weill,'"
the result of the Hop Duty. triads is expei-cd to br r.e e
known in a few days. The prices raniain tbe same L. es .r
last quotation. .
Boaounit, November 3.—More inmairy for 1519 and I'2O
Hops •, little or no viriation in other sorts. ;'resent ilr:er•. '
16313, Kent Pocket, IC to IU. ; Susses ditto, I. si, to i it. is.
Wouccarte, Oct. 25.-99 P•trkets of tilt Noes We'e
this day weighed in our mark- t; ;sd one tumo of New, .
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weighing only 131b5., the only lilop• which hate yet been
soul here, the proilece of this planta•ine.-Isl9's and
Mrs sell well if good; the ;sal. of 13-211's is ter,, fist.
Pricess—lti22's, til. Ss. to 101. Ws.; awl 1.321'5, 41. ISS.
to .51.. '

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ethe *Toe Af Vika Hotel, in Exete S.tgeet. Sloane Streets'
(tier the Obey, prosecution by
*filch he was lately ass4,4*. •
At 4 &chi& above it- liond44-g*leisre sat down to an
excellent dinner. The chair was filled by White-
head, Esq.,
.yibik. attic the' usual routine of toasts which
followed the .rethlivarof 'tile cloth, made ao appropriate
speech, whieb tonwhilded 'by proposing the health of
Dlr. [hwy. • "..
Mr. Biter, in it neitspeieb, in the delivery of which bet.
was evidently oierfesieiftby the strength of his feelings,
retr.rned thanks fpr 'tlie? very greet and unprecedented
honor One him *oiv the
.pieient occasion.
The healthsof 'Many public Gentlemen, who had dis
tinguished thenigehrs by their zeal in the presint case.,
were drunk ; prefdcsd by proper observations from the'
Chairman, Mt. Iltoteis, LoCkyer, anti others ; and
thanks returned by the r/epective parties thus
.honorril.—
On Mr. Harmer's health being drank, that
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thanked the company in a short speech.
le the rootse of the evening; several songs were sung hy
Ahura Tayltir, •Gibbons and other Gentlemen. among
which wal one ti enter by a gentleman expressly fur the
occasion, whith was ;3H applauded.
Thelergirboaciat *bow house was. cro*ded befoti
dioner was put An the (a 'le? and there was hardly proper
room to be found. to acconAnOdaie those who came isle.!,
The evening passed off 'with the greatest hilarity, and we
never observet/ greater,euthusisanz displayed on any ogee-
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Mr. Livros/ muele his first appearance at Drury Lane
this season last night, in tire character of limy Letistpkils:
The humour of rite perforinance is ton well known to re-
qnire any comment. ELLINTost tea.. tit Young ihrloto,
and Doirr..N the Hardtatek. Beyond this, the piece was
sot very. effectively cast; belt the extraordinary closing of
Covent Barden' Theatre, pave Drury an overflowing
house. W. Aro afraid there is a want-both of vigour, li-
berality and discretion, in the minagement of Covent
tisrdett, which will materially injure. it: The loht.pgimaisk
•Dew piece, however., is to be produced to-night, And Wf
hope with success. •
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