The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-05-10 00:00:00

E STATESMAN.

On the 211 d of October, our troop, under the com-
mand of General Monegas, took posses•.ion of the ca-
pital of Barcelona. The Spanish Ultief Tanjutso, was
entrenched in a strong mansion, n ith a bridge that led
to it drawn up, and wa•: fearful of being :ducked on
all side'', and took refuge in the 'Alen) doting the'
t ight, where he remained for some time. In the mean
w Idle the most active operations were continued to at-
tack him. General Monegas having garrisoned Bar-
celona with a tolerable good force, marched towards
Quiantare i• quest of Francisco Gusman ; and on the
morning of the ''=d of November, vigorow-ly attacked
Lim on the summit of a mountain, where i.e had en-
trenched himself. Victory soon crowned our opera-
tions, and the enemy in order to escape total destruction
abandoned their fort and took to flight.
occuredrton OF CAREPANO DV THE T:toors or coIXM-
141A,•ND lUPIENTY TO AI.I. TII COAS*I OF evniv.
We have jwst time to inform the public of the pleas-
ing news of the taking of l'arupano, the particulars of
which came too late fur this days publication.
nErtatt.tc OF COLtilltlA.

Cuti:uo. Nor.
On the 25th was the happy moment in which the
people of this province proclaimed their liberty. The
troops under the command of Leon and Lemus took
possession of the town. The commandant remained
concealed in the fort with a number of followers, but
when he Lund thr cry for freedom so general. be came
ont of the fort and agreed to deliver it up, with all
the Melt that were in it.
FATIACT or LIMIER FROM Tug IIAWANNAO,MaIcii 30.
We have received Caraccas Gazettes containing a I
letter front Lient.-Colonel Antonio Vaubalen, dated
Smits Fe de Borgbetta. and addressed to Dun hieguel
de la Imre, successor to General Morino, announcing
that, according to instructions, he had repaired to
that Capital; and after an interview with General I
Bolivar, It bad been agreed to appoint Commissiosers
fro• lb@ Government of Colombia to premed to Spain,
for tie mgostmout of differences and the proloogation
of the amaktSse. Moan. Echivarri and Reverts&
Wife ossordiagly appointed, sod bad sailed fir Spain
tboabip Aratismiat.

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EX ix ACT c./ A I.liTitit PROM ttavaNN 411* a tU ;•
The late itecrees of * (A,
• rtes, iisterdicting the. lin-
portaliou of debenture "nails, had prodneel much ex•
eitement: an':, an ()piano, prevailed, that the execu-
tion of these decrees irjuld be impossible, as the rain
of the filen! ,:lust be the epos core.
REA 01.1*TION AT MD .1 r:minn.
This is the age of revolution., and it nct one in nor-
tutritlit America will excite no astonishment. Intel-
ligence was yesterday received. from Pdazil of the
adoption in that colliery est the Coustitation of the
Lisbon Liberals: The change, like those in Naples
and in Spain, was effected by means of soldiery.
and was happily attended with no loss of lives. The
following is the detail we have received cf the circuits-
stanceet to this important event :
On the of February, the Momrhrrler packet ar-
rived at Rio de Janeiro with the news of the monition
at Bahia, which excited iniii h alarm, and pv-e rise to
such vague rumours as commonly obtain c irreney In
moments of popular agitation. This state of uncer-
tainty centinned for several days. On the 22d Ihe Icarus
arrived, with the Conde de Palma on board ; and on the
.I.lth a Royal Decree appeared, dated the Iriah, in which
his Majesty announces, that influenced by a view of the
Circumstances in which the Monarchy was plated, and
by aliaiety for the welfare of his people, he has resolved
to send his son Don Pedro to Portugal, to determine on
and esecnte the measures necessary for the restoration
of tranquillity, to bear complaints. to reform abuses, and
to consolidate the Constitution. And, considering that
the laws and institutions of Portugal may not he equally
adapted to the of Brasil, and his other ultra-
marine territories, Isis Majesty orders the convocation
at Rio de Janeiro of Attorneys (prorNraelorr;) elected
by the municipalities of the Azores, Madeira, Brazil,
&r. for the purpose of deliberating on such alterations
and improvelowntit a. may he necessary in the Coo aim-
tion agreed to by the ['„rtes at Lisbon. In another De-
cree, his Majesty appoints a Commission to cuter into
the immediate inve-ri*iticia of the subject, in order to
prevent the delay attendant upon the arrival of the Proirio
f•lladonis These Decrees are said to have excited untruly
discontent, and we are told in private letters, that their
falling short of what was desired by the Revolutionists,
was attributed to the infinetice off' the Conde de Val-
wells, and the temporary abaci:Le of the Conde dos
!Arens.
On the MI, of Fisliroary, at day-break, the troops
were put in motion, the tioare of Rocio was fillell with
soldiers, commanded by tier Majors of Regiments, and
all the approaches to it guarded by cannon. All this
was done qiiictly awl v.itliont disorder. After a short
time had elapsed, the Prince Royal arrived at the
I spot, and was received with acclamations of the Kim:
end Conseil talon fur erer ! Its ascended the portico
placed over the entrance of the Theatre, and read a De-
cree dated the 21t1s, nben the people disapproving of
some passages. !i.e. Royal Highness undertook to return
to ‘IISt Palace of St. Christopher, and get them altered.
Ito actually did, ord returned to
.the square with
the Ot4ree so amended, as to obtain the assent of those
assembled. The Decree announce:, that his Majesty
having taken all tine measures necessary to connect the
Lisbon Constitution wills that of Brasil, and bent:: con-
vinced that the best measure lie can adopt fu the good
of his subjects is to give them that Constitution, hereby
approves it, and orders it to be received its all his domi-
nions. 'lbis Deere. is said to have been read aloud by
the Prince Royal, and a list of a new Ministry was next
read, dated the same day, and signed by the hang. The
principal Ministers were as follows:
Vier. Admiral Qui ntella, Minister of the Interior;
ice-Admiral .1. J. N. Torres, Minister of Marine; S.
I'. Ferreira, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Conde de
Louza (Pon Dingo), Prealtleist of the Treasury; Per-
reira tla Cunha, Intendant O J
cueral of Police; J. C.
Gomez, Grand Treasurer; J. ila Silva Lisboa Inspector
(numeral of the Press; J. It. P. D'Alsneida, Lisboa,
of
the (tank ; J. D'illiveira Barbosa, Commander of he
Police Guard; Viscoude D'Asseca, President of
Board of Trade; Heueral C. P. Caula, Conituaude
the Province.
These nominations were submitted to the width
and were approved of. The new Minister for Forei
AttAirs then addressed the assembly, mid is said to b e
produced a strong effect. The troops tiled off, and dm
people dispersed. At twelve o'clock at noon the King
entered the town ; his horses were taken Irons his car-
riage, and lie was dragged to the Palace by the me-
lace. lie then appeared at the windows with the whole
of the Royal Family, and is said to have declared his
approbation of all that had been done. In the evening
his Majesty was present at the Theatre, where La Cale-
rentola was performed ; and an illumination closed the
proceedings of the day.
There are two or three other particulars in the letter
from the capital of the Brazils not unworthy of notice.
It is stated that Brigadier bleneral F. C. Brant, whose
name stood first in the list of those who signed the Re-
solutions at Bahia, had been arrested for speaking with
disrespect of the Military who effected the revolution at
Rio. 'lite merchants, it seems, had subscribed a large
suns (it is said about 12,000/.) foe the military; sod the
Brigadier lieneral is accused of having said, that fur half
the money they might be induced, the next day,
to take the other side. The suddenness of the
revolution was attributed to the Conde dos Aron,
who was desirous that the popularity arising
from concession might be, as far as possible,
secured for the Prince Royal, while the Conde de Fal-
well* was consulting with the King how some less vio-
lent change might be effected. These accounts, we pre-
sume, can only be received as the current rutnoursuf the

moment.
An English merchant, who was no favourite of the
perk. is reported to have had a narrow escape in the
square of RO4lO. An attempt was made to poll hiss out
of his carriage, bat he wassaved by the exertions of a
General officer who accompanied gm, and escaped nit II
nothing more than violent abuse.
It was expected thstjust claims on the Government
would be liquidated ; and we learnn that on the 28th 01
February the Bank was paying in otes and silver.
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Lord J. Ruassit., last night, brought forward, in
the House of Commute, the motion of which he had
some time ago given notice, relative to corrupt Bo- 1
roughs. in a long sad able speech be showed the in-
jury whirls the toestitution of Parliament received
fears Willowy at lbacoogli Alostioos, sad the expe-
rience of (Meg sea plass as bad increased is wealth
and pspoledss. use sue et toolieut sot adequately re-
praseilhod. the debt it tessraire ateralren to serve in
Pardasont. Via a *iv to elect this esd la a regu-
lar sad eoostinttiosikosioaet. his Lordship proposed
that a Select Corsoldas bleak, be striated to cond.
v 4' L

der
der to n'llat places it nii:Tlit ..e aiviattable to extend the
ti;;lit of rant iiii.g rentesentatives, and whether bo-1
r..iths n {licit nil ght het, after hr convicted of nistoril
oils hi ibery and roe/11110ov. might not be disabled from
beading .burgesses to serve in Parliament for the (e-
-tore. Recognised as this principle had been by An,
proceedings of Parliament in the err_e of boroughs in
whirl, corruption had been proved, and limited as was
this species of Parliamentary Reform, his I.ordsltip's
motion excited but little discussion, and the House di-
viding' on the prev• question, there rtitpeared for
it, I'_ I ; and against it, 155. 1011. posed, Intweva,
as the (louse appears to aelcnowletl.;o the expedience
of Refolin, the public can never Inse right of its alt.
solute necessity. On this subject the language of Mr.
PITT can never he forgotten, except by those %rho af-
, feet to support the rr orst part of his system of politics.
1 tt The defect of representation," slid that teleitrateil
Stntesnian in his early day-, " is the :-.:rtiona', disease 1
and unless you apply a remedy to that dist•ase, von
toast inevitably take the consetitret:ers with which it
is pregnant. Without Parliamentary Reform toe na-
tion %rill be pin 11 g'ed into new .ivers; without Parlia-
mestlary Reform you cannot be safe molt r bad 31inis-
ters, nor can even Bond lrnisters he of use to yon.“

Yesterilav Sir Henry Wellesley had an audience 0!
1111 Majesty, at his Palace in Poll mall.
We understand that his Majesty goes to the Opera
on Tuesday evening'.
John Fitzgilihon Sarje,t, mho bad pleaded
guilty to the indictment fir for:lug a certificate, stat-
ing the funeral service ttt I. i• been read over the
bode of Mr. John Smith, i,t !hie ('buret-yard of Clots.
ilalkiit, wan I-smog-lit up, on Saturday last, to receive
111.1gItsellt at the St 4%ii)11% Court, Dublin. Ile was sets-
, tenced to two years imprisonment in the
Pe tsitrui
Copy or a 'Fre:, !ivy letter relating to the eNrrta-
lion of wine ill tcoties;
'treasury Chamber!, !Ist April, 1841.
I,4rtis Commissioners of his Ma.
jesty's 'treasury lctvin.t., had tinder consideration the
serer.;( 11.1w..cicalers in the port of Liverrot,
prayliag.to 41hrsel t'' expos t wine to all parts o this
world, in pacli.o.zes iliszcn bottles each; I am
commanded by do it Lordships to audiorisie von to allow
the drawliad: on wine evi,orted to his Majesty's posses.
sions gen-rcliy. in rases containing three dozen but-
des eads, by way of experiment for twelve months.
(Sig fled) S. It. LUSIIINOTON.
COintuisSinnv h 'n.,tcslis.

11-..IRD'B LARGE PICTURE.

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Allegory o. t many ch. fr te taste of the
present age, hutno perhaps amongarm: allo theh causes of the
decline of !ts popularity, the slight and imperfect
study which it has experienced in the modern school
avoid he found the principal one noon investigation.
To pursue such an investigation is not our presort pur-
pose, but to dedicate the equine(' limits we are en-
abled to bestow opts inch alasib;ect to the merits of
Mr. WARD'S allegorical picture of the Battle of Water-
loo. Sitealting of its general charade:, we sbonld cer-
taiiily ptimottuce it to be a fine and decisive effort of
geoi re:orcr a Weigel' of the art which has left to
the wr..ld sonic of its most choice and precious relics,
from the comparatite obscurity into which time has
thrown it. We do not at all eater into the manner in
which Mr. Vard has treated those parts of his subject
depending upon the ima;ination, hecause although
the story told by his allegory, or rather we should say
the poetry of it, is eutireli hastile to our known
principles, yet we are told by the explattatot y
pamphlet, that the Directors of National Institution
“ gave the consuslssion to paint the present picture, to
be placed 111 the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, tis a national
commemoration of the *oral and political fleets of
this r'reat victory..." The executioa of th:s picture is,
therefore, all thast we hare to observe moon ; and if we
were to follow it all its detail, that would be 110
Collllltoll task ; Its size being 35 feet by 21
The first ole.i.::tt which strikes the attention of the
beholder is the ;reams of Ifs/rid:lloN, in a triumphal
car, inteldeil to form the chief figure of the various
croupieg The liheness of his grace is perfect ; but
thew I> ait au, of s;iirit and hotly in the colouring of
the Field Marshal's unit*, rtu and decorations which de-
tract:, greatly from the y ex;iected in the hero.
The fault is also heightened hv the looseness with
which the dress sits umot the person ; conveying the
idea th it the fitignes of a hard campaign had greatly
PAU. of the tt fair prop': tioas- of his Grace, Aline
toe tailor exercised the mysteries of his art. In the
horses w Ilia draw the car, there is some exquisite paint-
ing, and particularly abaut the head of the hindmost
one. The cardinal virtues who are made to lead
the atiltuals have nothing iu their appcarauce beyond
the common mortality of flesh and blood ; excepting
perhaps the figure of Justice, which it would require
no unnatural stretch of the imaginative powers to take,
for one of the Egyptian Goddesses removed from the
tomb on the other side of the stair case. The chief
efforts of the artist, with regard to the beauty of his
forms, have evidently he'll concentrated in the Angel
fjProcidcaer, and the still more angelic representa-
tives of clef'. ill and peace, saailiag under the wings
of the atLel. Charity, too, though somewhat in the
hack-grottmi, is full of expression and beauty. Faith
has carried away all the grace and meekness from vs:-
U/rim:, and left her with a cold and cheerless aspect,
which we cannot at all reconcile with Mr. WARD*6 ge-
nerally correct conception of character. Of Hope we
must not say here what we think. Britannia and her
Lion, arc not at all unlike each other iu general ex-
pression. Hot who CAI doubt that Wa n v would paint
the latter to perfection. The contrast between the
noble physiognomy of the animal and the little deity
under the designation of iurr to mankind, sitting upon
its neck, is, pedlars, one of the happiest strokes of ef-
fect in the whole picture. There is a host of little
cherubs scattering roses in the conqueror's path, bill
many of them arc much too earthly for their vocation.
There is far more in this extent of canvass than we
can possibly have room to notice; and we mast, there-
fore, dismiss it wills recommending our readers to
rape an early rt viewingof
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are glad to find that Mr. WARD purposes to direst his
(feint' more immediately to works of this otters.

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