The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-17 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENIND. HEL:I33IIBER 17, 1823.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE u'CLOrK .--COssols opened
this rimming it cti44, an.l went down ton. Some business
was doint in the rarlier part of the waiting:

The Expresses which left Paris on Monday; brought
the French Remelt at 9M, and Spanish at 3a ; which is a
still fnrther decline. We do not hear, as yet, of any further
information from that Capital, concerning the Old Spsni-h
Loan , • nor the operations of the new one; bat the Oen•
demon who left London, respecting theta, could only
have arrived at Paris when the courier left.
Poet/awl Foam—Spanish Bonds opened at 2SI. to 29 ;
bun soon aftetwards fell to 2$U, and were again done at
_ _ .

Spsnisli, 2811—Colombia, 591:—Chili,fi96.:Russiot
.1
t4S: to .13.—New Ptu.slo. 921.-0111, tl.

We Lace received this morning the Qmotidicnne of
31i,nday, but it (roes 'not contain any infOrmalthn.
PARIS, Dec. If.—The King save a priest, asilienca , to
his Excellency the Baron Vincent, Ambassador of
Austria.

After Mass hi, 31mj. sty received homage from the Ain-
broadors end grand officers of the Household. the Chan-
cellor of France, Ministers, and Mat-4145.
The above paper is chiefly occupied with accounts of the
Fetes esti at !saris.

New Yost: Papers arrived this morning to the 2511 Nov.
but are very barren of neu s The following is from the New
Ivek Cazcitc of the 24th Nor:—
Avon:A.—Accounts from. Si. rrs Leone to the 24 Sept

The Asloantre Negros were approaching Cape Coast in
great numbers, with the intention of making an attack and
plundering that Colony. iit C. M•Cattby was to direct the
operations against them; and Csptain Laiug had collected
an army of ;I:fo0 turn, principally natives, to resist them.
Two British vessels of a•ar nem of Cape Cs•str, ant its
safety appears certain. Two or three native Kings bad
lately been deposed in Africa and other persons plsced on
their thrones.

No little disappointment is expressed, by some of the
papers of this morning, at the mode in whit:lithe proceed'
ings of the meeting in Lincoln's Inn Mall were cond.'s:v.ld
on Monday evening. It is demsndrd, why an occasion
which furnished a theme worthy of the twist .brilliant
powers, sad a subject rendered interesting to many of time
profession by numer•ms reminiscences on Which it would
hare. been delightful ,to dwell, was siiiretrsi to pass oil,
without tholeastatternift to display the striking features
of the cliariiiter, whose memory the assembly bad been
convened to honour? One rcasim assigned is,. that the
meeting having hew contemplated as ocouposeCof gentle-
men of different parties and politics, it was nuderstood,
tbat.to secure &large subscription, Party and Publics were
to he excluded from view. ft would have been ilitlicnlt
to bare expatilted on the character of L,ll :Erskine,
without displaying that consistency, with which through
life he adhered to the party of the %Vhigs ; aA I this dis-
play might have been more mortifying to those who hail
deserted the party, or areal inconsistently with it, than
to such as never belonsed to or even to 'staunch
Tories themselves. It would hied been, itriposilde to have
dilated on the pronsin'ent passages in • Lord er-kine's
history,withont dwelling on the noble straggles he in to
.establish the Rights of Juries, the Liberty of the Prertand
the Independence of the liar ; anti any encomium on these
.exertionscould not be grateful either to those whO,ltave uni•
formly opposed popular politics, or to such as are disposed
to temporise. The successful stands which the animated
advocate .afteit: made against the dictatorial' teMper of the
Bench, would have been an example equally, grating to
dose who ire now conciliating its Giotto,. as to those

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