The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-24 00:00:00

IMI7 hours.
g t 'Phis news is wholly false; the Guerriere
'arrived at Brest on the seventeenth instant, on her re•
torn from a cruise in the Gulf of Gascooy,) and has jest
joined the division of Rear Admiral Hamelin." The
• Pilate hes been ordered to contradict its former state-
ment, a^ well as to insert an observation of the Prefect,
that this proves what reliance is to be placed on the news
furnished by the correspondents of the Pilote. The
Pilote, forced to insert this, excuses itself by saying, it
slid not give the news of the taking of Pampeluna, by
which such injury was done at the Bourse—this is a rap
over the knuckles of the Ultra Journals. The &ale
contains the following letter from Brest, dated April 17:
—" Yesterday evening entered and east anchor in our
roads, the corvette La Zelie : sailed from Guadeloupe
March 19. She has brought the news of Rear Admiral
Meynar de Laforge, commanding the Jean• Bart, having
taken a Spanish vessel loaded with 2,000,000 of piasters
desdned for the Government of the Cortes." Letters
from Irun state, that the officers of regiments now in
that town, who are ordered to repair to head-quarters,
pioreed on their march armed with muskets, as in the
last war. The roads begin to be invested with Oyer.
rilkis, which audaciously make their appearance at a
short distance from the army. Orders have been issued
by the Duke d'Angonleme, that no military person
should join the army singly; .convoys will be formed,
end escorts will condom titans to their destination...-.
Movements were expected to be made on the 17th and
. 19th by the French army of the Eastern Pyrenees, for
the purpose of penetrating into Catalonia.
• FRENCH FONDS, APRIL 21.—Five per Cents. opened
et .t.3f. 90c. ; closed at SW. 60e. ; highest 94L—Bank
Stock, l,s4o.—Neapolitan 5 per Cent. 72.—Exchange on
London, 1 month, 25f. 60c. ; 3 ditto, 251.40 c.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, TWKLYL O'CLOCK.—The Funds
have considerably improved this morning. Consols
opened at 77k, and got up to I 1 This rise is ascribed
to several causes. One reason is a great scarcity of
Money Stock ; another is a great Bear account; and a
third is a rise in the French Funds, which the Ex.
presses from Paris state at 84f. 30c. These expresses
also announces great improvement in Spanish Bonds
in that capital. There is, besides, another cause as-
signed for the improvement of our Consols; it is re-
ported that our negotiations with the Courts of
Vienna and Berlin have succeeded.

FOatIGN MARIMT.--Spallith Bonds are also on the
rise this morning. They opened at 321, and went up to
3:1!}, with the market looking up.

Chili, 684—New Spaulsb, 113111-01 d 40j—New Prus-
sian. Bi—Old. 844—Russian, 70—Danish, 90--eoloobiso,
054—Nespolitan, 714.

Frankfort papers, received this morning, contain the
'following unpleasant intelligence from Dresden, dated
April 3 :—" Two great houses in this city, those of V,
and U. and M. and K. have stopped payment, to the un-
srakable terror of their creditors. The first Is said to
have failed for 700,000 rix dollars, the second fo► 280,000.

Rich private persons were accustomed to place large some
. in their houses, and they are said to be the greatest
- losers. The consequences are Incalculable. This event
gives the corp de grace to mercantile credit, which was al-
ready at a low ebb. Unfortunately,there is reason to fear,
that it may have an unfavotahle effect on the Leipeig fair."
The other news brought by these papers relates to the
Greeks, sud is very satisfactory. According to accounts of
the 13th of March, received at Semlio from Salooichi, the
Greeks have made themselves masters of the important
island ulnas°, at the entrance of the Gulf of Contrive,
from which timber is for the arsenal at Constantinople. An-
other expedition has landed at the foot of Mount Athos,
and spread terror in the whole country between Seres
acd SAlanichi. The occupation of this island, which is
entirely inbaltited by Christians, is important, because
from this point the Greeks may easily effect landings on
all their coasts and alarm Macedonia. In Crete the
4ircelts are very active. From time to time corps of them,
it is stknonledged, approach the walls of Cann, and
on,lesrone to carry off cattle and other things, and then
retire. The plague continues its ravages there ; from
30 to 40 persons are carried off daily.

STATE OF THE KING'S HEALTH.
in another part of our paper we have inserted en ac-
.count. from the Morning Chronicle. of the state of his
Majesty's health. In opposition to that statement, an•
ether paper of this morning announced that his Majes-
ty was considered so much better last night, that it was
expected the Drawing Room would be held next week.
No bulletin was issued today between twelve and one
o'clock ; but, on enquiry at that time at Carlton Palace
the answer war, " His Majerty has passed a very good
night, is much more free from pain, and considerably
better this morning."

According to private acrounts frosn Paris, received this
morning. the united for-es of Mina, Ballasteros and
• Ilorillo, consist of not less than 60,000 men, and the
French now begin to show symptoms of alarm at the
junction of the two latter Generals.
It is reported that a Spanish Declaration has been is-
sued and received in Paris, in answer to that of the Duke
d'Angonlerue issued on crossing the Bidassoa ; but that
,the French tiovernmest sill not suffer it to appear to the
lournals.
Ye APRIL thel6th of this month, the
distribution of the Austrian Observer is stopt at the
Postoifice of France, and we are now without font' num-
bers of that Journal. The motiv are completely uu-
known•t.s us. . . . The Chevalier de Gents, confi•
dential Secretary of Prince Metternich, and Secretary of
every Congress from that of Vienua to that of Veronain-
clusive, has long had the direction of that semi-official
paper. The Chevalier -Pile., another confidential Secre-
tary of Prince Metternich, is the ostensible Editor. Can
these Gentlemen. who enjoy the confidence of the Prime
Minister of Austria, have taken it upon them to insert
in their Journal articles offensive to some other Cabinet ?
We shall know this shortly, in all probability, through
the other Journals of Germany, or later, throogh those;
of Eng:and, unless the distribution of the latter should
also be suspended.--(Coorier Francais.)
Dutch papers to the 20th, and Hamburg to the IGth
inst. have reached us. It has been proposed in the
iiwedish Diet, for the pupate of preventing smuggling,
to allow the importation of all foreign goods on the pay-
ment of certain duties. The Emperor of Morocco has
addressed a circular to all the Christian Consuls at Tan-
gier, (the Consul of the Netherlands excepted) declaring
lam friendly untiosenta towards tke Christian nations.