The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-29 00:00:00

.A R.

THE STATESMAN.

soldier was killed, and 17 wounded ; aecording to thie re'
ports the enemy had 200 killed.

(Signed) Monet.
The opposition Journals have all produced a pretended
correspondence, between Marshal Duke of Reggio and the
Regency. This correspondence is Apocryphal. It is evident
it comes from the same quarter, which fabricated the ma-
nifesto of the Emperor Alexander, and the protest of the
members of the Regency.

(FROM THE PILOTE, SEPT. 29.)
Paris, Sept. 27.
ARMY°, THE PIRINEESe,REPORT 111, THE MAJOR GENERAL.

Puerto Santa Maria, Sept. 17.

My Lord,--His Royal Highness charges me to announce.
to your Excellency, that the civil intendant of Carolina
renders account, under date of the 15th, at night, that
Riego was made prisoner, with three of his officers, by the
inhabitants of the Common of A rguilos, and taken to the
prison of Carolina. There is every reason to believe that
this Chief, who was o►ertaken on the 13th at Jaen, by
General Bonnemains, and pursued, sword in band, to
Mancha Real, where our troops arri►ed on the same day at
II o'clock at night, had, on the following day, a new affair
which destroyed his corps, or that he was abandoned by
his troops. I shall have the honour to send to your Ex-
cellency the details which, no doubt, will come soon to
band. The loss of Itiego, on the day of the 13th, was
about 500 men, killed and wounded, with prisoners.

GUILLEMINOT.

The extraordinary Cortes was installed on the Bth at
Cadiz. The King. did not assist at the Sessions. One of
the Alkisters read the Speech in the name of his Majetty.

The arrival of the Flanders Mail this morning, has
Ism& us Brussels papers of the 2tith inst. ssith an AuB•
Wan Obaerocr of the 16th. The !atter contains an article
fear Constantinople, dated August 25, which states that
Dschatiib Effendi, who bad become well known in the late
political negociation of the Porte, was that morning dis-
missed from his office of Msrshal of the Empire. 19. s he
had triumphed on more than ore occasion over the propo-
sa!s of otherMioisters, who acre diwosed to mild tneaiutes,
concession and sacrifices, his removal is considered as a
favourable sign, and the public infer that it will be soon
followed by the happy renewal of the relations of trend.
ship with all the European Powers. Redschif Effendi,
who Is appointed Ambassador to Persil, left Constan-
tinople on the 12th of August, with the ratificicion
of the treaty of peace. The treaty is not yet made
public;. but the basis is supposed to he the mots quo.—
The intended operations of the Turks against :he
Mores, are supposed to have been baffled ; and die
state of things, respeeting Greece, considered, in a mili-
tary point of view, is represented as likely to remain a
Ling time problematical.

An article from Vienna, of the 14th inst. states that the
Archduke Ruddolo, the Cardinal Archbishop of 01-
mntz, bad set out to meet his brother the Emperor, on
his way to Czernowitz. The interview between the two
Sovereigni is expected to continue only six days. A letter
front the frontier of Italy, says that most people think that
Gonsalvi will be Pope.
The following is an extract from a Brussels paper :
BKCsiiti.a. SEPT. 23.—We have seen a letter from Ma-
drid of the Sth of this month, it ritt-n by a foreigner now
in that City, which says—" It is difficult to form a just idea
of the state'of this nnfortnnate country; all industry is de.
stroyed, the distress of Vie people is extreme; the raising
of the Taxes is become almost impossible; on the other
hand, the parties which I4i vided the Spaniards have cartieil
hatred and disunion intn thebosom of a multitude of Emil-

Tics If the restoration of absolute power should be attempted,
Spain will never be peciti d ; and yet, there is a party
blind enough loudly to demand inatitations which an
enlightened age has justly condemned. The French gene-
rals behave with great prudence; they make the troops
ender; their comman•i observe the strictest discipline ;
but it is not always in their power to prevent exceeses."

A telegraphic despatch from the Dike d'A ngonleme him-
self, dated the 20th, and announcing the capture of Fort
St, Petri, is only accompanied by the worthy Dr. Slop, with
the laconic notice that " there is no other intelligence or
communications from Spain, with the exception of a state-
ment that the malady at Passage,lis materially diminished."
Two such paragraphs,tl. ree weeks ago,would have called forth
a couple ofcolumnsofeonratnlation,and exUltation; but now
they are turned from with 'great indifference to the state of
Consols, which we are told are likely to remain stationary
at 8.3!, " until some snore derisive events take place in
Spain." Hang it! one would have thought that, in the
Doctor's eyes, the capture of Pampcluna, and Santuna, the
defeat of Fernandez, the taking of ltiego, the expected sot •
render of St. Sebastian, at which a French journal hints as
probable, with a lodgment at St. Petri, would have been
decisive enough—mbea we remember that at the period of
the retreat of the Cortes frem Seville, this conjuror told us
the game was entirely over,and the speculators might settle
their accounts, and go to bed. Now, be does not seem to
like the closing of the game; probably because he sees
that another must be played, in which the
states will be deeper, and the result more uncertain. We
cannot but commend his railing at the expedient which
the Spaniards have adopted to pay the interest of the past
lowa. There is a report that sales of new bonds to the
amount of about a million are to be made, for the purpose
of paying the quarter's dividends. On this the Doctor ex-
claims—" A pretty delusion this ; the interest on one loan
cannot be paid except by the money of another ; and it
"is John Bull who furnishes the money for both. We
a are graciously allowed to pay our own interest with
“ our own principal!" Why should the Doctor call this a
delasioo sow. Is it not a part and parcel, and the
principal part and parcel too, of that very Pitt system.
tw►skh the New Time* affects to admire so mach. Could

Mr. Pitt ever pay the interest of any of his loans, without
another loan to help him? Dehtsioa, indeed! why Mr. Pitt
persuaded this country that the only way to get rich was
to run in debt; and this was not called delusion in him.
Did he not say that a part of a sum borrowed could be
made to pay the whole ; and did not Great Britain, with
the good Doctor's approbation, act upon this system till
the back of the nation is breaking with the weight of the
debt! and can the Doctor blame the Spaniards for follow-
the example of the " envy and admiration of the wort d?"—
As to John Boll's finding the money, that he most do,—
all that can be squeezed from him will be taken, whether it
goes to help the Spaniards to free themselves from the fo-
reign yoke, or is applied to rivet the fetters of that yoke
upon them ; and as it is more satisfactory to be fleeced for
good purposes than for bad, John Bull would be
better pleased with assisting to suppress, than to enslave
Spain. Bnt for the Doctor to call the Pitt System a de-
(salon ! oh! fie ! fie ! for shame, Doctor! for shame!
—Yon will have the ghost of the great man
standing before you in a shroud •of bank•nutes,—with
forged assignats, and a halter in his hand,—and if he should
have as much strength left as to tie you op to the bedpost,
what a day of mourning will be that of the fete of Doctor
Slop! Mr. Hone may go into hysterics for want of a
subject to laugh at—the pencil of Cruiksbanks will have
oil its best topic,—save Murray ! of caricature; and the
may succeed to the enviable situation of pr►ncipal
fibber to the State!

Two anecdotes which we picked up yesterday, from an
authentic source, will enable our readers to judge of the
degree of credit, which ought to be given to the French
accounts of the affection of the Spaniards inwards their
deliverers ; and of the worli of the neutrality of the
British Government! Preview to the arrival of the French
in the neighbourhood of San Roche. and Algesiras, the
whole of the inhabitants appeared devoted to the constitu-
tional cause. They bad established reading rams, and
had regular meetings to bear the newspapers read, and the
earnestness with which they attended, when their mode of
action was in their own choice, proved clearly the nature of
their real sentiments. When they Isere met approaching Gib.
rakar, it was generally with labels in their bats, on which
were inscribed the words, `• Constitution or Death !" Since
the arrival of the trench, all these outward demonstrations
have vanished. There are no assemblies, no labels to be
seen : but no one can doubt that a were sense of personal
danger, which could not be resi,ted, has prompted the row
cealment of sentiments which will again burst forth, with
the more force from having been concealed, when the in
vadera shall have retired. A re-action as assuredly waits
the restoration of Ferdinand should it again take place, as
it did on his late abuse of power,

The other anecdote is as follows:—The Archbishop of
Malaga was one of the professed friends of the late revo-
lution, until the Cartes made an encroachment upon the
Church property. After that, he was concerned in various
inathinations against the new order; and was ultimately
hauislaed from Spain for his treasons. lie went
to Gibraltar ; an on his arrival received notice
from the Governor that be could not be permitted
to remain there more than three weeks. That period elapsed;
and the Archbishop, whir bad gathered a species of a court
around him, made r o demonstration of any intention to
remove accordirw, to the intimation he had received. The
Governor, probably bring better utleieed, takes no notice of
the breath of the order; and the Archbishop remains as an
excellent nucleus for any treachery that can be aimed at the
liberties of Spain, from so close a vicinity to the Foreign
enemy. This is neutrality at Gibraltar!

If cur police Magistrates like Mr. White and Mr. Swabey,
contrive to add to the terrors of the law, by an aggravation
of its penalties. or an extension of its construction,
our court: are frequently in the habit of miti-
gating its severity, in as unreasonable a manner; and
though it is aniiable to temper justice with mercy, we do
not like to see brutality eonsidered as a venial offence,
while indiscretion is sent to visit the correction and the
tread-mill. A fellow was found guilty at the *Middlesex
Sessions, of a must brutal assault upon his wife's sister for
attempting to preserve his wife from his fury. In addition
to knocking her down, the brute exposed her person to.
the bye-standers, as she lay on the ground ; and for
this double offence he was fined one shilling and
discharged. We are told, indeed, that he made terms with
the prosecutrix ; but this the court had no right to permit.
This offence was towards the public, and the public morals,
as well as the public peace, demanded that be should be
adequately punished. As the matter stands, the jury
found hi., guilty, and the court discharged him on pay-
ment of one shilling. If he had been acquitted, be would
have bad ten times as much to pay. Tuis is English justice.
Another fellow, a headborough, was convicted of a
brutal assault upon the wife of a baker, whose husband
he had suanmoued. The fellow went to her house, to en-
quire whether the summons •bad been received ; and the
woman answering she knew nothing about it, he knocked
her down five times with his stay' of office, and
left her weltering in her blood. The treat-mill
and bread and water for a month or two would
have been a mild punishment for such a wretch ; but lie
bore the staff of office, anal the court sentenced him to pay a
6ne of 121., which with the leave of the Court, was na
punishment at all; and thus the sentence of the Jury was
nullified with regard to this man of office. A poor Pole
was committed the other day to the tread mill, by that
sapient Magistrate, Sir Claudius Hunter, because he would
give no account of himself which the Magistrate would
call good. Compare this, and Mr. Swab') 's conduct
towards the man and woman who were not proved to
have committed any offence; and it will be admitted, that
while the unfortunate and indiscreet stand in jeopardy
alb, tread mill, brutality may boast of Its Iniptinity.