The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-28 00:00:00

_,..),A1 )A

bag Witiowis about to go to Spehrards.-- '
#n a letter tee the people of Southwitit, be flit them
the he is going to share in the toils aid dingoes el
Spain. It is curious enough to see him baud over the
people of Southwark to the care of Mr. Lambton. If Sir
Robert would think a little more about oar situation, and
a little less about that of the Spaniards, we should like
him better. It is a pretty commentary on his vote for
Reform of Parliament; his handing the people of the
populous borough of Southwark ; his banding this im-
mense population over to the care of Mr. Lanibton, while
he himself goes away out of the kingdom, is a most de-
lightful commentary on his vote for. Parliamentary
Reform. One word more to Sir Robert : and
that is, that we would wish him to explain to
us how it is likely that the situation of the Spaniards
should be worse than that of the English and Irish now
is, even supposing the French were to succeed to the ful!
extent of their wishes ; if such success could not make
the situation of the Spaniards worse than that of the
English add Irish now is, might it not be as well for Sir
Robert to remain at home, until clings are a lit tle
altered here?

PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.
We omitted, in our remarks on the debate on the Nor.
folk Petition, to notice some rather queer expressions of
Mr. Hume, who said, that the lithe. were -liven for the

support of the Ch►istian Religion, and, that he did not
think, that the Parsons in Ragland had too much, though
he did not think the distribution quite right. Oh ! he
likes the Titho.system, then, very well, 'bough he has so
often boasted of the superior virtues of the Scotch, who have
no such system. He must know, that the Church of
England gets as much out of the nation as all the Churches
of the rest of Europe put together got out of the people ;
and yet, he does Not think that it gets too much! Mr.
Hume's mu►t be a curious mind, if it be so constructed as
to make him believe, that he will ever see any relief to

the country without an end being put to this tithe-sys-
teu! it is one of the great features that distinguish, at
this moment, our miserable state from the flourishing

state of the people of France. To be sure, they are
better off in all respects; but particularly in this respect;
and this is one of the great matters. We can assure Mr.
Hums, that, if he acquiesce in the existence of the tithe.

system, we can very well dispense with the petite guerre
that IN carries on, occasionally, with such fury. But, al-

lowing his partiality for tithes to be just and sensible,
what Lad his observations to do with the Norfolk Peti•

Lion? Many other Petitions have, indeed, inewiLlted
against tithes; bat that Petition says not a word against
them. It only sugge►ts, that a part of the church-property
should be applied to public use; and this is what
Mr. Hume himself has flitsjiltlid.--Hooevet, it is
nonsense to argue with any one who says that he wishes
for national relief and to keep up this system too; such
a man Most be pitiably weak, or, be mud be a • • • .
what we do not choose to name. Mr. Hume was wary.
He did not say what part of the Petition he disappraeed
of; but talked about the three orforr last , 44
Three, or four ! This nas a very loose way of
but, perhaps, it was the safest way. This No • •
tion brought out a Lord Charles. Oh! pray, my Lord
Charles!—He will not bear. He calls it revolutionary,
and says it ought to be censored. Censured! By
whom? Why, by the great big House, to which Ma.
itasseh Lopes belongs; and the transactions and cha-
racter of which are as notorious as the Sun at noon day !
Oh, Con!! How shall one live under the weight of
this censure ? Well, we must die, then, that is all.—
What a curious thing, though; that a Lord Charles, a
real Lord Charles, should call for censure on us! We
have very often been at a loss to designate the THING;
but, it will not do to call it a Lord Charles Government.
That is a nice, soft, genteel name. And it- is so nice a
Government, that it ought to have a nice name.
Lord Jolts: RUSSELL'S motion about Reform had the
most insignificant result of any thing that we have wit-
mess 11 for a long while. Nobody, on the side of the
Ministers, spoke. Mr. RICARDO (sitting on the same
side with the Lord John) said. and well said, that the
Lord John's plan would give the Aristocracy more
power than it now possessed. This was really all the
opposition that the Lord John met with, except in the
votes! Let us hope, that this piece will not be acted
again, at any rate. The "speech " of Lord John was
such as, certainly, we never read before. It contained all
manner of things, except things to show, that the great
big House was, by its own deeds, proved to be the sort of
House that we ought not to have. There were none of
these things ; and, therefore, the speech was treated,
by the Ministers, with a silence that could be ascribed
to but one motive. This was, from first to las►, a real
Lord John's speech.
IN Tag Loans, on the same night (Thursday last)
there was a debate of a great deal of interest. LORD
ELLENROROUGH moved an Address to the King for cer-
tain papers relative to the negotiation. This was an ad-
dress of censure on the Ministers. The speech of this
Lord was, we dare say, " very fine," like the sermon
'that the old woman had heard ; for we could make nei-
ther top nor tail of it : it was for war, and it was not for
war; " she wou'd and she wou'dn't." Lord Hseaowne
(one of the R yders) observed, and very well, that their
opponents did not srak out as to war or peace. He
dared them to say distinctly. that we ought to have gone
to war.—Lord HOLLAND, who followed, did not speak
out clearly as to this point. The Duke of Wellington
called upon the Opposition to say explicitly whether they
wished for peace or war. At last, Lord Grey said, " our
" meaning is this, that, when the lialance of power is
" affected by the union of Spain with France, or, rather,
" by the possible subjugation of Si ain to France, and
" the interests of this country arc consequently endan_
" gered, it is our duty, first to endeavour to avert the
" danger, by representations, in the hope of procuring
" justice; and, in the failure of that hope, to support rue
.. representations with the power which Cud has given
" us." This may be construed to mean war ; but the
Noble Lord did not say war ; and Lord Liverpool, before
the debate oas over, observed that nicety-nine persons
oat of every hundred would negative our going to war
for Spain; and be is right enough, for, since the stock-
jobbing press discovered that if it were war it must also
be assignats, it bee been for peace, though pur.lased at

.`

..:.

the expense of tinerdsey and Jerls •
gailoons.—But, the cations part s
speech of the Duke of Boekingbai.
" could not concur with those, who •
" their opponents, lacunae they eovi,
" could not, while lie proclaimed the
14. taming neutrality, invoke heaven ft,
1" success of one et the contending
1 readers will remetaber that Mr. CAPAHIik.
he envied the feelings of those who were,
to advocate war egaiast the French; ancr,
distinctly said, that he prayed Ono that tie SIAM_
might succeed against the French.—This M&C .
Buckingham said that ,we sere in the situation of ti:
invalid recovering frosts a dangerous illneu. Laid
liarrowby said that we wanted to get a little strength
from peace. He said that she was labouring to recruit
her energies, to regain in the time of peace and repose,
that strength which she had Jost it; the tumult and
exertions of war! This is pretty talk : pretty talk
about repose, and fit of *lefties', and gaining strength:
all these are pretty figures of rhetorick to be applied to
the case of a nation who boasted but the other
day of having conquered this same France. Shallow
indeed, must those poor creatures be, who imagi
that the French do not see the real cause of net our ne
lity. Fit of sickness and all the rest of it,means aDe
that effectually disables aster war. It is impossible to
disguise this from any body, and particularly from tile
French, who, while their army is on the high read
Madrid, are taking Spanish galloons under our very he
teriea in the West Indies.. -It is curious to observe hoe
our base thing in the City works. It being now pie•tY
well ascertained that we should make no attempt to do
fend Spain, up go the Funds again! Always rising, ai
the old Lord Chatham observed, in the exact proportiel
that the spirit and honour of the country sinks. Tlati
Opposition never ask what all this great army is kept up
for here, if we are never to go to war again. , The truth
is, bowever,that the Opposition know very well what ;Lai
•
army is for.

Paris papers have arrived to the 26th instant. R the
Moniteur and Journal des Debatt we have tteeirial du
following official bulletin of Marshal Moncey; aonouns
ing his entrance into Spain :
" ARMY OF THE E tSTERN PYRENEES.
" The fifth division of the fourth corps has enteral
Spain, and advanced to the Juoquera without mettill.
the enemy. A party, consisting of 100 infantry end soak
cavalry, appeared yesterday in this commune. -Twit
hours after it retired to Figueras.
" The advanced guard took a position • M Pcroleds..!
The rest of the division established itself near the Jun.
qnera. A reconnoissance was pushed beam' ' the
bridge of Catnani. That post was not Alla
inhabitants of the neighbouring hamlets tedivestsho
advanced guard with transports.
a The conduct of the troops merits the highest praise.
The inhabitants are trea•ed with respect. Every thing
is paid for in ready money,
" Our soldiers crossed the frontierivith cries of Yin
is Roir Tbey burn with impatience to engage tbe
enemy. '
" MONCEY, Marshal, Bake do Ciessoglanie.
" Bouloo, April Hi."
A bulletin from General Guilleadast, dated VittorM,
April 19, has also beefi issued, but It contains no new
fact of importance. The bead-quartets of the army were
to continue at Vittoria some days. The second corps
continues its movements towards Saragossa. The Prince
of Holtenloe, with the third corps, forms the blockade of
St. Sebastian and that of Pampeluna. By other aerosols

it appears the advanced guard of the Western Army has
entered Burgos. 1 he embargo laid on Spanish vessels is
France has been taken off. This measure, it is said, took
place for a few days only, and was dictated by regard to the
interest of the French army, that its movements might
not be known in Spain. " The tiovernment," says the
Journal des Debuts," will adhere to the principle, that
France is not at war with Spain, and that consequeutly
it will take none but Spanish ships of tear, letting all
merchantmen pass. The latter are even atilt come and
trade in our ports, if they choose. If some vessels have
beets taken in consequence of mistakes, or particular cir• .
cumstances, they u ill be restored; only ammunition and
arms will be seised." Witb a view, we suppose, to main-
tain this distinction between Spanish merchant vessels
and ships of war, the Moniteur has stated the captor'
of the Spanish vessel by the Jean Bart, as follows: " A
letter from Havre of the 22d April, announces thearrival
in that port of news from Martinique, bearing that oa
the 12th March, the vessel Jean Bad entered Fort
Royal with a gallon (letter of marque) which in the
night had taken it for a merchant ship, had cannonaded
it, and when day came, finding itself too near was core
strained to bring to, after having too late recognised its
error."—" By this version," says the Condo. Francon.
" every thing changed face—we are no longer the ag-
gressors ; we on the contrary have a legitimate defence;
it is not a merchant vessel we took but a pirate, which•
we forced to surrender. It is true that the term lettered
marque is not generally admitted as synonimoos en*,
gallon, and that the mistake of a• ship's supposieg a
man of war a merchant vessel, is rather rare; but witk
that exception, the article in the ellonetntr explains io a
satisfactory manner every thing strange in the accood
of some other Journals, which impute to our Marine,
acts which other nations have always blamed in the Ear.
fish Navy." A letter from Limoux, dated Aprill7.
quoted in the journal des Debuts, from the Anima
of the Upper Clarrone,gives the following statement 5--* A
conspiracy, planned by the Spanish !evolutionists, has bees
discovered at Perpignan or at Limoux. A commisAosee
bearing despatches from Mina has knit been arrested, and
another individual of our town, accused of having dl e.
tributed proclamations, has fled. A part of the depart.
went was to be excited to insurrection by the conspire•
tors; but the whole has completely failed, thanks to the
authority of the pike of Perpignan and of M. de Maio.
tenon, the King's Attorney in the Civil Tribunal of
mom" In the French Chamber of Deputies, the
nerd
Parliamentary Regulations proposed by Mr. de F'r•oilly,
were rejected by the Ultras ritemeolves. The pug
ctd
Law fur creating an Army of U. serve, tressed the Claw
bee on Wedneadec, by a majority of 206 t•r 9.
FILLNCII FUNDS, WXDNSSDAY, APRIL :13.--Fitt pot
Cent. Consols (Jouissauce, 231 March, ltt23), opined as

I

• it

0

,

i. :

Z
-

~~

:4
Lt..l

• • •
• . 4

{
L

~ ..,',

b
f~i p

. • -
_ .

...

t ni.
closedat 84f. Sbc.; Bank Stock, 1520; Spanish
, 401; Ntolitan fire per Cent. 721. •
, rsday, April 24.—Fire per Cents Consols open
13f. 80c. elated at Mt; Bank Stock, 1520; Neapolitan
re per Cent. 72i. Spanish Rent's, 36: Spanish
rads, 401.
i?riday.—Five per Cents. for money, opened at 84f. and
Posed at 841.5 c. ; for the account, opened at 84f. and
seed at 83f. 20c.; Neapolitan Stock, 72i: Spanish
t' 39it•

aanbon papers, to the lath iost., received this morning,
brine the 34 4th end sth bulletins of the Constitutional
Pacifleating Army. On the 10th instant, it appears
the Leadluarters left lilliandella, on the way to Biagio-
as; and the rapid basement which the vanguard made
on the 9th a* ierritied the factious, that they tied
l.
!ptecipitate k, - hardly • leaving a rear guard of
Cavalry at isdence: On the twelfth they seem
to• have made a steed at Alla, but were repulsed
smatetreated. Some of them went beyond Braganza ea-
terieb Puebla de Banabria. The rear gttaril was et Serbs
b the afteraoim. Aramante was endeavouring to secure
the Money he had colleited from the towns by trans.
1! .lion horse) wk. The small town of Trinidade.
'swan ordered by General Rego to he burs t,on account of the
aesistataceit offered. On the 13th the Constitutional army
entered Braganca amidst the acclamations of an immense
.antiltitede. The Constitutional Chamber went in a
• body, at some • distance from the city, to meet the
Ointielbt:Cliref:' Part of the 'troops of the factious
ire:llw Pcdraivas, a Spanisb town on the frontier. The
\ itrait.lkan, i iirch next day In pursuit of them. The
IftrO. mite .
.0 kittitebeis Iron; the public coffers at Bra
Erik Sri ' :io exceed 400,000 erestados,.. The
w141..' rebels Is- estimated At 3600 Meal that
' at more than 12,000.—These
it of the Royal Family of
10th instant. They were re.
wary demonstration of joy.—
Atinery announced the arrival
were heard on all sides, and

,

''CLoca.—Consols opened this
to t. A good deal of busi„
owing to a heavy money
wow. The Express from
French funs 844ii0. They
Saturday 84, 60, and 84-40.

liAtheeu dune in the course,
%hos

iadrid,
t Cap'-
', have
opened

I—New
70i—

A a Court
!lards held
- Edward

of Cey-
Ed ward
of Har•
Court broke

• "On ~...urday mo;ning to. assent-
-4 filiCa at the Council Office, Whitehall, to hear British ap-
! .1) Ala against France.
'Yesterday morning a messenger arrived in Downing-
' street; with despatches from Spain.
'Madrid papers to the 10th Instant have come to hand,
thedsconteuts furnish no pretext for those gloomy pictures,
of the gate of the Spanish capital which have lately appear-
ed in the French journals. There is no allusion to any agi-
tation or sfisterbanee. A number of foreign corps are form-
ing in different parts of the Penlnsola, A eorps of French re-
fugees, under the command of Colonel Amt. marched
from Madrid on tlo 9th, to join the army, after parading
•t he streets with the 'irt-coloured flag, and singing patriotic
reap., A considerable corps which was raised at Biiboa is
otimmauded by an officer who was an aide-de-camp of Mar-
shal Nev. The strength of this column is said to hate been
greatly inereased-by desertions from the French army. A
amber of Italians have also offered their services against
the invade-1s of Spain. Toe troops in pursuit of the facti-
ous parties appear to have been every where successful, and
The pipers contain several despatches detailing the defeat
and dhp.rsiou of those marauders. Many prisoners have
been brdeght into Madrid. ' The accounts from Valencia
coifing the total defeat of the. rebels commanded by Salt-
PER!. An anecdote is related which exemplifies the nature
• of the seduction employed by the priests to persuade the ig-
norant peasants that in taking ap arms against the Constitu-
tion they are fighting to defence of the Catholic religion.
On the first approach of the factious to the city, one being
taken and brought in, fell upon his knees, and exclaimed,
"Do spare my life, and I will torn a Jew also." Colonel
Don ANAosio BAZAN, who gained the important victory
weer Semmes on the 2,1, marched on the lith against Mur-
alectro, with I,l9olnrantry and 300 cavalry, and 4 pieces of
Artillery. No account had reached Madrid of the result of
his expedition, but it was supposed that the rebels were so
le-idiedtaigred, that they would evacuate the place. ..
""' • ' Tbilierlval of this Spanish mail allows that the eemmuni-
eatioalrith Madrid through France is still open.
Aoribet of a Letter front Paris, April 26:—" The news
$m the Spanish army of the West have suddenly ceased to
1 - -be interesting. The army of the Eastern Pyrenees has now
-- , begunits movements, and will for some time occupy public
.attention. The same system of daily government estafettes
46 established between this pert 6f the invading force and
the capital, as between Bayonne and the same capital. The
telegraph, however, is wanting, which conveys the tidingsof
Jsaiotory with such celerity from Bayonne to Parts. By tic-
/manta from Vittoria of theff2d, we leers that a brigade and
s half of the division of Sourck are proceeding upon Ban-
ton, a see-pc(rt. of the Bay of Biscay, about 12 leagues
from St, Andero. The citadel or fortress of this place is re-
garded as almost impregnable. 'the prisoners taken in the
affair of Losrono are said to have arrived at head-quarters
at Vittoria on the 224 instant. They amount only to 130 or
160. The division of Molitor passed Pampeluna on the 16th
lost., and proceeded directly upon Salmons. The crowds
*to hail the French army as deli , and the new Junta
as their legitimate governors, shout, ander the dictation of
the priests by whom they are led, " Viva el Re absolato !"
'"Viripia Francial' " Viva Christ°, y lambics In males la-
Wadden !" The French have been revolved as deliverers
''.• principally in those places where the Army of the Faith ex-
• \\wised its accustomed cruelties and robberies."
A Royal decree, dated the 21st of April, published at
Drels, orders that no fitting oast of privateers under the
ch or the Spanish flag shall rake place in the ports
of the Itiogdoni of the Netherlands, or of its colonies;
that 'Niker the croisers of the belligerent Powers, nor
the vesegls captured b' them, shall be admitted into the
said po ;.aod that in case they should be obliged to
pat into t m, to ripai r any damages, they shall bc obliged
to put to sea again without loss of time. .

4aleloree of the ribele le- eet
' af'titii Conekitntioael force at a
ifilt des `announce thtritithitie
*lip too grilles an the 10th
$4.1 iii twos-with 4%.sery
.. . ‘littt a ialatet of siting
.....
..
v: . 1 tries of jay fret
i:siy.... Illuminated.
Ogg Ai e,. $2 teTt.a
~K 40116071 ad jot up t
ilOairfe,.tloing t:ll:torning;
. ' :kit. to be . • to-mor
Thrie tide Monti n g brings the 1
.. ..
- 1. .leadheen dune in the coarse of

--
- , Foadso MARitrr.—The information from Madrid,
. • fontratlicdng the report of disturbance, in that Capi-
ol, and the safe arrival of the King at Seville, have
1.. improved Spanish Bonds this tnorning, which opened
at 322, and got trjs•to 3:111, with a goad market.
4..---11 - laritAlle—New Spanish, 9311-014, 401 to 41—New
-1 1. :Fit:lan. 92192—Old Prussian, 921 83—Russian, 70i—
``\ . 4 ,904.—Columlnan, (Nil—Neapolitan, 91172.
% ', -4
i t. 't. (Plum THE GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE OF MARCH 29,—
POSTED AT LLOYD'S).
' i 1 Si On the 16th instant, the Spanish Ports in the Penis.
..,4.
ii:eula and adjacenflelande were closed against all Vessels
and Effects belonging to France, Austria, Russia, and
i.
.• ~ . Plume, „
k . On Saturday 14 t Og 'clock Its Majesty held a Court
. at hie pst.i...l'n.pen-peall. Hie Majesty afterwards held
- _s privy council, at which Lieutenant-Oeneral Sir Edward
bIWeS was introduced, and sworn In Oovsroor of Cry-
-06,1 An. the room iitf Lieutenantaenerai Sir Edward
1
.Faget. iiis Majesty gave audiences to the Earl of Mr-
rowlry and lb. Marquess of Ilintley. The Court broke
4 Bp soon after 5 o'clreic.
• On Saturday morning the Lords of the Council assent-