The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-25 00:00:00

THE ,STATESMAN '

THE KING OF SPAINAD ANDIZ THE COW
C.

Bayonne papers to the 18th instant, which have ar-
rived this morning, bring the follo..ing intelligence:—
At length there is an end to all the tales told of Able
bal for some days pgst. He arrived there at the 13th,
the evening, bet, thongh travelling ince:silo, be hod
been visited by all the officers of the garrison, then pin-
seet at a grand dinner, given doubtless in his honour,
by the General who commands the department. He is
going, it seems, to Paris. On the 16th a Russian gene-
ral of aid-decamp to the Emperor Alexander, ar-
rived there on his way to Madrid.—lt seems as if the
ear upon the French part of the frontiers was going'
to assume the same character as in Catalonia. Corps of
partisans, or guerillas, are forming in Arragon and Na-
Terre, and the three Biscayan provinces. A pretty con-
siderable one has suddenly appeared at Balmaida, which.
by its position, threatens all the convoys going to Ma-
drid.—News Las been received at the same time of the'
return of the Constitutional troops under Campanili* to
Sant Ander, and it was affirmed, that the Pastor, after
raisin& the blockade of Seaton*, bad retaken Bilbao,
where he had found immense magazines. Preparations
for the reception of the Ditches, d'Angouleme, are mak-
ing at Bayonne. Letters from Madrid of the 12th con-
tain hot little news after the bulletins. Addresses regale.
ing the re-establishment of the, ancient regime continue
to be sent to the Regency ; this they say is the only sys-
tem calculated to give happiness to Spain ; all idea of a
Constitution analogous to that of England or of France
is express'', deprecated. With respect to Portugal, there
is a report that the King has been taken to Santarem,
New York Papers have this morning arrived to the
28th May, from which we extract the following, from the
Commercial Advertiser. From Curracoa.—Defeat of the
Columbian Squadron.
Just as our paper was going to press, we received in
16 days the Carracoa Courant of the 3d inst., containing
an account of an action between the Columbian Squa-
dress, Commodore Daniels, and two Spanish frigates,
which bad arrived on that coast. The action took place

near Porto Cabello, and lasted from 3 o'clock InTh.-1---se.
ternoon, till near San down, and terminated in the Cap-
ture by the Spaniards. of the Maria Francine, Glam.-
dore Daniels, and the Corvette Carabobo. A Schoen',
Rayo, and a large felucca, run out of Porto' Cabellii,
during the action, and carried in the two merchant ves-
sels, which the Spaniards had in convoy; they afterwards
returned to the Spanish frigates, and were seen laying
between them. The Brig, I ndependencia, Commodore
Belluche, was also in the action, but escaped and passed
Carmen on the 2ii. The action is stated to have been
well contested by the Colombian vessels against great
superiority of force. The Spanish vessels are reported
to be one of 54, and the other 44 guns. It is supposed
great slaughter must have been made on both sides.
PARLIAAIENTMV7;OSISIENTARY.
• The Irish Insurrection Act was last night read a se,
cond time in the House of Commons. As it is admitted,
even by the ministry, to'be an Act totally unfitted for
any civilized state of society, it is tantamount to tbe con-
fession that their system has brutalized and degraded
Ireland, until it is necessary to resort, in every instance,
to stripes and blows, to the bayonet, the cannon, and
the gibbet, as the only method ofiegislating for that nu--
happy country. To this point have we come: If these
are means by which alone Ireland can be goreimod, she
ought no longer to be g ad by England. Govern-
ment, it is said, is a necessary evil, to avoid greater
evils :—but here government only exists by inflict
ing severer evils than it prevents. A state of the most
barbarous, natural wildness, would be far preferable to
the mischiefs produced in the name of Christian Society
in Ireland. We are inclined to believe the ministry,
when it tells us that Ireland cannot be governed without
such measures; but this declaration goes too'far hr the
ministry, and yet falls short of the truth. it shows they
have no hope of amendingithe condition of that eottatry ;
because such means can only irritate the minds, and
perpetuate the disaffection of the people. And it is
qiiite certain, that if Ireland can only be governed by
such means now, she cannot long be governed by say
means. No conqueror ever found it necessary to ion-
file such rigorous restrictions upon a recently
conquered people, as the Eoglisb GOVEIDEWRi feels
It necessary to impose in Ireland, after a comma-
pity of national interest of so many years dam
Lion. No tyranny is so fruitful in oppression, so
productive of discontent, as the English Government In
Irekid ; which is, in the emphatic language of Mr,
Robertson, the "disqualification of six millions of peo-
" pie, that half a million may revel in the spoil." With
this great cause for discontent, all professions of loyalty
on the part of the oppressed can be but lip-Jeep. They
have nothing to be loyal to. Nothing but their misery
sticks to them ; and discontent is the inevitable result.
The Irish who are deprived of their rights, would not be
men if they could be satisfied. The prudent may be
silent under the pressure of evils which they cannot re
move; but they only feel their degradation the more
strongly, and the more earnestly long for an opportunity
to free themselves.
Sir H. Parnell moved for a committee of enquiry
but he knew the motion would not be acceded to And,
besides what could enquiry do? Is not every man aware
of the cause of the evils? Enquiry is almost mockery in
such a case. A large majority of a people are deprived
of their rights, and banded over to be pillaged and kept
in subjection by a minority, contemptible in numbers,
not conspicuous for talent, but armed with the military
power of England, to perpetuate their mischievous sway
in Ireland. No enquiry can render this more notorious.
It is as palpable as the meridian sun, when no cloud
passes over its face. Ireland cannot be tranquilized
until the Catholic population is admitted to the rank of
men ; and the Protestants cease to be oppressors. The
Protestants have to determine for themselves, whether
they will surrender their undue pre-eminence, and
be contented with the enjoyment of equal rights :
—and they refuse, because they find wrong more
profitable than right would be. Tire question,there-
fore, resolves itself into—how long can the wrong be
maintained by force?—and tire answer must be referred
to that unerring oracle—time. The condition of Ire.
land, which has only been made worse by ail the menu
hitherto taken to improve it, has little to hope ftit the
way of amendment by legislative interference. Mr.
Blokes ridiculously said, " the disease of Ireland was an
" insurrection of those who had no property, against
"those who had; and a deep-laid conspiracy of the ma-
' " jority of the religious community of that country
" against the minority." Out of doors, a man who had
made so preposterous an assertion, Auld hive been
asked for his proofs; and failing to giie them, would
have lost somewhat in reputation. The House if;
Com -mos, on the contrary, is prifkleged ;aai sae
offenders in times of old ran to the horns elite Otei.-to
find in asylum, Mr. Bankes throws binnitlilisifessimg
of the Irish Attornty-General, and says, iiiiit.gat irate/
Mr. Plunkett is too wise to answer, yes,-,for be bagmen
reputation left :—and he is well aware that the "dimwit
" of Ireland is a long continued sacrifice of the welfare
of the many; to the emolument of the few ;
" deep-laid conspiracy of the minority of the religions
" community against the property of the majority." .06
Who ever beard before of a sonsparacy amongst the sew
jority ? The thing is impossible. One might es well say
the majority of the House of Common conspired against
the minority ! Mr. R. Mattis said, is tbe coarse of the de-
bate that Catholic Emancipation would not induce ens
rebel to lay down his arms. Perhaps not. Bat will Mr.
R. Martin tell us that the abolition of the tithe-systun
would not induce thousands to forego their hatred to the
system? If the struggle be "between peeper's= and
property," the best remedy is to diminish the pauperism,
or it will ultimately be too strong for the property, let
the owners of the latter be as cunning as they will.
DREADFUL °COVERER Cie—Uhl MOFDiRK•ann taut
James Hayes, an Irishman, residing in Rennet's Con%
Southampton Place. Strand, was brought to Bow-
street Police Office, charged with attempting to
murder his wife and her mother. by inflict-
ing divers dangerous wounds and cote apes
their persons. He was remanded till the fate-of the wilt
was known. The mother was able to attend se tiles&
donee against her son.in.law, but the wife is sodomy-
ousts, that her recovery is not expected. Hayesimmesil
totally regardless of his situation, and his behaviour was
only remarkable for bisdetermified taciturnity. Reseet-
I went at the elopement of the site with another men, is
stated to bare been the origin of this catastrophe.

At a late hoariest night an •express arrived. which
left Paris at four o'clock on Monday afternoon. The fol-
lowing are its contents:— •
• MADRID, JUKII.I9.
The
OT LIITTZARICZIVID ST expanse.). I
" e following are the details which I base been able
.to collect of the news from Seville :
" On the Bth Sir W. A'Conrt offered his mediation to
the Government, proposing to go in person to Madrid,
and promising to do all in his power to bring back fa.
vottrable conditions. The Cortes replied, that they
illood in no need of any foreign interference ;at the 1,
came time that they expressed their gratitude for his]
good intentions.
" On the 9th there was a grand sitting of the Council
of State, in which the Prince of Aoglona declared that
they ought to negotiate with the Duke d'Angoulemt,
This advice being rejected by the Council of State and
the Cortes, the Prince gave in his resignation. Oa the
loth there was a very stormy sitting of the Cortes. ; )
" On the 11th the King was waited upon, and respepl,
ed definitively to state whether be was willing to mining
fir Cadiz.
is His Majesty replied,that as far as regarded himself,
he had no objections to go, but as he considered his trans-
ference to Cadiz as being contrary to the interests of his
people, he would not yield to the demands of the Cortes,
hot by force. After this. there was another sitting of
the Cortes, in which, on the motion of M. (Jellison, it was
decreed, that the King was in a state of mental inanity,
tad that being thus incapable of conducting the Govern-
ment, thel Cortes ordered his being carried to. Cadiz,
sod appointed a Regency in his stead.
"The Minister of England then sent a note to &Go-
vernment, in which he stated, that as he was accredited
to the ,
King and not to a Regency, he could not follow
the King to Cadiz without further instructions.
„The Cortes then, in order that they might reuse* the
objections of Sir W. A'Coart, ordered his letter to the an-
sweted by a declaration that his Majesty would be under
restraint only. on his journey, but that he would resume
his functions in Cadiz. Sir William replied, that be
could not go, for that he did not see his objection re-
moved by the proposed arrangement. He therefore re-
mains at Seville for new instructions. The Minister of
the Mated States of America, the Ambassador of the
Netherlands, and the Ambassador of Sweden, likewise
remain at Seville. The Charge d'Affaires of Saxotty eel
out with the Queen, she being a Princess of the Hotta
of Saxony.
" This news produced the most lively indigistiotra
Violent complaints were uttered against those Royalist
members of the Council of State who bad run away,
from fear, and abandoned the King to, the mercy of his
gaolers.
"It is believed that the Cortes arrived at Cadiz on
the 14th. General &las was intrusted with the escort.
During this deplorable crisis, the people of Seville, tinder
the control of a ferocious militia, were in a state of stupor.
On the 14th, in the morning, when it was learnt that
the King was embarked, the people rushed to the boats
which formed the convoy of the King and the Cortes.
Several persons were killed in the boats, as well as in the
town. Several houses were pillaged and demolished.
Such was the farewell which the Spanish people gave to
the Cortes."

" PAWN, MONDAY APVERNOON, 4 o'CLoca.
" Besides the despatch of which 1 have sent you a
copy, the Ministers here have received a second, which
states that the King and the Cortes arrived at Cadit at
two o'clock in the afternoon of the 14th. The Cortes,
immediately on their arrival, declared the King restored i
to the exercise of his functions ; and the Ooveronsent will
be carried on under his name as before. Zayas, who
commanded the escort to Cadiz, is appointed to comossiod
the troops in defence of that city.
" The foods at 4 o'clocit were as follows :—Five per
Cents., 88. 98.; Spanish, 361; Neapolitan, 74a."
(Extract from another letter of the same date.)
" General Zayss, who commanded at Madrid after the
treachery of Abisital, commands the troops who accom-
panied the King and the Cortes to Cadiz. This force is
greater than Seville has been represented to possess. It
amounts to 6,000 or 7,000 men. This General is intrusted
by the Government with the defence of Cadiz. Before
hi. departure from Seville, be published a proclamation
ettremelv bold, if not even violent. This is the more
remarkable, as this General had entered into a convention
with the Duke of Angouleme about the surrender of Ma-
drid, which only the irruption of Bessieres prevented from
bring executed."
The Journal des Debate and the Moniteur of Monday,
mention, what is omitted in the letter, that the appointed
Regency consisted of three members, Valdes, president,
Ciscer, and Vigo.

Alderman GLYN. on the admirable plea of aationa
neutrality, having refused to call a Meeting in Bishops-
gate Ward, " to consider the propriety of making.' col-
lection throughout the Ward, in aid of the subscription
now raising, to assist the Spanish people in their strug-
gles for national independence, against the;unprincipled
aggression of the Bourbon Government of France," it is
the intention df the inhabitants to obtain a Parish Meet-
ing of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, which comprises tbel
whole of the Ward, in the course of the week, to carry
the above object into effect.
A numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabit
ants of Greenock, held there on Monday, unanimously
resolved to commence a subscription in aid of the strug-
gle for independence in Spain
According to existing arrangements. It is calculated at
the Government offices, that on Friday se'nuight, the House
of Commons will adjourn for a short period, to afford time ,
for the Upper Gouge to get through the business that will I
then be before their Lordships. The dty of Prorogation.
however, the
yet be anticipated. Some persons think it
may be the 14th of July, while others expect It will not be
till the 25th.
When the Brasil Packet, which arrived yesterday, came
away from Bahia, the Brazilian squadron under Lord
Cochrane was off the harbour blockading, and the Por-
tuguese vessels of war were ready, and wafting for a wind
to go out and offer battle. This is an important contest,
and will most probably decide the fate of Brazils. A ve-
ry large portion of the naval force of Portugal is now at
Bahia, and its loss must be very seriously felt both by the
mother country and her Allies. The number of British ,
sailors who lime lately been sent over to the Brazils, bas
created a considerable alarm in our Admiralty, and it is
understood, that the late Proclamation issued by Govern-
:sent, founded on the Foreign Enlistment Bill, was intended I
rather to counteract this emigration of sailors across the At-. 1
!antic, than as an indication of any spirit of hostility against ,
the present straggle in the Peninsula. Lord Cochrane hay- ,
lug aeeepted an offer made to him by the Imperial Govern-
ment, took the command of the Brazilian navy, as we stated
yesterday. on the 13th of March. and on the lbth so embargo
was Imposed on all shipping. Bush is the confidence which
his countrymen place in its Lordship, that it is competed
that there are 300 British seamen on board the ship he
commands.
A morning paper says that a King's Messenger was
ordered to be in readiness last night to take despatches
from Mr. Canning to Sir Wm. A'Court, also that a ship
of war is waiting at Portsmouth to take the messenger to
Port St. M. —'s. - - - -

Pants, Jcms 21.—The weather in Paris is excessively
bad ; we ere unable to sit comfortably in .oer rooms
without fires. The rain, however, has mad* vegetables
very cheap; green peas are at five to six soas per quart,
soul nearly a gallon of fuze strawberries may be had for
123 sons.