The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-17 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

" see the star on his breast, when he comes, as he now
" does, to lay papers before the country to shear that the
" honour of the country is surrendered, and that we der.,
" not now defend what we spent millions upon m 1166681
" itr defending, while we called it the out-work oil
" England." Mr. Canning appears to have made but
a very sorry figure upon this occasion. Mr. NV. Lamb
appears to have endeavoured- to take out the sting,
which Lord Folkestone had applied. He accused the No-1
isle Lord of inconsistency, and said that "if there were a
" man in the country above all others responsible for the
" public Debt, and bound to discharge it,it was the Noble
" Lord himself, who, alone all others, luid actively pro-
" moted the measures by which that Debt had been in-
" cuffed." l.onl Folkestone asked him what he alluded
to ? Mr. Lamb said he alluded to a speech of the Noble
.Lon! in the year 1:493, when the Army Estimates were
brought forward, in which he made the restoration of
the Ilouse of &Arbon a sine qua nun. Lord Folkestooe
said be bad advised the Government to take up the inte-
rest of the• House of Bourbon in opposition to that of
Baonaparte ; but he Jul not see bow that advice made
him responsible more than any other msn for all the
Debts incurred during the last war. To be sure, this is
speedy way of answering a mangy! The whole qtrestioo
had changed long and long before a fiftieth
'part of the money hag been borrowed ; that is to
say, the very grounds of the war had been changed ;
but if it had not, is a man to slay to entertain no opinion
contrary to that which Ise entert-ined twenty years ago?
Dr. Luslsington, who followed Mr. Lamb, observed, that
dill men living, he was the last to prefer a charge of
inconsistency against any body; for if there was one
Idember of that House to whom the charge of an aban-
donment of former principles could attach more heavily
and deservedly thee anuffser, it was to him, Mr. Lamb.
He did not accuse him of changing Isis principles from
bad motives, but, lie said, undoubtedly he furnished a
signal instance of a man receding from the line of poli-
tical conduct which he bad formerly selected, and becom-
ing the strenuous advocate of tl.ose principles of which
he had once been the bitter oppcnent. The Doctor oh-
served, ton, ou another part of the speech of Me.
Lamb, in which he had animadverted on the in-
vectives uttered against the French by Mr. Brougham.
IHe compared those invectives to the invective of Wed-
derburne on Dr. Franklin. He observed that this was
dangerous, and that it was well kaown that when Dr.
Franklin signed the treaty of peace at Paris, Ise appear.
ed in the very dress which he wore when he was attacked
by Mr. Wedderburne in that celebrated invective.—This
was going very. low,lndeed! It was telling Mr. Broug-
ham and the rest of the House not to talk so loud in fu-
ture, least the Bourbons should hear them. Dr. Lush-
ington expressed his horror at this degrading language.
If we bad been present, we should have asked Mr.
Lamb whether a little modesty might not become the
great big House, when speaking of other persons, as
well as of the Bourbons. However, since the great big
House is becoming so mild in its language towards
the Bourbons, it may, perhaps, grow milder than
bas been towards other people. For, let Mr. Lamb re-1
member, that there arc other people besides Dr. Franklin,
who have memoirs. 1, fur iustaoce, who write this sr- I
tide, remember what Mr. Lamb said, when they were
passing the power-of-imprisonment bill in 1817 ; and 1
have the same coat by me now that I had on whin I
heard Sidusouth say that be bad shown all the cheap
publications to the last officers of the crown, and that
he was sorry to tell their Lordships that he could find
nothing in them to prosecute. Yes, the very same coat
still, just as Dr. Franklin had at the end of about
twelve years after he was insulted by Wedderburne.—lt
is a strange thing that nobody seems to have thought
any thing of the abusive, the outraging reviling., pour-
ed forth upon the English reformers. However, it is
good to see civility towards somebody. Monsieur Cha-
teaubriand, who was a very indifferent novel-writer a
little while ago, now appears to be a person held in great
estimation. No matter: so that we see their tone
brought down, we do not care who it is that brings
it down.—Mr. Canning seems to have been pretty sharp:
ly stung. A long speech of his made his case rather
worse than it w:s before. He said, " however I may
" have truckled to France, I wilt never truckle to
" him ;" that is to say, to Lord Folkestone. 1n a pas-
sion ! In a pet ! There were loud cheers, it seems,
from both:sides of the House, which tasted for several
minutes. This was very poor taste, indeed. Lord
Folkestone did not want him to truckle at him. This
was not at all the subject of discussion. The truth is
the »leanness and want of Went so visible throughout
the whole of the papers; the want of sincerity, or the
want of understanding or of penetration, had been so
well pointed out by Lord Folkestone, that Mr. Canning
could not keep his temper. The question was at last
put to the vote, when there appeared for the motion,
110 ; against it, 216.--As to the repealing of the
Bill, that was out of the question, unless; *N Were
prepared to go to war ; and as to going to war, that
is completely out of the question, as long as the Na-
tional Debt remains what it now is. •

Paris papers of Tuesday, which have come to band,
state that the Duke of Belluno bas returned to Paris.—
He alighted at the Hotel of the War Department. Count
Brunette, formerly Minister Plenipotentiary from Aus-
tria to Madrid. bad arrived in the French capital, and
was to so out in a few days for the head-quarters of the
army. A Cabinet Council assembled on Monday even-.
ing, at the house of M. de Villele. It appears by a let-
ter from Perpignan, in the Congitntionnel, that Mina
had fixed his head-quarters at Vic, and formed there
the centre of his military and administrative operations
for the province of Catalonia. The political chiefs of the
four provinces of Catalonia bad had frequent confer-
ences there with the General. On the sth instant, a con-
vey of provisions arrived at Rosas from Cadiz and Ali-
cant, for the supply of Figueras, in which place, includ-
ing every species of troops, there would be a garrison of
near 5,000 men. The movements of Mina have occa-
sioned some alarm at Toulouse, while, on the other band
it was believed at Perpignan that the advance of the
troops under Marshal Moncey into Catalonia would
take place in a few days. The Oloniteur of Tues.
day, contains& Royal Ordinance, conferring the dignit

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of Minister of State and Privy Councillor on Viscount
Digeoo," as a special mark of the Royal satisfaction?.
This compliment is considered as designed to soothe his
chagrin at being so soon obliged to retire from office, to
make way for the return of the Duke of Bellow The
Moniteur also contains a telegraphic despatch, which is.
deserving little notice, except foe its brevity and insignifi-
cance. It is dated Bayonne, April 14th, and consists of
these words:—" His Royal Highness the Duke d'Angou-
leme is in good health.—Our operations go on mar-
velously."
The Funds on Tuesday were as follow:—French five
per Cents. closed, for money, at three o'clock, 84f. 50c, ;
for account, at four o'clock, S4l. 80c.: Neapolitan 72 f.
Spanish, 341.

STOCK EXCIIANCIi, 12 o'3s oca.—Consols opened this
morning at 76i, at which price they remain steady, with
a fiat market. Seireral Expresses have arrived front Pa-
ris. One of them has come direct front Madrid. On
his approach to the French lines he dismounted, and
passed them on foot unnoticed. He has brought intel-
ligence to the Spanish Ambassador, with particu-
lars of the affair of Saint Sebastian. He states
the loss of the French before that fortress, to be not less
than from 4to WO men. lie also brings some recounts
from Mine, who is said to have defeated a party of the
Army of Faith, supported by a division of the Freach army, in
which a great number was Milled and wounded on both sides.
Accounts have been received from Tefilis, which state that
the Russians have a force in that neighbourhood, of sot less
than 40,000 men. The whole of the Russian force assem-
bled- on the confines of Persia, was reckoned at not
less than one huAred and eighty thousand men, but most of
these troops were in a wretched state, almost without cloath-
ing, and not haling received Ray pay for a length of time.
The object of the Emperor Alexander having so large a
force in that quarter of the world, is rather suspicious. It
is either to awe the Persians, or carries some hostile tiews
on India, should England furnish an occasion.
FOREIGKMARKCT.—Spanish bonds opened this morning
at 312, wentdown to MI, with little doing.
Chili. 68—New Spanish, 31—Old, 40—New Prussian, 8U!
—Old, 82—Russian, 742—Neapolitan. 72.---Colombian, 61i.
ONZ o'CLocx.—The Spanish Market appears very heavy,
owing to a report that a great house has laid an attachment
on the Spanish Dividend.

Rio de Janeiro papers to the llth of February have
arrived this morning, which contain two decrres of the
new Emperor. By the first, restrictions are laid on every
subject of Portugal arriving in Brazil ; and by the se-
cond are regulated the rounnerce of the State and the
duties of the Custom House. All foreign goods are to
be admitted on paying the duty of 24 per cent.—ezcept-
ing, however, all articles whatever of English manotat-
ture, which shall pay 15 per cent. in conformity.witb the
tteaty of the 19th of February, 1810. His Majesty has
approved of a plan for a monthly voluntary subscription,
the produce of which is to be applied to the purchase of
new ships of war for the Brazilian navy, or to repair the
old ones.

Yesterday evening, at half past six o'olock his Majesty
arrived in his travelling carriage at his Palace in Pall

Mall, from Brighton.
Yesterday at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held
at the Foreign Office, which was attended by all the Ca-
binet Ministers, who condoned in deliberation till past
four. The Lord Chancellor left about half-past three.
Tuesday night Mr. Hill, the Kiog's Messenger, left
town with despatches for Spain.
We learn from a coerce on which we are disposed to
rely, that a Council of Ministers was held at Paris on Mon-
day evening, at which the P►oreign Ambassadors also at-
tended. The subject of discussion, it is said, was the pro-
priety of offering still further proposals to the Spanish Go-
vernment, Rumour speaks, but we cannot say how accu-
rately, of a Note said to have been presented to the English
Government by the Russian Ambassador, requesting to
know what course this country means to pursue in any
event of the contest between France and Spaio.—(Nen•
Times.)
The King of the Netherlands. report says, has a 2 reed
to adroit the Russian troops into his garrisons—and tbat
the Russian navy may enter, refit, victual, and remain in

the Dutch porti. -
The following paragraph is from the Journal de Paris

of Monday last:
" The Nuremberg Correspondent announces, that ad,
vices received direct from Petersburgh state, that the
Russian fleet at Crenate& is fitting out with the utmost
celerity, and that it will shortly sail on a distant expe-
dition."
We understand that on the applicafon of certain Mer-
chants to the Viscount de Marcellus, the French Charge
d'Affaires here, for letters of marque againt Spain, M. de
M. absolutely refused to entertain the question, declaring
that the French Government was not in hostility with 1
the faithful subjects of Ferdinand, and especially those
who by coimmercial enterprise rendered a service to their
unfortunate country ; that it was the decided intention
of France to confine the war within the narrowest limits'
possible; and, consequently, she would neither permit
cruisers from her own ports, or tolerate them from
others.
By *deices from Porto Rico, of the Ist January, we
learn that commissions were granted to privateers to
cruise against all vessels of whatever description trading
with the Spanish Colonies, and that no other circum-
stance was required to procure condemnation than proof
of the trading or attempt to trade. A privateer was then
fitting out, of 14 guns and ISO men, intended to go in
the track of vessels bound to Buenos Ayres and round
Cape Horn.
Advice% from Constantinople to the 11th ult. state that
the tired of the Janissaries was dismissed on the 20th Feb.
'and that Kul litaliavasi Hussein Aga, of the 9th Cham-
ber, was appointed in his place. The latter is a man of
the most daring and fearless character ; and excessively
rigid in enforcing discipline in his corps.
On the 10th of March Abdulla Pasha was suddenly de-
osed, and Silikdar-Bey appointed Grand Vizier. The
Patter is a staid and thoughtful man, of 50 years, and
friendly to the Christians.
Extract of a letter from on board the Ship Barkworth,
Bombay, Nov. 10, 1822 :
" We sailed from the Cape for Bombay the 4th of
September. Captain Pedlar has taken two gentlemen
and a lady off an uninhabited island, where they bad
been six months living on seals. The lady had been pet
to bed on the Island, from which they made a signal with
a skint° our ship. The Captain sent his boat ashore,
and found an English gentleman and his lady, and a
sell, pretty baby, and a single gentleman."
LOVISNT GARDEN THCATRE.-•.•Th• Comedy of Much
Ado about Nothing was performed last night. Miss
Citrarita's first appearance as Beatrice was the only no-
velty in the cast, and she acquitted herself in a manner
calculated to add to her professional reputation. The
character of Beatrice is not one that can, be supported
by mere animal vivacity; and though we cannot say
that the Lady of whose effort we now sp-dk, displayed
the intellectual features as prominently as we have seen
them marked by some distinguished actresseF, the
effort manifested a power of mind far beyond the ordi-
nary grasp of the number whose attempts we have wit-
nessed from time to time. Mr. C. Kral aLr's Benedick
was in his best style. We have often seen it and prai-ed
it before, but we never felt more gratified than on the
present occasion. The whole went off amidst the ap •
plauses of a delighted audience,