The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-11 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

P.%ISI.LY.

Wrnmcsusv.—The weevers are still idle, though
some of the other workmen, particularly the masons,
hare returned to work. The streets are less crowed than
on the two firmer da)s. It is believed many are gone
to the country. The cotton.works at Johnstone and
Paisley are still shut up. A crowd, to the number of
foam 300 to 400, are assembied un swam high ground
above Frochar. Whatever may be the whole of their in-
tentions one object no doubt is to produce fear in the
minds of Mr. Robertson's tinnily, than which it is nut
easy to coilo be a baser principle. One would think
there would he, no difference of opinion tsith regard to
Mr. Rolwrnion's conduct in so desperate an attack upoa
his property and his person. and it shows the dreadful
depravity of thew who would auempt to give him ur his
family any cnnoyance. Among the threats used to the
master cotton-spinners at Johnstone, some of the rioters
gave them intimation, unless the mills were stint nr,
" The PrGrisioaal GurerAwen:" would not make up the
loss or damage they might sustain by the ravages of a
mu!).

.111 is remaining quiet till this hour, hulf•iast eight

SP.IIN.

The mind, that has been compelled for some weeks
past to attend closely to the domestic politics of England,
must necessarily seek fur relief in the contemplation of
objects of a less painful nature. The mockery of popular
representation has been eshihited in all its distorted
forums, from the private nomination of the borough pa-
trommised by a peer, to the more open confusion of con-
tending bribery and rival druhkenness. To go through
the reguiar details of such transactions—
To Spain, them., in the brightness of her morning of
freedom, we direct our view; and it is cheering to eon•
template the rise of such a morning as promise's gradu-
ally a lovely day to all the regions around. Never was
the morning of freeelont :mare pure ; it is the unstained
dawn of peace and harmony, without a sanguinary
cloud to observe its horizon, or to give a false glory to
Its benignant beams.--We may be allowed thus nine!'
metaphor, in expressing the pleasure which uur wearied
minis experienie in this vivifying proipect : we base
thought for a moment on the contrast, and our rhapsody
is at all cud. is.,• It:Vl* liberty ; hut sir also love our
country; and no liheral-mititied Spaniard will reproach
us for feeling the sadness of regret, while we congratu-
late him on the acquisition of the full arknowledgincut
of the first and hest rights of human nature.
The oierthrow of Bonaparte was hailed by the conti-
nental powers as the liberation of Europe; the people
unfortunately found it otherwise ; and nu where did the
ancient despotism resmitime its seat is ith more inveteracy
than on the throne of Madrid. T: e precept of the great
statesman, that the worst of all revolutions is a restore-
t.on, was in Spain most cruelly realised. The patriots,
by whose love of independence the kingdom of Spain
had !leen preserved, were banished and imprisoned ; the
constitution. which had united their efforts, and render-
ed that land of their forefathers worth preserving, was
annihilated; the Inquisition, with all its own enor-
mities, and with smile purely political, was re-estab-
lished ; an ungrateful prince :.reused to have accepted his
sceptre at the hands of a generous people, only to make
that people iniacrable ; :and a bigoted priesthood had
resumed its offices only to tell a free auml improving na-
tio', to retuiii to slavish ignorance. Time army, how-
ever, rewaiueJ; and in its ranks were numbers of those
who had fought and bled for the constitution, when
Ferdinand was only a name. placed by time constitution
at the head of the nation: and, therefore, by the coital.
tution rendered valuable. To this army Spain is in-
debted for her real independence; for the re-establish-
went of a constitution, which, when fully carried into
practice, hits fair to he the happiness of Spain, and the
admiration of the rest of the world.

If the people and the army remain firm, Ferdinand will
gradually accommodate himself to his new situation;
his tree interests will give his zeal a better discretion ;
the Constitution has sesigned him a position in whirls
he can do no harm; and if he should be obstinatelt• re-
solved to do no prowl, he will have leisure to embroider
petticoats for all the images of the Virgin Mary in
Christendom, while the tuembets of the Cortes watds
over the interests of their constituents. An liereditarV
rivals, when deprived of the snperstitioas idolatry of
divine righ►, may be rendered an useful curb upon the
ambitious; and the people of a brave and free country
may, without shame, take upon themselves the name of
sish)ects to :t Prince who is himself subject to the laws
which they themselves make by their representatives.
such a case, srhji•rtion is redprocal ; and the abject
meaning attached to the word, in some countries, is en-
tirely lust.
It may indeed he expected, that foreign potentates
will nut observe this establishment of freedom in Spain,
without uneasine 1. fortunately, noise of these poten-
tates are in a coaditien to send armies anionF the moun-
tains of the Peninsula. The finances of England, by
which the early alliances against the freedom of the
Fr .nch nation were invigorated, are exhausted ; and an
enormous debt, for the interest of which oppressive
taxes are levied upon an impoverished people, ha• taught
England to dread a war against revolutionary principles,
as small, at least, as those revolutionary principles
then:selves. Kings also doily experience this truth,
that the more cusinslenre is placed in armies, the more
those armies must he increased.

By letters from Trieste of the 29d tilt. it appears,
t!►at the enterprising Paella of Egypt has succeeded
►n establishing refineries of sugar in Alexandria
and Grand Cairo. Some samples, the first results
of his new undertaking, had been received at
Trieste.

Major Cartwright was oeizinally in the navy,
and distinguished iiimself in the Falkland Islands, as
llag.lientrilant to the late Lord Howe. His reason for
splitting the service is not less honourable to this most
vearrallie patriot, than his persevering attachment to the
cans?, of Reform. He was uttered a similar post under
Lori lluwe, a Ilea his Lordship embarked to fight
against the American Republicans, but the Major re-
fused to draw Isis sword against liberty, His name hav-
ing remained on the Admiralty books as Lieutenant, he
was, in the naval proinutimis at his late Majesty's Ju-
bilee, promoted to the rank of Master and Commander;
and as an appointment on such au occasion is usual, he
was nmuinated to the Spy sloop of war, a sloop fer a
long time laid up in duck.