The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-19 00:00:00

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ready read, by which l am dip' sived of the COMMIIII4I of
this provincr.
[The deipateli referred to is remit the lkilnister of
iVar, under date the 23d of June, refusing Meet the
permission he bad asked to go abroad, on the ground
that liis presence was necessary in Spain, until the
constitutional system should. be consolidated, and all
the intended reforms completed.]
" Be comforted, my dear companions in arms, and
be assured that your fellow-countryman and General
trill never swerve from the path which he has elialked
cut for himself, and that his zeal and love for the con-
stitution will for ever glow in his heart.
" Pinn, Sept. 3. "RAVAEL nen Risco."
The Courier Fivngais contains the follAing par-
ticulars
An infinite number of reports are in circulation re-
specting the cause of the dismissal of General Riego,
and tin the plot mentioned in the proclamations of .the
Political Chief. The trial of the persons arrested, which
has begun, will disclose the truth. On the 4th Sept.,
the eve of the day of which the letters that bale reached
Bayonne were written, the Political Chief published the
following proclamation -
Inhabitants of Saragos=a,---Langnsge offensive to
the person of the Don Rafael Riego, Camp Marshal of
the national armies, hss within these few days been
reported to me, and particularly on the evening. of the
2d. I have with pain observed that some from igno-
rance, and others from malevolence, have t wished to
make it be believed that the measure of' the Govdrn-
ment which deprives him of the military command
of this province had some connexion with the facts re-
specting which a criminal process is instituted in this
capital.
" This is an error which might injure the reputa-
tion of the General, and 1 cannot and ought not to to-
lerate any persons, whatever may be their rank, tode-
chic in any manner against the General, or to endea-
vour to persuade the credulous, that the order of de-
parture for Lerida was grounded on any crime. The
command of the troops of a province is an authority
which the Government confers on whom it thinks fit,
comfortably to article 171 of the constitution, without
any obligation to make known the reasons of the
change; and according to the constitution the with-
drawing of the commission of commander, or the giving
it to another, carries with it no idea of crime on the
part of the officer who is the object of such a measure.
"According to this Constitutional principle, the de-
cision of the Government, in virtue of which Don Ra-
fael Reigo ceases to command in this province, in no
way wounds either the dignity or the reputation of
that officer, since he preserves all the ranks, honours,
and recompenses which the nation has bestowed on
him for his distinguished services.
" Liberty and order! These are the two bases on
which the edifice of the Constitution rests. Liberty
amidst disorder would lead us to anarchy, and finally
to despotism. Were every citizen to dictate new laws,
or to decide as he might please on the lives and pro-
perties of other, the Government and the Congress of
our representatives would be powerless. as. well as the
tribunals and all the authorities that watch over the
security and tranquillity of Spanish citizens. Let
there be amongst us no divisions or parties. Those
who dare by injurious expressions to blacken the cha-
racter of any person before the organ of the law has
pronounced its decision, or who seek to disturb the
tranquillity of this pacific city, under the pretext of
avenging the honour of others, are equally enemies of
the Constitution and the country, and as such shall
be pursued a,:tl punished according to law. .
"If the partisans of servitude hope to obtain some
advantage over the Constitutional system by putting
forward as a pretext certain measures or dispositions of
the Government, they will find themselves mistaken.
Be it known to them, that such an illusion can only
serve to accelerate their destruction and their ruin.
Would to God that the day may soon arrive when all
Spaniards will have the same ideas and sentiments.
Until then all trite patriots ought to be convinced that
the authorities will uaceasingly pursue the partisans
and the agents of the servile faction—a faction which
is most weak and contemptible, if we remain united.
" FRANCISCO MOREDA, Pol i trial Chief.
"Saragossa, Sept. 4."

_
DISCOVERIES IN EGVPT.—We copy from the .4,64.1
term the followingestract of a letter from Rome, dated
August 1621 :—" A young Englishman of the name
of Waddington, who has lately arrived in this city, has
penetrated upwards of 600 leagues above the second
cataract, in following the army of the Pacha of Egypt.
In the whole of tbeway, he fell in with only a few small
Egyptian monuments, in isolated situations, and of no
very remote date ; but on his arrival at Schayni, where
the Pacha encamped, lie discovered thirty-five pyramids
of from 50 to 120 feet in height, but in a very ruinous
state. He also saw seven or eight templesi of which
one (upwards of 300 feet in length') was covered with
hieroglyphics. It is probably in the neighbourhood
of these ruins that search should be madateeNaboths,
and not the Meroe of the ancients. This traveller has
copied some very curious (heel: inscriptiOns. lie
assures us that he has seen nothing in his travels
comparable to the monuments of Nubia. and that he
considers that province as the cradle of the arts in Egypt.
On Thursday last, Mr. Rush, the American Am-
bassador, and his suite, accompanied by Vice-Admiral
Sir Benjamin Hallowell, Sir Archibald Christie, Sic.
visited the Duck-yard at Chatham, and were sliewn
over every part of it by Commissioner Sir Hebert Har-
low, with the order and excellent arrangement of
which his Excellency expressed himself highly gra-
tified. On Friday, accompanied as before, he went
on board the Bulwark, where he was received under a
salute of 13 guns, which after he inspected he returned
to Rochester on his way back to London.
' John Herbert Harrington, Esq. of the Bengal Civil
Service, bas been appointed by the Court of Directors
of the East India Company, to a provisional seat in
the Supreme Cotiocil at Fort William, Bengal.
On Friday last a violent torrent swept away the
bridge at Glandulas, near Newtown, Montgomery-
shire. The inhabitants of Llanhaiadr vu Muchnant,
Denbighshire, were shrown iuto great consternation
by dreadful thunder and lightningsavSaturday se'n-
night. A great quantity of *le was spoiled .in the
-village by the lightning, and the heath on the adja-
cent hills were set on tire in various places, which was
as soon quenched,. by the rain which Afterwards
poured in torrents. Three cows were • killed at ;ire
Wern, and several Cattle injured. In the • neighbour-
hood.—(Conirion.)

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning 6 min. after 9.—Evening 42 min after 9.

LONDON:
II EDNESDAY EVENING, REPTSMBER 19, 1821.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The funds are looking up this morning in cunse•
quence, it is maid, of Government being in Possession
of accounts that no war will take place on the Conti-
nent.—Uonsols are 76a.

The Gaicitc of last night contains more interest-
ing news than usual. It confirms the report of his
MAJESTY'S intention of going out of the Kingdom for a
short time, and announces the appointment of Lords
Justices to administer the tiovernment of the Country
during his absence. It further states the prorogation
Of Parliament ; and the removal of Sir RounuT WIL-
SON from his MAJESTY'S service.

" The fact that Sir RonEttx WILSON bas been re-
moved from his NI AJesrv's service is," as The Newl
Times says, "no longer doubtful : it appears in the
shape of a memorandum in the Gazette ;" but, as of
course, nothing more is there stated than that the
KING has been pleased to remove him from the service,
we would again consult our courtly oracle, as we did
yesterday, to try to discover the reasons that occa-
sioned the removal. The oracle, however, though not
silent, is as ambiguous as heretofore. " The reasons
which may have induced the Government to
adopt such a proceeding are not specified, nor could
they be expected to be so, A few days will probably
render them sufficiently obrioleit." Referring, then, to
"some designs of an important nature" which the Morn-
ing Chronicle bad hinted as " obviously in the contem-
plation of Ministers," the New Times says, g‘ if
from the examinations" which the Chrosiele tells us
" have been lately going on," any thing has transpired
to fix on one or more individuals the guilt of plotting
an opposition to the KING'S forces likely to lead
to bloodshed, we think Ministers would betray
their duty to the country,t, they did not prosecute the
offenders with the utmost rigour of the law. In these
sentences, coupled with those we extracted yesterday
from the same paper, and with the scrutiny of the
Justices at Hammersmith, and the subsequent removal
of Sir ltonaux WiLsos from his Majesty's service, the
ulterior designs of Ministers, relative, to the gallant
General, it will not be difficult to perceive.

The rebuke of the Life Guards to the City Blades
has completely disconcerted their measures. They
who had gone begging for subcriptiens to remunerate
men who refuse their rewards, now go about getting
some other class of people to accept the rejected
money. On closing their subscription! they-had pro-
posed to divide the amount, in some proportion or
other, between the Lift Guards, who had been dis-
tinguished by their activity and sufferings on the 14th
of Aug., and the Blues who had been admired for their
forbearance and good order on that melancholy day,
and who on that account had not likened at all.—
Defeated, however, in their views, in the first
and most important instance, by the refusal of
the former Teeniest, they at present du not
seem disposed to risk the spurn which they

calculate fey would
The Blues, they are aware, w,
design ; for all the schemes of
and transparent and brittle as ,
they do with the sum they h
were any folks so troubled wit
in getting it together, or sci.Tliti6l4
per persons to accept it ! As it
a military purpose, as a solabe
previous service, and a stimuli
spirit on an occasion of a sit
thought fit to offer to tl
Royal Alilitary Asylum, that
which was intended for the Lifi

recei

therance of the interests of tha,
by a wish that the Donation mi
preserve a memorial of the circi
rise to it. At th'
e•ssme time,
home, the generous managers
pose that such subscribers as
propriation of their money,
dissent and have their money rei
position we, and we doubt not,
corned, very heartily subscribe
cause we scarcely know a set of
notions they entertain as to the
and under the mortification
about it, are greater objects of ,
the subscribers themselves. Si
is stated respecting the parties
under fictitious signatures ; bu!
ceive can be soon removed. These
are well known to the managers,
cognized as the men with
The gentleman, for instance,
vereien for 10s. Gd., is.,

these sums set down as cot
dle and lower classes of sociei
avoid betraying himself whet
displayed and praised. Still,
remaining after subscribers hal
of the offer to refund, and
Royal military Asylum, like ti
should refuse 'to accept it,
managers what to do; and
to correspond by advertise
mittee of the Regimental fund
have learned to appreciate the
has governed that regiment,
sceud for once to receive and
they would really act with an:
in; which they profess to oppreci
we would advise them to thani
to the relatives of the unfortur
the lamented shots of the Life
of August. The men who
the evidence on both the inquest
void of offence. Their beretv
more clear of imputation ;
orphan's claims are urgent
possess any delieav of feeli
Life Guards themselves did ni
inentlation. Perhaps the saw
them to decline the offer of the
them to decline the offer of du
our part feel no delicacy as
commendation; and as the Lii
estimation of minds not partia
refusal of the remuneration reds
so we urge the managers of tb
try to do likewise.

No mails having arrived froi
a late hour this forenoon, we
light from that quarter upon
issue there. In the absence
however, we have a report on
relative to the matters in dispi
the Porte ; and this report is
know not from what authori
have been pat into circnlatit
English Government, to balance
got into currency. as an extra(
Emperor Alexander to his Impel
and wh*.ela had too many hose'
sistent with a long continnani
tract states, that although the
including the Empress another,
of Russia are bent on war, he,
for peace, and will prove that
language appears to us not rt
general character of ALEXAN'
even an Autocrat of all the
countries that possess and boast
portion of freedom than Rnssi,
of an Emperor or King count
of his people; bat in Russia,
allowed to law by some classes
of the higher class. when I
are reported to have since take'
a Sovereign himself. In another
have given a translation of the Proclamations which
were issued in consequence of the agitation it
Saragossa, of which we yesterday detailed as suck
as we could then learn of the occasion. The eq..
of these proclamations, with all the accounts of d'e
affair, we have hitherto had only from the From
Ministerial Papers, and though the accounts Of
am be altogether false, they appeal not so corm
or so complete as we could wish. The .lJ'
for instance, would implicate Rice in a cf.
spiracy, with the design of placing himseltf at t°
head of a Republican party. Snell a rumour, i aPPeta*'
taetad‘
prevailed, sad was the cause of much ferment

ecerre frorn—l'the fault:
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(:"8511"sftwhrgtilalituveletle:Blise:idoaeledli lenteil thraeg:driteig?ti I.tiktin4 e 81516
T '
:ever
with money; so troweled
it had been collected iv
ice" for the severities
inks to excite a s
similar kind, it is ow
the Governors of di.
tat portion of the mei% •
Life Guards, for the fee,
hat Charity, accompanied
may be so recorded,as to
circumstances which pres:
ne, as charity begins aa.
rs of the subscription pre.
as disapprove of this sp.
', should intimate then
r refunded. To this pro.
it, the most of those eon.
be ; and we especially, be. ,
of beings, who, whit the k'
be application of stoner. 4*.
a they have experiewo
of pity and charity then
Some difficulty, indeed,
ties who have subscribed , ,
but the difficulty we con-
These parfies (doubtless
rers, and can be as easilyre.
th swiss' in their shoes.
ce, who changed his so.
, and 2s. 6d., and Lad '
contributions of the mid-
iciety, could not pouibly
hen his trick was soul(
11, if there be any surplei
have had reasonable notice
d if the Governed of the
e the other militiifloodies,
t, we would aegis* de
..
ad since they condemei
isements with tbe••
or!
id of the lot Life-guarX . _
he delicacy of feeling w
t, we hope they will c
(nd adopt our counsel:lllf
any of that delimit*.
(predate in the Life Oiards,
thani fest some parties of it
rtunate persons who dial by
ife Guards on the fatal 1461 i j
fell, it was dassertessodil
sqnests, were peaceable ash
(reeved families were still
; and the widows sad the
at and tonchiag to allot*
eling. We regret that the
d not anticipate oar rem.
Ime delicacy which induced
the remuneration, proepled
E their suggestions. Int
as an obstruction to cam
Life Guards, even is do
rtial to them, have by du
a redeemed their character,
f the contribution to go aga
i 11..--
from the Continent up is
we are deprived of any fresh .
on the important points A • 1
:e of foreign intelligeste..;
an 'Clianze this meruinp
ispute between Russia aid
is pacific. Perhaps, as as : ,
lenity it proceeds, it or
ation in the name of the
'lance another, which had
,ract of a letter from the
imperial brother of Austria,
)stile indications to be cos-
lance of peace. This et
the whole Imperial family,
her, the troops. and peork
he, ALEXANDER, iS "akia
tat he is Emperor." Sidi
very consistent whit tls
ANDER, nor very safe la
e Russia* to express- l'
boast of an infinitely lair
aria, there may he o°dangef
unteractiug the inelinstiess
a, though little liberty is
ti :Jae,
cse
tout
ifegtirrheeabpt
eeontpl
liberties eisshttl e peoplemsr:
irj,u
—ln another column se
:efsttithiceleeiredosPeoycrrasidtiliatenma.iaaltegid:i tnhasateiosircotwashoicioach:
it la all
fromh
theae e 0 :oot •
Ft
the
ad only
though the accounts soF
they appeal Dot so corral
old wish. The Ailey
plicat!
.111__iegi.oz_stlif is::

enemies and his partizans; but in the last Procla-
n, which will be found in the column referred to,
olitlcal Chief expressly declares that the removal of
General bad no relation to the conspiracy, and that his
- and character stood unimpeached. Riego himself,
yesterday stated, so far from being arrested, pro-
,ed to his destination, baring addressed a Promla-
:ion to the army, in which he imputes his removal
to calumny, and expresses his warm and unchangable
attachment to the established Constitution of the
Cortes. From the character the General had hitherto
possessed, and from the character of the people of
Spain we have no reason to suppose a conspiracy could
lie formed by Riego for the purpose of establishing
a RPpulblic ; and from various circumstances we have
as little reason to doubt that the plot, of whatever kind
it be, was magnified, and that the agitation it occa-
sioned would be soon allayed. •

Extract of a letter from Pcerto Cabello, dated the
18th of July :—" The armistice which Bolivar pro-
posed did not take place, because he demanded that the
operations of our army in the kingdom of Santa Fe
should be stopped : also that our Guerillas in the
Plains, called Slamos, and particularly that of Urntia,
who, with 600 cavalry, routed Remigio Ramos, and
took from him 400 horse, with all his men, between
Calabooso and the Rao. The Guerillas of Blanco have
re-taken San Cadoe, and afterwards took possession
of Mentalva."
Prom St. Augustine, July 23 :—.4 The sloop Hunter
arrived at St. Augustine on the 21st, and sailed on
the 27th ult., fur the purpose of exploring the ulte-
rior part of Pensacola, below the 22d degree of latti-
tude. This vessel was fitted out by an association, at
Philadelphia, under the protection of Government. An
arrangement for the conveying of the mail between St.
Augustine and St. Diary's has been formed. The
mail will leave the former place on Wednesday, and
arrive on Tuesday morning.
Extract of a letter from St. Thomas's, July 17:—
" Believing you to be a Gentleman much op-

posed to the shameful traffic of Slave dealing, I

Lave taken the liberty of inclosing you the copy of a
Protest,,inade at the Island of St. Bartholomew. It is
*Op from the office of the Colonial Secretary of St.
, a *hit i and will serve to spew you that this nefari-
' nd shameful trade, will never cease as long as the
Americans find protection and encouragement to con-
"travene the laws of the above Island. Indeed, it is a
place where every species of villainy is permitted.

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A canvass has commenced for the office of Lord
3layor of the city of London, for the ensuing year.
Mr. Ileygate was the next of the Aldermen, who,
accor4iing to the usual rotation had reason to expect
t., be returned by the Common Hall, on Michaelmas
Jay, for the selection of the Court of Aldermen
to fill the civic Chair. Mr. Alderman Magnay
bad some years ago, on account of certain dif-
ficulties, declined presenting himself for the
•ollice, when it was his turn to expect it; but
now, his difficulties being overcome, he presents his
claim for the Chair, as if it had never been waived.
Against this step Mr. Alderman Heygate has entered
his protest. Ile will not admit the principle which
would allow any member of the Court of Aldermen to

claint the rotation at his pleasure ; and this be main-
not only on account of what he deems his own
right, but in justice to his brethren who hare not
passed the chair.
A letter from Smyrna, by way of Gibraltar, an-
nounces that a massacre took place there on the 7th,
Stb, and 9th ult. Twenty Genoese suspected of being
spies to the Greeks, were put to death by the Turks,
notwithstanding the intercession of the British and
French Cousuls.
A letter from Odessa, August 21, says :—" I am as-
sured there will be no war. The Russian army, how-
ever, amounting to 120,000 men, is defiling down the
Froth. The Turks are entrenched round Yassa. The
two provinces (Moldavia and Wallachia) are completely
devastated. Since Baron Strogonoffs departure from
Constantinople, the Turks have opened the free pas-
sage ofthe Bosphorus, and published an amnesty to
submitting rebels ; which form the two principal ar-
ticles of the condition proposed as an ultimatum."
During the absence from Jamaica of his Grace the
Duke of Manchester, the administration of the Govern-
•ntent devolves on Major-General Conran, Lieutenant-
Governor of the Island, who opened his commission as
such, in due form, upon his return thither from Eng-
land in 1819.
The admission of the state of Missouri into the
union, a point so long and so warmly contested in
Congress, is officially announced in the American
papers received yesterday. Before the separation of
Congress an act had been passed for conferring that
privilege on Missouri, conditional to her making a de-
claration through her separate legislature, that no part
of her constitution should debar any citizen of the
ether states of the union from the privilege and immue
'shies bnjoyed under the constitution of the United
States. That condition was felfilled by a solemn pub-
lic act of the assembly of Missouri on the 26th of
June, and on the 10th of August the proclamation of
the President, announcing the admission, was issued.
Orders have been transmitted to New South Wales,
where the 48th Regiment is stationed, to reduce that
corps, at present 1000 strong, to the establishment of
the rest of the Infantry. It was owing to a special
application from the late Governor, in 1818, that it
was increased to that strength. it is now preferred
to place the 48th on the same footing with the other
Infantry Battalions, and to forward an additional re-
giment to the station. The 3d (or Buffs) have rude-
ed orders of readiness for New South Wales, and are
on their way to Chatham, whence, according as con-
vict ships go out, they will be sent in detachments on
board those vessels.
By a statement from the Board of guise, ordered
by the House of Commons to be printed, it appears
that the Hop plantations have increased in Kent as
well as in Sasses. In the Canterbury diarist the
number of acres under Hop cultivates was, its 1802
6141 saes, sad is 1820, 8943 aim

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