The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-26 00:00:00

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injurious to his health, the Commission was of oplobse
that his Majesty is under so impossibility of commencing
his journey, while all the cares which are necessary to
the convenience of his Royal person may be lavished
upon him; and that it is not creditable that a jottingy
undertaken under sneh auspices is impracticable or likely
to lead to any unpleasant results. lo effect, the danger
which threatens the King and the State is, that the ene-
any's troops approaching the capital may cause trouble
and misfortunes, and then it would be no longer certain
that the King, ill, would have the power of flying eve(
in haste, deprived of all necessary conveniences, and
filleting himself every step exposed so danger, which
would increase his physical sufferings and affect hie moral
condition.--" Such,' says says the Report, " are the power-
ful reasons, which, In the view of the Commission, coun-
terbalance those of the medical men, and render the
King's departure indispensable."
" The Commission thinks tit to declare with frankness
that founded on the motives already exposed, and after
hahaving heard the Ministers, it thinks that the departure
of his Majesty has never been more necessary than at
the present moment. Horrible plots, contrived to throigl
obstacles in its way, wont(' suffice to ceovisce the Cowl
mission of the necessity of this measure, if It had yet any
doubt of it. Let the Cortes display decision of character;
let them pat themselves, if it be necessary, above certate
considerations out of plaa at this moment, .liowever re•
specfable they may beat other times ; let them seta the ie
eyes on their country; which deserves all their affections;
and let them deign to approve of th,, following proposition,
which the Commission has the hooter to present them:—
" That a deputation be seat to the King to aninausee
tolls Majesty that the Cortes hope that be will deign 'to
arrange his departure before the itith of the month, and
to fix, at present, the precise day and hour which he may
deem fit to take to begin his journey, and to inform the
Cortes of it, who will remain in permanent sitting till the
answer of his Majesty be known, to take measures in
consequence."
M. Valdes spoke in favour of the proposition. The
question was then put to the vote without further discus-
sion, and the opinion of the Commission adopted by a
majority of 104 votes to 33. A deputation was inamedi•
stet)! sent to the King.
The Government communicated to the Cortes, that his
Majesty, seeing the state of the Ist military district, bad
thought fit to unite, provisionally, the military and poli-
tical command of it in the person of the Count
d'Abisbal.
The deputation sent to his Majesty, as the organ of the
Cortes, returned to the Hall, and announced thattheKtng
was ready to set oat, and he chose the 17th, without be-
ing able to fix precisely the hour. His Majesty, how-
ever, wished that the journey should be put oil' to the
20th, if the Cortes saw no inconvenience. After a short
discussion, the Cortes decided that the departure of the
King should not take place till the 20th ; and the same
deputation, under the Presidency of M. Valdes, went to
the palace to inform the King of it.

Every attention it appears is to be paid to the feelings,
want., and wishes of she royal traveller, both in the
mode of escorting him, the care of providing for his ac-
commodation, and the considerate allowance of proper
intervals of repose. To judge by the short distances.pro•
posed for every day's march, and the length of time hied
for rest, one would suppose that the King was snaking a
solemn procession, or eshibitissgocourtly pageant, rather
than performing, with becotnitisexpodn, a necessary
journey. His Majesty will be days on the road, six
of-which will be entire hilts, and the longest day's jour-
tsry will not be more than 27 English miles. The whole
distance is 88 leagues, or about 275 of our miles. The
King is to be escorted hy.2,500 men, chiefly militis, aid
2 pieces of cannon. The Ministers and the Royal Hens--
► ilekcolikeet.,
111111trreetteseasewe wilt be Av
made' to rostra a
body of the factious from Estrentaders, Ortimait. Mad
Valencia, to disturb the Royal progress; but fruits the
publication debt casts de route, and length of time to be'
employed on the march, the t;onstitutionalists seem to
apprehend no serious d..nger. The majority of the Cortes
will not leave Madrid along with the Xing. They
will proceed by separate roads to Seville, so as to be
ready to commence their Sittings about the twiddle of
April.
Since the last arrivals of the 9th, Madrid had been
generally tranquil. The only instance of violence or
tumult manifested was directed against llertran de Lys.
This person has of late become extremely obnoxious,
on account of his alleged treachery on the cause of ra-
tional independence and the conviction entertained of
his being employed by foreigners to intrigue for the flight
of the King. In consequence of this, be had been ex-
cluded from the clubs of which he was a member. Since
that, his house has been broken open and robbed by
the irritated populace, whose violence extended no far-

titer.
D'Abisbal has arrived at Madrid, after defeating and
dispersing the factious. Some suspicion was at first en-
tertained of the part he would act on his return. All
doubt has now been dissipated. He has sheets Meilen'
the determined supporter of the national rights, and is,
to be left in the command of the capital whit ptiwors
nearly equal to those of a Dictator.
Letters received from Lisbon, by the packet, mentisk
that the Portuguese Government have confirmed the con
cessions made about the middle of last year on the sib..
',set of the Slave Trade. It is further added, that in coil'',
fertility to a new regulaticn, no more than fifteen pelt
sent. are demanded in Portugal on British Woollens,
which by a late Decree had been rated at thirty.
The day before yesterday the Police arrested, In the
Bourg-la Keine, the Bordeaux Diligence, in which were
several military men feiog towards the Boutlhwith false
passports, and under false names. General Piet is named
amongst the officer; who have been arrested. Mauve-
ports on this subject are in circulation in Paris, which
the future only will explain. It is said that a great nom
her of papers, &c. which were forwarded by the Dill.
gence, have been sealed up. It is difficult to believe that
these proceedings of the Police have net been provoked
by important indications. It will not be long before
the intentions of these travellers, who were so solicitous
to conceal their names and their journey, will be disco-.
vered. We shall lay before our readers the result of the
judicial informations, or any new details which may arise.
(Paris paper of Sunday.)
A n American paper states, that amongst the petitions
recently presented to the Congress, is one from Witham
Maby, a revolutionary soldiest staling that be has had 22
sons, 16 of whom have heels killed in the military service of
the United States, and the Ifetltioner prayed a pension in
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ther grain since Monday are but moderate, and the Wheat
trade continues dull at Monday's prices. There is but
little doing in Barley at present. Beans and Peas wiles
much the same terms a* last quoted. Oats fully support
Monday's prices. There will not be any market on
Good Priday.
21.—The 26e
iltirsheesefrvesetill
seemed last week to have relaxed a little, but the pleas-
ing prospect was of short duration. and yesterday a fresh
coat of snow covered the ground. we hope, its the players
say, fur " the last time this season"—tor farming opera-
tions are very backwards and fodder is very scarce, and
sheep are in such a weak state, that, so near the lambing
season, a continuance of the storm would be 'very de-
strective.
M
WATCRPORD MAIMT, ANCH 2g.—Butter has advanced
raidly this week ; yesterday. 4irst qualities, of receot
mapke, from neighbouring farmers, sold at 595. (equal to
about 945. 6d. with the fernier allowance of beausage)--and
Ws. was said to have been given in a few inmates. Weigh-
ed at the Crane on Thursday, 211--yesterday, 92 batiste.

INTELLIUENCE.

tali., Malibu 46.--Came down from the river aid galled
the Ametia, thorny, for Bermuda ; Lady Julien*, Smith.
for fle. John's, R. B. t and Lark, Odour, for Cadiz.—Wind

North;
FasatouTH, Msacei 24.—Arrived off the tort, the Ac-
tive, Patterden. from St. Vincent's, in SS days; Fortune,
Callow, from Faro, In ,21) days. Arrived the Francis Free-
ling packet; from Jamaica, sailed 11th Feb. ; and Duke of
York packet tram St. Thomas's, sailed 21st Feb. Sailed
the Crown, Watson, for Almeira ; Cochrane. Mitchell, for
Newfoundland ; New Albion. Rowell. for Malta and Smyrna;
and Ann, Swinton, for Gibraltar.—Wiud S.E.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH PC—Sailed the Wanderer, Way-
good, for St. Andrew's, N.B.—Wind W.N.W,
Pnarsuovis, MAacn 26.—Arrived the Chas. Grant,Hay,
from the Downs, for the Mauritius, &c. ; Nile, Fisher, from
Ditto for Serbia.; sailed the General Palmer, Muscatt,
for Piedras • John Howard, Smith, for St. Michael's ; Mi-
nerva, Morley. for Gibraltar; and Balloou, Smith, for Bal-
iimore.—Wind, light airs from the South.
The Abraham and Moses, Potts, from Boston, foundered
near Aldbro, on Monday. Crew saved.
The Aurora, M`Kinlay. from Greenock and St. Thomas's,
to Honduras, was taken and carried into Porto Rico the sth
ult. by the Scipio, Spanish privateer.

Extract of a private letter from Paris, March 20, 1823,
—The conduct and courage of Manuel, and the calm
and steady refusal of the National Guard to execute what
was considered an oncoustitutional order, have given an
electrical and enviltifying shock, that has been felt from
Ike mod 014 lintd to the other. The effect prodaced
in Lo Vendee has been as general as it has been viva-
cious. That department, which used to be called, and
with reason, la terre elusive de la royaute, has now
become perfectly romantic in the indulgence of a differ-
ent feeling.. At Lyons the state of irritation is so great
and, volcanic, that it has been found necessary to rein-
force considerably the garrison. A few days ago some
hundreds of the young men of the town, marched in
great order and silence, each a broom in his hand, to-
wards the Place de belle cour, un t commeneed sweep-
ing the right side of it. The authorities and the mili
tary 'immediately hied to the spot, and on these
eccentric sweepers bring asked what was the mean-
ing of their employment, they replied, that as the
cote gauche had been swept, they were determined to
the same by the cote droit, the more particularly, as
It needed it very.much, being extremely filthy.' In the
present state of excitation, the three following parties
are undisguisedly talked of:—fat The party of the Duke
d'O—, fur whom M. T—d is said to be working,
though secrelly.yet powerfully. The visit of the Duke
D—g to London is thought not to be foreign to this
object. 2d. There is the trittreme Liberal p4rty, who have
a rooted avirslon to enyjkspnch of the 11—, and conse-
quently will not go heart it band with the Duke d'O—
party.The leading members ofthis party it is unnecessary
Ifor me to specify. They would infinitely prefer calling
in a foreign Prince, who would take the Crown as the
gift of the people, and swear to maintain all their rights
and privileges. The Prince of Orange is the one they
I seem to think, whose adoption would be the most feasible,
as it is not probable that Russia would put a very sincere
or effective veto against such a consummation. You then
see tbat the 0. Party and the Liberals have not exactly the
same views. 1 here is a third party that would wish to
maintain the present possessors, by a return to raisin
and fair dealing. Tim ostensible heads of this division
are Messrs. Royer Collard aid Ouizot, but the real chief
is the Duke Decants. Oae of their views is to call the
Mkt d'Aoge---eme to the immediate succession, ou the
demise of the present incumbent. This might have been
practicable souse years back, but in the present state-nf
excitement, tbis middle and moderate partripsof loaf

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The stedrpoint in which the three parties agree; it the
necessity and inevitabilith, of some change—what that
may be, will be Most probably decided by events at the
Pyrenees.
Here Skiar.—Bangor Candlemas fair has been long
celebrated for the trade in hare skins,—as the emptied
pack of many a pedlar, and the bared kitchen-ceiling of
many a cook-maid may well testify. The supply on
Wednesday last was again pretty considerable; but the
sliatket opened heavily, and, after some fluctuation of
price, settled at about from 14 to 15a. p-r dozen. This
Is nearly 3s. above the prices of 11121, Very few dealers
attended from the South ; but one individual in the
town bought 12,000 skins for his own hand, for which he
pad 7501. Many other purchases were made to a consi-
.derable extent, and probably the supply altogether did
Plot fall short of 50,000 skins. It is difficult to state with
perfect accuracy the aggregate supply in different years;
but, arguing from the severity of the weather, far more
bares must have been killed in 1623 than for many
leers past.
•Exactretow OF COLEMAN FOR TOE MURDER OF Ma.
JAME* Seiren.—This unhappy man was executed on
Monday morning, on Pennenden Heath, near Maidstone,
parental to his sentence.—When the procession had
reached the gallows, Farmer, the constable of Green-
wich (who conveyed-him to g sol) asked him if he had
nay message to send home; if tie hail, he would take it.
,Coleman said.--" No, I have done all that—that is the
man I have told you of—Bob is the man." The Rev.
Mr. Winter then joined him in prayer, after which he
ascended the gallows, and desired the executioner to take
'from his pocket a yellow silk handkerchief, when he
called Farmer, and said, "'fake this bandit. rcbief, and
give it to a.woman, named Ann Steel, you know her—
tell her I sent it to her—God bless her—don't forget—l
hope lam going to-a better place." While the execa-
tioner was putting the rope round his neck, he said to
him, " Dos's pat me into any purgatory if you can help
it." Ile then appeared greatly distressed, and LOU,
" Nobody knows btU them that feel ;" lie then said to
Firma, • Rólogrt Smith, that is the man I (lie for, lie is
ibe men that es his uncle, to other man but .him ; the
Lord. forgkre me-1 am a great signer, but lam inno-
sent of that, thank (hod for ;my sins are great; his
brotbeeJames made the bullet, though I did not see him
do it; bin own mouth told ine so—God bless you all,
every body." He then said to the executioner, " Let me
die as easy as you can." When every rreparation
seas
made, and the executioner had left him, be " The
Lord forgive my seul—O God, receive the soul of a 611.
ner—Almighty tied, bear my prayers," and immediately
the drop fell. He was a single man, and Ana Steel was
a women with whom be cohabited ; he was a most des-
perate character.
Friday morning at an early hour, the apparatus was
prepare in front of the county ball, Aylesbury, for the
execution of Bank*. Brown, and Malvin). convicted of
Borst: stealing. About eight o'clock, the three culprits,
after having gone throngh the usimul devotions, were
conducted to the platform. The two brothers, Millsom
and Brea o, whose real names were Cribb, first made
their appearance, and were shortly tollowed by their
companion Banks. While the executioner adjusted the
rope and cap on Banks, the two Ciibbs appeared to pray
very fervently, and drops of sweat were observed to roll
down their faces in abundance. In a few minutes the
executioner withdrew, and the world closed on them for
ever. John and Henry Cribb, who have gone by the
names of Mill.oos and Brown, are brothers,.the former
aged 21, and the latter *25. They state thetnielves to be
nephews to the noted pugilist of that name, and are na-
tives of Bristol, where thew parents keep a g reen erocers
shop. They were both married, and on Thursday,
alnout twelve o'clock, their unhappy wives,• who are also
sisters, were conducted to their naserable depgeon to
ke a last farenell.—(Ayltredry Paper,)