The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-03 00:00:00

111611 PRICES.

These never can return, without paper-money or soar.
city. The thing is impossible. War or peace, the prise;
cannot rise sod keep up touch above those of France. The
fall that is now taking place all over the country is
owing to the stop which has been put to speculation on
the expectation of war. In France, when there really is
war, there has been no rise of prices. The French na-
tion has never been deluded by the false prosperity
of paper-money. Luckily for them, their paper-utoney
was destroyed at a very early period. They have.
therefore, none of these false notions respecting the
effect of w.sr and peace on the prices of produce. It
never seems to occur to our farmers to ask, how it
came to pass, that war did not make corn high prier d
ia France However, it is useless to reason with
them on the salsjrct. They saw English corn dear in
war, they saw it cheap when peace came, and they do
believe, they will believe (and they will back their
faith with their last shilling), that war makes corn
dear, and that peace makes it cheap. This will be
the belief, until the whole race be swept away !—llow-
ever, it will not be swept clean away without its
dragging somethiag else alone with it. Many a one
thinks; nay, whole clisses:tbiuk, that they ate snug;
but, the ill•searehiog storm will reach them.

As no Journals were put lished on Monday morning
in Paris, on account of tl e Easter festivities, the only
arrivals from that capital yesterday Consisted of private
letters, on which hut litt'e reliance c.ll be placed. Some
of these mention that the Duke d'Attgoulente, who had ar.
rived at Perpignan, would return to 'Toulouse, to pass
there the liaster solemnities, and finally arrive at the
head quarters at Bayonne on the 31st. The same letters
however state, that it ss:ts scarcely possible the army
could move so early as the sth. Some paragraphs in the
Paris papers of Sunday tend to confirm this opinion—at
the same time that the vat 4TifeS in stating the same fart
in the different Journals, is a caution against crediting
their statements to th, I. tter. On Saturday, the 29tb,a
park of artillery left Vincennes for the army of the
renees. According to one Journal, it consisted of :0
Pieces of carmen ; a second Journal says 24; and a third
states the number to have been above 100, covering an
entire league of road ! It is matcial only to observe,
th't whatever was the number of cannon, they could nit
arrive at the Pyrenees in time to cross the frog.
ti, r on the first of ANIL scarcely os the fifth.—
Ansther Regiment of tthe Infantry of the Guard, and
two squadrons of Cavalry, hal ~lso set out for the
frontier. Whether these reinfeec m anti he the const•
gnence of disappointment as to the state of the sr ny
or of the failure of any hope; founded on the aid of the
Chiefs and Bands of the F. its, or of the attitude which
the Spaniards present on the frontier, it is impossible f
us to determine. Other commanications pretend, en" wlt
authority we know not, that the Ministers having re-

ceived dispatches from Perpignan, on Sunday last, im-
mediately assembled in Council; and that the result of
their deliberations was a resolution to apply to the
Chamber of Deputies for fresh supplies' of men and mo-
ney: the former to consist of from 40 to 60,000 men'
and the latter to amount to 60,000,000 francs. It is
stated that Mina commands three divisions, amounting
to 15,000 men, in what may be called the vicinity of
'France, not including the garrisons in the fortresses
which the Spaniards mean to defend. The Regency has
been broken up, and a Council of Spanish Chiefs of the
Faith appointed in its place, to act in concert with, and
under the direction of, the Duke of Angouleme. The
Journals of Sunday insinuate, rather than assert, that
Marshal Victor has been definitively and not temporarily
removed from the Ministry of War. His successor,
-General Dijeon, signs the Royal Ordonnances in the'
Moniteur as "Minister of War," without the words
ad interim. Orders are said to have been dispatched to
the French Fleet in the Mediterranean, to follow the
movements of the Army along the coasts of Catalonia, in
order to supply the troops with provisions, in case the
Spaniards, as it is expected, should lay waste the coun-
try in their retreat. No credit whatever is attached to
the report. also mentioned in private letters, that the King
of France had a paralytic stroke on Tuesday week, which
was kept concealed from the public, and even from his
own Brother till Saturday last, when he had completely
recovered. It was also reported last night, that the De-
claration of War by France against Spain, and the Ma-
nifesto issued at the head of the Army on entering the
Peninsula, had reached this country. The statement, we
believe i like many another, mere fabrication.
Frtancii FUNDS, MARCH 31.—Five per Cents. dividend
from March 23,1823, opened at 78f. 60c.: closed at 781.
75c.—Bank Shares, 1475E—Neapolitan Stock, 67;1.
Evcliange on London—One mouth, 251. 65c. (money.)

Since the above was written, we have received the
Drapcau Blanc, and Constilutionnel of Tuesday last,
which are chiefly filled with the debate on the War
Bridget. The debate was opened by M. Bourdonnaye,
whose speech occupies four columns. lie was answered
by 111. Villele, who, in his speech made use of in
the rem akable phrase "the incertitude that may
follow the war." This bad the effect of raising
Spanish Bonds in Paris. The last news received
from Bordeaux was of the 2 lth of March, and that
from Toulouse was of the same date. Accounts
from Bayonne are of the 22d ult., at which time they
write that it was asserted that rations for the troops would
he distributed on the Ist of April. The intelligence from
Perpignan, is of the 20th ult. At that period, it was said
there were 20 millions, 500 thousand francs in the Calm
of reserve of that army. In other respects, the papers
are barren of intelligence from the armies. The Duchess
of Anronleme will set off on Wednesday. Sbe will be
accompanied by her ladies of honour, the Duchess of Da-
llas, and the Viscountess of Agoult.
Tutsoav, APRIL 11.—Spanish Bonds, 322—Renter,
78. 75.

Frankfort papers have arrived this morning, by which
we have received accounts from Constantinople, which
are greatly at variance with each other. The one is in
an article from Odessa, dated March 6, which states that
a ship had arrived there which left Constantinople on
the 28th of February, and that letters from that city
affirm that the Porte has acceded to the proposals
bronglit by Lord Strangford. There was a report in
circulation, that an amnesty for the Greeks is one of the
articles; but the Greeks, probably recollecting the am-
nesty of Chios, said they bad not asked for any, and
boprd soon to have obtained it for themselves.
The other account is direct from Constantinople, and
is slated February 25, and states as follows
• " Lord Stnngford bas bad his audience of the Sultan
and the Divan, for the payment of the troops has passed
over without disturbance. Some days after the great
Divan was held, when the Ulemas and Chiefs of thit Ja-
nissaries were present, and the proposals of his Lordship
were taken into consideration. We learn from an au-
thentic source that in this extraordinary assembly, at
which the Sultan I< said to have been placed so as to
bear the proceedings without being seen. it was resolved
to take a step towards an agreement with Russia, the
Reis Effendi having declared to Lord Strangford, that
the Turkish Ministers were ready to receive the relations
with Russia; a formal communication l►sa not yet been
made. As soon as this is done, expre.ses will be despatched
to London and Vienna. Private letters from Vienna say,
that an extraordinary courier from Constantinople arrived
there on tie 18th, :.nd probably brought this communi-
' cation. Expresses were immediately despatched to St. Pe-
tersbergh and London. The Porte seems to have been led
to this concession. by the events in the Peloponnese's, and is
now seriously thinking of striking some decisive blow against
the Greeks. The armaments making here with► this view,
are, therefore, extremely great, and have already led to
some excesses oa the shores of the Channel. On the whole
the state of the capital is tolerable. In the Archipelago the
Greeks continue to capture vessels."
The Austrian Observer contains no news from Constanti-
nople. It gives the convention between the Emperors of
Russia and Austria, and the King of Prussia, on one part,
and the King of Sardinia on the other, for withdrawing the
Austrian troops from the Sardinian territory.

STOCK EXCUANGE, 12 o'cLocx.—Consols opened this
'milling at 741 i, at which price they remain steady, with
little business doing.
Vomitus; Ft: NOS.—Spanish Bonds experienced a rise
• Ibis morning, owing, it is said, to Villele's speech in
the Chamber of Deputies. Bonds which left oil' yester-
-day at 24i, opened this morning at 22, went up to M.
CAili,f36l—New Spanish, 291-01 d, 38—New Prassia,79l
—Old, 82—Danish, 81—Colorn his, 67.1 to SS.

Yesterday afternoon his Majesty held a Privy Council
at Brighton.
Tee following rumour was in circulation yesterday in
the city: it is so much at variance with the information
which we published yesterday on the best authority, that
we are convinced that it is either wholly untrue or a gross
exaggeration of some petty affair : we give it, however,
in the terms in which it was reported :—Letters dated the
15th of March were received yesterday from Oporto.—
They state that a party of the vanguard of Rego's army,
unsupported either by cavalry or artillery, bad fallen in,
bear Chaves, with a detachment of the troops of Asia-
ratite well provided with both, and having had the tenie-
rity, under die influence of the enthusiasm inspired by
•their late sucees►es, to hazard an engagement with a
force with which they were wholly unfitted to contend,
were surrounded and inhered a total defeat. This disas-
ter is not supposed to have affected the welfare of the
;satin body of the Amoy under Rego's command, though