The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-18 00:00:00

LON I) 0 :
TrZIDIT EVIININO, JULY IS, MIL
THE FUNDS.-Thig being settling day at the Stuck
Exchange, we do nut hear up to the present hoar (one
o'clock) of *ay failures having taken place. The
Funds through the whole of the Account have been of
rather a stationary description, and the fluctuations
have not been tuore than from to I per cent. It is
expected that after this days business the Rands will
improve.

French Papers to Sunday last have arrived this
morning. The Chamber of Peers assembled on the
14th inst. The business gone into was unimportant.
By an article dated Madrid, July 3, it appears that
there have been two preparatory meetings of the Mena-
ben of the Cortes ; a third was enpected to take place
on the 6th inst. and Congress to be opened on the 9tli,
with proper solemnities.—French Funds, Five per
Cents. 76 fr. 25 c.; Hank Actions, 1375 fr.

New York Papers have arrived this morning, fr,►m
which the following are extracts
(rams TUB PIIIIL&DFLP1114 GAllerfr, lOTM MIL)

Tito fbilowiag is this most correct information fro• the
Spanish Main :
Cienoral Meatillo, with 1,1100 British troops. and IMO
Creoles that had joiciod him, had returned to Vslllo Depart,
and marched to Cheragnans, to form a junction with the
army of COW men commanded by Urgers! Urdanota. who
was in Laois* Zilpah's'. The army of the West was at
Banco before Nienpoz. and another divisioo was oil Its
march to Maracaibo. The squadron of Admiral Brion 11/114
all in good order, laying at Rio de la fiche, with 8 moats'
provisions and 5.0011 staid of arms on board. Cobowel Pa-
ditto marched on the oth April from Rio de is Hacks. with
400 Creoles and 100 English troops. to join OM. Montille.

PRINCE Or WALrs 1111.• ND, J• N. 11.—The epidemic hes
et length made its appearance amongst : during the last
week the deaths of more than DU nithes hare been reported.

The motion of Dr. LI:SIIINUTON relative to the 9er- ,
vice of plate presented by his late MAJESTY to the
PRINCEIS of WALES was negatived without a division.
It appears to be usual at the Royal Palaces to have
services of plate attached to them as apart of their fur-
witacwer.sl when her protest Ilisrtirre, then reelects,
of Watas,went to reside at the Palace of Kensington, the
plate inquestion was prepared for her use by his late M
Slisres order, but still considered, it is now contended,
as the property of beCrow n. Her Ms" afire, however,had
regarded it not as a loan, but as a gift. Having been
manufactured by the corder Jf the late Kisco, under her
inspection, and according to her taste, and she being
totally unapprised of the peculiar tenure on which she
held it, her Ma had actually treated it as her
own ; and though she had transmitted it to the office of
the LUND CII tIIIISRLA IN, she never had conceived that
in resigning its puswssion. or removing from a Royal
mansion, she was romancing a property with which
she had been invested. Little did she think that rightde-
petled on the accidental circumstances of platy,
sad that in being denied accommodation in a
Palace, she was deprived of her claim to the ap.
pendage in question. When under the impression
which her his's:eye had always entertained Con.
cernin:! it she now renews her claim, insult is added
to the injury she receives, by the imputation of
her persecutors, that the application is mule fur the
purposes of irritation. What blindness, what hypo-
crisy, what insolence in the pretext! By what means
has the public mind heen irritated and indignant ?
By what, but that vindictive spirit which is manifest
through the whole of the transaction in question, and
appeared from the commencement of the series that has
been pursued ? What arts were used to congregate the
population of the country on the shores of Kent, and
on all the route to London, whets he MAJKSTT'S return
was known ? What bet the arts of her persecutori
themselves that roused a spirit of resentment through
the land, that pervades every feeling and independent
breast, and that will never be abated while the persecu-
tion lasts, or while an injured and insulted Wags re-
quires the protection of a generous people.

It is understood that the Royal Brothers of the
Kum are ranch averse to the proposed divorce of the
Qu sax, as well as inimical to the manner in which that
measure is attempted to be carried into effect by the
Ministers. It is asserted that the Duke of Ironic has
had repeated interviews with his MAJZSTT, for the pur-
pose of endeavouring to arrest the proceedings, and to
bring about an accommodation of the differences un-

happily subsisting between their 31astsms. There is
some reason for attaching credit to the latter statement,
from the frequent visits which are announced of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Yolk to the Kits, and
theeffect the projected Divorce must in all probability
produce in changing the order of succession ; for should
his MajesTY marry again there can be little doubt that
the union would be productive of offspring, who
would succeed to the Throne, to the exclusion of
the present Heir Apparent. The Princes, therefore,
and particularly the Duke of Yuma, are peculiarly in-
terested in the important question pending between
the Kite aad Wart. In retard to his Mastery's
own private, sentiments ou the subject of the investiga-
tion, we have heard, and can assert, from good autho-
rity, that the Ktso has left the manner of her Ma•
rv's trial entirely to his Ministers, and all that he
has requested has b.-en that the allegations against the
Queen's conduet should be prosed, either true or false,
that she msy either enjoy the honour to which she lays