The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-14 00:00:00

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as be, calculate& the ar will not he above two years
ekpects tM*t tireaperity Will not koi hail:. The
merchants and manufacturers of that ' country,
however, appear to have a very, different view of the
subject." From the moment", says the CosteicrF„„rei,,.
l" that there was an idea of breaking the peace
Europe enjoys, the Chamber of Commerce of several
maritime and man nfacturing towns have been address
ing representations to the Minister of the Interior, on
the injuries which commerce and manufactures may
stiffer from the war. Judging from the result, the:,
observations havz had little weight in the balance in
which the Members of the Council have weighed what
they have regarded as the political interests of France,
This ill success has not discouraged the principal we,.
chants. The greater number have ill”mßlett anj
agreed to address to the Chamber of Deputies tie
same representations, supported by calculations found-
ed on fact and indisputable documents. They bore
to find in the Chamber persons who will attend totheir
complaints, and support their interests. A letter front
Bordeaux, dated the sth, informs u, that numerous
signatures are already made to an address which is
about /o he sent to the Chamber. We learn,
that other towns are resorting to this course, which the
charter authorizes. May these representations arrive
in time to prevent events which the commercial and ma.
anfacturing interests of all Europe dread as much as th,rs
of France." The capture of Urge! is announced as
certain. The forts were evacuted on the morning, tf
the 3d inst. Homagosa is said to have thrown
with 1,400 or 1,500 men, into Aadore (no(t-
tral territory) and to have left about 400 invaildi ip
the forts. Mina occupied them at 8 o'clock in the
evening. A letter from Perpignan says,--" Nearly
2,000 students of the Universities of Barcelona ha:s-
offered themselves voluntarily to serve the artillery of
the place. Haste is making to arm and organise the
inhabitants of La Credagne. Equal activity is shown
in fortifying Puycerda."
FaescH FUNDS, FEB. I I.—Five per Cents. opened at
771. 50c.; closed at 751. 30c.— Bank Stock, 1,4 l7f. 50e.
—Neapolitan Five per Cents, &i3.—Exchange on L
don, at one month, 25f. 35c.; three months, tif. 20c.

Bayonne Papers, which bare been received to the
Bth instant, state the active continuance of the prepa-
rations for war. The first column of troops, from the
Interior, is expected there on the 17th instant,
successions of them are looked for till the 20th
next month, These reinforcements are reckoned at
15,000 men, independent of the ten or twelve thousand
already there. The troops in garrison do duty us is
time of war, and every thing wears a hostile aspect.
The new Intendant-General, and many utter
military officers are expected. The whole suite of the
Count Lagarde had arrived there from Madrid, anti were
to set off fur Paris. The Envoy of Prussia lad
left Bay time on his return home. The King of France's
Speech Is said to have led the Serviles on the frontier, of
Spain to expect immediately the entrance of the French
troops; and to have roused the Constitutionalists to
active preparations for resistance. Pompeian' and St.
L.Sebeimitia.,,have been strengtheeed and prosi•
sioned; and it is supposed these am* other
fortresses pill have gari isms, left in there.
while the -Constitutional troops will retire to the
ri;iht hank of the Ebro. The expectation of 'kali-
rUate boitilities operates en the merchants of Bayonne
in such a manner,that they have re-landed the cargoes of
four vessels that were intended for Lisbon. The Hie:e-
ters of the Holy Allies, it is reported, have verbally re-
pressed to the Swiss a wish that every thing might be
avoided in the public journals that tuight occasion com-
plaint, and that a strict eye should be lcept on suepirioas
strangers. The number of Austrian troops that have
left Piedmont, is stated at 5,000 ; and the same number
is said to have embarked in the south of Sicily for
Reggio, but no account has hitherto been received of
the departure of any from Naples,

New Brunswick papers hive arrived to the 4th D; r.
but they de not contain any intelligence of publit iiu -
portance.

The King's health continues steadily and rapid:y to
improve, rotwitheanding all the insinuations to the
contrary with which the London papers are daily i.i.•d.
His Majesty has not yet left his private suite of apar-
ments. We are enabled positively to state, that his
Majesty is now in excellent health, and that the only
trace of the gout remaining is a weakness in his legs,
which it is, of course, difficult immediately to remove.—
Lord Amherst, on his leaving for India ; Mr. Vansittort.
upon his nes appointment; and Mr. Bathurst, on his
retiring, will be at the Pavilion this day.—(Briglitoo
Gazette.)
Yesterday, lit two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was lel&
at the Foreign Office, Downing Street, which sat 'Goat
tiro hours.
The Spit .1; Minister transacted business at the
Foreigo Office yesterday. fora considerable time.
The Duke of York took an airirg in his ptivaje cap.
riage yeatetday.
Yesterday mui ning, Mr. Vansittart anti Mr aatlitud
left town for Brighton, on a visit *to the king'.
It is expected that the elevation of Mr. Vansittart to
the Peerage, by the title of Baron Bexley, in Kin•, Mil
be announced in to mot row's Guyette.
A mail from Flanders has arrived with *accounts of a
general movement of troops on the northern frontiers if
France. Besides other corps, part of the garrison of
Arras has set out for tie Army of the Pyrenees, mid
considerable convoys of amtnunition are preparing at
Douay, which have the saute destination. All the Offi
cers and soldiers absent on furlough are basteoing to
rejoin their respective corps in French Flanders and
Artois, conformably to the orders of the Minister of
War. la all the commercial towns business is at pre-
sent at a stand. There has been still much talk, at
Aug.burg, of the eventual march of an Aostrian army.
through the Anstrian dominions, as was mentione,l
some days ago, to proceed to Italy, there to embark for
Catalonia. The following is the only article himight
by this conveyance cancer ning llreece :
nut sxs, J AN. 26.-4ccounts from Missolongki and
Zante, of the 3d and Bth, say, that the tireeks in the
Mona are engaged in the civil and military organisa-
tion, In Albania hostilities have liken:lie crated. 'l•he
English Garver 1111 l eta has at length permitted the Su!itoe.
who took refuge at Cephalonia, after the evacuation of
Sall, 111.11001( whom there are still4,ollo men able to hear
41110, logo to the More* to mist their brethren. 'lce,
sailed for the Morro on the Ist and 2.1 January. All the
letters Teprearat the affairs of the Greeks as in a very
flourishing situation. The letters from Vito:that to the
'th January, agree that the Greeks are mar
that thivsseuw bad 'defeated the Tanks in the drmea of
&amine, and that thaw Ytione imislted ii the actiun.
—(Dritssefs Papere, Pk I I.)