The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-04 00:00:00

(rnom THE Amu:lass, DEC. 1.)

On Saturday Marshal Duke de Ragusa. Major General of
the Royal Guards, waited upon the King, to receive his
Majesty's commands relative to the entry of the Duke &An-
gouleme intolaris.
Yesterday the King held a Levee, which was attended by
the Cabinet Minister•, the NeJpolitan and Spanish Anibas.
sailors, Prince 'l'alleyran•l, and a great number of military
offieers.

By his Majesty's Borst Ordinance, of the 13th, M.
Rothschild is appointed a Member of the Legion 'of

Honour.

Some doubts have been expressed relative to the Garden
of the Tuilleries being open to the public to4norrow. We
have made enquiry, and find it will be Open at usual,
and in the eveuing is will be brilliantly illuminated.
To morrow will be a holiday at the Stock Exchange, at
Paris.

The funeral of the Porteguese Ambassador was attended
by 2i) mourning coaches. The Count Villeie. the Viscount
Chateaubriand, and the Neapolitan awl Sardinian Ambas-
sadors supported the p4ll. After service the body was
placed in the Chapel, where it will remain until its removal to
Portugal.
.The Post Office be closed at 12 o'clottbnt the ritaillit
mart at the usual hour. • '
- - Letters lawn Conitantinepte of the tBlft deltottece the 40
to that City of NI. Minerals, the Russian Diplomatic agent.
Workmen are engaged in removing the' OA of the garden
raf the Tui.leries nest the Plice Luis Ibth.
The Madrid Journals are principally tilled with addresses to
tint King. from ♦erlous

The price of Frenelt Rentes, after 'Change was 90-43, and
Spani,ll29, in great demand.

There is a rumo•ir now on foot that the King of Spain,
to get another loan, will make some concession with regard
to the holders of the present bonds; that he will take
them, in part of payment, at a low rate; bat that a dis-
tinction will be made between the loans. The New Times,
with its accustomed prostitution of principle, and utter
contempt of reason, has the follbwitig remarks upon the
matter: We long ago stated the principle on which
" the recognition or disavowal of those securities must
" ultimately rest, and which W4ll simply the bona fides of
" each particular transaction. Both parties dissented
" from this rational position. On one side it was contended
" that none of the loans should be recognised ; on the
" other, that they should all be so. One party cried out,
'• would you have a lawful Sovereign sanction the acts
" of rebels:: The other party ahsurdly maintained, that
" the King was bound to pay for the eery daggers pointed

" at his throat. It non• appears that both those extreme
•' opinions bare been practically abandoned." Now, it so
happens, that:one of the misfortunes of Spain was, perhaps,
that there were not any daggers pointed at the throat of
Ferdinand ; since they have not only been pointed at, but
plunged into the throats of much better men.onanciutt4naie,
preservation. But look at the reasoning of the New Time:. It
is not to be expected that the King should psy for daggers
pointed at his throat. 'let the. New Times tells us. he is
going to pay fur Muse very daggers ; that it going to
premise to pay for them; not at (befell price,indeed,f- but
at a much lower rate." To the fast, and the feeling, whether
promises to pay one farthing; or a thousand pounds, the
matter is just the same ; but the troth is, that the earlier
loans were more fatal to his authority, than the later ; and
the first was aimed more directly at his supremacy than the
last. If there ware at any tims danger to Ferdinand. ft
was at the commencement, and not at the termination of
his imprisonment; for after the repeated proofs that his life
was not sought by the revolutionists, he could have no fear
that it was in any danger. From the first mo
meet or the revolution, Ferdinand bas been actu-
ally and necessarily under the same restraint ; differing in
the degree as affected his personal movements, but always
under the observance of those who had the charge of him.
Is it not basely villainous for any public writer to talk of
his haring bad " daggers at his throat," when be has been
treated with a respect and courtesy, the most undeserved ,
and has repaid with the most infamous hypocrisy ; an hypo-
crisy which only falls shortlof that ofour English Advocate
," murder. The New Tinsel affects to caution the money-
lenders against a new loan to Ferdinand ; but at the same