The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-21 00:00:00

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ANSWERS OF THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT
TO TIE NOTES or THE AIi•ASISADOIS OF //LANCE, AUSTRIA,
PIVE/14, AND LUSIIA.
--smillea—
On the 9th inst. the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs stated to the Cortes that the government had
received from the Courts I,fParis, Vienna. Berlin, and
St. Petersburg communications, to which it
has jut replied in the manner which seemed to it most
convenient, and most analogous to the national decorum.
He then ascended the tribene,and read the note communi-
cated by the French Governraent. He afterwards read
the reply of the Spanish Government to that note, which
Was conceived in tbe following terms:—
TO THE MINISTER, PLENIPOTENTIARY OF HIS MAJESTY
AT PARIS, he.
" The Government of his Catholic Majesty his jest received eontaani-
eatien of • Note seat by his Most Catholle Majesty to his Ambassador at
this Court, and of which your Excellency will roMue a espy for your la-
forouttion.
" The Government of his Majesty has sew atimensiiies to make upon
this Note. basin order that your Excellent y wref NS he embarrassed* to
the line of conduct you ought to pursue sour those eleimmetanees, it has
deemed it its duty frankly to state to you Ira sentleassts mid mostatle*.
" The Spanish Government has aever hems them the WSW
°one epostaseenslv adopted by Spate wish
d.f the Cabinets of Surope, and that they wail hi Me itZll%.lll=-
ben at the Congrese of Verona. But, Ira be* wineljets, aid velnitelet
'eery saerlice to defend its premen wpm. the eilllnibekhe-
deptudenee, It het tranottlltv anal
this • . Weds
Spaiu is governed by a Constitution , awl Nero
1.) in 1914 god reettgatood by all the PleOprosithip ibilliellifl• la
oftte.. Ilt Verona:
" Pertid iota Counsellors prevented his CargillelleJestv Ferdinand Fri.
Goa wearier,* his *lure to Spain, to thatimpinmental Cab 'Odds the
*hale nation desired, and which was destroyed by leree.irlOssiS may itt•
Esoustrance on the part of the Powers who had 11; but an ex-
perknee of Aileen, and the =ral win, Me 1141• Mt. to tun.
to ertform to the views of Span
" It *WS not a military furunection thila new order of
things at the eonstnencertieet of the year I us men who
Po decidedly declared thenseelves M the .Iderdefinnft amiteaceesetvely In
other provinces, were only the orgaus of (40111111111 main and of the desires
oh the whole nation.
" It was sutural that a cheese of this saseer disk make setae Matt-
reeled ; it is au inevitable touseqdtmee of all reform Wish has for it. oh.
Jett the diminution of abuses. IN all nations Own are Individuals who
miatneser aceustom theeneelvse to the yoke af rellieufand head*.
" The Army of Obeervation,whieh the Feseelsamerement essinabss as
tile ton' of the Pyrenees, cannot calm the .41jmniera which Wild Spote-
itspentiee. on the contrary, has prored, that MI existents Mats innatary
estioa (recently transformed Into an Anny of theernstiod), Menai, M.
creased the hopee of the fanatics who have propagated the erg e 1 mint-
limi In oar provinces by cherishing the idea of na lomediate litrintou of
our territory.
The reisetrhoi, the views, or the fears. Which base militates Vw.ele-
duet of the Cabioets which tmeenthled at Verona. Maser 10gr27.___,..• PI"
to the Spnhish Government. it abstain,, for the ntaltiois ofOOOlOE
• wry reply to that portion of the instructions of M. the-et/eat Lhjarde,
which relates to from the said Congress.
" The days of calm and of tranquillity width the Otweramout of his
Itlust Christian majesty wishe, to the Spanish nation, the latter does not
Ins anxiously desire fir bench and her thwevemeet. Beth Whiff Pot-
"leaded that the remedy can only be the work se timatre perseveraore,
*boy are, is they are bound to do, making every 'Sort imoderate their
awful awl natatory ellects.
" The Spanish Government appreciates the offer made he It by his Most
Christian Majest), to contribute alt In his power to its happiness; but it
A• pereemied. that the means and the precautions which his Majesty adopts,
vin produce only contrary results. 1
the aid which the French Government ought, at the present mompot,
So give to that of Spain is purely negative; It must diesels. its army or the
yyrooett, repute* the factious enemies of Spate, who take refuge In
Fr.usee and oppo.e ii....1f In the most energetic 011111/Mer against all those
wheltidulge in defaming, in the moat shameful meaner, the °overeaten;
of his Oathone Majesty, as also the Institutions of Spain and her Cortes.
This I. what the rights of nations demands, a right respected by those
Watesitt vitqichcivillantion reigns.
TO say that /ranee delves the trefare of Spain and her tranquillity,
whilst drelir.inds like these, which feed the evils afflict her, are kept
continually earning, la to fall Ilan an abyss of eon
" Whatever May he the deternaleatime which the Gommament of his
Must Christian Majesty may deem it expedictot he mineie WAIT these etr-
eueotaiire4. Mist of his Majesty will he to continue trampdlly In the path
traced out to it by its ditty, the justice of Its cause, the character e 4
irmurts and ansehonent in eonstituttnltai mind roles esetheettly A*
°pettish the nation, at the head of wlikli it is pianos without .11.
tat
11111111
log. for the moment, into an analysis of the hypetballwd and ambkin,
ezpreselons enutsined in the Instructions sent to thei Cemit de Legatee. It
concludes that the repose and prosperity of the mdse, no alee everything
which may increase the elements other welfare letasemet es Pow-
er more Anxiously than herself; that her wiles mil Other present
nod future- eteitnet are, constant attaehimme lie Sm of Nit
/woe* Agial statique, and especially the neyeirestailligAg of an:
oettcoviez
Pow" ern. to interfere In her affairs. • . *. '
" Tone erne
is authorised to read thte Nets Is diiiiiiimer of re-
wire Agile,, and to give him a copy. if he minims It. Your judgment
and peadeuee will suggest to you the arm madam, aeorlinet worthy of
Spain, which you ought to pursue at this rsmsaG
• Such ate the couununicatione which his Majeaty orders me to make to
you.
(Slimed) " EVARISTE SAN MIGUEL."
M. de 'flan Miguel, afterwards read the three Notes of
rmiewin,. Russia, and Austris, and said:
" The Government of his Majesty has considered that it
was neither becoming nor just to reply to these Notes, be
tame they are full of invectives, calumnies, and suppositious
directed, not precisely against the nation, but against those
who govern, and against the individuals who have co-operat-
ed to Oaf regeneration.
" The Government of his Majesty, having knowledge of
the conteoto of these Notes, has thongbt it becoming, (re-
serving. however., the right to publish its principles and the
justice of its ca‘ise in a sincere exposition of the history of
Our RetOlUtion), to declare. in the most decided tone, that it
a Ather recognises, in any manner. the right of intervention,
nor admits the necessity for any foreign Cabinet to meddlo
with its affairs.
' " I have now the honour to read to the assembly the Note
which will serve as an answer to the different Cabinets.
~ it would be unworthy the Spanish Goverment to answer the Note,
if RUA•ia. Austria, and Prussia, because they are only a tissue of
nee awl eslumnies; it canines itself to making known to you Its
hitentions.
" 1. The SpaniAt Nation is governed by a Constitution which was so-
inuelv reverotiseoi by the Emperor of Russia, in ISIS.
" S. The hpaniar•lis, friendr of their country, proclaimed at the *gin-
Mg of the year 1812, thin Constitution, which was abolished solely by vio-
lets*, la 1814.
• " 3 .The Constitutional King of Spats freely exercises the powers vested
I. hisiany Use fundamental rode
" 4. The Spanish nation does not in any way Interfere with the institu-
tions tad iittenEd regime of other nations.
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eh. The remedy for all the evils which may RSA the Spanish nation, on-
ly concerns herself.
" C. The eras which she experiences are not the sleet of the CM-
stitutiov, but rather of the efforts of the .enenteles whe endeavour to de-
stroy her.
":. The Spanish nation will never admit the right of any Power to la-
*dere in her affairs.
" The Geternment will never deviate from the Hne traced out to It by its
duties, the national honour, and by its unalterable attachineut to the Con-
atitetion sworn to in 1812.
" I aathori-e yen to communicate verbally this Paper to the Minister of
nuelen Affalis of the Power to which you are secrintited, and to deliver
him a Copy, if be require it.
" Ills Manua, hopes that the prudence. the real, and the ratelotlom
which dtstingoish yon will suggest a brio conduct, seek as is worthy
01 the Spaulsh name, under present eireumstanees. This Is what I
have the begone to communicate to your Excellency, by order of his Ma-
jesty."l renew to you the assuranees. he.
(Signed) " LVARISTE SAN MIGUEL"
" Mtdrid, Jan. Y."

Yesterday, the General Committee, appointed to pro-
mote a Meeting of the county of York, to take into coo-
videration the propriety of presenting a petition to the
Legislature, for a Reform in the Commons House of
Parliament, assembled at 12 o'clock, at Etridge's Hotel,
in York. in order to form the preliminary arrange-
ments for the meeting, convened by the. High Sheriff
to be held on Wednesday next. Lord Milton and sere-
ral other members of Parliament were present. The dis.
cussing were continued for several hours, with the tit.
most cordiality and good understanding, and the tone
and spirit of the proceedings meant to be submitted to
the meeting are such as cannot fail to be satisfactory to
everyfriend to the cause of Reform. The Resolutions
will. we understand, be moved by 11r. Fawkee, the
zealous and able advocate of Parliamentary Reform, to
whom the country is indebted for having contributed
so essentially to arouse them from that state of apathy
into which they had fallen previous to the movements
that were made in Yorksbire.—(Lecda Mercury, Janu
fay 13.)

The North and East Ridings of Yorkshire are suffer-
ing their full share of agricultural distress; and we
have unquestionable authority for saying, that at some
of the late rent audits the landlords have not received
more than 10 per cent. upon their reduced rents. The
large farmers are in a more deplorable state than the
small ones, and the rents best paid are for farms not
esceeding a hundred acres—and for thie.simple reason
there the farmer himself and his family do the princi-
imi part of the work, and he has little to pay for labour.
Atm facts 'pay serve to set the landlords a tbinkiog.—
(Ibid.)

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SHIPPING INTEMIURNCE.

MAL, Jaat. 20.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the
Max. Armstrong, from America ; and Berwick, Hope,
and Venus, from Seville: also and remain, the Edward,
Germain., from Shields. for Jamaica; the Pherdo,
Bishop, from Do. fur Granada; the Romulus, Crawford,
from Do. for St. Vincent's.—Came down from the River,
the Arundel, White, for Trinidad ; the Telemachus,
Power, fur Lisbon, and sailed this evening with the rest
of the outward bound, with a breeze from the N.B.
PORTSMOUTH, Jare. 20.—Sailed His Majesty s Ship
Owes Glendower, for the coast of Africa.—Wind N.E.
fh.vszouTn. JAN. 19.—Arrived, the Elizabeth, Moon,
from Miramichi.—Put back. the Start, Lawson, for
; and the Tigris, for Lewes : the latter with loss
of mainmast, bullwarks, having been run foul of on
Tuesday night, at 3 A. u., • by a brig unknown, and
towed in this evening by the Margaret of Sunderland.
The Selsker, Hill, from Lisbon to Portsmouth, is
wrecked at North Reist ; the crew and a great part of
ha cargo saved.

a
Earl Bathurst arived in town yuterday for the season,
and afterwards tranaute.kbaslaus at his Gies le Dawning
Street,

We have heard with pleasure that the Committee for =s-
oaping the collection for the sufferers by earthjeake inSyria;

bare already forwarded a second sum of 1,0001. to their tree.
sorer at Constantinople, to augment the credit aforesaid for
Mr. Consul Barker to draw upon from Syria.
By letters received yesterday from Halifax, bearing date
to the 4th ult. we learn that considerable spprebeasloo*
were entertained there for the safety of the October packet
from Falmouth to that port. This vessel is the Bootee
poiliet, *Mahlon Falmouth for Halifax ow the 16th of Oete-
bei het; and had Sot arrived at her destination up to the
dare' of As Sd. nit, although she was considerably over
His Majesty is said.to have given the Royal Library,
collected by the late King, to the British Museem.—
This splendid gift is mid to have bee, accompanied with
as autograph letter to the Earl of Liverptioloht his cha-
racter of tryst°. of this national establishment. The
library -consists of 90.400 volumes historical and
geographical part (especially the Atlasses) is parties-
lady valuable. Whes the late King come to the throne,
there was not a single volume: be bought the whole
90,000 out of his privy nurse.

The following Ministerial changes have, we under.
staid, been determined on t—Mr. Brugge Bathurst re.
tires. Mr. Vansittart takes the Duchy of Lancaster
Mr. Frederick Robinson is to have the Chancellorship of
the Eatetequer; and Mr. Heskisson is to succeed Mr.
Robinson as President of the Board of Trade. Other
changes will, of course, be necessary.—(Atornag
CAroniek.)
COUNTs MIICTING.—That this once proud country,
should have been reduced by misgovernment to its pre-
sent state of distress did at one time appear incredible
to easy people, though the thing was as certain to
happen, as effects to follow their causes. Foreigners are
now able to appreciate the extent of British misery.—
The Petition of the Norfolk meeting aseetiatins the at-
test of the evil. Nothing but the severest *offering
amid have driven that meeting to adopt the recommen-
dation of measures which would merely relieve the pre-
sent sufferers, by shifting their butheos, with accents-
lated weights to the shoulders of others. Oh ! that
the people of Norfolk, the Tory met! of Norfolk,
had twine forward In time, before itaffering bad driven
them from their propriety: and may the example ol
this extravagance urge every county in the kingdom
to steal the twee of anarchy which certainly is about
to overwhelm us, if redrew of grievances be not pro-
duced by Parliamentary Reform. Experience shews us
that nothing else can check Ministerial extravagance—
at Court, in the country, and in the colonies, which
preys on the vitals of the country. The ministers must,
as the house is constituted, grant almost any thing, that
is demanded, to men who nominate members; and in
this respect, nothing would be gained by a change of
ministry, if the new ministry were ever so well inclined ;
—to keep themselves in place they would rather have
to make fresh jobs to purchase additional support. It
is with pleasure we Inform our readers, that this comity
is about to come forward in the work of reform; that
a requisition to the High Sheriff, to call a county meet.
ing to petition the House of Commons for a reform id
that House of Parliamen-, is in a course of signature;
and we would fain hope,reduced although the yeomanry
of Cumberland are, from their once flourishing condi-
tion, that they retain spirit to bring them to the bust.
legs, and to sound in the ears of their oppressors the
eternal truth that liberty and property flourish and de-
cay together.—(Carlisle Journal..)
AGRICULTURAL DISTRICM—A requisition has been
presented to the High Sheriff of Carmulbensbire, to
convene a meeting of the nobility, gentry, and free.
holders of the county, to take into consideration the
propriety of petitioning Parliament to adopt measures
for relieving the agriooltsral lister Sat from the great
distress under which they at present labour. The meet-
ing will take place on the 28th inst.—(BrisMl Mercury.)
Turnas.—The Award in the long depending reference
between the Rector and Vicar, and the Parish Offi-
cers of Burwasb, in this county, was confirmed at the
Quarter Sessions of the Peace, hoiden hese on Friday
last, and the rate made for the relief of the poor of
that parish, on the 16th day of September last, ordered
to be emended, by reducing the Rent of the Cheat and
Small Tithes, from 9121. 14s. 6d. to 5001. and the rate
to bantered accordingly. This confirms the long es.
tablished practice of rating all property in a parish at
rents which they are worth to let by the year to indif
ferent tenants, clear of all parochial taxes.—(Serer Ad-
vertiser.)
The town of Boras, in Sweden, was destroyed by fire
ea the 20th ult. It had contained more than 2,000 in-
habitants, and only twenty houses were spared by the
devouring element.
The legacies bequeathed by Bonaparte to several
persons is France, amounting to four millions of francs,
were to be paid from funds deposited with Lafitte the
Banker, previous to Buonaparte's second abdication.
The money was vested in the hands of the French oo-
%liniment, until permission to pay the legacies was ob-
tained from the Ouardians of young Napoleon and of his
mother, the ex-Empress. That permission, it is said,
having been given, the legacies have been paid to the
parties.
Mr. Abernethy, it is avid, has addressed a letter to
the Secretary of Slate, on the absolute nuessity of re-
pealing the late Act of Parliament which subjects resur-
rection men (as they are called) to severe punishment for
violating the sanctity of the tomb. Under the torment re-
strictions dead bodies are become very scarce in London.
and some of the dissecting rooms are absolutely without an
adult subject.
By the Freeman's Journal of Thursday, we learn that a
meeting, called in the county of Cavan, to address the Lord
Lieutenant on the late outrage, was dissolved by the vio-
lence of the Orange party, without coming to a vote on the
address.

The small pox has for a considerable time pest committed
dreadful ravages in this city; and we regret to state, that
although the benefit of vaccluatiou Is offered gratis to those
who cannot afford to pay for it. such is the unfounded pre-
judice still existing against that admirable remedy, that
numbers are at the present moment suffering under this
loathsome disease. On Sunday last, ill persons were buried
in M. Michael's dumb-yard, who had died of sioall-poz.—
(Coventry Mercury.)

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