The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-04 00:00:00

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THURSDAY ITCHST4O. JOLT 4,182 t.
• STOCK EICMANSIB,' Trfipiz "blocs.
There is very little Itasinies eoasols are
now 81 to for the opening, and for Asyut 81g.—
Reduced 791 80.
Owing to the King of Spain's anew to the Carus.
Spanish Bonds are greatly iwdemaol; most of the

Brokers ■re buyers.

New York Papers, to the 11th of Jane, mina t.
morning, from which we extract the following:—
Basset.—Our Correspondent of Baltimore bulb
roared as with some extracts from the Rio Jasehis
Gazette, of the Iflth of February, from which it ap•
pears, that the Prince Regent, determised on litre-
/acing the constitutional system, bad called a Coanal
of Procurator's-Oeneral of the Provisces. The rani
-
bates of ;hit Council are thaw defined 's-Ist. To give
me advice wheserer it stall be orders/ by me in any
matters of great importaacs aid difficulty. td. Te I
examine the great projects of reform to be made is
the general and particular administration of State
which may be communicated them. 3: To propose to
me the measures an .plass which may appear to
them the most urgent sad advantageoes for
the welfare of the United Kingdom, and for the pros.
perity of Brasil. 4th Every one of the members is to
advocate and watch over the Interests of his respective
Proviso.. The same paper coataius as ordinance di-
recting the Provisionary G meat of the Previsces
of Pernambuco in the !Vest of the arrival of any fresh
Portuguese troop., not to alfew them to disembark,
bat to intimate to them a deternsisado• which had
been formed, that they retire to- Portugal ; the Pro.
visionary Government sopplylo-
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„ to the halted Provinces of
the River Plata which sated is the libitaties a.Pore,
and was at Lima io October last year ready foe eill‘
vice :—.lnfantry, 3251.;'leavalry. 931; Al4lller)% 1621
Chief, and Offleese. 2IS ; Total, 4562.

Paris papers to the 2.linst. have arrived. The
only iotelligenee of ioterest they cootain, is the an-
swer of the Spanish King to the Message of the
Cortes. It is as follows :

" I have received with the greatest witisfaction the
message addressed to me by the Cortes, in which they
express their respect fur the Constitutional throne, and
their desire to contribute to the felicity of the monar-
chy. These sentiments, Et becoming to the Represen-
tatives of the Spanish people, afford me reasons to hope
that the first powers of the State acting in coa-ert to
put an end to present evils, and to avoid those with
which the future may threaten es, the agitation of the j
public mind will subside ; the hope of overthrowing the
established system will vanish, and the nation will enjoy
all its benefits in peace.
" The prospect presented by the restoration of the
Constitutional System in 1820, was no doubt promising,
as the Cortes have stated; but it was not ditlicolt to
for-see even then, in consulting the history of nations,
• that an immense difference would exist between pro-
claiming and consolidating liberty, and that time alone,
assisted by prudence and constancy, would be able to
correct the accumulated abuses of 1 centuries, to
connect in the same uniform plan the various branches
of the public administration, and to raise the opinions,
the interests, and the manners of the people to the level
of its political institutions.
"It is not in the power of the Government to hurry
on the natural course of things, nor tp avoid the evils
inseparable from great and difficalt reforms: but I do
not hesitate to assure the Cortes that I shall make all
energetic use of all the means, faculties, and rights with
which the fundamental law invests me, to cause it to be
religiously observed, and to remove ilie larstaCles which
may oppose its firm consolidation.
" I rely on the co-operation of the Cortes to attain
so important an end; on tbe wisdom anii perseverance
which characterise the Spanish people; on the enthu-
siasm and bravery of the army and the militia, on the
influence of public opinion, and on the support of the
immense majority of the nation, seeing with satisfaction
amidst the grief created in my mind by the events which
agitate some parts of Spain, that experience confirms
the grounds on which my confidence is founded.
" 1 flatter myself, with the resources decreed and the
means placed at the disposal of the Goveronient, that I
shall soon behold tranquillity
.re-established in Spain,
and the attempts of the enemies of the country frus-
trated ; and this without having recourse to extraordi-
nary measures, which, seldom necessary and often dan-
gerous, are always a proof of the impotence of tbe ex-
isting laws.
" In extending my authority to all that concerns the
preservation of public order in the interior, and the ex-
terms! !Safety of the State, conformably to the Constitu-
tion and the Lines. 1 find all my rights and obligations
comprised within that general basis. Faithful to so sa-
cred an engagement, I shall spare neither efforts our sa-
crifices to render my Constitutional Throne, in all times
and under all circumstances, the rallying point of all
good Spaniards.
In vain shall the sacred name of Religion be in-
voked to seduce the senseless; is vain shall it be at-
tempted to confound the banner of Loyalty with the co-
lours of rebellion. My subjects shall listen obediently
to the voice of their Monarch ; and in the contrary case..
the sword of the law shall force back into the path of
duty, those who would persist in their criminal wan-
derings.
" The Cortes may be certain that whilst I shall la-

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bear la malotahl tranquillity. the thief feuadation
the islevoal prosperity of the State. I shall canes its dig-
lity sad its rights to he respected in our foreign rela-
dome. asavineed as 1 am that it is impassible the inde-
pendence of nations should be attacked without Injury
to the authority and Algaity of Monarchs.
" I rejoice that is eircunioances like the present.
iliten the spirit of seditiOn strides in every direction to
loisteed the simple inhabitants of the country, and to
ovate dangerous altercatioas. the Message of the Cortes
seetaid have procured me se public and so solemn an op-
portit of reiterating the expression of my sincere
~that the Spanish nation may consider the rights
of the Throne as a pledge and a guarantee for its liber-
ties and its glory.
"Art:Aires. Jose 18. 1822. "
Letars from Madrid. of as late a date as the 23d
tilt., state that the King and the Royali Family were
to make their entry into that capital es the 27th,
through the gate of Toledo. His Majesty's intended
return had bees a aaaaa cid by a message from the
(internment to the Cortes. Notwithstanding the or-
der of the French Goverement for the Spanish re-
fugees to retire from the frontiers. letters from Ba-
yonne. of the 25th ult.. in the Constitatienuelt as-
ses nce that they stll(lingered or re-appeared there.
and that some had paseed into N by the valley
of Bastanne. Nothing worth notice bas occurred in
France since the date of the last papers. A disposi-
tion t• insebardpiatioa displayed itself amongst the
Students of the • Polytechnic Scheel is Paris on the
30th alt., but was immediately suppressed without
any interferenee Os the part of the military or of the
Goverament.

• _ PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.
In tun Gans.—Souse Bills went througletteetain
stagenkwkhout any debate whatever.
In Van Horse Or COMMON', the Speaker took the
chair at four o'clock, and there be *sly to:musty-Rise
members present, out of the As It roared and fiftreight.'
-the Hoes. adjourned.—A Reformed Parliament would
Sot carry on in this sort of way. More than tweatr
eine Members oat °Lail huaired sad fifty-eight would
meet. If the London Press Were to de its ditty strict•
may is speaking of the more esealiir of going on
of this Heusi of Parliament ; of the, leave daweenoat
of It, the people would have something to tbank that
prose for. This demeneoar is perfectly. matchless.
The world has never seen or beard of is a thing be-
fore. We wish the whole N ation amid see the thing
with its own eyes, and eagewjally.nt liter. +s Bills
are passing. affecting the Pied • Ws& et' the
people. However, the pewits gees
taie the matter
pretty well now,- they see, this Whims beds la the light
in which they ought to see it.; that is to say, as far
as they can see It, withoet settudly being perrantty
present ti view it with their ewe eyes.
However. we are not sorry that this Mash', day at.
twit ee the eppwiselog et *stetlittle tweso.4ol,
• • •
Speedo, aid ea the very pretty olmervatieWs sue%
eMas out, or it were Incidentally, on the subject of
redecing the interest of the debt. The Risgieter et sett
Saturday will contain a tell exposers of the snatched
JOHMSMITH, and that of Mr. EDWARD ELLICII, who
has, by his friends, the rich ruffians of Coventry,
been 'held forth as • second Socoalow. The speech of
this 34..atawaato ELLten was Dot noticed as it ought
to have been; for, certainly, it stands not low upon
the scroll of fame.
It will be recollected that the CutNrcu.na of the
EXCLIIQUER announced the intention of the lt.atk to
discount at four per cent. This we said was a preli•
minary step to the reduction of the interest of the debt
in some shape or other. JOHN SMITH. (one of the CAR-
nixoroN's), said that be was for a redaction of,
the interest, by meats of as operation • to raisc
the feuds; but not for a forced and Amu/fa/eat
seduction. He was for inducing the landholders to
take something less than the present interest. What
did he mean by inducing? The Acts of Parliament
say they shall have five per cent. If you give them ,
less, you reduce the interest to be sore ; and as to
induciog them, suppose a friendly society, for is-
Stance, to have a thou mail pounds sterling deposited
in the funds, and yon give the forty pounds 'year
instead of fifty for their thousand pounds; do they
not lose ten pounds a-year ; and is it not atrociously
wicked to pretend ; is it not fraud beyond compare to
pretend, that It is any difference to them whether

you raise the funds to • hundred or let them
fall down to twenty? Though their stock; we
mean their three per cent. stock be not at eiiley.
one, in place of being at its par value of sisry ;
do they get any more than the three per cent. fur the
sixty? Do they get any more than five pounds in-
t on every 100 pounds sterling. of principal. They
know nothing of stock-jobbing ; they know nothing
of selling out and buying in and chopping and
11 changing. They know nothing of the tricks of Jew.
and jobbers. They put their thousand pounds (like
fools as they were), into what is called the funds. If
the Locus poens were to raise the things called the
three per cents. up to • hundred and twenty, these
foolish friendly society people would not get any wore
than their firs ponods upon every hundred pounds
sterling that they pot into the funds; what infernal no.
guery would it then be, to give these silly people less
than-fire pounds in the hundred for their money, an
der the pretence that their principal had increased in
amount by the rise in the funds! This was not the
sorrof reduction prayed for by the men of Kent.—
They prayed for •just reduction; and. of course, a
reduction, that by its discrimination, would prevent
the infamous robbery of friendly societies, and such
like persons.

But now let us hear Mr. EDWARD ELLICE, the ('o•
ventry gentleman ; he said, that, " be had Lard much