The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-11 00:00:00

(FROM THE JOURSItt DE PARIS, DEC. 9.)

The Journal of Toulouse gis es the following :
According to letters from Perpignan, 20th November, the
troops of the 4h corps continue t i re-enter France. Tie regi:
ments which are to remain in the departments alit depart :o
occupy the parts assigned them, and those which are io remain
in tbe interior will commence their march to-morrow.

The Town of Barcelona enjoys the greatest tranquillity. A
great number of merchantmen arrives daily.
The Marquess de Vence, Marshal de Camp, Commander
of a Brigade of the 3th division, has left Catalouia and lurked
at Perpignan with the officers of his staff.

AUGSBOURG, Dec. 3.—According to the decision of
the Cabinet of Vienna.; new negocians are to be fmtrrrd
into with the Government of the Gnsens, to establish
a commercial road between that country and Venitian
Lombardez.

According to letters from Trieste, a report prevail 4,
that the Greek Government have addressed to the Cabinets
of Verona, London, and St. Petersburg, an importsnt
note, in which they demand of these Powers to recognise
the political independence of Greece, which, it is supposed,
will oblige the Porte to renounce all further attempts to
ban that nation under its power. An Express has been
sent to Lord Strangferd to announce to him an accident
which has befallen to the RussianicounciltoriMinsaky,in
the ;defiles of Transylvania, which prevents him from
proceeding on his Extraordinary Mission to Cowan
tinople.

MADRID. Dec. I.—lt is stated that all the Ambassadors
have transmitted a note to our Government, to demand tint
all the capitulations concluded by Ithe French, with the
veral corps of theCoustitationalists and the various garrisons
shall be punctually executed. It is also said, that their
Excellencies expressed a wish that Spain should have
Representative Government.
'rite Empeelnado, who was arrested, has been set at liberty.
It is said that the Royalist army Is to be disbanded.
The Swiss Royal Guards do no other duty than to guard the
Palace.

It iv asserted as certain that the Bishop of Owns, Prenatal
of the Ex Regency, has received orders to quit Madrid.

The Mile of yesterday's date has reached as, but it does
not contain any other intelligence than that we have inserted
above, respecting the important change in the Spanish Ministry.

The fate of the Press, we sadly fear, approaches its crisis.
That " mighty man of Oath," that sagacious" Judge is
Israel," the Recorder of London has united himself with

its enemies, and aimed a blow at it with his stenter poke,
and giant arm! Ileaven save us f Our occupation will be
shortly at an end, and we shall only have to compose oar
own epitaphs and die. Looking at the Old Bailey report
of yesterday, we find that a silly boy on his trial for maw
slaughter, bad said" be could not tight for a leg of mottos
fur other people to eat, but be would fight for a
" Sovereign, and then it would appear in the Newspaper'.'
The boy's sin was evidently ambition. He was a sort of
Wellington bruiser. He wanted to be talked of in the
I world ; to appear in the Newspapers—as the Recorder
wants, and every aspiring soul, only in different portions
of the colums, as a different ruling passion way benne° "
prevail. But no sooner does this sagacious Judge.
half in the shell, hear this evidence of an ate-
bilious feeling, than " :mistaking the scaffold for
the pile," like many others of his learned brethren, be re.
milks, with oracular emphasis, and a look that night bare
awed the bird of Minerva, " you see the mischievous rPets
of these publication: !" Socrates might hate remarked, it
an under tone, " see the mistaken ambition upon which
human vanity can feed itself But the Recorder of
London is no Socrates ; nor will he ever become one, until
he towns his eyes more inward, and less onward, th4o he
has been accustomed to do. This enmity to " publication.'
is a sort of instinct with the profession of the law. Then
are lawyers who bare it not, certainly ; hut they are ever
tient to a general rule; and seem as if they were eurtsik4
of the full proportion of professional rancour. Yet the
miserable burlesque produced at Hertford, by the cross•
purpose playing of that great luminary. Mr. JUStier PART,
and the Attorneys. for the defendants, might have taught
such a twinkling star as the Reorder, that to atteept
to shine on such a subject, was as futile as the glow wens
to offer to light the traveller at noon. He could, bower"
skew his concurrence in the views of his learned brethren
and therefore may prove one qualification for the Bench
ro
; future ; therefore, not content with a single remark, waek

e pule mums tip the evidence, he again, without a blush,
without turning hie bead aside, without stammering more
than usual, remarked,that,"it was the infamous conduct of
"the public press which bas led to many ouch instances,
for this is not a solitary one; and such practices cannot
"be too much reprehended." Now it is not for us to say
that this is infamous slander of the Press, by the sagacious

Recorder; but we may, perhaps, be allowed to ask
whether any man, possessed of eyes, ears, on understand-
in.T, believe: that there is any particle of truth in this
abuse! We put it to Dr. Slop himself,—and no one
would believe a falsehood, or profess to do so, to screen
an authority, sooner than the worthy Doctor,—whether he
believes a ward of this learned censure of the press?
'nat.-sent() Judge, thus coming with his lance ready to
.I.inrl at the press, so immediately after the endeavours of
Lis snperiors to manacle it, reminds us strongly of Falstaff's
Biting the dead Hotspur another stab, and then claiming
Vie honor of conquering him. But then Falstaff was wiser
than the Recorder ; for he made sure that the Hero was
dead, before he struck him. The Press yet lives ; and
having lived in defiance of a Jefferies, with a King and
an army at his back, we do not think it is destined to perish
the hands of air. Knowlys, though he be Recorder of
Lcndonl in the nineteenth century.

One important piece of rolla/ news from Spain is, the t
Ferdinand had issiied a decree, authorising his Minister of
war, A. D. Joseph San Juan, " to sign his name only San
Is' Juan, for the dispatch of business." What the War
Minister can have to th, in what is called a period of peace,
slay surprise some people : hut it is certain that he will
save employment eupagh shortly; and it may be prudent
.16 anticipate the nec. unity. To meet the wants of the
IC burr, ail the public functionaries who can be dispensed
*Stir, are to be dismissed. This will spread the discontent
and A new movement will be forced upon the constitutional
Indy, by the trevere measures which are resorted to against
them

i, The recent " reeberiliou" at Demerara is now under-

stood to have been nert.hiag more than an ordinary riot,
and bad proper inrortnlifion been given to the authoritlesi
in the first instance, it wanlii have been very trifling in
its nature. It is alio a qoestion whether the whole affair
Iral not got np by the colodiets, to colour their professed
fears of en insurrection, and to alarm the mother country
from any further interference with the treatment of the
slave popn'aion. When we find *else Let the slaves suffer

on such occasions, his not easy to believe they meditated a
vengeance which they did not inflitt when they Lad the
power to do so. Smith, the Missionary, has been put on
his trial ; and this, too, we think a parallel of the
proceedings under the Sidmouth systems at home, when
the best men were acensed, that the worst might escape
accusation. At Barbadoes, the " reticle** colonists have
pulled down themeeting•honse of a M r. Shrewsbuty ; aol.be
bas been compelled to fly the island, because be was
onspected of the borriWe offence of sending accounts to
the Missionary Society, of the wretched mental coalition
of
the slaves." The invitation to the outrage was given by
written placards, after an unavailing attempt to prevent
Mr. Shrewsbury from preaching, by a serenade of all sorts
of discordant instruments. A proclamation has been issued
by the lover nor, offering 1001 reward for the apprehension
of the offenders; but they reply that the " good people"
of Barbadoes will know bow to punish those may dare
to give any 'information. Such is the state of society
among those who talk of the " sacred right" of "property
is the flesh and blood" of their fellow creatures.

An enquiry is to he made at the Escurial. by the King
of Spaio, and his Ministers, " whether a full amnesty shall
"be accorded to all who have taken part in the late politi•
cal disputes." Surely this should have been done before
the murder of Riego eh accomplished.
A Morning Paper of this day, pats several questions of
importance to Sir William A'Court, relative to bis conduct
is Spain, as the Plenipotentiary of England; and which it
l requisite should be answered, unless our Ministers wish
it to be believed, that they have suffered Spain to become a
province of France, because the Cortes would not consent
to modify the Constitution, and proclaim a duplicate of our
"eery and admiration of the world." with two chambers,
end a precise copy of oar election mummery !
The Courier has been guilty of .tlie measureless folly of
declaring that Thistlewood and his comrades merit a
sessment as wekas Riego. Now this cannot be the case
unless they opposed a Government as corrupt as that of
Stahl ; and rulers as despotic and unfeeling. Will the
Quoier admit this was the rase, or give op the argument ?I
Private letters from Barhadoes contain accounts that a
litissioury, of the Dame of Shrewsbury{ baring been sus.
.pecled of having sent home to the Society by which he was
ipiployed,statements injurious to the moral character of the
lower classes of the inhabitants of the lased, the people
Affected by them, first annoyed him tumultuously in the
ebaeelin which he officiated, and the next evening pro.
leveled to demolish the building. Though a proclamation
lad been issued by Sir Henry Warde, offering a reward of
•ia. for the discovery of any of the actors in the attack on
16 Meeting house, 111 r. Shrewsbury bad thought it pro-
deet to remove from the island.
Yesterday s placard was posted in this city for the par-
Pirm of procuring 200 seamen for a man of war. The ship for
welch the supply is required Is to be stationed off the Sussex
Mast.—(Cork Chronicle of Friday.)
Tat A 1111T.-..dt is understood, that Major General Sir T.
Bradford, K. C. B. will be appointed Colonel of the 94th
snow raising) Regiment of Infantry.—Major General, Sir
Wits Halkett, K. C. 8., it is also said, will he appointed
Colonel of the 95th (now raising) Regiment of Foot.
Orders have just been issued to the Recruiting Depart-
ments to employ their Staff in the raising of Recruits, and
*reulation which has been in force silica the termina-
lee of the late war, for limiting the age at which Recruits
!11l to be accepted to 25, has been repealed, and instruc-
tions given for taking men as old as 30.
Rtratt Betwitro.—All doubts, if any existed on this
seat, are now removed, the Hon. Commissioners of his
'nicety's Board of Excise having issued a circular letter,
fed the sth inst., to the Collectors of Districts through-
"the kingdom directin hem to regauge sod charge
1/19111•eattee on 'the stock oft all brewers who wish to sell
and to grant brewers' retail licences to all persons
tying them.
NOVIITY.—In our obituary of last week, we noticed
li▪ t
recent death of six persons in this county, whose united
M'S amount to 539 years.—(llsidstoise Gazette.)