Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-12-16

the late Spanish settlements in South America,
will become matter OF discussion in Il General
Congress Such. At least. is tn. na,ur. cf ih,
proposition made by France tn our govern
ment, hut to which we have declined acced
ing. Whether this determination On our par |
may alter the original intention, is a point we
cannot decide. Ministers, m-anwbil-. will |
steadily pursue the course they have adopt |
ed and fix their attention upon objects of
paramount, Importance 10 the commercial in
terrsts of England.
Our Letters from Wirtemburg convey The
intelligence that NJ de Winaingerrde. who
was personally obnoxious to the Allied Sow
erelgps. is removed fiom the Office ot For
ehSu fairs, and is replaced by the Count de
BeroldinScn. Il, present IN Russia, who was
once Minister to the Court of Great Britain,
and is brother iu-law to NJ. de Maucisr, Min
lister of Justice and the Kings principal favour
lite.
Norem6er s.-The Hon. Mr.. Elliott, at
tached tn Sir w. A'Court, arrived last night at
the Foreign Office in Downing street He
brought dispatches, announcing that Frrdi-
nand had consented to ratify the Convention
concluded with this country in March last by
the Constitutional Government, for indemnify
ing the losses sustained by the British mer-
chants, in consequence of captures made by
| Spanish privateers
|
| Ss;SdGcatun of the sweeping Decree issued
by Ferdinand from Port ST. Mary, on The Isi
Of October, which annulled all and every act
done between the 7th of March. 1920, and
| the LIST Of October, 1928. We think, there
fore, it may be confidently anticipated that il,
as we'll as the subsequent DEGREES, will under.
go further notifications upon the representa-
tions of England and France.
| .Norenber I've have received this morn
ing the Madrid Gazette ofthe 23th of October,
which contains the following proclamation is
sued Nv Ferdinand At Seville, on the o2d.--It
has all the srmblancc Of preparatory step
towards revoking or modifying the DEGREES
Of Port st. Mary, Xeres and Seville. His
| Majesty postpones, till his arrival in Madrid
and till he is surrounded by the gravest aud
most enlightened of his counsellors, his final
| resolve touching the acts and actors in the
late revolution. This, probably, is the utmost
which the Duke d'Angoulpme could obtain :;
for we learn by private advices from Paris, thai
the French government meet with no incon-
siderable difficulties in making Ferdinand act
| with moderation. We are even assured that
| when it was hinied IN him how desirable il
would he to remove from about his person his
Minister and Confessor Saez, he peremptorily
refused tn do so.
LoNDoN, New 6.-Ths being the first trans
fer day at the Bank during the week, it was
expected that much business would have been
transacted in the funds, but, on the contrary,
the market has been in very languid state
during the whole of the morning; and the
hncisaton in the prices has not exceeded per
cent.
Consols for account opened at 8s5 a.d
IS Ia, and remanded steady at the latter
| quotation ExcheQuer bills maintain The high
premium to which they have advanced with
in the last two days.
In the Foreign Funds there has been gene
rally decline in the quotations. bnt more
pecially in South American Securities. Chill
! Bonds which were sold yesterday a, 50 opened
this morning at &C, and before g o'clock were
depressed to So. The fall in Colombian Bonds
has been less considerable not having exceed
ed g per cent. but they bear a very heavy
appearance.
There has been an extensive sale Of Spanish
Stock to-day, hut the prices of yesterday have
been maintained.
Spanish Bonds of 1891 opened at s73, but
the present quotation is 81 7-8 and %. In
! tie new stock there has been little business
| transacted.
| BY the Express from Paris, we learn that
there had beena fall in Spanish stock at Paris
of two per cent. the bonds which on Monday
last were sold in that capital at IS, on the FOL
lowing day when the expresses came away.
they had declined to sos, but left off at ST.
| The rentPs had likewise been heavy and left
| of on Tuesday afternoon at 89f. doc. which is
"A per cent. below the previous quotation.
| Dreadful explosion Of n Coal Mine.
DURHAM, Nov. SIN consequence Of an
explosion Of foul air in a coal pit, called the
plain pit brlonging TO the Marquis of London
derry, situate near Raintun, about five miles
from this city. number of unfortunate per-
sons have lost their lives The accident took
place this morning about O'Clock. There
are great variety of rumours ailOat respect
ing the number ofpersons employed in the pit
Mt IN time, Int from the best information
have been able to acquire, believe there were
hetwe rn ninety and hundred: the whole Of
whom it is supposed have persisted. At the
time the latest accounts left the scene Of the
catastrophe, nearly forty bodies had been
brought ND corpses I cannot describe the an
gtish nccasioned nv this melancholy event
which mos, likely occasioned by neglect
ing to use the safety lamp"
FRANCE.
The Duke Belluno, by Royal Ordinance
has been appointed \ Minister Of State, and
me nher Of the privy council
The Journal des Dehafs Of Thursday. Oct.
80, cnntainsa document which is deemed
equivalent to an official declaration on the part
nf the French government Of its views. both
present and prospective, with regard TO Spain.
! II announces thar
fThe Councils Of the King and of Tho Prince
C;rnrralissimo have Obtained happy Influence, and
have produced consolaiorv results, viz. the DEGREES
Pori S. Muy's, Of XPrez, and Of Seville, mprudent
" conceded IN passions which the RrVoldilnnists
have cruelty provoked have been alrendy modified
in cnnsonance with The views Of n more calm and
generous policy"
I" We IRE occupied with ,te convention which