a'ose. At that time, and since, the Morn- which, though
chartered in other States, depend chiefly upon New:York for ing Chronicle and other Ministerial journals were sanguine in their sale ; that the immense amount of merchandise in our warehouses has, their hopes that the Pretender was driven to extremity. It now within the same period, fallen in value at least thirty per cent. ; that within a turns out that Don CARLOS goes where he likes with little mo- few weeks not less than twenty thousand individuals, depending upon their Iodation. He was said to have been blocked up at Barbastro ; daily labour for their daily bread, have been discharged by their employers, bes General ORAA, at the head of the Queen's troops, entering Bar- bastro the next day. In Catalonia, it is believed that the Carlist which depopulated Our streets, or the conflagration which lair them in ashes. force will be much augmented by bands of malecontents ; per- " We believe that it is unjust to attribute these evils to any excessive deve- haps a dash at Madrid may be made. The Ebro, it is rumoured, lopment of mercantile enterprise, and that they really flow from that unwise has been passed by a body of the Carlists at Caspe. system which aimed at the substitution of a metallic for a paper currency,—the ' gion ; which has been broken up, 1,500 men only remaining under by removing the public deposits from the United States Bank, which weakened the command of Colonel O'CONNELL. Of the 10,000 who left tion, and now threatens to crumble it into a mass of ruins under the operations England to gain glory in the Peninsula, nearly 8,000 have pe- of the specie circular, which withdrew the gold and silver of the country from rished by the sword and by sickness. In his " order," EVANS the channels in which it could be profitably employed. We assert that the recounts the exploits of his men— experiment has had a fair, a liberal trial, and that disappointment and mischief are visible in all its results ; that the promise of a regulated currency and " The Legion has been engaged in eight or nine general actions, besides various equalized exchanges has been broken, the currency totally disordered, and in. minor affairs, of more or less importance ; and in which the enemy have lost a ternal exchanges almost entirely discontinued. We, therefore, make our earnest large portion of their best and bravest troops. You found San Sebastian appeal to the Executive, and ask whether it is not time to interpose the pater- closely invested by the Felicia, the streets barricaded, the town insulted, even by nal authority of the Government, and abandon the. policy which is beggaring their musketry. Now, all the important positions of the adjoining country— the people." the main source of the strength of the insurgents—are once more under the dominion of her Majesty. The Pretender, at the same time no longer able to The measures of relief proposed by the memorialists, were the maintain himself in this quarter, seeks a more distant theatre of operations, at revocation of the specie circular, extension of the time of paying the other extremity of the Pyreuees ; a last and, in all probability, vain effort, Customhouse bonds, and an extra session of Congress. The reply pursued as he is by a superior force of the national army. These, then, are of the President was unsatisfactory. He said that he would make the propitious results, to the attainment of which the Legion, in conjunction with the brave constitutional troops, have zealously contributed : and thus inquiries; but he would not agree to suspend the Treasury cir- have you honestly, successfully, and uodauntingly attested your devotion to the cular, or extend the time of payment to the public debtors, or call sacred cause you engaged to support." an extra session of Congress. Indignant resolutions were, there..
He annoutices his departure for England— upon passed by the meeting at the Masonic Hall. They declare-
" The Lieutenant-General sincerely regrets that the peremptory obligations " That the chief causes of the existing distress are the defeat of Mr. Clay's be is under, as a Member of the Legislature, and to his constituents, k whose Land Bill, the removal of the public deposits, the refusal to recharter the Bank i adulgence towards him has been extended to its utmost limits,) as well as the of the United States and the issuing of the specie circular. The Land Bill was state of his health, preclude the possibility of his continuing his service with passed by the Peol;le's Representatives, and vetoed by the President ; the bill those of his comrades who may remain in Spain. He therefore avails himself rechartering the Bank was passed by the People's Representatives, and vetoed by of this general order, which is likely to be his last referring to any operations the President. The People's Representatives declared, by a solemn resolution, in the field, to tender to all ranks of officers, non-commissioned officers, and that the public deposits were safe in the United States Bank : within a few soldiers of the Legion, the expression of his moat grateful acknowledgments for weeks thereafter, the President removed the public deposits. The Peop!e's the personal support and kindness he has in so remarkable a degree experienced Representatives passed a bill: rescinding the specie circular: the President from them ; for their brilliant gallantry in the field ; and for the admirable destroyed it, by omitting to return it within the limited period ; and in the Constancy and fortitude with which, in the midst of peculiarly harassing and answer to our address, President Van Briton declares that the specie circular arduous duties, they have supported (especially the junior ranks) privations was issued by his predecessors, omitting all notice of the Secretary of the and difficulties to which he believes no British ffirce has hitherto ever been ex- Treasury, who is amenable directly to Congress, and charged by the act creating posed. Ni, troops Of any country were ever subjected to such an ungenerous his department with the superintendence of the finances, and who signed the party hostility as the Legion has endured. No force that he has ever served order. We therefore
with has appeared to him lea deserving such treatment, or more worthy of " Resolve, That all these circumstances indicate an infusion of monarchical respect." principles into our system, which demands the prompt and vigorous action of
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