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te,r.,ence; at the same time that they escresseJ their • .;•tele for his good intentions. 4, On the 9th, there was a grand Sitting of the Council of State, in which the Prince of Anglona . de dared that they ought to negoc iate wit h the Du ke (rAamoulerne. This advice being rejected by the Counc il of State and the Cortes, the Pi ince gave in hi s resignation. On the 10th there was a very stormy Sitting of the Co: tes. „O n the 1 1 th, the King was waited upon, and re qesti.d definitively to state whether he was willing to se: n ut for Cadiz. llis Majesty replied, that, as far as regarded him se4, he had no objections to go; hut as he consi dered his transfetence to Cadiz as being contrary to e;rinteresti of his people, he would not yield to the demands of the Cortes but by force. After this, there , e . rs a nother Sitting of tl.e Cones, in which, on the !n otion of M. Galliano, it was decreed, that the King vs i n a date of mental it:sin*, and that being thus i nc apable of conducting the Government, the Cortes or d er ed his being carried to Cadiz, and appointed a Regency in his stead. The Minister of England then sent a Note to the Gevenunent, in which he stated, that as he was accre 6ted to the King, and not to a Regency, he could not tallow the King to Cadiz without further instructions. The Cortes then, in order that they might re clue the objections of Sir William A . Court, ordered 1 1 6 letter to be answered by a declaration that his A r r e sty would be under restraint only on his journey, b a t that he would resume his functions in Cadiz. ::! William replied, that he could not go, for he did r -a , t see his objection removed by the proposed ar rmemcnt; he the efor e remains at Seville for new e , ::.uctions. The Minter of the United States of atnelica, the Ambassador of the Netherlands, and the Ambassader of S veklen, likewise remain at Se -1K: e. The Charge d'Atiaire of Saxony set out with c ; r : Qecen, she beirg a Prince's of the House of 4atony. This new; produced the most lively indig ratiap. Violent complaints sem uttered against thase Royalist Membei s of the Council of State who Ind run away from tear, and abandoned the King to the merc y of his jailors. 6lt believed that the Cortes arrived at Cadiz on I the nth. General Zayas was intrusted with the es mt. During this deplorable crisis, the people. of under the controul of a ferocious militia, were . a state of stupor. On the 1-11.1 e in the m,,rrunrz, Mien it was learnt that the King was embarked,. the ;tople inslied to the boats which formed the convoy oldie King and the Cortes. Several persons were lined in the boats, as well as in the town. Several Louses were pillaged and demolished. Such was the iirewell which the Spanish poople gave to the Cortes.'' MOSMIY .AFTLRNoos, 4 o'CLocK. U Besides the disimicli of which I have sent you a, copy, the Ministers here have received a second,l which states tl a. the King and the Cones an ived at Cgliz at two o'clock in the afternoon of the 11th. The Cones immediately on their anival, declared the King leaLred to the exercis, f his functions; and tLe Government will be carried on under his name sbefole. Zayas, who commanded the e,cnit to Cadiz, is appointed cornmand,the troops in defence Lf that city. "The funds at 4 o'clock were as follows :—Five F r, Cents. SS. 9.i ; Spanish, 36i; NeaFolitan, 741." TTRACT FROM ANOTHER LE fTER OF THE SAME DATE, "General Zayas, who commanded at Madrid afzer the treachery of AbiAral, commands the troops who accompanied the King and the Cortes to Cadiz. This force is greater than Seville has been represented to possess. It amounts to six or seven thousand men. This General is intrusted by the Government with the defence of Cadiz. Before his departure from Seville, lac publiAred aProclamation extremely bold, if not even violent. This is the more remarkable, as this Gene neral had entered into a convention with the Duke of Angouleme about the surrender of Madrid, which only the irruption of General Bessieres prevented from from being executed." The Moniteut of Monday, in an ankle dated Cor dova, the 15th inst. contains . an account of the Sit ting of the Cortes, at Seville, not materially differing from that given above, in the letter from Math id.— It, however, states, that the appointed Regency was composed of three Members, VALDES, CISCER, and Vrc,o ; the first of whom was appointed President. it adds, that the KIYG had been treated with great vio lence, and endured every species of insult. After the Constitutional troops had evacuated Seville, tLe po. *ace pillaged several houses, and some individuals fell victims to their fury. The Autliorities of 1820, tad resumed their functions, and had succeeded in te•establishing order. On the 144.11 instant, Seville was tranquil. Generals BOWIDESOULT and I3ourt'moNT will march immediately on Seville, which is said to be ill-pro visioned and incapable of standing a siege by sea and laud. The garrison of St. Sebastian is said to be much discontented on account of the scmcity of provisions. A courier fram Castile brought intelligence that a division of 5000 men was marching on St. Ander°, Which confirms the acconnts from Bayonne and other quarters that it had ,hetni occupied by the Consti tutionalists. The Moniteur also gives a letter from Seville, with out date, which mentions several excesses committed it, that city by the Llitia of Madrid mid Seville, who tau through the streets, shouting Vivent Riego, Tonfjos Calvo,' and uttering vociferations against the Serviles: The lives of the peaceable citizens were threatened, and some of the Monks had a difficulty in escaping. 1 1 The Regency at Madrid is entirely employed in organizing a Royaliseirmy. One thousand of the Royal Spanish Guard had already left Madrid-for La Mancha, and they were to be followed by another battalion of the same corps. •In a short time it was expected the Royalist army would amount to fifty thousand men. The following extracts are from some of the minor Paris Journals of Monday; one of which contains a proclamation by the Infant Don Miguel, dated Villa. Franca, May 27, and addressed to the Portuguese Nation. These papers contain nothing further rela tive to the counter-revolution at Lisbon. PARIS, JUNE '25. The orders given to the three foreign Ladies to quit Paris has caused a great sensation to all friends of the generous French. The Count de Bulgari, the_Russian Ambassador to Spain, passed through Bourdeau x, on the 17th inst. on his ieturti to Madrid. FROM THE QUOTIDIFVNE. MADRID, JUNE IR. PRIVATE LETIEI.. " On the 11th inst. the Cortes were informed of the approach of the French advanced guard on Seville. The Col tzs immediately assembled, and after a very stormy discussion, the removal of the King to Ca,!iz was,decided upon. " On the 12th at night, the King, Queen, and the .Princesses were taken fi om the Palace, shut up in coaches, and drawn out of Seville, escorted by a guard, who were most of them drunk. "According to the last information from Catalonia, it appears that Mina has succeeded, after great dim ' culty, to enter Seo Urgel. " It is certainly a great advantage to our troops that Mina has been obliged to take refuge in Urgel, in aead of Barcelona or Figueras; his surrender will I be soon accomplished, as the gartison of the fort con ! sits only of 'MOO men." FUUDS, MONDAY.—bFiVC per Cents. 38f. 95c. Our intelligence from Bayonne of this morning, which is to the 18th inst. is favourable to the cause of Il.e Cmstitutionalists. Several corps of partizans, or guerillas, :r..! forming in Arragon, islavarre, and the tinge Biscayan provinces, which will operate along the whole of the French frontier. One ofl these, at Balmacida, is said to be so formidable as to threaten all the French convoys. It is further stated, that CAMPANULA has returned to St. An dero ; and that the Pastor, after raising the siege of Santon3, has taken Bilboa, where he found large mi litary supplies. If these accounts are true, it would betoken an activity among the Constitutional forces ' in the rear of the French, which may • give them some trouble. . A rumour prevailed at Bayvnne, that MORILLO I and BALLASTtROS would follow the example of ABISBA ; but it was not credited, nor is it entitled to credit. All doubt as to the safety of ABISBAL is now at an end, as he arrived at . Bayonne on the 15th in,t. and afterwards attended at a dinner given in his honour by the General of the Department—an honoUr which (whatever may have been his conduct, and we are far from considering it so reprehensible as it is deemed by our contemporaries) he ought not to have accepted.—The following are extracts: war, since it will require an army to besiege that great city.- There is a report that General Bciurek hat entered Corunna, but this news is not yet confirmed. It has likewise been repotted, that Ballasteros and Morino have imitated the conduct of Abisbal, hut thi, seems wholly destitute of foundation; and it is more likely that these Generals are going to act with vigour, as the time is come for :he Constitutional tioops not merely to defend themselves, but also to attack. We have just learned, that it was not M. Polignac who is conae from head quarters, but M. Dosntont, whom the Prince has sent to meet the Duchess, to ac company her in her tour in the Pyrennee. The preparation; for the reception . of her Royal Highness are making here ; it will be as br,lliant as the resources of our little town will allow. Our letters from Madrid, of the 12th, contain but little news after the bulletins: The Regency has ordered Royalist companies to be formed to do Only as a Na tional Guard ; the men are.to be above 20 and under 50 years of age. Addresses requiring the te•esta blishment of the ancient regime, continue to be sent to the Regency ; this, they say, is the only system calculated to give happiness to Spain; all idea of a Constitution analogous to that of England, or of France, is expressly deprecated: • With respect to Portugal, there is a report that the King has been taken to Santarem. New York Papers to the 28th ult. and Boston Papers to the 26t1i, reached us this morning. One of the latter contains the following account of the defeat of the Colombian Squadron on the 30th of April : • CURACOA, MAY 3. We have just received the particulars of an action between the Colombian squadron, under Conimodnie Daniels, and two Spanish frigates, which have just arrived on the coast from Spain, and in which the former was defeated. • The action took place near Porto Cabello, and lasted from three o'clock in the afternoon until nearly sunset, and terminated in the capture of the Maria Francisca, Commodore Daniels, and the corvette Carabobo. The schooner Bar) and a large felucca ran out of Porto Cabello during the action, and car ried in the two met chant-vessels which the Spaniards bad in convoy. They afterwards returned to the Spa nish frigates, and were seen lying between them. The brig Independencia, Commodore Beluche, was also in the action, but escaped, and passed Curacoa cn the 2d inst. The battle is said to have been well fought by the Colombian vessels, but that the Spa nish were greatly superior in force. The prizes have been sent into Porto Cabello. The loss on board the Colombian vessels is said to have amounted to 161 killed, of whom the brave Commodore Daniels was one. We understand he , was a native of Salem. Caraccas Papers to the 25th of April, via the United States, have reached us. The' lris of Vene zuela, in a supplement, gives the following account of the defeat of the Royalist General, Morales. CURACOA, APRIL. 20. At this moment, eight o'clock in the morning, ar rived the Captain of an American schooner, who has informed the Government that, in consequence of the success of Lopez and Mendoza upon La Dacha, Mo rales moved with all his army towards La Guayra. —Whilst on his march, the Army of the Republic sallied forth to meet him, and after two victorious actions in which the enemy lost 400 people, he was pursued by our troops, who obliged him to retire to Maracaibo, where it is believed he has again been at tacked and destroyed, unless he has capitulated, ac cording to the general clamours of all his army. The vessel has been six days on her passage,. and the Captain assured us that four days before he made sail, the dispatch containing this information had been received. • BAYONNE, JUNE 17. At length there is an end to all the tales told of Abisbal for some days past: he arrived here on the 15th, in the evening, but though travelling incognito, he has been visited by all the Officers in the garrison, and been present at a grand dinner, •given, doubtless, in his honour, by the General who commands the departtnent. He is going, it seems, to Paris. Yesterday a Russian General Officer, A ide-de-Camp - to the Emperor Alexander, arrived here on his way . His Excellency the Spanish Ambassador paid a to Madrid. We do not know why M. de Polignac, visit this day. to Mr. CANNING, in Downing-street. Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Angouleme, has arrived The Royal Yacht is victualling at Deptford. On here express; the news he may have brought has not Friday a variety of articles, for the service of his Ma transpired. It seems as if the war upon our part of JESTS', were put on board. The yacht is to be at Ports the frontiers was going to assume the same character .mouth on Tuesday, but the KING is not expected to on bard soon as s ene . rall y. as in Catalonia. Corps of partisans or guerillas are go Yester o day so a Cabinet i Co g uncil was held reported at the F.). forming in Arragon and Navarre, and the three Bis- reign Office, which was attended by— cayan provinces. A pretty considerable one has sud- The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, denly appeared at Balmacida, which, by its position , the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Melville, Lord Bexley, Mr. threatens all the convoys going to Madrid. Wynn, &c. The Cabinet continued in deliberation tilt a little before three o'clock. We have learned at the same time the return of the Parliament is expected to be prorogued on the I Bth, Constitutional troops, under Campanilla, to St. An- or, at farthest, on the 25th of July. dero, and yesterday it was a ffi rmed that the Pastor, Yesterday, the Duke of YORK held a Levee, as Com mander-in-Chief, at his Office in the Horse Guards, after raising the blockade of Santona , had retaken Bilboa, where he had found immense magazines. If which was attended by— The Earl of Wiltshire, Lord Rossiya; Lord Edward Seiner there is any truth in this news, we shall, doubtless, set, General Gascoyne, General Sir James Lyon, Sir C. Rowley, have official information of it this morning. Th e and between twenty and thirty other Military Officers. . ... Yesterday, Field-Marshal Lord Baustsporto gave a Patriots, on their return to the places that have been sumptuous dinner at his house in Wimpole-street, to occupied, belave very well; they are severe only to the Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord LYNEDOCH, Lord those who have accepted offices, and who, by the De- Jouw BERESFORD, Lord GEORGE BEREswortn, and a tree of the Cortes, incurred the penalty of death. large party of distinguished Military Officers. Letters received by the Brazil Packet, contain an A new Bulletin (the Twelfth) announces the en account of an attempt to create a counter-revolution trance of General 13ourmont into Merida. There in Buenos Ayres, madeby Signor GREOORIO TAOLK, would be nothing extraordinary in this (say the friends which was defeated. TAMA escaped, and a reward of the cause of the Cortes), since it seems that the of 2000 dollars was offered for his head. Lord Cocrittßwa is to have full controul over the Constitutionalists, though in force in Andalusia and Naval department of the Brazils : he will have under Estiemadura, continue to follow their plan of letting him about 800 British sailors ) , who had arrived in the French advance as far as they please, in order, some vessels from Liverpool. ' to disperse them and beat them afterwards at their - Stamford Races commenced yesterday : The only case, when the time to attack them shall come: mean stake run-for was-the Town Plate of £5O. which was time the King and the Government are gone . 'won at thtee heat;"by Mr. PLATtes br. c. Ultima, ~ . . Cadiz, which should seem likel y to g ive a mato the bea t ing titOlithers.. _;,: • . 4 711 E ARMY. The Baritottis, Gass:2,l . l - nm Bothbay, arrivedjeetei-tial itt the Downs, has on board a detachment of the 17th Lanrersj tinder the command bf Major War INCTON. The 974 are ordered from Ennis to relieve the 49th Regiment at the hollowing stations, and will arrive on the tad, 2ith, and 27th instant, viz.— One Cumpany at Airyhorough, two at Longford, ohe at tills lanore, three at Nitillingar, one at Phil!ipstown. The .‘t Battalion of The Royals, now at Waterford, are ora • dered to relieve the 84th at Cl•nirnel and Cushel; the 84th arc ors dried to Templemore, and tliv.7?ih froirtTem i llenr-re to N. 1.131 The •29.11, tin beti,g, IclieVed, proceed to Limerick. Captain WALiEit O . IIIAIZA, on the 11,df-pay of the Ilortnetlese service, is appointed 'Ala . & of Iliigade to the Army serving in Ireland, and is attached to the south-western district, under th* command of Sir Joan AVAL A't EI.I.4;LNCE. , Last Thursday night the Veit Pier flead, at 'Dover, *:4 lighted for the lir-t time *tilt gas. the fittirig rf whi:h formed in in complete a manner that the pipe is tint to tie ':en • in the (I:1, it being tonstruct, d with folding joints; although feet in lttigth, they fall into etch other and arc stowed AW.•.y in a very small CO:IIpASS, and when ligked, are hoisted up the nias.:4 he.:4l withtait ail danger of injury. rAt.\l•.)t-TM. E '2:J.—Wind E. to N.— Ar rived off the port the Hope, Howt.Attn, from New (-)pleats; liontby, CowitsaNa BALK, from Rio Janeiro in 70 days. Sailed . the Lord linthat packet, fur the Islands; and Union, JoaLb, for Beautnaris. Ara rived the Bideford, Macnoxm.n;from London. PLYMOUTH, JUNE N: by E.—Arrived the Rosslytt Ca. 11.-, Ilreiteam, from Jamaica; William Maiming, front St. Kitt's ; and General Elliot, from New Zealand. Arrived tiff the port the Henry, Poi.xsex, trout Philadelphia; and Ehterprisei Slum..., from Surinam. Poiirssiouitt e Je S.W.=Atrived the Jantesi Sstrrn, from Africa fur London. Dot., Jume 24.—Wind S. W.—Came down from the River' yesterday and sailed, the Prince of Denmark, WILLIAMS, fur the South Seas; also, to.day, the Henry, 111.tr:LaNiOrr , Quebec. :Un: Sailed for the River, the Pulley, r, frttn the South Seas. Arrived to-day, and 'sailed ts:r the River, the Barkworth t tissue, from Bombay; and London, SOUTHEabY, f:om ALARMIAG FIRE. One of the most alarming and destructive fires :hat has been known in the Metropolis for some years, broke out last night in Mr. Bardon's Timber-yard,. in Bedford-stree., Holborn, which struck tenorih the whole neighbourhood by the rapidity and extent of its ravages. From the best information we have been ab'e to obtain, we learn that the fire, which broke out about eight o'clock, was occasioned by one of the workmen accidentally dropping a shell piece of can dle among some shavings, which caught fi;e so ra pidly that the poor fellow was enable to extinguish it. On opening the door to give the alum, the wind immediately fanned the whole work ,hop into a flame. Aided by the combustible nature of the surrounding . materials it soon gathered strength, and extended itself in all directions with tremendous fury. Five houses in Featherstone-buildings, tout in Bedford street, and the backs of several in Red Lion-street, were soon in flames, and presented, from the vast columns of fire and smoke incessantly issuing an aw fully grand spectacle. Numerous engines were spee dily brought to the spot, and the greatest exertions made by the firemen, but owing to the confined na ture of the place, and the scarcity of water exile- , rienced, it was long before the flames were at all ar rested by their efforts. By 10 o'clock the front of one of the houses in Bedford-street fell in and rather damped the flames in-that direction, and soon after the tire begart to yield in every quarter to the stre neous exertions of the firemen. By 11 o'clock the limits of the mischief, it was clear, had been ascer tained; and by a little after 12 o'clock nothing re mained of the fire but a smouldering heap of ruins. Fifteen houses had, in a period of about three hours, been reduced to ashes, and eight others greatly damaged; it is, however, some alleviation of the re gret we feel in announcing this vast wreck of pro. perty, to be able to add that we have heard tf no lives being lost nor any serious accideat having hap pened, and that the greatest part of the stArct ers *cc insured. The loss of property must be very .consi• derable, as, althorn 1 the ti:e broke out at so early an hour, little aas attempted to be saved ; which is to he attributed principally to the fury with which the flames proceeded, and the great alarm attendant upon so awful an event. The. neighbours, however, were very active in tendering every assistance, and 011',!r ing their: house; as an asylum for theeinhappy st.ff.aers, as well as for the preservation of such portion of their property as could be rescued from the devouring ele ment. Mr. MURRAY , the baker, of Red Lion-pas sage, had no less than fourteen children in his house belonging to the families, who, by ere fell swoop, had been rendered homeless. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. The fire did not originate in the workshop of Mr. Bardon, but in premises belonging to a Mr. Brighty, a cork-cutter. Mr..Brighty has been in the habit of burning cork for a number of years under Mr. Bar don's premises; he had been burning cork in the afternoon, and the man Intl usted to burn it left the premises to the care of a boy to see that all the fire was put out. The boy threw a sufficient quantity of water on, as he supposed, and left the place, but soon after the fire rekindled, and set the whole of Mr. Bardon's workshop and timber-yard in a blaze. There were nearly 800 dry deals, together with a vast Ivan city of other timber, which soon communicated to the adjoining houses. The names of the inhabitant householders burnt out are, In Featberstone-buildings—Mr.Bialiesley, Wine and Brandy Merchant Di:Lawrence; Mr. Walker ; .taptain Coyak and Mr. Day's houses much damaged—the fronts of the houses opp 1). site are also much damaged. In Red Lion-street---. Mr. James lidier, Greett:groceN Mr. Turn.r, Straw Bonnet-shop ; Mr. Morris, Tubaccoiliit ; Mr. Boyes;Milliner ; and Mr. Bardon's house. The whole of these houses, with the exception of Mr. Bardon's, were hlkd with lodgers and not insured. In lodger, Ash, Painter and Glazier ; Mt. IIew• son, Green-grocer and Dealer in Coal;; acd Mr. 1it,1en.!..4.'s Straw Hat.Matiufactory. shared the ;ante fate. Mr. Dew- tes, the Horse-shoe public-house, was much damaged behind. This morning, at Iwo o'clock, a tire broke out :.t a Cook's-shop adjoining the Hoop ohne-house, Cable-sirret, Welelose-squate, the intet tor of witch was entirely consumed. Monday, the Lord., of the Council airemblcd at the Council Otfice, IThitehall, to beai French appeals. CO`llN EXCIIANGE;:iIIAICK-LANE JCNE 25. There ate very few fresh strives of Gram tills morning, b u t there are 5611 good quantities for sale, the rim& ns of the laze large suppliei. The report gaining inure aeon that the late c umi n winds . have materially injured the crops, has cal.stki more dispodtion in our buyers to make purchases, which otraiimill more money. Dais also sell much better than or lam In other ' Guth. chtri. uno alteration.' . , . • ,