The National Register. — London, England, 1820-04-09 00:00:00

110 71-iE NATIONAL REGII4ITER. AFFAIRS OF SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 23.—Private lettersfrom Cadiz of the 17th, state, that there was no excess of any description to which the troops had not abandoned themselves; 414 of the inhabitants were killed, 700 dangerously wounded, and about 4.00 wounded severely or slightly ; there was not a house which had not been plundered of something. On the 11th, in consequence of an inhabitant firing upon a soldier, the disorder re-commenced; but General Campana put himself at the head of some putroles, and restored order. Tly.! 15th, the troops in the Isla de Leon, opened the fire of a new mortar battery on the Cortadura, but Admiral Villavicencio having communicated to them the decrees of the 6th and 7th March, the fire ceased on the 16th, and the troops in the Isla &cut a flag of truce, with military music, to Cadiz, to announce their submission to the King. Our Official Gazette gives the public a crowd of reports or the military chiefs, both of the land and tea forces, entrusted with different services in An dalusia, and especially in the town and port of Cadiz. The only document which relates the circum stances of the catastrophe of the gth instant in that unhappy tuwn, is the report which Admiral Villa vicencio makes to the Minister of War, which is as follows : " The day before yesterday, intelligence, which I received from all sides, announced to me that un easiness prevailed among the crews of the fleet, on account of the fatal and contradictory news which had been propagated respecting the state of some of the Provinces. I wrote to the Commandant Gene ral to watch over the maintenance of order, and to to take care that the navy should not lose in an in instant the good reputation acquired by conduct as wise as it has been steadily maintained. I sought to gain rime, and I thought that the pretext on which the agitators would rely would speedily fall. " The people were also in a state of effervescence; every thing announced a terrible explosion. It was said that the garrison were resolved to carry every thiug before them, and this report was but too well founded. At this moment, Don. E. Freyre, General in Chief of the United Army, who being informed as well as myself of the state of men's minds, sought to remove by his presence the evils with which we were all menaced, came to me. I informed him of the measures which I had already taken, and he approved of them ; wishing on his side to follow my example by gaining lime, without directly opposing to the people a force which (be sides) did not inspire entire confidence, he detached some officers to different quarters to sound the dis position of the two parties, and to endeavour to obtain a sort of truce till the general with of the nation was positively known, and till the orders ; which were expected by the two couriers who were in artear, were received from the Capital. But all the reports. convinced us that as soon as it was night the troops would throw off their obedience, and that the City would be in a state of combustion. " General Freyre and myself, with our Aides de Camp, and other person, went through the Square of San Antonio, when the alarm depicted in all facet announced the alarm of the mind. Nevertheless there was no posit we disposition, and we each went to our homes to dinner. I made haste to return to General Freyre, because every thing made me feel the necessity of coming to a resolution before night full. It was necessary to save Cadis from the evils which were about to overwhelm its inhabi tants. We thought the best means would be to repair again to the square of San Antonio, and invite the assembled people to wait with tranquillity for news of what passed in the interior of the kingdom, and for the orders of authority. " Scarcely had Gene' al Freyre began to speak, when an alarming and univeraal cry of Viva la Constinilion' stifled his voice. To these noisy ex elamations was soon added the sound of the parish bells of the square Nothing was to be done but to yield to the torrent; it was necessary, to calm the general effervescence, to promise that the next day the Gmstitution should be proclaimed The night was consecrated to joy. The people gave themselves up to it with transport. The city was illuminated . groups of ulsician3 paraded the streets: nothing was heard but I'wa la Constitution,' but no excess took place. " The hest order was observed till the next day at eleven o'clock, when the people flocked to the Square of San Antonio to enjoy the festival, at which every one had promised himself' she pleasure of being present, and which was announced in the Diaro of that day. :suddenly the battalion of the guides of the General presented theinsclvs, and fired a volley on the multitude. I arrived at this moment with Freyre, and we exhausted ourselves with criiirts to restrain the ardour of the troops ; the citi zens rushed towards the side streets to escape from death ; but firing was hoard on all sides, and in a few minutes, the troops having generally declared in favour of the King, spread itself tantultuottAy in the different quarters of the town, and committed all the horrors of which an unbridled soldiery, deaf to the voice of its Commanders, is capable.— There were numerous victims, many robberies, and other crimes against person and property. " General Freyre ran to the head-quarters to give orders, and endeavour to restore discipline. I myself went to the Cortadura of San Fernado, where my presence was not useless ; fur the report had already been spread, that 1 was arrested, and the troop of the royal marine, which covers this post, was much agitated. I went home to take some refreshment, and immediately after I rejoined the head quarters, from which successively irsued numerous patrols, commanded by officers charged to restore good order, and to call together the soldiers who abandoned themselves to all sorts of excesses. At five the town was nearly tranquil ; the night was tolerably quiet, and at eleven o'clock I returned to my dwelling" Letters of the 17th ult. have arrived from Cadiz, but without communicating much additional intim- Illation en the state of that City, or affording any distinct clue to the origin or the authors ut the late massacre Up to that day the shops and the houses remained closed, few persons venturing jute the streets; and mercantile transactions were so completely suspended, that no bills were paid, or indeed offered for payment. It appears that some time previously to the fatal 10th of Marsh, the in habitants of Cadiz had been called on to deliver up what sabres and fire arms they had in their posses- ' sion, and were forbidden to appear in public with the long knife usually worn by the lower orders, which is rendered in their hands, by peculiar dex terity in its use, a most formidable and dangerous weapon. Deprived of this defence they fell an easy prey to the brutality and fury of the soldiery. They had subsequently, however, again equipped them selves with those and other means of defence, and had accumulated in their houses quantities of stones and bricks, so that there was reason for supposing, kad the troops manifested any disposition to renew the attack, that a general massacre of the military would have taken place. This spirit had already manifested itself in individual acts of revenge, particularly by the gypsies, who, in Cadiz, .exercise the more laborious description of trades, and who are said to have destroyed seventy men•of the regi ment of Guia, the leaders in the tragical deeds of the 10th. •Tisey wade. have despatched more of them, had not those troops been removed in the night, and carried across the bay to Port St. Mary's. A considerable portiot4, of the garrison, it is said, have been removed in similar manner. Notice was given that the Constitution would be proclaimed on the 18th, but the civil authorities were deter mined not to attend any solemnity of that nature till the whole of the troops were removed from the city. These letters contain no mention of Freyre ; and, what is still more remarkable, are silent con cerning Quiruga, and, the troops in the Isle of Leon, as if they had never exits-ed. The number of per sons killed on the 10th is now stated to be as ' follow :-371 men, 29 women, and 36 children.— No names nave hitherto been published, but they are supposed to have been chiefly of the lower ranks. SETTLERS IN AMERICA. -.0.- The following extract tivm a letter just received by a gentleman near Portsmouth, from Mr. J. Alaidlow, a much esteemed man, and a good prac tical farmer, who left Horndean to sctde in the United States, will he read with much interest : " Park Place, mar Evanssllle , indiatt , United ntat. I of Aut.•nes, I /cc. g 3, I >• "By favour of Mr. Pffillips, an E :ii• it :tint: • • residing near Princeton, in this neivniiiirh,o,!, will take his dept •ina kw (lass 'or Eiiroi• I avail myself of the. opportunity to atitlressimi cad; o letter to you; I should hate written much earlier, hit knowing that your great olject teas mforinatimi, I tie. 'ermined So wait till I had aequirtal exper;enee to enable me to describe our real ailtu stl u , as w,•ti as our future prospects, and that of the emilitry in t oneral. " My wife and laintly, alter a tedious. hut not un pleasant, passage across the Atlantic, and a longer and more tedious one dawn tile tJhnt River, oceasimitd by the great draught of toe season, the water being lower than ,:linust ever was before remembfred, arrived here in good health dint spirits tile lativr vud of October : and Jul h a ppy to 3 1411, they :irt much pleased with the country, and the sitnauuh I II.1(1 selected for them, havilig preferred Indiana to the Illinois. Soon after my arrival, I entered two halt sectiotis of land, containing 320 acres each , out one of those I bad a eabin built of logs, which cost me 55 dollars it consisted of one room eighteen and a half feel btill,re, with a chimney of wood and plastered with I, accord In ;( to the Custom of the country. About the middle of Dvecivber, Iti 18, alter baviNg traversed the country nl various directions, I removed what things we had in the boat to my new then in all unfinished state, and commenced house-keepinz,in Indiana. Mr. lionibrook, an L•'nglish xentleman, with a younger brother and two sisters. who had been to Mr. Birbeck's settlement, in quest of land, but not Sprit% ing of NI r. B.'s terms, had, previous to my arrival, entered a considerable qu. tarty of land, and built a cabin al t a mile distant front whore 1 crested mine; from this we date the commencement of the English set demean h ear Evansville in Indiana Mr. IL's cabin and Wine, with a Air. Armstrong's, au American, were the only ones that were er cied on a space of several miles in extent ; and the greater part of the adjoining being UM_ eninvated, we found considerable difficulty in obtainietg a supply of provisions and forage, and were often under the necessity of sending many miles to obtain it. In January, a NJ r. Potts, front Stockport, near Manchester, entered, built a cabin, and settled near Mr. liornbrook: and soon after, Mr. Ingle, from Homingdonshire, also settled near us. In April we laid nifa new town, which is called Sandersville; eleven cabins are already boat and inhabited; it is situate on the main road from from Evansville to Princeton, Vincennes, and Fort Harrison Emiarants from different parts of England are continu ally joining us, and our number falls very little short of 200 persons. •• During the winter, which was very mild, we were busily employed in building two new rooms, 13 lett square, behind the first cabin, for offices; splitting rails fur fencing and clearing the land. In April, I planted tfix) peach-trees, cost three cents each,,and peach-stones, from which I have trees of the amazing height of 5 feet 7 inches, so astonishing u the vegetation.iu this country. In May , and early part of June, I planted 20 acres of inaiz:!(indian corn) : it is set in hills. from 3 and a 11.0 10 lour feet asunder, and though the season has been la. her unfavourable, and the laud new, I have -rows iiirwards of 700 bushels. The leaf or flag, ga thered mm titc hock, in September, and dried in the sun, makes excellent fodder for cattle; of this 1 have secured a considerabk quantity, which together with grass mown on the prairies, and made into nay, with which I am well provided, will subsist my horses and cattle dining wetter. I had almost forgotten to tell you that my garden was uncommonly piductive, and gave us abundance of vegetable; and my crop of potatoes anti turnips is tolerably good. I have since built another room, same size as the other, with brick chimneys, and sash windows to both, and have another house neatly finished, of two rooms ott a floor, two stories high, besitics several buildings for the use of the farm. I have sown 13 acres of wheat, there is tOO in this set tlement, and I intend to plant 40 of Indian corn, be. sides barley, &c., of which I give you the parti culars in my next, and of which Mr. Horubrook, Jun., will be the bearer. He expects to Live this country in fen days by way of Orleans. PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAEETTE. This Gazette off:rs a reward of 0001. for the discovery of the author, printer, or publisher of 'certain treasonable paper, en titled, " An Address to the inhabitants of Greas Britain and Ireland." purporting to be hatred by a committee of organisation for forming a provisional Government, and allia.ed on the walk and other conspicuous places in the City aid MIT/1/011111 o(Glasgow, Ate. . This Gazette flotillas the appointment of IL Cooch, Esq. of Baldeck. Hens. to be a Master Extraordinary in the Coon of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. C. Comber, Dorking, Surrey, carpenter, from April 8, to May In. BANKRUPTS. J. Holt. Manchester, dyer. Soliciton, Mar" Appleby sod Sergeant, Gray's Inn Square. J. Bell, Osenholnie, Westmoieland, fanner. Sol. Me. Addi son, Staple Inn. ' J. Buckton. Jermyn Street. St. James's, socking jeweller. Sods. Messrs. Richardion and Miller. New Inn. W. Year, Bath, Somerset, cabinet maker. Sol. Mr. Wood house. Temple. W. Gardiner, Ckalford, Gloucestershire, broad cloth mann factures. Sol, Messrs. Dar and Co., Gitik'ford Street. G. Elliott, Rochester, Kent, grocer. SoL Mt. Aubrey,Took'a Court, Cursitor Street. W. H. Mutt, Brighthelmstone, Sussex, wine merchanL Sol. Mr. Hannan Piazza Chambers, Covent Garden. G. Rose, ;Mick!. York, grocer. Sul. Mr. King, Castle Street, Holborn. T. Yates, sen. G. Yates, and T. Yates, jun. Yatc Bank, Lan cashire, cotton spinners. Sol. Mr. Arm•troug, Stailcs 11111. H. Sausbrick, jun. Liverpool. bread baker. Sul. Mr. Cheater. Staple Inn. T. and T. Johnson. Lowestoft, Suffolk, shipwrights. Sol. Mr. Francis, New Boswell Court. J. Gnat, Lullingwn Mill. Somerset, Mlles Sol. Mr. F.d. mantis, Lincoln's Inn. D. Williams, From Sclwood, Somerset,, shopkeeper. Sol. Mr. Edmunds, Lincoln's Inn. J. Roy, %Yolveriaunpton, Steffan!, tea de.der. Sol. Mr. Ches ter. S...pie Inn. J. tLiket. Strand, hosier. Sol. Mr. Gregory, Maiden Lunt., Wood Street. J. Baltic. Oxford Street, jeweller. Sols. Messrs. Sudlow and Monument Yard. J. Frew, Attesettitt Street, Bloomsbury, baker. Sots. Afebsr-. P.untber and Turner. Lttridon Street, 1 , enehurch Street. S. C. Alger, Cundnercial Road, rater merchant. Sulc. Mewl. l'3crnall arm F.iirk.mine, Old Jcwry. DIVIDENDS. April 29, %V. Adam, Nr7row Wall, Lambeth, timber mer chant-22, W. S. Evans, Ch: el Street, Middlesex. bricklayer —29, 11. Richards, Beaconsfield, Buckingham, carpenter-29, J. Peter;, Dorking, lime burner-29, J. IL and J. Hudson. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants—W. Lewis, a nd J. A. Hen, knurl. Little Tower S!..ett, wine merchants-29, W. Mims Winchester, brewer-29, N. Burford, (Noon, Middlesex, merchant-29, T. and I. Blackburn, Tornehspel Dock, Ply mouth, rhi a huilders—J. Sheppard, Dorton Mills, Cokbmok, Bucks, leather seller—May 30, G. W. %% ye ' Newington Butts, merchant-4, J. Jackson, Manchester, butcher.-8, J. Hardman, Manchester warel.ousernan-2, J. Wilson, jun. Sculcoates, York, mahogany merchant—l, J. and D. Saunders, Gloucester, grocers--9, T. Iligg, Milton. next Stingborne, Kent, butcher 9, J. Greaves, Fish Street Hill, leather hide seller. FICATES to he granted April 49. J. IL Brown and H. M. New, Poultry, stationers—E. Lang worthy, Cannon 6.rLet, Packer—G. Johnson, Bristol, engraver —H. Peach, Camberwell, merchant—B. L. Lecand, Great Pre,tott Siicet, Goodman's carver—lt. Wilson, Bir mingham, me.clunt—Nt. Hellyer, East Storehouse, Deton, bui!der—N. J. l'urner 9 Great Tower Street, merchant--W.. !ones, Portpool L a ne 11olbom, acaveagee.—W. Wells, Malden, Eases, Liquor merc hant.