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FRENC PAPERS. SPAIN. PROCLAMATION OF 'I HK PROVISIONAL JUNTA OF GOVERNMENT. ClTlZENS—lmmediately on their installation, the Provisional Junta has followed, without hesi tation, the course which was dictated by the con fidence with which the people had clothed it, and the most signal attachment of all the Members Who compose it to the Constitutional Charter—a document in which are consecrated, to be never violated, the rights of the heroic Spanish nation, and of the Constitutional Throne which is destin ed to raise it to that high degree of glory which is reserved tor it. As inimical to flattery and in terest as exempt from timidity and weakoses, the Junta has sent forth no opinion in which either the rights of the throne or those of the people are 'violated; it will follow this svitem so long as it exists, with that tranquillity whirl' the testimony of his own cons, icnce gives to a just man. The Junta has seen with satisfac.ion, wi - bin a few days, the Constitutional system established in all the branches of the Administrative and Ju diciary system of the capital of the Monarchy ; it has seen measures taken to establish the same system throughout all Spain, in execntiou of the decrees issued by the King, by the advice of the Junta. This first step having been taken, the political liberty of the press has been estahlished, the 'Tribunal of the inquisition has been abolished, the property restored to the administration of the public d e bt, this branch separated from die general treasury, and the Directors appoity ed by the Cortes called to the performance of rheir tholes ; the re establishment of the Council of State has be - en ef fected, and the worthy men who had been driven from it have been recited ; the Chamber of Ac counts has been organized, and nbe Junta It 45 re cognized the necessity of choosing for all offices virtuous men devoted to the Charter. ;Many other important Works Lase Item undertaken, and in short the difficulties which opposed a sudden and (pier esttiblisliment of the Constitutional system have been as much softened as human prudence could pet mit ; but what has exclusively demanded the attention of the Junta, is the laborious and dangerous labour of prepiteing the convocatiou of the Corlett, which must form the aegis of liberty, and impose an eternal silence on passions and con trariety of opinions. Bur, Citizens, how many difficult anti thorny questions have presented themselves to the Junta on examining this important matter, which 'would have been simple if the constitutional system bad experienced no alterations, but which becomes so complicated when it ;s necessary to create even the bases of it. The Junta has been obliged to treat these grave questions without having time to consult the learned men and the writers who could have thrown light upon them. Supported by its slender information, it has given to the King those Councils which its love to the Charter and its own conscience dictated, in order that at least the spirit of this precious code might be followed, if it was impossible to adhere to the let ter of it in some points. These labours, which can only be considered as tire fruit of the purest attachment to the Constitution, of the most sin• cere desire of socceeding, and of tire inspirations of a clear Constitution, unbiassed by personal views, 4111.ve been presented to the Ministry for his Majesty's examination, end the Junta has the saris fact ion to announce, that it has just officially learn ed the approbation of his Majesty. It cousegnently is already occupied in drawing tip the regulation for the convocation of the Cartes, which, in circulating throughout the nation, will diffuse the balm of confidence, and sbew the path of glory and prosperity in which it must here after walk. It is then, well-beloved Citizens, that the Junta will, with the openness and good faith which characterise those who compose it, mani fest to the nation the foundation on which it tests its opinion, and the painful alternative in which it found itself as to the choice of the means which presented the fewest inconveniencies. Mean time, full of confidence in your love for order, in your adherence to the Charter, and in those singular virtues which distinguish you from all nations, the Junta holds itself obliged on this great day, the Anniversary of the Constitution, end that on which that precious code, the deposi tory of the general will, is to be published, to warn you that the impatience which is excited by great events, when it does not depart from tine bounds of reason and prudence, is the hest indi cation of the constancy of general resolutions and the firmness of principles; but when carried to excess and agitated by untenectiug minds , im patieme becomes a powerful weapon in the hand of malevolent emitting, to disunite opinion, to ex cite fears and jealousy, which in all political changes are the origin of calamities, because they keep the public in a continual state of agitation, which weary out good men, and drive them to abandon the helm of the State, to the irreparable misfortunes of their country. The establishment of a new system on the ruins of one that has fallen, is the greatest, the most difficult, and laborious operation which is known to man. It exhausts all the resources of human understanding and prudence ; it exercises and elevates the social virtues. The history of ell re volutions and the example of France should ren der you prudent wad moderate your impatience; they will strew you that every revolution which im patience would terminate in a day, has caused tears to flow for ages ; and that, on the contrary, the quiet and constant movement of new institu tions-consolidates instead of destroying. We may compare the one to the results of the stormy inundation of a torrent, which sweeps eves y thing away, and the other to the majestic and beneficent ea:tiling of the Nile, which fertilises every tiring and destroys nothing. Citizens ! Let us follow our sublime impulse with the order and tranquillity hitherto observed, to render us the objects of the admiration and re ajtect of Europe, and to strew how well we de serve our liberty. (Signed) LOUIS DE BOURBON. Cardinal de la SCALA, Archbishop of Toledo, President, (And the other I‘l4auliers of the Junta). Madrid, }!arch 19, Itlio. • LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE NIORNING PAPERS OF VHS DAY. [The 'limes.] MASSACRE AT CA6IZ. No additional letters arrived yesterday (tom Spain direct, nor was any intelligence obtained through the French mail, later in date than our letters of Monday from the scene of action. Those we subjoin were also received in town on that day, and derive their chief importance from their attempts to throw light on the origin of this atro cious deed, though they are very far from setting the question at rest. Indeed, with respect to the guilt of General Freyre, the passages we are about to quote are in direct variance with each other— the letter Irons Madrid learhog to the .inference, that the whole was an act of deliberate treachery; while that from Cadiz represents the excesses of the soldiery to have taken place without his con nivance, and to have assumed a violence beyond his primer to restrAu. We proceed, however, to our extracts, and must leave the character of Ge neral Freyre, for the present, to the judgment of out readers. 'NI:10111D, MARCH 20.-1 have related to you the scene which occurred at Cadiz on the 10 , h. At the. conclusion of that dreadful affair, the troops repaired to the barracks called La Bomba, and front that time till the 14th the inhabitants . remained closely confined to their houses. On the morning of that day the Commander of the Royal troops issued an official notice for the pub lication of the Coostiution, but from their pre vious experience tic inhabitants would not ven ture to trust him, but kept within their dwellings secure. Meantime, uotwithStandiog this want of communication with each other, the opinion was current throughout Cadiz that sows dreadful re taliation was niedtta'ed on their hart. A dispatch bout General Freyre to G,neeal O'Donnell has been received, dated on the 10th, from Cadiz, concluding with tin se words :—' The inhabitants of this town compelled me yesterday to promise them the Constitution on this day, but 1 ant happy to inform you that I have gloriously disappointed their wishes, with the as s istance of my brave troops, who continue faithful to the august per son of the King.' The annexed letter from Cadiz contains clic only circumstance we have hitherto collected tending to exculpate General Freyre from the guilt of massacre " CADIZ, MARCH 14.—The carnage and plun der on the 10th commenced in the morning, to the cry of Live the King!' and continued till eleven o'clock on tie following day. General Freyre, in person, used every endeavour to restrain their violence, but without effect ; the troops lost all subordination, and at thr ee o'clock he was com pelled to quit the city. This cruel excess has emanated from the Commanders of the garrison, in revenge for Freyte not having officially commu nicated to them his intention of taking the oath to the Constitution in public. History furnishes no instance of an outrage of so violent a nature, as the people certainly had not ventured to mani fest any external symptoms of joy until they were authorised to do so by their governors. Before to-clay none of the doors of the houses have been opened, and scarcely a person &as beerfseen its the streets. All are clamorous for vengeance. Such is the hatred to the soldiery, that every one who ventures out alone dies, and snore than 30 have already shared that fate. In general, the soldiers have not ventured to break into any private houses, because they are, for the most part, very strongly barricaded, and they feared being tired upon from within. A few of the shops, particu larly those for the sale of provisions or fruit, and which were secured in a slighter manner than the private houses, have been forced, and in t h em many of the soldiers passed their time, enjoying the fruits of their ptunder. After all, it is but too well understood that the soldiers are less guilty of this atrocity in the comparison than the offi cers, it being asserted that they have mutually, and in a brotherlike manner, beets sharers in the spoil and pillage. Tbe Civil Authorities here continue the same as before. if these vile !loops had 'an inclination for fighting, %%by did they at tack an unarmed and unoffending people, at a time when the soldiers of Quiroga were stationed so near to them, and they might have covered themselves with glory ?" WARWICK, TUESDAY MORNING. EXTRACT OF A LETTRR2-111 consequence of Mr. Justice Best's indisposition, the whole of yesterday was employed in the trial before Mr. Clarke of Crown cases possessing no general in terest. The defendants in Cartwright's case ap plied yesterday to the Judge, expressing their re gret at the cause of his absence, but requesting, as they were living at a great expence, to be in formed when this case would probably be beard. In answer to this Mr. Justice Best's son waited upon them, and stated that it was at that moment impossible to mention any time precisely, but that his tatter was equally desk ous that no delay should take place. He added, we understand, that the physicians had advised his father not to go into Court this day. Mr. Clarke sits in the Crown Court, and Mr. Sergeant Vaughan at Nisi Prins, this day—at least as I ant at this moment apprized. Dr. Parr is here, anxious to be present at the trial ; he is a personal friend of Cartwright, hut has no participation in his politics. The Doctor is at present very infirm, from a severe cold in his h ands. Mr. Denman, I understand, cannot prevail on the defendants to adopt any prescribed or regular course of defence, and I think there is , reasou to expect a good deal of variety.—(lbid.) [New Times.] (Extract of a Private Letter flons Manchester, dated April 3.] " Considerable agitation has been excited here within these few days by the military movements which have taken place. On Saturday afternoon two field-pieces were taken from the barracks in Huhne ; they were tscotted' by a proportionate quantity of artillerymen. A cannon with the vaux-de-frise is now placed at each entrance to the New Bailey Barracks, and the e panlements which IN ere erected at the time of the exPccre4 TIM SUN. SOLEM gills DI CERF. PA I,SITN! A u iiKAT ? LONDON, WEDNE,SIMY, APRIL 5, 1320. We received this morning the Pat is Papers of Sunday last, on which day the Offices of the Journals were shut, and none were to be publish ed on Monday. Neither of the Chambers met on Saturday. There is no further news in these Papers from any part of Spain. The following are Extracts " PARIS, APRIL 2.—Yesterday the King trans acted business successively wills the Duke de Richelieu, the Baron Pasquier, and the Count Simeon. His Majesty also transacted business with the Cardinal . Grand Almoner. The King likewise received the Spanish Ambassador. " Some disturbances occasioned by the soldiers have taken place at the Synagogue of S. i asburg. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday ... 73f. 70c. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 22d March, 1820, BB f. —c. " DARMSTADT (HESSE DARMSTADT), MAR. 24. —Our Grand Duke has just given u a Constitn- Lion. " VIENNA, MARCH 22.—The preparations for the journey of the Emperor and Empress of Aus tria have recently been countermanded until fur ther orders. INSPaUCK, MARCH 22.-Iccording to the last accounts from Italy, the Queen of England was again residing at Pesaro, 'but her Majes:y would not stay long there. " A very beautiful Statue of a Priestess has been recently discovered amongst the ruins of Pompeii. " Lord Spencer, during his stay at Naples, has purchased the superb library of the Duke tie Cas sano, which is embarked on board an English vessel to be conveyed to England." The Massacre at Cadiz, however it may have miginated, is an event deeply to be deplored ; but we learn that letters bare been received in the City this day, which import that the 9CCOUnt3 that have hi►hei to been received have greatly exaggerated the real state of affairs. The Morn in; Chronicle, however, followin4 the base ex ample of the Old Times, news dispoted not to Liy the blame upon a loose intoxicated soldiery, but upon the officers, though itiis yet impossibl' to arrive at a true statement of the real cause of the melancholy transactions in question. The Chronicle, referring to the intoxication of the sot- Biers, says, " this we own, is very suspicious."--' Vat would it not deem suspicious that tended to the honour of all loyal men ? and then being very adroit in irisidious questions, it adds, " How came the whole of these soldiers to be in that state ? who furnished them with the means of intoxication ? Could such a general intoxication take-place with' out the' knowledge of their Officers ?" It t h em proceeds to admit—prodigious candour—that" the Officers, it is said, in sonp: accounts, do not appear to have taken any part in the fray ;" but then it malignantly adds, " This may or may not be die case ; (wonderful sagacity) but if Cr mach vir tue in an if) the Officers supplied the men with' money, and inflamed their passions when in * state of inebriety, their criminality is not the less because they took no active part in the out rages." Is not this observation nearly tanta• mount to a direct charge against the Oficers► atter having admitted that their exculpation may be well founded ? It is difficult to say which is most entitled to the indignation of the people at large, the Morning Chronicle or the Old Times, but they both seem to be actuated by an inverted am bition, end to have entered into a competition fur the cuutempt of mankind. There will to-morrow be two Celebrations of is very different description. In the City of London a numerous body of the most respectable cha• ratters will assemble to celebrate the restoration of Sir WILLIAM CURTIS to that station in the Legislature of the Country, which the spirited, independent, and patriotic Baronet fulfilled to his oven honour, to the honour of the City, and to the advantage of his Country. We heartily wish that the triumph of the worthy Baronet had been rendered more complete by his eleA ration to the bead of thL: Poll. But as it is, we rejoice that so many honest men gave a successful support to a Gentleman who, in every relation of life, is entitled to the esteem of his friends and the confidence of his fell() cv-citizens. On the other hand, there is in Westminster to be celebrated the triumph of Radicalism over Loyaltrs Decency, and Common Sense. The Public, on this occasion, will have to witness the insulting pa" rade of the Chairing of two Members, one of whorrs has been lately released from a gaol, and the other who is likely soon to be his successor in the same situation, unless, to prevent repeated riotiogs and confusion in the Metropolis, he is placed in a more distant retirement, in order to give him 39 opportunity of reflecting, on his political errors, and to commence in himself, what he so much wants, a Radical Reform. DOTER, Aram 4.—His Excellency the PBS' SIAN AMBASSADOR and suite' arrived here about half past seven o'clock on Sunday evening, and proceeded to Wright's Hotel. Owing to the un .* favourable state of the wind, his Excellency► did not depart till this afternoon about two o'clock , when he embarked on board the Pioneer schooner , which had been in readiness awaiting his arrival, under a salute from the battery : his Excellency was attended by a guard of honour, and severtd hundred persons were on the Pier-heads to wit' uess his embarkation. On arriving in the Road s the Pioneer fired a salute of fifteen guns, which had a very pleasing effect.—His Excellency the NEAPOLITAN AMBASSADOR arrived here from Calm late last evening, and proceeded to the Metro . polis about half past one this afternoon, tinder 11 similar salute from the Heights. MEMBERS. RETURNED. Wigtonshire—Jacues Hunter Blair, Esq. Elgin District of Burghs—A. Farquharson, En. Glasgow District—Archibald Campbell, Esq. ' Fortrose District—George Cumming, Esq. Ayr District—T. F. Kennedy. Esq. Argyleshire—Lord John Campbell. CORN-EXCHANGE, APRIL 5.—A considerable quantity o f all kinds of Grain remaitted over from Monday's Market, addition to which we had a fresh supply of Wheat and 13 r ley from :introit; and Norfolk, both of which articles we ll exceedin4ly heavy sale, and only a few picked samples ( each c6uld be got off on Monday's terms ; all other sor t ; may be considered Is. per quarter cheaper ; the arrival ° f I Oats is very large, and to effect sales, an abatement of per quarter was submitted to ; in Beans and Pease there is no alteration. Yesterday her Royal Highness the Duchess E , CLARENCE took au ailing in her carriage in tbg Regent's Park. of Yestrrilay tier Royal Highness the Duches s a l? GLOUCESTER visited the Princess SOPHIA, ti their Royal flighnes,es took a carriage airing / the Pirk, attended by Lndy CAMPBELL. , 0 6 is koivices trom India, received yesterday , ti rt Ate intOlinC(l (IP uNa now GtricowS ll "' r t on ills' B,h of October, in the fifty-firth Ye°r, Li his nge, and 2Oth of his ieign. He is sticeecui:v the IViiistatt) by Si JER How, his broth er ' 11 ' (1-3 prweolui, of the•bri simultanectit9 rising in the vt inter, have been re -11411 e d. Yemterdßy (;hongh Sunday) a part of the 85111 Regiment marched into the town. The Yeomanry have received orders to be pre pared for duty, if wHnted. " The Civil Power is also on the alert. The special coustahles have received information of their being formed into divisions, and each divi sion is retpiii ed to be in readiness to meet at on appointed place, in case of disturb"ce in the town. " Various reports are in circulation as to the reason for these preparations. It is said some alarming intelligence has been received from the neighbourhood of Huddersfield and Holinfirth. It is also reported, that several Delegates of Re formers have arrived here from Scotland. Whe ther these reports he correct or not I cannot at present ascertain. lam informed, however, from very good authority, that the Police and Magis trates have received certain accounts that the Reformers are again planning simultaneous meet ings to take place in a very short time. Such meetings would, under the present laws, amount almost, if not quite, to actual rebellion ; and it is to be hoped they will be prevented by the vigilance of the Magistrates and Government." " P. S. 1 open my letter to say, more soldiers are jsuo arrived ; they are the remainder of the Sfith Regiment, from their late bead quarters at Notthwich." [Morning Post.] We have pleasure in stating, that the Expedi tion, under the direction of Sir W. Kier," from Bombay, against the Arab Pirates in the Gulp!) of Persia►, has been crowned with entire success. The chief seat of these desperate men, where their marine rendezvoused under the p►otection of strong fort, has bee❑ taken and destroyed. [Morning Herald.] It is said th4t the Hou. Miss F--, whom that distinauished leader Of the haut tan, Viscountess C—, undertook to introduce it few weeks ago, has already made a conquest of the heart of a Noble Peer ; the conquest is also said to he almost mu tual, and so much so, that matrimonial atrange mews are already going on. THEATRICAL nEGISTE R. Piveor2;zed Last Night. THEAVIE ROYAL, DIMRY- LANE.--1 Cure for the Heart-Ache: Young Rapid, Mr. Elliston ; Ellen Vortex, Mrs. Robinson. Atter which, Jack and the Bran Stalk. MEATH E RoYAI„ COVENT-GAIIDEN.—The Comedy of Errors : Omani of Epticcns, Mr. V. Barrett; Adriana, Mia Ste phens. After Which (id time), Harlequin and Cinderella. e o * For LITERARY REVIEW (CLARE'S POEMS), see Fourth Pa4c. ?RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT r wetA , v. o cLocK. 3 per Cent. Cons 6S4$ I Exch.Bilis, par Ss. pr. per Ct. Navy Ann 104Ai Ditto Small Imp. s per Cent. Amt..... 68i Guns. tur Account .... 68 69 India I3uuds .... 14s. 16s. pr. j MAILS. Astitivet,-1 Guernsey and Jersey, I Holland, I Flanders. Dui —I ‘Vaterford, 1 Gotteuburgh, 2 Hamburgh. HIGH %V A'rEtt A'r t I.OND()N BRIDGE TO •NIORROW. ALA ning, 99 minutes after 7. Er g, 5 minutes after S. Tii g lee n Was ID I kup i Pre% thi s Coal re s 3d Op Pe lei 11