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meat to the Constitutional Gove►nttment, nor from
uowillingnew to hazard life and property in the
cause of stational independence. The causes of
that subjugation must be attribsted to the nits-
%misspent and tardy conduct of the executive in
every thing connect'd with the war department ; to

ionipaissaty of supporting the fatigues of obstinate
midst*: to his despondency under the reverses of
file threats of the Allies, and the procla-
mations of your Majesty, although his loya)ty,
patriotism, and attachment to the national honour
'ate unquestionable; finally. to his declining to re-
tire into Calabria, and completely abandoning its one
day the notion and its resources to the enemy. Had
it uot been for all three circumstances, the nation
'would have koown how to defend itself, in spite of
the errors that had been committed, and notwith-
standing the disbanding of hoth corps of the army.
It is therefore most falsely that the Ministers at
I.aybach wished to attribute the easy and rapid
•wwcceases of the Austrians to the total want of at-
sliehoieut in the Neapolitans to the Constitutional
Gmteroment. Dots the disbanding of Prince !p-
-igtail's army prove that the Greeks are indifferent
to their emancipation from the Ottoman yoke ?
If, Si►e, it be true, eta has beers asserted in several
• journals, that the nation was not at all desirous of
II constitution—as the •moll number of those who
licocleinsed it are now in prisnu or in exile—why
no not the Austrian troops evacuate the kingdom,
oust allow your Majesty to reign peaceably over the
tiebollotioti of the Two Sicilie., who idolize the
absolute " paternal Government ?"

SPAIN.

Eittracts from letters received by the last
400
. BANES Or THE BIDASEOA, DECEMBER 28.
The insurgents of Navarre have not been fortu-
' nate tit their enterprise. Public opinion has been
*ktionely manifrsted against them. Those who were
Irolit forward and active among them have been taken
the authorities and the inhabitants. Their
:1 orts may now be regarded as terminated. for the
, troops which left Vitioria have returned to that
lace, and General Lopez is expected this evening at
Ps head-quarters at St. Sebastiau. The last effort
:.„1. these wretched men, who have been misled by
• perfidious counsels, was this day made at Bert.
Their intention was to get possession of the post of
• the Spanish Custom-house, but they were vigorously
repulsed by the Hammier., at the head of whom
Was M. loirbaraniendy, formerly one of Mina's of-
. &ere. They had several killed and wounded.—
Pive or six of the latter, of whom two are Curate.,
hive gone into the French Lazaretto of Behovie. in
older .to withdraw themselves from the inevitable
fate which awaits them in their own country.
MADRID, DECEMBER 24.
The news from the interior is not satisfactory foe
the persons who love tranquillity. Cadiz, Seville,
Campus, Caritidgena, Murcia,
.atc., are still in •
state of disobedience tower& the Governments
which is nut a good example ; but it is probable
that every thick will be tranquillized by the die.
. missal of the Ministry. This change, which may
soon be expected, is absolutely necessary for the
interests both of the throne and the nation.
The Benedictine Monk, Mauro Iglesia, one of
. Merino's officers, has been executed at Burgos. He
~resisted almost to the last the offers of the Bishop
to administer religious consolation to him, bemoan
lie had persuaded hicuself that the people would
steliver
. MURCIA, DECEMBER 18.
The day before yesterday the population of tbiv
city and the troops of the gurrivoil publicly ea-
presoid the desire which they have lung cherished
to imitate the conduct of the inhabitants of Carib*.
Kerte, in refusing to obey the orders of the presoot
Alinistry.
'A commission was appointed by the people, foe
t::e.-purpose of suakiug known this deteraiiiistiamto
Oa- Authorities, who met the inhabitants and rem
made, acquainted with this intention. The Geyer.
war. the Bishop, and the General commanding the
province, accompanied by two battalions of the
local militia, two battalions of the line, the provin-
cial battalion of Malaga, the Garda Costa, and an
immense multitude. proceeded to the Plaza tie la
Coristitucion, and there, amidst viva for the Con-
stitution and constitutional King, vowed the downs
fell of the Ministry. There was not for a wooers
the slightest disorder. An Address was drawn asp
to the Cortes, to give an account of this event ; and•
a courier was dispatched to Carthagetia to announce
to that city that Murcia acceded to the Confedetss
tan of Cadiz, Seville, Corium*, and Carthagena.
SHAMA, DECEMBER 25,
[EXTRACT OI • MUTATE LITTER.]
I send you an account of a little affair which
made a bustle here last night. The Curate Gue-
tale, who was formerly a Guerilla Captain, having
renounced his clerical functions, and collected rt!
DU mbar of banditti, made his appearance in the'dilW.
triet of Bi I lama yesterday. He ordered the Alcalde.1
- to furnish him with forty rstious of provisions, soil
to assemble 200 man neat day, either voluntarily dv
by force. The Alcilde replied, that he should be
p'inetually obeyed ; but immediately dispatched U.
courier to our Political Chief, with an account

whit had happened. As soon as the news was known,
a considerable stir was observed among our anti-
constitutionalists. In the lime mean time the draw.
• .bddge.iu front of the arsenal was raised; the MI..
lithe assembled voluntarily, the most active part
peoc.r'eding to reconnoitre, while the rest guarded
she arsenal. The horse-guards bivouacked in the
rims de Is Coustitucion. and afterwards proceeded
. to the powder-works, situated about a league
hence. near the moiniatery of the Desert, and gr-
. rived in time to prevent the banditti from geitnig
possession of that establiehinent. A few sabre cuts
.were exchanged, and our cavalry have brought in
acme prisoners; out of whom, • liaftva. of this
. town, is a yoring onto of good litaulys,bsta vslin will
be tried by martial law, sad eseowsed -in twenty-.

• •
fear hours.
The hopes of the factious will be completely dis-.
eppoinfed. fur the most prudent measures of defence
*save bean adopted. A detachment of troops ha. been
west ab• Palencia, where these is • mimulistiory of
• toners, *to *retire SAO muskets which ore prepared
• there, lest they should lull into the hands of the bait/
Ve expect soon to hear the result of theps.
Petlition 40111 la Sufel4se f•c,CO/4,ficitle.l.4l. The

LONDON,
THURSDAY. JANUARY 10, 1822.

Paris Papers of Sundry last have arrived at our
office. The Insurgents in the north-east of Spain,
Who affect to call themselves Royalists, and the
champions of the Church and the KING, have been
encountered by the KING'S troops and defeated.
A party of them was driven upon the French cor.
don of health, where they were ►ether severely
handled. These disturbers are organised by monks
and churchmen, who, to say the truth, have no
cause to love un order of !Mugs which has deprived
them of the means of their ordinary indulgences.
It must be admitted that the KING endures their
present hostility to the constitution with a forbear-
ance truly parental. If the rioters in the south-
. ern States, who ►efuse io obey the Royal authority
if exercised by the present Ministers, were to take
up arms and appear in the field to an amount not
nearly so formidable as this " Army of the Faith" is
represented to be, we• should instantly hear of a
Royal Message to the Cortes, deploring the ca.
!amities of the Peninsula, and exhorting the
asseosbly to adopt vigorous measures for preserving
the integrity of the constitution. For our own
parts we must confess that we ever doubted the sin-
eerily of FEantu•sio, and this suspicion leads us,
whenever we read of a " Royalist" insurrection, to
believe that the rebels are well assured that their at.
tempt receives in private the full meed of Royal
upprobatios. •
The intelligence from the East is of a far less
warlike character than we have been for some time.
accustomed to receive. It is repeated with increas-
ed confidence, that in consequence of the exertions
of the Elm:year) Ambassador% especially those of
Great Britain and Austria, the Ottoman Porte has
been induced to signify its tardy acceptance of the
Russian uhi►aotans. It is, however, to be observed,
that al.hough this piece of information comes to us
from various quarters, it is still but a repetition of
the one tale, which might have had its origin in
Vienna for some mercantile or other speculative
purpose, and having been thence diffused to every
part of the world, it meets us now in different ver-
sions, varying according to the character of the
several mediums through which it has been trans-
mitted. There is added to the report in the
Quoiidiersne a further staiernent, that the Grand
Seignior, apprehensive of the ill effects which •tiro
decision of his Government in this particular might.
have upon the Janissaries, • had caused a Manifesto
to be published for the purpose of appeasing these.
banditti.

An Evening Treasury Print, sivlsyse notions of
Science and political economy hive never brew
very remarkable for their wisdom, begins to talk
about • renewal of the Property Tax as st measure
highly bentficid—not merely to the retainers of
the Tresisury, but actually to the coniinunity at
Large 1 This writer too has the hardihood to assert
that he is thoroughly convinced, from all Isis " iss.
gullies upon the subject, that sui.li a 4iaaacial
tuctsure, if it were proposed, vtuuld writ 0b..4b,a1-

most ansnimous rapport from the coaatry." This
INP conjecture is the some writer whose grievous
sins against common sense provoked the mildness
even of Mr. VANSMAIT'S temper tome time since
to denounce him in the House of Commons, and

to put the public upon their guard against sup-
posing that upon matters of finance his nooions

had any thing in common with those of the CHAN-
ceLLoa of the EXCHEQUER. The recollection of
the very 'wholesome though severe chastisement
which the Courier then received from Mr. VAN.
SMART, prevents us now, ■ud no doubt it will
hare the same influence upon the general readers
of that Piper, from supposing that In the present
instance he writes under instructions. We must
admit, however, that the notion of relieving the
distresses of the country by imposing • Property
Tax, is worthy of the profound policy of the pre-
sent Ministers. It is not very difficult to imagine
the extent of the circle within which the writer in
the Courier has made " his inquiries," if indeed
he ever made any, respecting the advsntsges of the
tax and its presumed popularity. There is not a man
in the civil depertmenti of the• Government, or one
seeking for employment, who would not tell him
thit a Property Ts: offered the most effrctual
means of siring the country. But assuredly it is
not at ■ moment like the present, when we are
'hewn so annual revenue of more than 50 millions.
with a promise of further increase, that we should
be told of the expediency of adopting the terrific
plan of enlarging the sphere of taxation, and of
heaping upon the shoulders of au overburdened
nation a system of impost the most odious iu its
nature ■nd the most oppressive in its effects that
could be possibly devised.

Upon the subject of onr financial system, a
Paper of yesterday morning, with an affectation of
mystery not very unusual in its column►, insi-
nuates that some plan is in contemplation which,
if the reports be true, will give the public creditor
great cause to complain. This very same plan
has, to the best of our knowledge and belief, been
in contemplation—if the reports in the same Paper
were true—every year, at least since the return of
peace, preparatory to the developement of the ex-
penditure dud the ways and means of the year. It
is a kind of periodical ►umour which visits us
about Christmas, or the beginning of the new
year, and has at length acquired all the in-
veteracy of • chronic malady. That there is
as little foundation for the assertion now as on
any former period we entertain not a shadow
of doubt. The faith of the Government it too
deeply pledged to justify any suspicions that a
measure will originate with the Ministers for re-
ducing the rate of interest without a compensation
to the holder of public stock; and we may remem-
ber that when in the Session of Parliament before
the last some Member, of the House of Commons
very itjudiciotoly started such a proposition, it
was indignantly scouted by the majority of the
members present.

The Addrem.of the Farming Society of Ireland
I• the Marquis W ELL/WILEY, and his bold-
ship's answer, are given in our extracts from the
Dublin Papers. The hitter document derives
peculiar interest from the light which it throws
upon his Excellency's future government. His
first public document cannot be considered as com-
mon place: it may be presumed to have been pre..
pared with care, and that the principles which it
professes are those which he is resolved to maintain.
it is therefore satisfactory to find him declare that
it is not less his inclination than his bounden duty
to give every aid tO the Progress of "that wise and
necessary system of general retrenchment which has
been adopted by his Majesty's Government and by
Parliament, and which is as essential to the true
dignity of the Crown, as necessary for the security
•of the State, and for the interest and welfare of the
people." This pledge would have been still more
satisfactory were the system of retrenchment more
general. The retrenchment adopted by Govern-
ment would be more complete. if it extended to the
heads of office, and the salaries of great place•hold-
era were reduced in the same proportion with those
of their inferiors. The Freeman's Journal, in its
comments upon the answer to the Addre►s, says—
" Let means not incompatible with the laudable
economy now enforced be suggested for extending
and perfecting Our agricultural knowledge--let
landlords be taught, if they have not already learned,
that their true interests must consist not in the
nominal amount of their rent-roll, hut in the 'Wu-
, sion of comforts among their tenantry through the
medium of moderate rents—let the impoverished

cultivutor of the ►oil be relieved fiona the h 66666 ing
annoyance of tithe farmers and ecclesiastical pinta—
let the laws be enforced by eu upright and active
Magistrscy and au rfbeient police—end let a
good system of moral education he diffused
amongst the poor, slid we cannot hesitate to Ull-
bwering for the permanent tranquillity and future
prosperity of Ireland. We trust it has been reserved
for the Noble Marquis to accomplish a " consum-
mation so devoutly to be wished." We cannot but
augur favourably both from his well-established
character as a statesman, and from the responsibility
under which he lies to his KING and his country.
The dark clouds we trust are dispersing, and the
dawn of happiiiesa and peace about to open upon
Ireland." _ .

It ib reported that 10,000 troops are to be sent
out itninediatrly to bbo, and that Asps are oirrotly
eolgttipAl fur that purpvie...(imating.Puper•so

SARDANAPALUS.
RIFIRACT FROM 1.1111D114111011 ‘‘ DRAMAS OF VII
• ANCIVIT WORLD," lig/T rususaszo.

as ApardatlMSAlMl4MbilaeNipil.,
saartartarriuss atone.
There is a storm gathering is the black air.
I heard the thusder rumbling long asd low.
• As rather venting groans of kindly grief,
Then roars of fierce displeasure;—it did sound,
As if reluctantly, It dirg'd me on
To meet my coming fate.—The wild bine glare
Of the broad flashing lightning *bone 'mad
With death-like brilliancy, as if to show
The path that I meat tread : so let it be!
All is in harmony with this night's deeds.
The Empire of the worlji is dying—dead ;
And Hearer and Earth perform her obsequies.
Media bath congseed—Nineseh is down—
Assyria bat • same.—What heth her king
Now left fur him ?—The morning of my day
Was spent in royal efforts, bow to frame
My power with my pleasure, so to make
The day of life one constant festival.
Deep bowls of joy I quaff 'd ;—the cup I draial
Still overflow d, and to the very brim
The wiae of bliss ruse mantling.—After days .
Had but ose thought :—it was to gild the past
Wilk some faist rays of glory.—Now, I have
Oae 'Andy farther, and that is to die,
And nobler than I liv'd.—Although my life
Hath been degrading to the high reached fame
Of proud Semiramis, yet shall my death
Recover all, and add new fires unto
The bright high soaring Rame.—The startled world,
When it chill speak of me, shall freely own,
Although I liv'd au alien, yet I died
True son of that world's wonder !—Beleals
Halls sent me terms of life.—Of life, the wretch!
He deems my spirit like his own :—he swears—
Pledges his life fur mine—peace, honour, safety,
High place sod riches, these the bribes be offers,
If I will yield me captive, and be led,
A chained wild beast, through his native streets,
And sbewn to Median furesiers.—Peace! honer!
To bow (e'en if they keep their word) the kitty
Before the Chaldean, end submission pay
To kips whom I consm•eided ;—to adore
The cruel valour of the Merle ;—to find
Companions in my slaves, foes in my friends,
And masters in them all ! High place, he yields !
High place in Niocveh, where I was born
The highest !—lusolesce!—l will display
Before his eyes what value I affix
To tees/tied beeps of riches!—Counsel, counsel!
Time's dusky wings are spread, and on them rides
The beauteous King of Shadows—let me make
A temple for his welcome !—My last guest,
I would receive him nobly !—Ha ! who comes
To scare me from my purpose?
ATOIIIIII

♦TOIPA.
To confirm
Thy high resolve I come;—the world hath shot
Her gaudy gates upon thee.—Do not knock
At the clos'J door for entrance;--otber realms
Are waiting for the banish.J.—Thor must go
A dreary road, sod I must follow thee.
I owe tbee Coos; I have unwittingly
Aided thy ruin ; for the haughty hitch
Prism alms fur my sake.—Command is give*
Te seize sad sp ire Atossa—du not start
He saw me in t or palace, when his art
Gani'd truancy to thy presence.
IIaRDASAFALIJI.
did think
I was prepsr'd to die ;to throw off life •
As a rent garmeut.—Now I cling unto it
Close, close, and wrap me in its tweed folds.
The draught ufJeaoh was rich with perfumes spied
By honour, glory, valour.—Now I taste
Nought but its bitterness!—O my sick heart!
Thou wilt not wait fur high ennobling death,
But sink unto him weeping.
aTossa.
Thea thou doubt's.
My truth, it seems;-12 thy all-idle day
. Lov'd I thy careless revels !—Did I bow
Before thy sun of pleasure'—Strove I not
To wake thee from thy dream; and wises, at last,
Tby spirit liv'd, whose was the voice that hairs!
Its birth, and mired, and walch'd its you.; existence?

I toed thee best, stain'd with the blood
When victory was thine, ere Being looted
The chain that bound her to his tout, and she
Flew to thy foe, sad took ►er state upon
The Median helm.—Now can I love thee less,
Because thine own must drench tby royal robe'
Igo ! last Assyria, !—Of Semiramis
The only nobk one-1 still am thine,
Still mock the haughty Mede's prestmapreous Isom
And choose to die a mighty sovereign's bride,
Than live a servant's slave.—Whit! could'st thou think
That I, thy tutor is heroic deed.,
Would Imsely, by example, bid thee live,.
When Fate Lath hid thee die?—Look on me, Sane,
Think'st Shoo ibis brow is deck'd for conquest, ur
This lip the shrine of love!

SARIDANAPAIMS.
What Mutt thou doss
0! cruel is thy virtue, hut thou smiled
Thy matchless loveliness?—Thy baud is chill;
Gilled thy once spasklimg eye.-0! du not say,
Thou hest destrued thy life.

ATOUA.
I could DOI look
Upon thee, captive, and I felted thy heart
Would shrink from the dark voyage, if I seat
Nut ou to chew the isack.—The friendly draught
HaW fitted Sir to guide thee ;—nuw I know
That thou wilt fulluw quickly.
SAM) AAAAA
! 1 sill.
I needed not this piercing goad, Moon!
Yet, yet, look on thy Same ! let me hear
Once more the music of thy vuice.—Now lean
Upon my busom.--Thoo art iu alio. arms.
Atusus smok—sposk to me mice spin !

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My Sam, come!

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