The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-02-13 00:00:00

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" MADRID, .TANVAIIY 10.
. " 1 fear you will accuse me of delay in not mi.-
%veering sootier your last letter. I have not done
sn, because, in fool, I did tlct wi.h to semi you
news whirls could only exeitr, without raiti,ifyitig,
your cariosity. Yeti *re perfectly rife of the
difficulty of ascertaining evrtits in is where
there is no liberty of the pres,, and nit re the Go-
vernment acts without the. alerriOily of cOnsullitig
any opiiiirm that can, with propriety, be denomi-
nated public.
" However, the plots and insurrections cool:lin-
ed in the English papers of the bast mouth, have
Gatnd !luir way to the lowest classes its this capital.
The state of universal revolution its which we are
there represented to be ; the fight of the h ink,
undrr the proiteelino of the EuKlush Attilvi.s.s4lor ;
VIC ot-oprosition of the vnrioua IfroVloCes In roduce
34 total subversion of the existing system of govern-
ment ; all these reports really do as little honour
lo the judgment of the illustrious Eogli.ll ptotilv.
a. they do to the waudetiug itiiNgotialiumb of their
youth., ge

" Almost all pei,otio, and eopecially the Etoglish,
k mr‘r as little of the real political 1.11111 moral state of
Spain. Hp of the Moore,. id B iy. Notwith-
standing, however, ilie evrots to Valemiii his.r op.
plot sittely t %ken place to support their por.,(lieliut..
Ai I 1t5..41 events will doubtless lie magnified to
variety or ways, I bend you au exact account of
what actually took place. You way rely upon Otto
atailleutietty.

Ois the night oldie 241 of lint, irV, nn OfFter
of the. Queen's regiment of infantry w oiled upon
the Caption-General Elio, and told him that he had
been selected, by 14 hody tit lier,ons who wore 211-
H.lllliholl in a house which he oinfileol• tio
hum iatisfyioly himself of the truth of this
it,Timition, took with laity eight soldiers, and, coo-
darted by di? Officer, went toward, the raid house
Having met upon the road it Captain, who was
one of the com•pir it Ire, lie joined the Officer
and Elio; the latter was disguised, and had his
soldiers at at distance. The Officer ascended the
staircase of Ise hoot.e, till he came to where the
mettiog was ldol; there were eight conspirators e..
rrtnhlyd; bust when they room' they were betray-
ed, they immediately locked the doors, and sot.
teimiteil to tire from the Window. upon the bolrlirr..
A Colonel, the only person of that rank who has
its yet !welt rpprrhrndril, determined to clear him-
self a pik..age with his sword, and attacked Pio.
and slightly «omitted hint in the left ha. d ; but
Elio holding lie would tint surrender himself, mi.
onediately ran him through the body. It Wilt
thought at best that hr was ki beet ; but hr son.
viverl, though eriev..o.ly to the
rest, they surrendered 0w:114r-he., wire eniiillieltd
to pinion, awl will b.? tried by a Court-in total.
" Tins was all that took place. With rig irol to
the motives and the ooliket ul the plat, there site
different opiiiiims entertained 11$1 usual. SOlre say
it was ti3treted solely against the person of ;
others, that it involved
" With respect. linove%er, to our political situa-
tion, the fact is, the King commands and the lid-
tiOui obey,. Spailiardsocelistouseol to their loctionl
institutions, have no knowledge of the advantages
to be tletive.l Irons ally Mho', and eitniiiit, tilt•refore,
be eager for that of which they are ignorant. In
every country there are clionimols, and
; and I 010 not believe they almond
more in Spain than el.ewliere. if, too, there have
been discontented per.ons, desirous of overthrow-
ing the existing gystriti, the guilty have betrayed
themselves, :not given no other tromlile to the irn-
lice, but to direct their pososhoser.t."