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Stilt/41MR 9.11.

At ten (o'clock the Sitting oprne.l. The power 4
of a alionty of Li NI on -ha were p►teentrd, and
immediately referred to the proper Committee.
Purr de Castro reduced a memoir of Don Jut-
quint de Owns. Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal
Corps of Ar il.ery. the objet of which is to skew
the 'semis and mode of raising an army of oh•rr-
•otion, coinpmed of 120,000 men, which should
be called the " l'atnot Army r and procuring Gu
millions to clothe, arm, and maintain it during the
tune of it's instruction. The mid memoir was or-

dered to be referred to the Committee of War.
Herrera. a Deputy of Estremadora, immediate-
ly rose, sod dernauded that the Sitting should
tons a Secret Committee. since he had to propose
marten of the utmost importance and urgency.
which retioired secrecy. Tio q te•tion, wh••ther

Chiefs of the ROVAI Gaud', Infantado, Castelaw.
tide, Castelas, and Creventele, presented themselves
is take the oath, which they did. down on
a ambient. Incanted° delivered a short speree. is
which he congest ielatedthe Cortes on their glorious
installation, and. expressed the anxious deem of
the troops of the Royal Household to deserve still
more and more, especially at the presetit time, the
gond opinion which they had obtained and emus
stently preserved from ancient tiro-s.
Capitally ascended the Tribune, and read, in
very imprestive manlier a paper conceived in the
following terms In vain shall we sacrifice our
repose. our health, nay nor lives if it were•
ed. did we not accompany the discharge of the
sacred duty iinpoteed ea us by the honoutaLle
• situauon we hold, by a generous, voluntary, and
disinterested act, by which we may really deserve
the title of Fathers of the Country. We must
revenue° all ideas of personal advantage, and shut
the doer against alt hopes—against out own desires.
Isecordiagly propose to this august Congress my
opinion in the following form of a 'Decree
" That it shall ust he lawful for any Deputies or
I Members of the Cortes, whether they compose
lies preseart Congress, or
,gsay be appointed
hereafter, during the time they perk-inn the
funtions of Deputies,' and within ten years after, to
solicit or accept. either for himself or any ether per.
son. any employ, pensiou, distiection or favour, from
the Executive Government provisionally appointed,
or to be constituted hereafter, of whatever name or
descnptioo." lie lastly demanded, that this Decree
should be et:mailroom-lied to the Regency, in Order
that be made known to the provinces of the
Spatii-ii Empire, for theft satisfertimsa; Arid to the
world at large, ss a matter of erttraration.
Huerta immediately rose, and said, that he bad
entertained the same idea, and 'loyally prepared
the form of a Decree, *loch on the preceding day
he communicated to Capmany. The latter pro-
duced thereupon the project of a Decree, allud-
ed to by Helena ; which, being teed, was found to
be more rigorous and severe than that of Cap-
many. The latter was therefore pot to the votes
and passed by a considered* majority, with the
addition of the. clause, st except tag tuck em ploys
as are obtained try seniority, or granted fur notori.
sus estrraidivary services reodered to the country
,
mass which, in the estimation of vie Cortes, shall •
deserve an extraordinary reward."
This Decree had hardly been sanctioned. when
limeade rose, and said in an aarlibie voice. yet
without addressing himself to say particular per-
Mn—"t That all this was null and word. it he.ng the
result of • turnuhuary proceeding." He re.is railed
to order by Perez de Castro, and ex,rl,ined.
The President that touched the bell, and put
the question to the vote, whether the pronibiliee
to obtain empl iys ought he extended to one year
after the performance of the functions of Deputies
shall have teased. On this occasion it ass deter-
mined, th.t the Deputies ought to grove mat votes
by saying, in an audible enter, yes or so.
The que.tron put by the President was decided
in the affirma•ive by a majority of 51 to 41. The
Sitting was ciosed at three o'clock in the afternoon.
SEPTIIIIIIIItt 30.
This day's Stting was resolved into a Secret Com-
mittee of the whole Coogreaa. About 12 o'clock,
the Duke of Orleans arrived on horseback, in the
uniform of a Captain-General. He entered the
portico atiljei-inz the Session Hall, where ..e eon.
tinned about an hour. until some of the [hyalite
arrived, and had a seelferenee with his Hiahness,
which lasted 'trout five minutes, when the Doke
re-mounted his horse slid • "

eturned to Cadiz. The iii

rtigress rose at
ir 'woo.

titiee o'clock is the if.

OCTOBER 6.
The Stings of the ed began at half--put 10 a. on.
and was continued in a public manure until a (Iwo-
ter before two, *lieu it was ordered to he cleared.
—The following persons were admitted to take
their oath :—the D4a,:on of the Council of Castile
and that of the lewder ; the Ileseon of the Orders,
and that belnugiug to the Suite ; the Captain-
Generale of the Fleet. and of various Depart.
masts; the lutend.ints of the Army and Marine,.
Some of the funning gentlemen addressed His
Majesty. in whose 'same the Presideet of the Cortes
. replied.w-Outiog the whole of the Sitting only
whet coucerued the Angelica's* foamed the subject
of.lisenseion. A representation from the European
-Americans Was read. in which they request to have
a Representative. or at any rate an Expositor, in
the Curtes.;• and ass reason they allege. that Ame-
rica osotaies.73.ooo Europeans which ere deprived
of a Representative in this august Assembly : and,
further. they urge their meets, sad the sacrificers
sad efts which they have made as a reason why
such a request ought not to be disregarded. Se-
lma& Members. both Americans as well as
belonging to the Peninsula. spoke against the pew
lihosi, sad proved the aboonlity of inakiTs a din.
dachas between Creoles and Eunipeaussu they
only foamed one family or one natio.; and that the
Ist which happened to fall epee the ooe. was
ecriaNy liable to have (glee upon the other, Ice.
Them is as doubt that the slid request is totally
void of preprietir. and therefore it mat with um
airport.

This was fullosed by several Americas Dewsties
imaging most strenuously that the Cones should
declare •bet we hart already mentioned la former
'Oen-

N se-we weeded the gallery, and is his usual
palsied sad pleasing manner. declared his sur-
prisy es well as that of the politic. at seeing a De-
rry se kis knees i■ the gallery. entreatieg His
Westy in hearer of.the Americium. as Illepresentw.
Sive OA, %poise Being We de not miserable
.1104" staid the worthy Deputy in substance. to
UMW die heart. bet to declare the truth ; nor should
Menem simile voice be directed toward the people.
bmittowerds the septet Assembly of the Cortes."
The public Settle; concluded at two o'clock ;
but they Silt priva►ely until three in the ammo°
My.-..Tbso &Wags baps at the hour or yes-
,Serdq+•the Timken respecting the Aatenceas wits
sgup discussed.

said, that lie exceedingly regretted to ore the
sere veld is dismissal earlier! which, as yet, had
samdeteece; that they were trading about thecati-
ideatioaoftwodecrees of the Central Junta, e:r.ch
bad set yet bear reitkia the Assembly ; that °sing
is their ward of precedents. the Co; tee were deprived
Unit iusttoction so requiaite to sanction the said
decors; that to him the most obvious way seemed,
erielseet entering further into the discussion, to ask
bdermatieu from the Counted of India, which
14014 give their *pinkie erreformebly to the laws
of lake, their regulatious, resources, and other
istleneatiae; and that ',ter this the Cortex might
threide with seearacy.on so delimits a point.
lie reply, it was oberreed, that it was not mini-
*** to bedew the decision of the Assembly ; that
bat stlibMint that a day for voting ow the said
lethiese *Nimbi be (teed on, provided it were not
district* And it was urged that, to this effe,:i, they
oosh to Imre in mind that the proposed Decrees
would imparts fresh stimulus to the liberality of
Amens. that without resources it was hot possible
Is Patinae the war; and that the money came

imps America.
hereupon mid, that the Indians must
list themselves bort et being declared WOW free,
kiim they sever bail bees slaves ; and that the
lows bed always granted to there not only the
rights of liberty, but she some prerogatives, in

wildition to those accented to the Spaniards theta-
• sellees; tbstseme pewit's, well informed in the
low% coat* es. awl character of the ludhins, had
wirocrrillii that the best means to favour the In-
dian. WM to insist en the observance of their
hole {het *either ought they now to speak of
gesden he the's' which bed any share in the die.
tortienees at the Carrecres, because the word might
jostly 'tared them, es pardon Away. implied
erases that the Regency had oispotched a Coup.
ostler. Wrested with full powers, who, perhaps
belies that base. had bikes every escrosary tnea.
sere.

It spoke is favour of the proposed Decrees, sod
said, that as they were wit at prestos going to be
twacturateil. he wool mares whet be had to say
elowcitrorig the foraee speech.
'The Coutotatadant of Royal Carabiusers pre-
opted hicaelf to take hie oath.

The proposals for the appeititment of s Com-
mission, istitled the 's Commission of Justice." was
nabs brought forward. After • slight discassioe,
ciii in whirls .it was greed that it neither ought to he
styled of joeti nor to assume say there of the
judicial power posited is the Judges.
_

,
A "mama was proposed, whether Of DO • Com-
mission shoskl be appoiated, which shossid eiamine
into, and propose to the Cot tee, the rummy, which
mit,ht be4aken to obtain a speedy and isiparlial
administration of jestiee; sod almost all voted for
the Contissisioa.—jt was also speed, that the Re-

roc:, should remit all the ducuments sad papers
relative to the Cortes.

A Commission of the Public Revenue was also
insistrd on; and was, in point of fact, agreed to:.
hut the persons who were to for it were sot
named ; b form
ecaose it was alleged, the necessity of
busing seal! time. in 'Order that the oppointmeut
should be more accurately made: and the Sitting
was thus closed at abant two o'clock.

MADRID, SUM 18.
The convoy from Granada, which was detained
in,Anduj ir, arrived ou the 11th, 13th, and 14th,
on horses, in wegcons, &c. This kind of dis-
, .
pereton was caused by the caravan having been
attacked by the Patriots, between Veld/penis
and blansanares.

The courier Martin Estenoa, who has been long
expected, has arrived from France. It appears
that Napoleon persists in his resolution not to send
any more money to Spain, bat that.his troops shall
maintain themselves at the expence of the country,
though the country should be ruined by it!
Orders have bees given that no Spanish Officer
or soldier shall be received into the service of Sing
Joseph; but that all, without exception, shall be
sent to France.—This has always been the opinion
of Napoleon, to which Joseph sad his Court have
been obliged to yield, though they thought differ-
'stip—They write from Segovis, adder the date
of the 13th, that there have arrived there, when
least expected, a French division of 10,000 men
from those under the orders ofMassesia. It is be-
lieved that they are going towards the South, and
that a part of them will be incorporated with the
garrison of Madrid.

TARIAGOII A. SEPT. 20.

A body of o4r troops. whicii-WentfrOrn----th;spOrt,
a d landed at Blanes. has defeated the French is
the weighhourhood of Palentos. General Schwartz,
who had taken refuge in the castle of Bohai, ssir-
reud.r. don the 14th prlooner of war. with 700 men,
42 officers, a :icee of cannon. and a number of
carriages. Two hundred and fifty more prison-
ers, and 3 pieces of casinos), were takes at St. Fells'.
The enemy who were at l'alamos likewise surren-
dered. with several pieces of artillery ; as also those
at Hager. where there was a battery of considera-
ble strength. It is estimated that the value of the
military effects. provisions, and clothing, taken
from the Fre•eh, amounts to Nearly • million of

The public joy produced by this success has,
however. unfortunately abated, bye wound which
Don Henrique O'Donnell has received, by a mus-
ket-ball, in the right foot. This is the sifteenth
French boll which he hue received, either in his
person or his cl.thing. Yesterday morning be an.
rived in this port, on boa►d the Ehgluilt fngetv.the
Caiwb: ion, and was carried OR a litter to kis bole!.

At the scat time arrived the Spanish corvette
the Diane, which brought General Schwerin and
his stall; together with a couvov of more tha• 70
sail with the troops made prisoners, who were landed
this evening, to the number of 1,000. They were
brought iuto the city preceded hi wrest pieces of
artillery, teltith, with eleven that still reveries en
ship.bosrd, Make the whole number taken in this
glorious expedition eighteen.

This same evemou were also brought in 440 other
French priwoners, with seven °Seers, take, b, the
Boron de I...thAre Falset, on the beaks of the
Ebro: some others ere expected, 'taken by the
Soinsteum. iu the vicinity of Bare/lens.

CADIZ. OCTOM 1.
Letters fro,t Catalonia or the B.h ult. state, that
a nsuritime irspeilitiou was then in a state or pre-
paration ; and, it is sa:d„ oil the strength of re.
ports of Captains of ships, that the said expedition
w-s directed agaiutt Anapiirdau. where 400 of the
enemy's troops were killed, and 1,500 taken pri•
4100 M.

Renneslles, according to letters from Cadiz of
the 13th ult. mai then on the point of sling
out an expcditioi with 2,000 lend-troops, embarked
011 bawd of 7 English frigates and one Spenish,
a brig. two sloops, and gun-boats. This
expedition is tail to be intended against Santona ;
he has also detach.d 4.000 by laud, who are to join
the above 2.000, after the letter shall have effected
ti lending. The English have supplied him with
10,900 muskets and forty barrels of cartridges :
be knows that the young motentatorers are anxious.
ly desirOas of enlisting under his banners.

1.1_1511014. SIFT. 29.

We have this moment received very satiafactnry
intelligence fres our army, which we will not de-
lay giving to the Pahlie, although we have net re-
ceived the official details, which we will give imme-
diately that they arrive.

On the 27th, the euemy attacked in force the
positious of our army. The attack lasted from
half past four 'in the morning till five in the even-
ing. The euemy was constantly dnreu beck with
irntnease loss. Private letters state it to be 6,000
killed or wounded; whilst oulle, and that of tl.e
English, scarcely amount to 800. The General of
Brigade, Simon, was taken prisoner. On the fol-
lowing day a repetitioa of the attack was hoped for,
with equal or greater seams. The conduct of the
Portuguese has draws forth the highest eulogirrins
from our Allies.