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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1924.

The last accounts from Bayonne to the 18th of May
state, that Madrid was then tranquil, and that the publica-
tion of the long-deferred amnesty, which was signed on the
601, was still impatiently expected. il'hen the Journal
des Debuts stated that decree was published, it stated what
was not true. A levy of 36,000 men, to serve for eight
years, by a decree of the Supreme Council of War, has been
ordered to be raised by ballot. This is the intended force
said to be destined, when raised, against South America,
but where can Spain find resources for such an expedition ?
It is a dream of imagination, and never can be realised.
The Brussels Oracle, under the head of Augaburgh, the
16th of May, says, that 'Russia is far from satisfied with
the conduct of the Ottoman Government, as far as regards
the political part of Minziacky's mission. The intended
conferences between Count Isiesselrode and Prince Metter-
nich, at Plague, in the next month, will, it is stated, in-
clude the long-pending differences between Russia and the
Porte. Lord Strangford is said to have been successful in
his last memorial, urging the evacuation of Wallachia and
Moldavia by the Porte, and the Turkish Ministers are said
at length to have definitively promised, that the principali-
ties should be evacuated by the Ottoman troops.

[Fan the Bramels Orack of May 2.11
Art:sauna, MAT Z.

Accounts from Vienna state, that the Prince of Salerno and the
An:Mindless Clementine, his consort, set out on the 11th fur
Prstrue, and the Imperial Prince on the 12th.
The merchants of Hamburgh have received notice from Copen-
hagen that they shortly expected in the made of that city a Butsian
squadron, con.isting of several men of war. In order to weaken
ma much as po.sible the effect• which this news had caused, it had
been endeavoured to make It believed at Copenhagen that the Rus-
AMP s,•.sels will not pass the Sound, their only destination being to
cruise in the Ilahic.

• We have letter; before tutor a very recent date from St. Peters-
burgh, in which it is stated that the Russian Cabinet Ira* much
dtwitislied with the conduct of the Ouoman Government, relative
to the politic.il part of AL 51logiacky's mission. It is inferred that
very importunt niathis will he discussed in the conferences at
Prague. between Count Nessalrode and Prince Metternich in June
nest. _ . .

(From the Allowing Zellunt of May 18.1
MERSA, APRIL 2R.

Amending to accounts from Constantinople of the 21hb ult.,
Lord Strangeard is said to have gained re inalienee at the Porte,
because, as tiny affirm, he has promise%) the Torkish Ministry that
all officers in the English terries who were with Lord Byron, or in
gram] among the plucks. shall be recalled hr an order of the King
a England, and that if they do not oliey they will be de-
prived of their pay and their commission. The Divan, as we
hear, has been pleased with this deterniination, and a belief was
again excited that the Noble lord, after presenting his vote respect-
ing the evacuation of 3ltildavta and Wallachia, waist length attain
ibis object of his long and :minus exertions.

Inv Kiraxss.]
BECIIARTIT, MAT 1.
.

Tartan from Constantinople have just brought us the news, that
the Divan has consented to the evacuation of the principalities.
The Austrian l'onsul immediately lent an ffpfeSll to Vienna with
the news. But as this evacuation has been MI often announced, it
Is no wonder that many people still refuse to believe it, though this
lime they are probably mistaken.

S►:Ht.ty. MAT 4.

Letters from Sere' mention that the late Seraskier Ahoulaboot
vs. conducted thmtigh that city tin Palm Sunday, under an wort
a; :NU men. to Demoitka, the place of hitt exile.

A number of unhappy Spaniards have sought refuge,
within the last week or two, in this country, destitute, in
I'm% of every thing. They have fled to these shores, to
eiespe the bands of assarsins that awaited them on passing
the Pyrenees ; they were wretched prisoners in France
fur months, and there every possible privation and insult
was leak them ; but in France they would not be suf-
fe,ed to remain, unless they «mid point out some certain
I,:rarui of support—to Spain they dared not return, but

at the risk of being entombed in horrid dungeons, or
butchered in void blood by a fanatic populace. In that
unhappy country all the agents of evil have been unloosed;
it is now a scene of anarchy and blood from end to end :
'fyranny and Fanaticism, in their moat odious forms, every
where present themselves—Freetletn and Knowledge are
equally proscribed. Though the Inquisition is not revived
in all its past horrors, it actually exists in its worst spirit.
The ancient ordinances of this dark tribunal against mental
improvement of every sort have been renewed, and con-
fided to the enemies of all knowledge—the Spanish monks
and clergy. No recorded amnesty has issued as yet from
Ferdinand or his Ministers. The concession, however
blotted by exceptions, exists only in name ; there is still no
security for the humblest follower of the Constitution.
The rabble are in arms in every great town, incited by the
Monks and the Servile, :' they arc in ceaseless agitation,
and continual murders are witnessed in noon day ; these
horrors are perpetrated under the violated tames of loyalty
and religion. The French see them—they followed on
their invasion, but they take no effectual steps to arrest the
authors, or prevent the commission of the same appalling
crimes. Under such dreadful circumstances, the Consti-
tutional Spaniards who were prisoners in France could not
pass the Pyrenen, but to bare their throats to the assassins.
Those who returned to Spain were flung into dungeons,
or many of them murdered. No resource therefore re-
mained to the surviving captives in Fmnee but to throw
themselves on these shores, however destitute ; and here,
accordingly, they have arrived in hundreds, and utterly
unprovidetl. Their present melancholy situation is
one deserving the best sympathies of this country :
they have been ruined in the cause of liberty ;
the Constitution fur which they fought might have
been too theoretic, and filled with faults, which
time and experience would probably have corrected,
but compared with the code that now curses Spain, it
was a system of perfection. The benevolence of this coun-
try, which never yet shut its hand against a just appeal, Las
already supplied some thousands for the support of the
Spanish exiles, but that slender fund has, we believe, been
exhausted, and Ministers, highly to their credit, have sup-
plied the loss, and stepped forward to the aid of the hapless
refugees. But if the subscription which existed a month
or two since could be renewed, many of these individuals
now anxious to quit England for South America, might
there find compatriots and a home—and contribute with
their swords to the defence and independence of the New
World. To Spain they cannot turn while the present
dreadful system continues—a system only supported by
the presence of French troops within that country, who are
the body guard of the tyrant, and which must crumble
into dust within a week after the last French battalion re-
cromm the Pyrenees.

Seventeen petitions were last night presented to the
House of Commons by different Members, praying for an
inquiry into the recent transactions at Demerara connected
with the late Mr. Smith, the missionary, and Mr. Brougham
has fixed his motion on that subject peremptorily for Tues-
day next. In our opinion nothing can be more ill-judged
than the revival of this question. It renews those dan-
gerous discussions that produced the very revolt of which
Mr. Smith was charged to be the instigator. It calls up
the fiery abolitionists anew, and unlocks all the flood-gates
of discussion which already led to so many misfortunes in the
West Indies. Unless all the evidence given on Mr. Smith's,
trial and on that of the negro insurgents in Demerara be false
it is impossible to impeach the Missionary's previous know-
ledge of the revolt, and his having suppressed that know-
ledge from the authorities of the island. Juamina, a
leader of the insurrection, and other Negroes, Deacons of
his Chapel, and all deeply implicated, were in daily
communication with Mr. Smith. It was sworn on his
trial, that the very day before the Negroes rom in arms,
he received a letter communicating their plan, a syllable
of which he never intimated to Governor Alurray, or an y
of the authorities in George Town. Our own persuasion is
that the announced discussion will not free the Missionary
from participating in the negro revolt at Demerara, as far
as previous knowledge went ; we do not believe be insti-
gated them to arm ; and as far as concerns the present
agitated situation of the West Indies, the renewal of this
discussion will, we fear, be productive of very great
mischiefs.