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DIS7TIRLOWNS IN SPAIM
(EXTIATCS ?ROM PRIV•Ti TTTTT NS.)
LISION, SILPT. 19.
Considerable disturbances have prevailed at M.t-
drid, on account of some bills on the Treasury, being
dishononred, which were payable at sight. Against
his irregularity the holders remonstrated ; but not
obtaining any kind of satisfaCtion, they waited in a
hody on the Prince of Peace. His Highness, it
seems, did not treat their representations with the
.mention that was expeCled ; and, upon some mur-
murs of dissatisfaction having escaped from them,
the Minister save orders for calling in his body-
guard, and arresting the contumacious holders of
the bills. The remonstrants were, however, prepar-
ed for this stretch of authority ; they escaped out of
the house, collefted a mob, and some of the troops
are said to have arranged themselves on their side,
The main body of the guard attacked the refraEfory
bill-holders, several charges of musketry were ex-
changed, and some lives were kit. We underrand,
that four Grandees have been banished, and that se-
veral other persons have been arrested.

SEPT. 20.

By our letters from Cadiz, we are informed of a
most deadly animosity subsisting between the French
and the Spaniards, which is carried to lengths ton
shocking for the refeCticn of human nature ; a night
does not pass without the commission of some horrid
outrage, which always terminates in the spilling of
blood. The origin of these misunderstandings is,
kept profoundly setter, but it is said to be between
the French Admiral Villeneuve and Gravina. The
latter has proffered his resignation, which the Spa-
nish Government has refused to accept ; yet no
means arc taken to colic the existing quarrel, or
put an end to the nightly broil, which take place
between the French and Spswish sailors, which have
of late been extended to t"e inhabitants of the
town, who are now engaged in the dispute, under
a plea that the provisions for the town are kept for
the support of the French Navy, and that they in
consequence will be starved.
In Madrid, thrt-. disorders wear a still mere dreg 1-
ful appearance; the inhabitants are in arms, to
whom the Swiss Guards have been nvosed and de-
feated; upw irds of 600 persons have been killed
and wounded in th s c main the cause is attempt-
ed to be kept proton idly secret : hut it has arisen
from an ediel lately passed tinder the sanEtion of the
Prince of Peace, coni.nanding all persons to receive
in full payment, in lieu of money, the denim, vales,
a paper currency, which, in the last war, was at a
discount of 501 per :ent. This currency is the mast
unpopular in the kingdom of Spain, is always at a
discnunt, and the people refuse to concur in the
Arran -I the edict, which is the c insect' a dispute,
that has at length occasioned this insurreni in
In consequence f this news, all inv.ireosirse by
way of ex h inv, between Lisbon and Nl.l.lrid is at
• stand ; an 1 all business between the two places
ceases for the present.

SEPT. RI.
Dispatches from Madrid state, that aii Aar-ling
disturbance had taken place in that c:ty, winch
threatened the most serious consequences t,.) the Go-
vernment. The decree, by which the Pip:!
or Pope's Mi.ney, was made to circulate as cash,
created sue a %maxims, as to put a total stop to
all htt‘ine;s.—lt is the prgtice of the traiesmen
of Madrid to give short' credits to their cus-
tomers for every thing they deal in, and they
used to receive their payments in this paper once a '
moth, which they carried to the Caisse d'
sal init, and received the am mint in Jolla, s, Inc aft, r
this decree, they fell to a discount. .1 he iialce.r,
butcher, and other tradesmen, in consequence of
this, not only scrupled them in payment, hitt refused
to give credit, as bef ire, for their articles Our
readers may conceive what would he the elf toi
such a stoppage. Several of the pri •cipal t:ran-
&es and Merchants, dote• mined to go io a bud
to the Prince of Peace, to represent t s him the
fatal conwcptinces with w'iich the decree was preg-
nant. •l'hev were received in a manner the tnost
insulting stoll outrageous. lie threatened, and even
took steps to put several of them under an arrest ;
but, having taken precautions against this event,
they successfully resisted the guard, and made their
way into the street. where their representations of
the tre stment they had received, soon drew a con.
course of people around them, and the clamour be-
came excessive. The troops were called out, when
it was soon found that the spirit of disconient had
spread through the ranks, awl that the soldiers
were disposed to join with the citizens. Govern-
ment then called in the Swiss Guar 4s, a regiment
constantly kept up to 51000 men, and they, without
the least hesitation, fired on the people. We un-
derstand that between 4 and 500 persons nue
either killed or wounded, and, for the time, the mul-
titude were dispersed. Four of the princip I Gran-
dees wee.• exiled to their country seats ; but the
Prince of Peace was fearful of bringing the rioters
to any other punishment. well-knowing the formi-
Jabie character of the people in Madrid and its vi-
cinity.

Vive(flint CASTLIPLA".,I lett town for Weimer
alter the Council broke up on Wednesday, on a
visit to Mr. PITT.
Ihe Torridge regiment is still in camp at Tor-
rington, Devon ; and Lord Hui s is so very striel,
that he has not slept one night nut of camp, nor any
of his Officers.
Rear-Admiral Sir T. Gaaves, K.B returned on
the Bth inst. from his seat near Exeter, where he
114,1 been on leave, and re-hoisted his Sag as Rear-
Admiral of the Red, on board the Powiroyani, of 84,
in Cawsand Bay.
The Nanh/e, of 14 glum with a I arge consul of
vessels. supposed part of the Leeward Island fleet,
sod Plymouth on Tuesday ; but a gr-at fog com-
ing on, rendered it impossible to make any accurate
&nervation. Had the easterly win I prevailed a few
das s longer, the Leeward Island Meet, dispersed in
die late gale•. must have s•tff•red mutually, for
want ti provisions and seater
Several of the homeward-bound Lisbon fleet
have put into Cronkhaven.
The Swedish Indirman Marie Carolina, from
China, is arrived at the Motherba..k : she is one of
the Inihamen which were under convoy of the Ca/.
eerie. She is a richer ship than the /eclat, and, if
captured, would have been a greater loss to this
country, as she was insure,l, is London, to almost
the full amount of bar valve.

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, ST. CATITERINR CRKE CIIIJRC11;
LEAUENH.II,I..S I'REET.
This venerable pile, which withstoed the fire r f
London, having suffered considerable dilapidation
by the all-conquering hand of time, it was adjudged
necessary, by the pari.h, to preserve it from entire
decay, by a general repair ; accordingly, the weirk-
men were employed for that purpose, in Jinte 1801.,
and it is now finished. Its faded grandeur has
been restored, and it exhibits a most beautiful ap-
pearance. The painted glass in the Fast window,
over the altar, considered a fine production of art,
is brought to its original brilliancy. Tile organ,
pulpit, and gallery, are cm ached with gilding. The
Coi inthian pillars, and the celebrated mot.ument of
Sir Nicholas Throckmnrton, with others of equal
antiquity, have been beantifed, and the several in-
scriptions repainted. 'llse fine sculptured figure of
a skeleton, over the East door, in Leadenliali street,
has also been preserved, and the whole external ap-
pearance of the Church rendered extremely hand-
some. Yesterday, the charity children of Aldgare
Ward, rehearsed an anthem, set to mu,ic by Mr.
Lockart, the organist, which will be sung to-mor-
row, when the doors will open, for the first time
since the repairs, and two Charity Sermons will Ise
preached ; the first, in the m by the Itererend
Thomas White, B. A. ; and the other, in the evening,
by the Reverend Philip Dodd, Chaplain to Ills
Grace the Duke of Lceds, and Lecturer of the
Asylum.

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