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OUTRAGE AT CADIZ.

We have received, from our Correspondent at Cadiz, the
following statement of an occurrence, some garbled details
of which have already been made public. The particulars,
as here givtat, we have every reason to believe are entirely
correct. The name of the individual is communicated to
us; but he does not wish it at present to appear. We
are satisfied the French Government will promptly dis-
avow a proceeding so little creditable. to the parties con-
cerned :

"On Monday. the 11th July, 1825, Mr. received polite
letter from Connt Ferriere, a naval officer, commanding a French
vessel of war in the Bay of Cadiz, stating, that he had received a
billet from the Ayuntamienta ; but that, previous to taking pos-
session of his lodgings, be had thought proper to send his boatswain
on shore to examine them. Ile stated that lie should require a
separate kitchen, counting-house. &c. Mr. replied in terms
equally polite to the Count, regretting that it would not be in his
power to have the honour of receiving hire, an he had removed
nearly all his furniture over to Port St. Mary's, and that he had
given up the house in which he then wan. The following day an
individual from the A yuntainienta, called, in Mr. —'s absence,
in company. with Count Ferriere's boatswain, and was informed by
31r. -- s clerk, that they might examine the house, and con-
vince themselves that it was impasaible to receive the Count, in con-
sequence of rhere not being any furniture in the house.
'• The individual from the A yuntatnienta expressed himself testis-
.lied, and told the boatswain to inform his master that be had better
procure another billet. On the following day, the 13th of July,
a corporal, and four or rive French &Micro, took possession of
Mr. —'s house, and kept him and all in the house prisoners
for nearly two hours. A French officer then called, and, inquir-
ing for the master of the house, said to him, I conic here by the
command of the French Government, to know whether you will
receive Count Ferriere or not? 31r.— replied, that he.coukl
not receive him, for reasons which lie had stated by letter to the
Court. and verbally to the Ayuntsmienta. The officer then said,
that he would take possession by force. Mr. told him that
he could not prevent him doing so, but that he thought the
question of right would become a matter of debate between the two
Governments. The French officer then called in the corporal, and,
pointing to Mr. —, said, that person is a prisoner by command
of the Lieut.-General Viscount Guilin; the other people may
leave the holm. In a few hours afterwards, another French
officer, with twelve or fourteen French grenadicra, entered Mr.
house, and, with great insolence, insisted upon know.
ing why he would not receive the Count? Mr. told him
that, being a prisoner in his house, he had called for his Cen-
sure protection, and that he could not give tiny other answer to him
than be had previously given to the officer sent by Viscount Guilin.
The officer snapped his lingers, and said he did not tare that for
the English Consul, nor did he rare whether Mr. was an
Englishman, or a Greek, or a 31ahometati—it was all the same to
him—that he would take possession of the whole house by force,
and, if necessary, he had orders to bring 30 more grenat;iers. He
then took possession of the whole house ; and the only furniture
Mond in it was a Mal and a few ch.*, in a room which was occu-
pied by Mr. —, and a bed ocenpied by his eicrk. The officer
left a sentry over the furniture' and Mr.—. was kept a prisoner
in his house till 'even o'clocitat night, and was then only released
by the influence of his friend the French Consul. It is worthy of '
remark that Alr. had at the time a French officer balite('
upon him in Port St. Mary's, and that the French General Viscount
Guilin was acquainted with this circumstance. As soon as the
Spanish Governor was made acquainted with the violent measures
adopted by the French General he sent an. Aid-de-Camp to Mr.
—, who expressed the Spanish Governor's regret, at what he
was pleased to term the illegal conduct of the French General Vie.
count Guilin."—Courier.

...
FIRE IN Sr. GEORGIA-FIELDE.—About half-past two
o clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the premises
of Mr. Gatehouse, a brush-manufacturer, in Webber-row,
St. George's-dields ; and, from the nature of the property,
burnt with such fury that persons at some distance sup-
posed it to be the Surrey Theatre on fire. There was for-
tunately, however, little or no wind, and the party-walls
were so strong as to confine the fire to Mr. Gatehouse's
house, which, with his stock and furniture, is reduced to a
heap of ruins. The house was inhabited only by Mr.
Gatehouse and his son, a lad about 16, and on Wednes-
day night the former went out, leaving a candle burning'
near the fire- lace. The young roan had a narrow escape'
out of the , having scarcely time to put his clothes on.
The fire-e were very soon on the spot, but there was
not an red from the main until after the fire
Will
°buil/
y under. The only water that could be I
wad had from the adjoining houses. The pro-
perty was not Insured. i
Drsoa•carut. Cusroai.—The farmers of the hundred
of IVirral, in the county of Chester, are in the annual
practice of hiring their harvest labourers on the Sabbath-
day, at Neston. We need not dwell upon the pernicious
effects of suO a practice as this—a practice revolting to I
public decetlit, subversive of public morals, and disgrace-
ful to a Christian country. Several gentlemen who re-
gard the proper observance of the Lord's-clay as an im-
portant religious duty, and as the best preservative of the
morals of the people, have exerted themselves, for several
years past, in the most praiseworthy manner, to suppress
so disgreceful a ouisance. Hitherto, however, we regret
to state their exertions base been unavailing. The cus-
tom still continues; sud, remonstrance having been tried
in vain, nothing can put it down but the persevering
efforts of the magistracy and the other friends of morality.
The efforts of the magistracy, we are happy to perceive,
have been employed ; and the following caution, which
will, we trust, produce a salutary effect, has been pub-
lished throughout the hundreds :
" We, the Illagicrates acting for the hundred of Wirral, im-
pressed with the necessity of putting a atop to the disorder, out-
rase, and profanation of the Sabbath, incident to the present mode
of tilting harvest labourers at Great Neaten, do hereby declare our
resolution up punish all misconduct that may tend to those viola-
tions of the hie and the King's peace, with the utmost se-
verity; and consequently to pay every attention to any com-
plaint of such misconduct, whether on the part of the victualler,
as a breach of his recognizance, or that of other persons assembled.i?
as guilty of riot or breach of the peace, or on th. part ot the
hirers, as incurring the penalties imposed on the csereive.of their
daily rolling on the Lord's-day. And we earnestly
to all well-disposed hirers of labourers to use their exertions te ob.
tarn them in their ova immediate neighbourhood."

(MINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SP/INS
We extract the following article from the Oracle de
roxelfes, iu which it appears as a note copied from a work
,his moment minting in that. city. The Belgian jour.
.lest remarks that it shows us an example of the mode in
ditch the ruling faction in Spain adiumfaters justice is
wretched country, and at the same time tnal/4es us ac.
tinted with the character of those who ere selected we
victims of abused authority :—,
Abad•y-Queypo, one of the most venerable men that
exercised the episcopal functions, showed himself is
time of the Spanish Revolution of BYO one of the
st str.cete friends of constitutional liberty, founded out
hgion and the laws. Worthy imitator of die statue
Las-Cases, Abad-y-Queypo, during his resid. ace itt
Anetioa, was, like his illustrious model, persecuted for
'ing the part of the weak against the powerful, of the
oppressed against the oppressor. Out his return to Europe
'lie Christian virtues were appreciated in a manner they
..ene deserved. He was nominated to the Bishopric of
Mecboaeen, and had imposed on him at once the charge' of
-ring {he b3ppitlpSB Or the diocese thus confided to nine,
of instructing ft its the principles of virtue.by force of
own centuple. Squally well known for the austerity
hismonnent in a!1 things that regarded his own person,'
for the severity of his principles and the purity of hit
trine, yet be was not the kss dlstingtiished by a mild
forbearing tolerance towards others. It happened.
in oye of those moments which preceded. the
Aution—moments unhappily of too rare au oms
currence, and of too beief a duration—wherein King
Ferdinand, alarmed at the appearance of so muclft
pitblk calamity, and urged on by his Conscience,
sincerely sought, but in a fickle and irresolute manner, for
a man worthy of his confidence, the idea was suggested to
his:mind, but how or by whom is not known, of calling
the venerable Bishop Abad-y-Queypo to tile ministry
of Grace and Justice. Doubtless no person was km
calculated to enter a Court that was full of intrigue, for
his whole character bespoke that of a minister of the pri*
mitive ages of the Church. He smiled when they an.
uounced to him this unexpected appointment, and repaired
instantly to the King, to whom he said, in the admirable
simplicity of his soul, that he was going to take upon lii!U
self the difficult task of serving his Majesty in the ministry
with which he had been pleased to honour him, but it was
on condition that his Majesty would immediately take two
measures, without which he believed it impobeible to do
any good. The first was to recal all those persons who had
been banished for political offences; and the second was
immediately to promulgate the constitution decreed by the
Cortes in 1812. The King imagined that the Prelate bad
become mad. He was soon dismissed, but from compas.
sion was permitted to live at Madrid, However, what ap.
peared to the King to be only an act of madness, was con.
sidered some time after by the Inquisition, who most pro.
bably acted by the secret orders of the ministry, as an out.
rage againt the divine laws. It determined to wake the
worthy Bishop appear before its tribunal, and gave orders to
arrest his person. When the officers of the Holy Office made
known to him the commission with which they were charged,
Queypo, with a firmness and au unalterable tranquillity of
temper, replied, that placed hy his title of Bishop out of 1:e
jurisdiction qf the tribunal that hod sent them, he u er
submit to its commands. Seeing, however, that these agents
were determined to use every means in order to follow their
instructions, he advised them to use violence, resolved as
he was to yield only to it. The men being bound in duty
to set agreeably to their orders, proceeded to use coma
pulsory menus. Queypo laid himself down on the ground.
and the officers lifted him up on their shoulders aueL
carried him to a coach. Locked up in the prison of the
Holy Office, he refused, with the most heroic perseverance,
to answer the questions of the Judges, whose authority he
itvverwould acknowledge. He addressed some letters,wri nee
in the most emphatic style, to the Inquisitors, reproaching
them with having by their violence disparaged the dignity,
of the episcopacy, and thus betrayed themselves guilty of a
teal profanation. He, moreover, declared that nothing its
the world was more dear to him than the performance of
his duty; but he thought lie should be guilty of great
neglect to those who conferred on him his present milk,:
if he suffered the authority with which he was clothed tot
be diminished on the point of submission to a trikunal
claimed by reason and the gospel. All the learnt ended
with an oath never to yield either to menthes er iernaents-
The inquisitors felt that they should never bend a soul
of this temper. If Queypo had been an ordinary victim.
they would probably have buried him in the dungeons for
the remainder of his life • but the whole of Spain h.oL
their eyes fixed upon the destiny of this illustrious prelate,
whose virtue and noble resistance. were universally admired,
and for whom his late consecration, and the pers. cution of
which lie was the object, and the motives of which nobody,
was ignorant of, had acquired additional glory. For this
first lime the Inquisition found itself obliged to submit to
public opinion. Queypo came out triumphant from hie
prison, and continued to reside at Madrid, where his mild
and tolerant piety, his poverty, and his Cluistien-like
stoicism, were the most grievous censures upon the Court.
Them did lie never cease to be feared by those who, under
the names of Inquisitors or of Ministers, then oppressed the
Spanish nation.' Nevertheless his repose was from hence.
fords respected. The veneration of all good men forted
about him a rampart which arbitrary power no more dared
to attack. Chosen by the people at the time of the occur-
rences on the 9th of March, 1820, to be a Member of the
Extraordinary Junto created at Madrid, and tvho, till the
meeting of the Cube{, were to watch the preoeedings of the
Court, the Bishop of Mechoacan was afterwards nominated a
deputy to that Assembly, but the extreme deafness %lilt
which he was afflicted did not permit him to accept this
honourable proof of the gratitude, esteem, and confidence
of his fellow-citizens. It was not then known upon whet
pretence, or from what motive this unfortunate Prelate,
who was the accomplished model of all the civil and Chris..
tian virtues, and who had not ceased to live in an ob-
scurity that ought to have sheltered him from the rage of
a faction with whom nothing was sacred, was dragged, dur-
ing the last month, before one of those tribunals which,
since the re-establisninent of absolute power, hail inun-
dated unhappy Spain in blood. Neither has innocence,
his virtues, nor his hoary head, could disarm his tormentors,
and by an irony which diminished nothing of the hell's.
nity of thejudgment pronounced against him, this illustriou-
prelate was condemned from the month of July last to be
confined for a space of six years (which, at the age eighty
years, is equivalent to perpetual imprisonment) in the con-
vent belonging to the Monks of St. Jerome, sear Toledo.
there to learn the Christian Doctrine. He dep.rted Beam
Madrid, ou the 22d of July, to undergo his judgment, and
was accompanied by a judge of the criminal tribunal, suit
was conveyed upon a hurdle like the vilest convict. It
was only to the devotedness of some friends that th'e
octogigeirian owed the means of bring able to cover the al-
moswatimplete state of nudity to which he was mimed
while In prison."
.._.enesse___,wsiselmtnemeetswe
In the Marquis of Anemic*, sailing packet, on her way
from Bristol to Cork, this week, two poor Irish women, tit,
their passage, were delivered, one of two children, .a WY'
and a girl, and the other of a female. The Captint
(Wright) fearing a recurrence of such a scene on the pa!!
of our native fair ones, very prudently put back to II
fracombe, where every attention was paid to the poor
, awn and their little ones, by the benevolent ladies pi
the rt.—Dub/is freentan'sJournal.
e unfortunate fertile, who was unhappily drowned
by, the accident of the John Bull steam packet striking Ott
theiVhatun Sands, by which means she was lltionn into
citnhiertsiol..LlTitia"h6%egruitansitthihieleaGatuertricollaflat, was
,ansoMhwenlPerta. tol
at
her breast, which was almost miraculously prissrveet by
Mts. Sent, who, at the critical moment, matched it eta of
the arms of its ill-fated mother, and thus preserved.it frotu
a watery grave. Mrs. Wyatt was about 4= et Age,
and the mother of three children. Ho. hut) Mee- ins
the pier when the packet same in eight, expecting her ar.
rival. The body, for which a reward has been offered lrei
not yet been found.—Nall Packet.