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expressions of the soldiers and Wove of (,facers of
ill ranks left no doubt as to their common in-

tentions.
" General D'Abisbal wisely foresaw the necessity
of crsishing the conspiracy in its cradle. Iss the
course of last night he assembled 4,000 nien of our I
garrison, and addressed them in an animated man- I
ner ; he promised them, in the first place, in the
King's name, that they should be exempted front
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serving its the expedition, if they would zealously
Concur with hint in the execution of certain
prompt measures, which would be highly beneficial
to his Majesty's service. These troops all pro-
mised him their support. Immediately the intrepid
O'Donnel placed himself at their head, and led
them to Port Saint Maria, where the camp Vic-
toria was formed, consisting of 7,000 mess, destined
to be first embarked. The whole division was sur-
rounded and laid down their arms. Ilia Excel-
lency instantly proclaimed the general removal of
the officers. The regiments were dispersed in dif-
ferent towns of Andalusia. The number of officers
in custody amounts to above 160.
" The following Royal Decree has just been

issued :
" ' The King, in consideration of the parlicular merit and
cervices of Lientenant-General count D'Atiimb4l, Ilrige.
ell to confer epos him the Grand Cross of the Orate ref
Charles 111.
" ' His Majesty, for the same motives, has deigned W
promote Major-General Saudfield to the rank of Lieuieuast-
General of his armies.'
" The former of these two General Officers is of
English origin, slid the latter is an Englishman
born. It will be recollected that the latter was
one of the superior military officers who so eagerly
repaired to welcome the King on his arrival et Va-
lencia, in the mouth of May, 1814."
We subjoin the following letters from Gibraltar
upon this subject. They give a different, and we
think not. a very probable origin to the iirmerac..
lion. We can conceive that soldiers nig revolt to
save themselves from being sent on a perilous and
unpopular expedition ; but that a body of troops
should do so for the sake of obtaining a Constitu-
tion upon which they are forthwith to torn their
backs by quitting the country. I. a reach of pa-
triotism something above the level, we think, of
military ideas.

" GIBRALT4R, JULY 10.
It is more than probable th.it you will have hestid of
Jbe insurrection at Cadiz before this reaches you, and of
the declaration of the troops in favour of a tow Constitti.
lion. The packet with the mail from licuce, 'stitch was to
bare been closed m 11111131 by 12 cielock, was kept open sin
hours later, in pursuance of orders from the Governor, in
order that he might be enabled to coninantsuicate official in-
formation to the British Government, wills respect to the
news from Cadiz. Expresses from that city err looked fur
with the greatest anxiety, as sonsetking of importance is
expected to happen. It is generally understood that a body
of about 5,000 troops, ordered to embark at Puertu.Santa
Maria, for the South American expedition, have positively
refused to go on board of them, and many permits are of
opinion that this is ouly the first step to as occurrence of
' much greater consequence."
Another letter, of the same date, contains the

following pnregteph:—
" P.S. News has arrived here, by impress, from Cadiz,
that a general insurrection has taken place minim the Spa-
nish troops, who have declared positively that unless a new
Cownitution is given them, they will not proceed ou boned
the cxpedition. It is said that several reginwuts, under the
command of a Spanish Colonel, have actually marched fur
Madrid, in order to force a compliance."

rtili BRrn Sri PRESS.

LONDON.
SATURDAY. JCLY 31, 1819.

The Paris Papers of Tuesd.iy last, which 'save
arrived at our Office, prove the exaggeration of the
first accounts that reached town relative to the mu-
tiny among the troops assembled at Cidix for the
South American expedition. It ic, however, ad-
mitted by the official publications of the Spanish
Government, and, therefore, we must Ili:knowledge
this important p • t to he suliscatitially correct, that
a very extensive and formidable conspiracy had
existed in the expeditionary army, involving a hotly
of 7,000 men, with their officers of every raid., be-
ing at least our-third part of the whole force. Many
indications bud fur a considerable letigth of time
evinced the existence of a mutinous spirit among
the troops, which was so far from bring ilscousi-
tetianced and restraiiied by the officers, that it
seemed rather to have originated in the unwilliug-
ness expressed by the officers to embyik on the
fin horn ave of South American conquest, and to
be subsequently fomented g the soldiers by
the consciousness that This unwilliognest had in nu
respect subsided. VDONNEL, the General in
Chief, had for some time wombed tilts spirit, amid
being apprised probably that some datierusis de-
sign wall to contemplation, lie suddenly, on the
night of the 7th of this u th, collected about
4,000 troops, on whose fidelity be could rely,
and 'porcine% diem instantly against the camp at
La Vittoria, consisting of 7,000 troops of till aftll9,
he compelled them to lay titowu their arms, arrest-
ed their officers to the uutubr r ul 132, of «I
five were Colonels, and dispersed the irgitnetits
through the different towns of Andalusia. It is
impossible to say to what greater extent this con-
spiracy may have proceeded. li egoism be supposed
that the spirit which actuated the 7,000 wen rio•
camped at La Vittoria, was u stranger to the III).
• bOWS of the other corps of the atm), and, indeed,

it is adinittail in the commencement of the official
details (which will be fliond in another part of this
Paper), that some commotion* had been observed
among the troop* in the town of Cadiz and at
Port Santa Maria.
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The causes to which this discontent may fairly
be attributed can, for the present, be supplied by
conjecture only ; arid we see no reason, after fuller
and more mature consideration. to retract any or
the remarks we made yroteerlay upon this lute-
resting sobject. We have frequently been assured
by respectable authority, that the South American
war was extremely unpopular with► the soldiery of
Spain, fur which the want of success hitherto, and
the little probability there existed of being more
fortunate for the future, very satisfactorily accounts.
Besides this, the minds of the soldiers have been
exasperated and alienated from the Government by
a want of punctuality in paying them. The ex-
hausted funds of Spain are ill calculated to main-
tain an expensive army ; and wise betide the Go.
',eminent which, having a military force, is unable
to Inert its wants punctually mod liberally ! No-
thing, however, could prove more effectually the
extreme imbecility of the Spanish Government,
than thus to detains it► idleness at home, without
the means of adequately supporting them, so large
a body of troops, when their presence was abso-
lutely necessary in South America, where. like
those who preceded them in the career of exter-
mination, they might have been taught to support
themselves on the rapine of the country. and at a
period too when every moment was of the utmost
valor to the cause of the parent state. If the ar-
reins of their pay, however, be paid up, and some
security given to them that they shall be regularly
remitted in future, we should expect, from the
character of all standing armies, and particularly
from that of a Spanish army. that the soldiers will
permit discipline to be effectually restored among
them. This, however, will not be a very easy task
for the Spanish Government to effect. We may
therefore consider the present mutinous disposition
of the troops composing the expeditionary army as
sufficient security to the struggling Independents
of South A merira, that the great armament with
which they have so long bees. threatened. will not,
for at least a very considerable lapse of time, aim a
blow against their infant liberties.
The French 5 per Cents. are 71 f. 30c.

To be a true prophet of evils is a poor consola-
tion to thme who affect that character. When we
remonstrated again►t the proceedings of the ex-
treme Reformists, we should have been most
happy to find our fears dissipated by the
result. At a Privy Council held yesterday at
Carlton House, a Proclamation respecting the in-
ternal state of the country formed the subject of
deliberation. This Proclamation. which will be
immediately promulgated. states in its preamble
the alarming circumstances of which so much has
been recently given in the Newspapers, and which
have been embellished with so much exagge-
ration by the ministerial part of the public Press ;
iti:d it concludes with recommending extra-
ordinary energy and precautions fur the security of
the public tranquillity. We stated lately that the
Ministers remained in town or in its vicinity, and
that they were not likely to change their quarters
during the summer. The critical state of the coun-
try may account for this vigilance on the part of Go-
vernment, and we hope that it will not lead to any
consequences that may give us cause to deplore an
infringement upon the rights and liberties of the
people.

From the Dublin Papers. received yesterday, we
learn, that General D'F.ixttEux and a considerable
port of his Legion remained on the 27th in that
city. Their enthusiasm► requires no excitement, but
yet it is gratifying to think that their departure will
be accompanied with the cheering intelligence of the
refusal of the Spanish troop• at Cadiz to lend their
aid in upholding the reign of despotism in South
America. This will ►nure than compensate for
any injury done to the cause of liberty by the
Foreign Enlistment Bill.

Among the reforms of the day, it is said to be
the iritesiritot of the Secretary of Slate for the
I bone Department to suppreps Bartholomew Fair.
We hope this is not true. Let every care be taken
to re.tran► the licentioueue►s of that *erne of vulgar
antriiiersient, but when the pleasures of the lower
class of society are at stake, we du not like the tories
ciple of bursting the house to get rid of the rats.

The letters from Rio Janeiro by die Mail of yes.
Ilre to the Isl of June. The packet otf that
port ►poke the Alexander, Spanish 74. on her way
in the south-writ coast of South America. This Is
of tof the ships of ware sailed several mood's
since limn Cadiz, with two tithe's, hut soled to be
opposed to the force under Ltlllll COCH It A NE. The
Pomona, Trufulgar, and Ratcliffe, Briti,ll South..
•e4IIICII. had reachtd 1110 Janeiro 6'olll Lima, hay.
tog ►ailed front thruce immediately on the promul-
gUt fffff of the Proclamation of Lord COCHRANE for
the blockade of the coast of South America. The
Mu►sunt sloop of air hod also arrived in the Bra-
zils trout Lima, with shout of dollars,
and had sailed for Eisglattil. Letters seceived
at
Janeiro mention that adticts had been itericett
limn Monte N'ldro, with intelligence that tt Treaty
of Peace had bteu signed littwico the rostugurae
sill Aar teas. If this a correct, there will be uo
',cc:4lll(3u in future for vessels to have convoy sailing
heiwteu rurtugal dud the lirdatils.

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