The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

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Alanatn, SECT. 12.
I lately informed you of the alarming spirit a Vetige•
mice and reaction which ditecrs the measures of Govern-
ment, and with what animosity the creatures of the
Apostolic J are filled against the men in place, who
are of the Alotlemte Party. I thivil Dow give you some
ilea of the state of anarchy in which the provincial :Mini-
iii,trations are at lids moment, and to what a wretched
state of corruption the el,rizy are fallen. It is from the
otlicial act.; themselves that I leave yomtn judge of the evil.;
that afflict this unhappy country. The Governor of Vitto-
ria lately published a decree, which was it 1111 l ediatily
adopted lay the•Governbra of all the oti,er provinces, and
which recalls to mind the most dreadful times of the
French Revolution. This decree goes oven so far as to
include those who may he unfortunate ettotOt to be called
suspected. It is drawn up as follows :
Article I. Every pirate wait:: is forbid to those who had any
part in the Revolutionary Govern cot, to the volunteers called Na.
tional, and to all those whoa in an way whatever manifested their
adherence to that Government ; it is also forbid that they should
assemble in public to a number tweeditie three, under pain of
a fine of Uhlman (W. 101.) No excuse will be admitted. and the
delinquents will be held responsible for the consequences when:ver
the publi: tranquillity shill be troubled by their slitinfiedienee.
2. All pesions of the above claws e.hnll he subject to a line, who
by their words or actions express revoloMmary Write, and shall
draw upon IllettiselVel4 the hatred of the friods to the King.
3. it is turbid den them to publish any alarming news, calculates!
to disturb goal order ; and they are admonished, that if they shoal.'
find themselves molested from these motives. they must blame their
want sr rnntenre in having rendered themselves suspected, and
they will nut oily have to pay the fine buil upon, but they will be
tried nod ileliirerni over on the third day to the executive Military
Commission, to be punished at-sanding to law.
4. Every individual belonging to these classes is bound to give
tip. within live days. all aide and lire snits (les arnts blanches .os
i fees) in their possession, and if after that time any nrnis be found
in their houses sir mem theist, they shall pay the tine, wain: looked
mem as suspected persona.
hi. No insisvislaal comprised in these classes fall pass the night
out of his own house, without a rule dr sari unless lie has ob-
tained n special permission from time polic.• of the town, or from the
Ale:doles of souse other town of the province. after having declared
the object of his journey, the place he is going to, and the period of
his absence; but if, in contempt of the present order, any • shall
absent himself for one night only, witholit permission, he shall pay
the fine, and be proceeded a,,,aitist as a suspected person.
8..11l persons resident in this province since the 7th March,
1820, and every individual having changed his residence since that
epochs. is bound to present himself, within fifteen does, before the
police, to answer for his conduct, designate Where hi has resided
formerly, the cause of his arrival, the object of his journey, and the
means of his existence. It being understood that those who do not
sit pri-sert thenoalves shall pay the line fixed upon, and be liable,
besides, to the mast rigorous measures against them.
The Authorities in charge of the execsition of this.snler, and the
Arnied Royalist Volunteers, shall watch the actions of the :na-
-1 peeled. Long live the King, and wo be to those who oppose the un.
'limited rights of his august Throne.
(Signed) VALENTIN DE VERASTEQI'I,
Deputy-General in charge of the Police of
Vittoria, 4th Sept. 11121. the Province d'Alava.
. . . . .

Yon may judge from the latitude and encouragement given
to inf rs, and the little security insured to the accused,
to what excesses a sanguinary populace will proceed, who
are excited to murder and pillage by a fanatical clergy.
You may also judge of the arbitrary measures which will
be adopted in the administration of justice; and recent ex-
ample will give an idea of these excesses. The day after
this order was made public, and placarded in the streets,
two Royalist volunteers brought beMre the Deputy General
pf the province, who is diargeil with the police, an indivi-
dual whom they accused of having torn down the printed
orders. The accused declared that it was impossible he
could have committed this crime, not haring left his house
the whole of the. day, and he further offered to bring wit-
nesses to prove that he was ill, and hail not gone from
home. That is false, replied his accusers, and as a proof of
what we advance, when we saw him tear down the placard,
he had on a pair of white pantaloons. I never wore
any other than black, replied the accused, and if you choose'
to examine my wardrobe, you will not find any white ones.
The Judge won'd admit no excuse, nor listen toasty ex-
planati ll , but condemned this unfortunate individual to
be tined .10 ducats, and be conducted to prison. However,
one of the persons who were present begged permission to
br hearth, and he athrined that it was not the accused that
*ae guilty, but that he saw (with Lis ow eyes) Mr. Za-
r !:e tear down the order, and that when he cominitted this
act, he hail on a pair of white pantaloons, as the Royalist
volunteers hail declared. Mr. Zarate was accordingly sum-
moned to appear before the Deputy. On seeing him, the
two first witnesses acktiowlialged their mistake, aud de-
clared upon oath, that it was 3lr. Zsrate who was the
really guilty person. Ile was not allowed to reply, but
was fined the .$Ol ducats, and further was ordered to quit
the town in three days. Perhaps you may suppose that
after the discovery of this mistake, the former person was
absolved from the fine: no such thing, he was forced to
pay it as well as Mr. Zarate, who, it was afterwards found,
was nu c guilty than himself, fur the next day a p:raoit
of the first respectability deposed, that the order was torn
down in his presence by sonic children who could not road,
and who do doubt thought it was a play-bill.
Facts like these need no commentary to excite the indlg-
nation of every honest person. However, there are acts
committed still more odious, which are ordered in the name
of the Goo of Peace Batt of Mercy ; who constantly recom-
mended the forgetting of lido:n.B and forgiveness of of-
fences. There have been Circulars privately addr.ssed to
the curates of Catalonia, which :thew what contempt
the Catholic Bishops have fur religion, since they dare
propose to those who are its ministers to descend to the
vile employment of agents of police and secret informers.
A copy of one of them has been communicated to me
by the curate of This ecclesiastic, the only honest
one perhaps in his diocese, replied with horror such pro-
posals, and tendered the resignation of his curacy. Tlwre
is no doubt that his noble and courageous conduct will
draw upon his head the most violent petsecutions.

The following strange and ridiculous story is given in the
Pottery 3fereury, us an extract of s letter intik! La tluavra,
slated August tit, addres-cd to a (lentleman in the l'in-
terics :—" The Colombian Government have issued orders
to shut up all the warehouses of English merchants, and
prevent their trailing, until they swear allegiance to this
country, or pay I'2,thle dollars for their citiacuship ; but
our countrymen are not to he trifled With, or forced into
measures like these, and have resisted it in a way that has
procured a temporary suspension of the general order. I
have just sism the British Consul, who has forwarded to
England all the particulars : you will therefore see them.
The stores are full of inerehanilize, eatted ; and vet ves-
sels are daily arriving front every part. There is no pro-
duce to get, and ships return without a cargo; surely this
will tell the facts, and causes more correct view tube taken
of this State. The population is almost ilestroytil by the
late drainage for Peru ; groupes of miserable half-wild
creatures are lest through the town, who are caught in the
interior, fastened together with cords in long strings, as
horses, are at the fairs in Yorkshire, and are shipped off to
Peru, to me: nettle's the army. Poor creatures ! the mind
shudders to look at them ; for they have less the appear-
ance of civilization about them than I had ever before
witnessed."

The following is an extract of a letter which we recently
received fr New South Wales dated 6th Derettibri,
igti:—" IV heat was last week sold for ti. 7 ?tl. per bushel .;
maize, 'atift. ; barley',; MOO., SA. per cwt. ;
fowls, 3s. per couple ; butter, Is. 6.1. per lb.; cheese, 1... ;
lk r doses ; the loaf of 2115., 3.11 Since last
year we hero received several hundred emigrants. All may
do well, if industrious and 50b•? ; if not, they are ruined.
In this land the surplus of British population with
may find ample room. Manufacture's are much waffled.-
Posteript, dated itith February, 1624: " Wheat is now at
35. 6.1. per bushel."
31vsvxatoes Discorray.—A few days since, while the
workmen were employed in pulling down an old public-
house on the Sands, Hear Brampton, one of them, on mot.
ing some flags in the parlour floor, experienced considerable
annoyance by a nauseous smell issuing from theearth ; and
anon after, at the depth of a yard from the surface, struck
his spade is;:ainst a hard substance, which, on being taken
up, proved to be part of a human skeleton, supposed,
from the sire of the bones, to be that of a man. glow
these remains cause to be deposited in that place, remains
yet a secret.
On Saturday the II do instant, a large Cormorant was
shot near Burton-upon-Trent 1,7 Mr. Edward Chawner.
It is almost the only instance of a bird of its unwielilly
flight and marine habits having been seen so far inland.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

CHARLES THE TEX7'H.

ll'e extract from the Etude eitelollowing reminiscences
of the new Monarch of France,—

" Few words will suffice to leoomtwend to the love and
admiration of the pub:ic, the French Prince whom Provi-
dence has just called to reign over than. The Count
d'Artuis was esteemed by Louis XVI., his august Brother,
as much as he was beloved by him. Approved devotion,
eitivalroul loyalty, unerring judgment; these formd the title
of this; Prince to the countenance of the Monarch. It is
not yet forgotten that Louis XVI. 'speaking one day of very
hazardous counsel which had beefn given to him at a most
momentous crisis, said aloud, ' I oppose it, I know that my
Brother, tho Count !)'Artois, wutld never give it the
sanction of his approbation.'
" The moment arrival too soon, when France had occa-
sion to admire in a Prince of thirty, /biter iiiii Knit and pru-
dence, which are ordinarily but the fruits of age and ex-
perience. Louis XVI. hail convoked the Assembly of the
Notables, for the purpose of confenin,,,, with them on the
au) jeet of the reforms which were made the pretext for the
Revolution. A Prince presides) over each Bureau of that
Assembly. On opening their Sessions his Royal Highness
pronounced a speech, in which this phrase was remarked—
Vrenclimen, like you a subject—liki! you, I will justify
the confidence which the King, my Brother, manifests, by
the utmost frankness, and by the most perfect submission
to the orders which he may be pleasol to give for the hap..
pir-ss of his people, and the glory of his throne.'
" Already the 'omit d'Artois foresaw the fatal projects
of innovators. They were all unveiled to I • by the open-
ing of the StatesA ieneral. Ile saw that that Assembly
would prove but the instrument of a faction and he was
the first to sign that ever-memorable paper, in which the
Princes of the House of Collide Joined with him, to an.
nounce-L-we may say to prophesy—to the unfortunate
Louia XVI. all the calamities which were about to fall on
him and on France. As soon as a handful of wretches
had wiled on the Bastile without resistance, and unpu-
nished assassinations served for a prelude to the horrors
which the Chiefs of the Revolution meditated, the Count
d'Artois anticipated but too correctly, that the King, his
Brother, was a captive ill the hands of rebels, and with-
drew, with the two young Princes, his some, to the dosni-
Mims of the King of Sardinia, father-in-law.

"The Emper-or Leopedil 11. invited this Prince to a
secret conference at Mantua. This conference was very
long. Those who then surrounded the Emperor have not
forgotten, that that Prince, who was endowed with no
co 11111 l on Mtilligence, :aid aloud, in retiring from the in-
terview—. I knew that the Count &Artois was a Prince of
brilliant talents, but I did not expect to find in him a
Statesman equally judicious and well informed.'
" It is known that Louis XVIII. on rejoining the Count
d'Attlis and the Prince of Conk, after their separation,
quoted these fine verses:—

Oui puisque je resois we plus fennessppuis
Rome n'ett plus dans Rowe, elk est foot je suit
" Every holly is a'• arc that, after the failure of the first
attempts to snatch Louis XVI. from fit:. hands of his
gaolers, the Empress Catherine 11. expressed a desire to
receive the Count trArtois at bee Court. But every body
does not know, that on his return from Rest% the first care
of this Noble 'rince was to divide among the faithful ser-
vants of Louis XVI. the rich presents which he had re-
ceived from that grist Princess. It was by similar traits
that Europe recognised him, to whom it decreed the glorious
title of the first French Knight, and in whom the Knights
themselves, assembling round him, recognised the grandson
of the good Henry, like 'him always affable, always bene-
volent ; like him, he might say, ' Le B,'areais is poor—he
gives what he has.' "