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SPANISH PAPERS.
MADRID, 001.1 t
The King coutinues taking the waters of Sere-
don. The Court Bulletin announces his Majesty,
ti be in exceeding good health. He will return to
the capital at the end of the month.
• A long letter from the Political Chief of Madrid,
add►esssed to the members of the club of the Fon-
tana det Oro. announces, that for the future a mu-
,. Melts.' officer (Regido►/ will attend their eittissirs.
this magisteste will be charged, on his own respon-
' sibility, with the prevention of every species of ex-
cess, and to prevent any person from speakiog who
shall abuse the privilege. For the rest, the Politi-
cal Chief, faithful to the principles of the Constitu-
tion, is anxious that the most perfect freedom of
opinion may be enjoyed by very individual.
Private letters from New Spain consusunicate the
most afflicting particulars of the condition of dint
which has hitherto been the most quiet and faithful
of all the conquests of Pizarro and Cortes.
Twenty Chiefs. at the head of their several parties,
more or le., numerous, ruse at the same time in op-
position to the government of the Viceroy. km-
' bide, more powerful than the rest, endeavoured to
consolidate the insurrection by openly proclaiming
the independence of the province. This attempt
was put down by the Royal forces; but the seeds
of insurrection have thereby been sown, and itale-
pestilence will probably ere long be the rallying
cry. The landing of the crews of two ships of war,
which happened to be lying in the port of Aca-
pulco, alone prevented that town, which was de-
cidedly in favour of the revolution, from falliug
into the possession of the insurgents.
On the 13th of next month it will be 900 years
since the empire and capital of Montezuma were
acquired for the Spanish Monarchy, at the com-
mencement of the reign of Charles V. The vast
kingdom of Mexico produced annually to the
Crown of Spain from 20 to 25 millions of piastres
in gold and silver. It contains I 18,47 S square
!rogues, stud a population of about six millions
of souls.

VITTORIA, JULY 14.
It seems that Merino has recovered himself,
having appeared with seventeen of his band mar
the Sierra, and that his ancient friend, the Pin.l-
- has shrwo himself on the other side ; for
n hich reason the Ist buitalion of the regiment of
the Emperor Alexander, which was coming to this
city, was matched to Ezearay.
MADRID, JULY 16.
The Supetior Political Chief hits addressed the
following remonstrance to the citizens who attend
the doh at Fontana del Oro :
" Citizens !—(ls the 16th of last month I explained to the
public is a very clear manner my ideas and my desires se-
Bisect* the dub which yon attend, with the plausible object
of giving and receiving information. I called to mind
the obligations which you ought always to bare in view in
that meeting, and the object which, according to the prin-
ciples of the Constitution, you ought solely to propose ; and
cotteladed by declaring, that the abuse of the liberty of
speech never could be permitted, whether it proceeded from
malice, or was the effect of ignorance.
"Notwithstanding such serious we:sings, I have seen that
the unseasonable violence of some speakers, the ignorance
and imprudence of others, have led it to the extreme of per-
mitting the diffusion of erroneous dociriues, contrary to
the sacred inviolability of the King, of eulogizing sceues
of horror and of bloodshed, which make humanity shudder,
and •t which every civilized nation bluabea, of sleserAiding .
to injurious personalities prohibited by the laws, and of
seeking to mislead public opinion, so as to approve and
sanction an indispensable and just the breakiag through of
the restraints of the law, and in contempt of it emptying
culpable measures, foreign to the dignity and magoanimity
of the Spanish nation, whose distinguishing characteristic
has been moderation and wisdom, even in the most trying
political crisis.
" Such great abuses have excited in my heart the most
painful feelings, on reflecting that the school of knovilrdge
and virtue might be converted, if they should coutinue, into
a tumultuous assembly, and inevitably plunge us in the
must disastrous anarchy. And, in truth, what other result
can be expected, if, wader the pretext of supporting our
beloved liberty, it is directly attacked by direct invitations
to despise the laws by which it is guaranteed, instead of
qtly Weide/Aug the salutary principle that liberty
itself can only be secured by a sacred obedience (Santa
arciaottaa) to the laws, and by the rigorous übser f
Our political Constitution? What advantage to the system
dues be propose who despises, and excites others to despise,
its fundamental bases? After having become an object of
admiration and esteem to all Europe by our judicious and
peaceable viaduct in the restoration of seder, shall we, by
want of reflection, incur the disgrace of losing the reputa-
tion so justly gained, and make ourselves an object of
horror, of pity, and of contempt, in the eyes of all other
nations? The ideas of the people of Madrid are nut, and
cannot be so led astray. I am persuaded that the good,
whose number is far superior to that of the evil-disposed,
detest in their breasts such excemee,and tbat the wise will net
fail to interfere, to rectify opinion, and to hinder the grossest
ignorance front usurping the dominion of knowledge. I
nett persuaded that the military, worthy defenders of the
I wintry, imbued with the sacred principles of sound
morality, are not igsoraat of what constitutes the true
liberty of mations, and will never permit its place to he
usurped by disorder and anarchy.
" Penetrated by these truths, which can be denied only