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knows what importance ought to be attached, and
what consequences may arise from the occurrences
that took place in Madrid on the nights of the
20th and 21st instant, but we shall see how they
will be represented by the Gazette de France, the
Dropeaa Blanc, and other journals of the same
stamp. We therefore think it our duty to declare
in the face of all Spinet, and we do not hesitate to
appeal to the testimony and good faith of the
foreign Ambassadors in this city, that the tempo-
rary ugitstion that was observed in it, did not essen-
tially disturb the public tranquillity, and that the
authority of the laws, and the voice of the magi-
strate., were not disregarded.
" The people of Madrid, that iv, almost the whole
mass of its inhabitants, preserved on this occasion,
as on every other, that attitude which becomes a
people who deserve to be free, amidst the uneasi-
ness which may be excited by the temporary effer-
vescence of tome few persons who think they have
reason to complain of the conduct of some agents
of the supreme power, have confined themselves to
demainling, the strict observance of the laws, with
that firmness, aa at the some time that gravity
and discretion, which distinguish the Spaniards.
" Let the enemies of our glory say, what
excess, what disorder was committed in, Madrid
during the most ciitical time of the efferves-
eence. Those who impartially observed this
last occurrence, isdiniree, as at other times, the
good sense of the Spaoierds, who are alarmed
sal uneasy while they think their liberties in
danger, and are immediately ►atisfied and easy as
soon as they know that their complaints have
reached the throne, and that the guilty are in the
hands of the intigistrattl charged with the execu-
tion of the laws."
After some further observations the writer adds,
that, without wishing to inspire unfounded alarm■,
it cannot but be evident from the line that all the
journals of despotism have assumed for some dap,
from the ■ccouets received of the boasting of the
unworthy Spaniards beyond the Pyrenees, who are
proclaiming the ruin of their country, Red from the
coincidence of certain facts now buried in profound
mystery, which will be one day explained, to unde-
ceive the incautiou♦ and to the terror of the evil-
minded. From all this it is clear that servilism is
indefatigable, and that the true friends of our
liberty ought to be so likewise. Union and vigil-
ance, end all the efforts of the satellites of despo-
tism will he vain, as they have hitherto been, and
will have no other result than t!te ruin of the
wicked and incorrigible persons who persist in de-
siring the contrary of what the nation desires.
B 1 the aeceunts from Barcelona of the 18th, it
appears that the total number of deaths had been
28; viz. eighteen up to the 14th inclusive; three
on the 15th, three on the 16th, and four on the
17th. The number of sick on the 18th war eigh-
teen, that is four less than on the preceding day,
there having been, it seems, no new cans. On the
14th, 15th, and 16,11 the new cases were , and
the deaths also nine, so that the cumber of patients
remained at twenty-two.—(Madrid Papers, Au-
gust 47.1