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FLANDERS MAIL

!RUN, JULY 12.

The Government has published some extracts
of diptitches which it has received from Mexico,
bnt they furnish little information.. They speak of
she pursuit of various bands of robbers, of their
dispersion, and the re-establishment of tranquillity
in one province. However, mercantile letters re.
eeired from Vera Cruz, dated a fortnight later than
the above accounts, contain some circumstances
which are not without interest. They say, that the
soyal troops having taken prisoners on different oc-
casions, those unfortunate persons were immediately
shut. Father Terre., whole band is pretty name-

Tom, having I.►tely takes eight timpani of the ,
regiment of Mexico, had seven if them shot in his
presence, and sent hock the eighth to the Spa-
niards, with this message, " Tell your Genetsl
what you have seen—if he persists in treating his
prisoners with such inhumanity, tell him that I
am resolved to use reprisal*, and to revenge the
blood of the innocent by sacrificing all the ene-
mies who shall fell into my hands." These let-
ters a that the communications between Vera
Cum and Mexico are slot perfectly free. and that
the convoys coming to that port are always
escorted by numerous detachments of troops to
protect them. The corsairs of the Indepen-
dents had hitherto contented themselves with in-
festing the ocean, hot it appears that they now
intend to extend their pillage to the hlediternmean,
into which ee lof them have entered to cruise.
IF this see is threatened, as is reported, with fresh
depredations of the Barbary pirates, we shall have
no trade left us—und in the present state of our
Monarchy we have not means to revenge so many
insults, and to make our flag respected.

At the beginning of next month there will be a
general review of the troops conspri.ing the army
of the expedition at Cadiz. It is believed, that
immediately after they will be embarked on hoard
the transports which are to convey them to South
America. This army has la►ely beets reinforced by
4,000 chosen troops. There has also arrived at
Cadiz a great number of sailor., levied on the
coasts of the ocean and the Mediterranean), to
complete the crews of the most formidable arma-
ment that ever sailed from the ports of Spain ou
so distant an expedition.

This year will be one of the most remarkable
mentioned in the annals of Spain. The harvest
will be every where extremely abundant, and it is
calculated that iii the two Castiles will he sufficient
for the supply of the whole kingdom for a year.—
The vintage of the most delicate and costly wine
will he double what it is in ordinary years, and the
quality superior. This is a compensation fur our
sufferings.

FRANKFORT, JULY 20.

Their Excellencies the Ministers composing the
territorial Committee, met to-day at the hotel of
his Excellency Baron Austell, Minister Plenipo-
tentiary of Russia, where they signed the conclu-
sion of the negociations at the Committee; tiller
this was finished, there was a grand enter's.' ttttt ent.
Lord Chnicarty sets out this evening for lirt..o„
to resume his functions as Ambassador from Eng-
land to the Court of the Netherlmds.

We learn from Bonn, that there have arrived
from Berlin some officers and an agent Dl' the
police, and several gendarmes. and that they
have arrested three Professors of the University,
Messrs. H. H. Arndt, and the two brothers
Welke►, and that their papers have been sealed up,
the Professors leave the city for their prison. At
Cologne an author has been arrested, and an officer
of justice at Elberfeld ; several arrests that have
been made in other places are spoken of. Two
individuals are said also to have been arrested in the
Duchy of Nassau.
IBEILLIN, JULY 17.
The papers of Mr. K. bookseller of this city,
are sequestrated.

CARLIIRUHI. JULY 18.

His Highness the Mergrave of Baden was ye.-
terday solemnly betrothed to her Royal Fligline6s
the Paulen. Sophia %Vilhelmins. (laughter of his
Majesty King Gustavus IV. late King of Sweden,
and her Majesty Queen Frederic*.

VIENNA, JULY 13.

A courier sent from Perugia on the 3d inst. has
brought the news that the Archduchess Caroline,
whose health is pretty well wavered, is to return
hither by short stages, under the care of the Coun-
tess Lascsansky. Her Imperial Highness will ur.
rive at Schoenbrunn on the 29th. The marriage of
the Archduchess to the Prince Frederick of
Saxony, is deferred till the end of the yezir.
Except Count Caraman, the French Anibassint,r,
wbo will remain in Italy till September, the greater
part of the Ministers to our Court will frhorily
meet at Carlsbad, where Prince Metternich is
also expected. The Aulic Counsellor Gentz, will
go there next week. The Prince Royal will go as
far as Bolgano, to meet the Emperor his father.

We have had here for some time such an exces-
sive degree of heat, that several persons hare
dropped down dead in the country ; near the city,
several horses have also perished front the effects of
the burning atmosphere. The heat has hem as
high us 30 degrees of Resumur in the shade. In
the last century the heat never rose at Vienna hut
once to 291, sad that was in the year 1748.—
(Brawls Papers, July 17.)

Letters from Madrid, dated the 10th instant,
mention, that Don Luis Owls, the late Spanish
Envoy in the United States, the iiegociaior of the
Florida Treaty, and the expected siscces.or of CASA
laujo, had been arrested in Valladolid, where, tt
will be remembered, he had received orders to atop,
on his wry from Paris to the capital. CASA lauJo
had been conveyed a prisoner from Avila to the con-
vent of Miravel, which, we believe, is situated in a
secluded spot, not far from Avila. Three Judges,
under the immediate superintendence of the KING,
have been commissioned to investigate the charges
brought against both lima° and Owls. King FER-
DINAND seems determined to make an attempt to
exculpate himself. at least as far as the public is
concerned, from any blame in the Florida transac‘
tiou.

'THE BRITI SH. PRESS.

LONDON,
FRIDAY. JULY SO. 1810.

Private letters from Gibraltar, which ►eached
towu yesterday, state, that General DoN had re-
ceived by express from Cadiz the important intel-
ligence that the Spanish troops assembled there
refused to embark for South America, and had
actually commenced their march upon Madrid. lit
a State circumstanced as Spain now is, suffering
under the aggravated calamity of a despotic, ■nd
yet an imbecile Government—where the military
and the priesthood are at once the pillars and the
oppressors of the throne—where the nominal depo-
sitary of the Executive Power can boast no solitary
virtue to command reverence and loyalty to his
person, and yet unfortunately has no resources by
which he might purchase fidelity, a military con.
vulsion is an event which might at ally moment
necnr without exciting either surprise or regret.
But there is one circumstance in the present cum-
municstion which diminishes, if it doe. not altoge-
ther destroy the credit which might otherwise
belong to it. The letters say that O'DONNEL,
the Commander-in-Chief, is at the head of the
insurrection. This part of the story it is impossi-
ble to credit, for, trusted us this General has been
by his KING, and having hitherto evinced a very
steady adherence to the interests of FERDINAND,
II is not probable that lie would thus suddenly
assume the character of his most determined enemy.
Rumours hail previously reached this country that
the troops collected at Catliz were extremely dissa-
Ithat they were several months in arrear in pay,
and were disgusted at the severity of O'DoNNEL's
discipline. The war in South America, like any
I other war that may be unsuccessful, is said to be very
unpopular, both with the army and the people of
Spain—mid as it bears, in many respects, the elms
racier of a civil war, it suggests many excuses tai
the mind of the soldier to justify an unwillingness
to enter upon • contest where uo principle of nos
tional honour can excite his patriotism, and no
prospect of glory stimulate his courage. Coder'
suth circumstances, he catches at uny pretence by
which lie affects to conceal frog► himself, or hopes
he can conceal from others, the sense of danger
which really deters him. The people d• test the
war, because it drains off their property iti unavail-
ing expeditious; but, from the best accounts which
we hove received of the kelings and intellectual
habits of the great mass of the coininunity in
Sitsiii, they seldom raise their thoughts to consider
of C., nature of their Government, or even of the
character of the individuals who exercise it. No-
thing could afford a stronger proof of their indif-
ference on such subjects, than the apathy they dos.
played when FERDINAND, on his return from cap-
' I tivity, flung into dungeons and chains the illus.

trious individuals who had contributed so nobly
and so effectually to unbar the gates of his prison,
and at the same time t. restore the nation to the
ersjoyrneut of her ancient and once proudly valued
rights. Indeed political science has fur three cen-
turies shed in Spain a light so glimmering and un-
certain, that should a revolution be effected there
by the sudden burst of national indignation, we
fear the people would nut be found sufficieutly en-
lightened to be enabled to turn the event to their
general udvantage. We hope, however, that the
intelligence communicated in these private letters
front Gibraltar may prove substantially correct,
fur a. least one great and permanent good must be
derived from it to the cause of humanity, in the
immediate cessation of hostilities in South America.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GIBRALTAR,

DATED JULY 10.

" A revolution at Cadiz is confidently spoken
of. The troops to a man have declared their in-
tention of resisting any attempt to embark them ;
and as an order had been received to embark yes-
terday 8,000 men for Laguna, it was expected to
break out on that occasion. We have had rumours
for some days back to this effect, but have paid no
attention to them. A person, however, aho arrived
yesterday from Cadiz, in whum we can place confi-
dence, confirms the ititilligelier, which, if true, will
be much in favour of the trade of this place, which
the Spaniards seem determined to ruin, if possible.
Boats going round to Seville with legal goods front
hence, are obliged to go to Cadiz sod perform a
quarantine of /fry dais, during which the goods,
under pretence of fumigat ttttt . are taken out, and
either very much spoiled, or totally destroyed."

Mr. lissx, from the Bank of England. yester-
day communicated to the Gentlemen of the Shit k
Exchange, in answer to their request, that the
Bank declined taking in the Omnium (that
that they will not pay the future instalments on
being allowed 5 per criit. interest for the advance).
This communication produced the immediate effect
of reducing the prices of stork one half per cent.;
but, considering how large ti portion of the instal-
ments has already been paid, and that in the future
payments of the loan, whatever sums of money
may be drawn out of the market, a diminution to
an equal amount must be effected in the un-
funded debt, we cannot suppose that any fall