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ney, Pu which I have already alluded, without
any previous communication to your Lordship,
and in direct opposition to an instrnetion that
must have then reached him. and that forcibly
warned him of the conirquences. I cannot
help regarding, therefore, the want of authority
nllerd by Governor &lactic Wei, as • feeble and
• 1/tte jnstifiestinn of himself for the delay
141 hart taken plice in undertaking the construction
.r:f a house of reception for the female convicts at
Paramattu; swell I think that this ground of jubtid-
cattott is still further weakened by • consideration
f the Steens that he possessed of providing good
'rennin:lodation at a very moderate rate of expense.
'l'n accomplish this purpose, I cannot admit that an
.eviwtitive building, or any architectural ornament,
was tither necessary or desirable; the principal object
tires was, that of preventing improper intercourse
between the female convicts and themale inhabitants
of the town and vicinity, and providing accommo.
nation for them, in the hours of labour, until proper
•vituations could be procured for them in the families
B.f the settlers and inhabitants. The continuation
of a wall, 12 feet in height, from the end of that
which surrounds the gaol at Peramotta, and the
complete enclosure of an acre and • half of ground,
containing separate houses of wood, and one for a
work-room, would, I conceive, have answered these
pp,epnves entirely, and more effectually, than the
Building that has lately been erected, and that was
in progress on my arrival.
(7b be eetetirnad)
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BAYONNE PAPERS.
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*AV. t 'BAYONNE, AUGUST 19.
The test ?runs Madrid was stopped on Sunday
-etening by the factieus at Salinas, two league. from
Vittoria, so that we have no news from the provinces
'beyond the Ebro. Those from Biscay informed us
Om the Pastor is daily engaged with the different
-bands in that cotmtry, which continue to increase;
They add, that the bomination of the new Ministry,
nod that of mina to the command of Navarre and
&scary, has given great satisfaction.
-With respect to Navarre, we learn the complete
Befkut of the constitutional troops, eighty in num-
heti' Nese Pampeluna. The defenders of the faith
Hsitly increase, and organise their force in the moun-
tains; their 'needles it the Constitational troops,
and have.treo succeeded in raising the district of
Ihngstent; on the frontiers of Arragon. In short,
if the Constitutional troops do not receive prompt
succour, this province will become a second Cats-
.lunis, and Arragon will be in great danger ; for if
the Royalists have not yet destroyed the troops of
their adversaries, it can only be attributed to the
indolence or to the excessive precaution of Quesada.
In fact, the Apostolic Junta of Navarre has insisted
on his dismissal, and it is said that this is the sole
object of the departure of Colonel Cabra from
Bayonne for Irati. If we may believe the accounts
from Arragon arid those from Catalonis, brought by
the pest from Oleron to-day, the Royalists are al-
most totally masters of this last province, which has
just established at Urgel its Provincial Govern-
spent, of which the Marquis of Meta Florida is
President. The Ampuradan, or more properly
speaking the district of Gerona, had almost entirely
risen en mane, and that place as well as Figueirss,
was threatened by the Royalists. The district of Bar.
celons was also beginning to take part in the revolt,
arid the Constitutionalists hail concentrated them-
selves at Mauro. The moveable columns, com-
posed for the must part of militia from the first of
those towns, haderbtained some sdvantsges over their
adversaries, who had retired by Saitiarts into the
mountains, where it was in vain to attack them.
The Constitutional troops, who had been successful
et Vich and Rods, had been obliged to retreat and
fortify themselves in those two places. The districts
of Campredon and Mattress were not in a more satis-
factory state. Olot, Boidelue, Manresa. and
Berg., were engaged in a continued struggle
with the Royalists. We do not speak of Pui-
cerda, where a levy en mane has taken place :
it is well known that that place, Belver, and Urgel,
are in the hands of the Insurgents, and that Or-
gap., •a is unable to resist. The district of Tarragona
and pert of that of Ville Franche de Penadts, where
moat of the reinforcements sent by the Government
have strived, had been abandoned by the Royalists,
part of whom had gone towards Tortoss, and the
other part towards Turega and Lends, which at
this moment must be in their power, unless Sarre-
goes has gent some aid ; for after their success at
Mequinensi the Royalists directed all their force
towards the first place, soil certainly the report
of Military Commandant to the Government
shews that it was impossible fur him to resist
au attack. The diversion made in the district
of Tortoss, and the appearance of a body of
Royalists at Cell's, bud alarmed the frontiers
of Valencia, whence troops Ira] set out for Tor-
-1051. 11l short, the situation of the Constituti-
onalists in Catalonia was such, that oil the gth of
this month they were not only deprived of commu-
niestion with Madrid, but even the Commandants
of the several districts could not correspond with
each other, on account of the number of the
guerillas, which is even more considerable than iu
the last war with the French.
It is difficult to imagine how the Government at
Madrid will acquit\ itself in the present state of
things; its situation calls for the display of great
resources. The arrival of General Mina in Navarre
will doubtless contribute to the pacification of this
province, bid it remains to be seen whether Bal-
lasteros or Morillo (for both are spoken of) will ob-
tain the same success in Catalonia, considering the
progress of the revolt, and the great support which
the factious have in a foreign nation. The Consti-
tutionalists have certainly conceived hopes from the
English nation, and even its Goverment, in whose
favour they will make all possible sacrifices if it sup-
ports them in the struggle in which they are en-
gaged. The following is the manner in which the
Liberal Journal of Si. &blatant expresses itself 011
this subject :

" The day is not distant when we shall, perhaps, learn
that a Treaty of Commerce Las hers concluded between our
Government and that of Great Britain; it is even said that
an silissee is in contemplation between Spain, Portugal, end
England; that the last rower hag seat a note to the French
G trent to require the dissolution of the Sanitary Cor-
don, mid to reprat the assurances of its resolution to main-
tain the order of things established in the Peninsula, It Is
added that our Government has also twelve! a sop from the