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stion of affairs in the island mickt suggest—the I
effect it may have upon the Slave Trade, the West ,
Indies, &c. ; but if our ideas of General Boyer are
correct, where can the free people of colour in the
United States be transported with more propriety
titan to St. Domingo? Would it not be more fee-
silite and more philanthropic for the American Co-
lonization Society to send them there than to the
desert coast Of Africa ? At the former place they
may expect to be received with open arms of friend-

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ship upon • fertile soil ; at the latter they must
be exposed to the fatality of disease, and the fe-
rocity of a barbarous population.

SPANISH PAPERS.

BARCELONA, I/ECM/888 2?.
If our adherence to the Constitution has been
notorious and sincere—if our love to our King
has been pore and cordial—if respect to the legal
authorities. has always been the rule of our conduct,
we now think it more than ever 'memory to declare
that Catalonia considers the Spanish Constitutiou as
its property. which it will defend against all enemies
of the public felicity, whether secretly or openly.
—The accounts from Naples induce us to hold this
language, since we unhappily know that the affairs
of Europe are taking a turn which we did not cx.
pect. It was thought that the Greit Power., as they
are called, attacked only the principles of the Re-
volution of Naples; that is, what they called a
military insurrection. But the mask is thrown
off; it is not the 14ilitsry insurrection, it is the
Si/moist' Constitution which is to be attacked at
Naples. It cannot be any longer dissembled; it
is Spain which is attacked indirectly in Italy, till an
opportunity shall offer of attacking it directly. The
injustice of the intentions of those who oppose the
Spanish Constitution at Naples is self-evitlettt, as well
as the manifest conttadiction into which they fall, ad-
leging that this Constitution gives too much power
to the People, and too little to the Monarch. The
Sovereigns who new think this. are the same who a
few years ago solemnly recognised this Constitution,
which then roused them from the lethargy, from the
humiliation in which they were plunged. which was
the basis to preserve their th es. to support their
mediating sceptres. to recover their dignity, their
honour, their rook. &c. &c.
We are far from comparing Laybach with Ba-
yonne, Ferdinand I. with Ferdinand VII., or the
Emperor Francis with Bonaparte. If any act of
injustice like those committed by the usurper of
the throne of the Bourbons should be seen in our
dam we shall not impute it to the Sovereigns, but
to their evil counsellors. Meantime, Ferdinand is
gone to Laybach ; but for what ? It can only be
to repeat by word of mouth what he has frequently
declared to the whole world. And what may be the
results of this new Congress ? The Neapolitan
nation will not yield, the Monarch will maintain
his oath, the Cabinets, meantime, will introduce
delusion. enflame people's minds. excite parties,
outrage the law of nations ; but at the same
time they will animate in the people their love of
liberty; they will cause men to reflect on their
rights, and on the means of recovering theta, and of
establishing them on more solid foundations than
they have hitherto had, &c. Naples will be in-
vaded, and the Spaniards cannot look at its situation
with indifference, &c.—(Gaceter de Gobierno.)

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, JANUARY FS.
We are assu►rd ihat Sir James Crauford has re-
ceived order s to quit Paris in twenty-four hours.
According to his covtom, he exclaimed. it is said.
View la Charte ! ■t the moment he was setting off.
• MADRID, JANUARY 5.

(Erhart of a Private Later.)
I ante (0 yctit is gseirt hate, to ;Joint you that
the Cortes ure convoked for Tuesday, the 9th in.
►taut, in order to take into consideration-the invita-
tion that has been sent to Ferdinand VII. by the
Allied Sovereign., to repair personally to the Con-
gress at Layhich. Thin news has produced the
liveliest seitsation. If the Cortes permit the King
to leave his kingdom, it isprubable he will embark
at Barcelona.—(Constittdionel.)
It is rumoured in this capital that our Monarch
has received, from the Sovereigns at Troppau, no
invitatiou to repair to the conferences at Laybach.
If this should he confirmed, there will, no
doubt, be an extraordinary convocation of the
Cortes to deliberate upon so important a measure.
—lfinot idioms.
They write from Madrid, under the date of Ja-
nuary the 4th, says the Gazette de France, that
armed men of all descriptions have pasted through
the town of Zamora, exclaiming, Long lire Re-
ligion I" In several villager the country people
jumed them.
A new conspiracy has been discovered at Sara-
goose, but the zeal and activity of the Civil Autho-
rities entirely disconcerted