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"'linos in thin great . Ile (?4r. W.) bail "ever been a
zealnos liiesid of Reform, and he should ever condor' to be
its zealous advoc"te—(Applainiel
Thinks were vuted to Mr. FAWKF.S, who, in reply, as-
',wed the meeting of his /talons sillirriu;e to that glorious
rause which he had uniformly supported throuith life.
The meeting then separated. Reside* the names we ha*
givevi, there were present several of the first Gendenies adhe
County.
A Committee, consisting of some of the first Geode's's of
4116reessty, in point of property and respectability, was
then appointed.

FOREIGN INTELLIGRNCE.

1141rOtINt,latillT 16.
The post from WHIMI was in fact stopped and
&rived by a band of 100 men, at Salinas, oil Sun-
day evening. The factious took out the official
correspondence from Madrid and burnt the Jour-
nal!: 20 hours afterwards they dismissed the postil-
lien with the rest of the correspondence which ar-
tived here on the 14th, at 6 o'clock in the evening.
• i' tc be hoped that the new Ministry will remove
Arse obstacle..
Our news from Madrid is no later than the Bth.
Besides the appointment of the new Ministry, it
Ives expected that there would be several changes
•
lip the military grivernment of the provincoa,sod
abnoot entire revolution in the magistracy. As fur
the news from the provinces, we have little to
add to those brought by the last post. Ands-
finis and Gallicit continua tranquil, end the
*qui* combat with success the bands which in-
lost them. It is false that there have Leen consi-
deitible assemblages of Royalists on the /woke of
ihe Miami, in the district of Orense, for the Journals
kind private letters born Corunna and St. Jago say
there is no band of above 60 men in that province.
The district of Cuenca. its New Castilie, is almost
entirely in the power of the Royalists. who, to the
snornber of 1,200 men, make continual incursions
....en up to the gates of Alcula. Other less on-
Ailerons carps traverse by turns the province of
Toledo. sad that of Ciudad-Real ; we do not spesk
of amend bends of robbers which amp the couriers
:fiffd dl use travellers on the high roads, as we Icarus
trap several Frenchmen who tisee lately mrived
ni Bayonne, and who had even been stripped of
their shirts.
In consequence of orders sent by the Government.
Measures are taking in the capitols of the provinces
• %Ci'etiable the active militia to take the field ; hut
truth oldies us to say that in those districts where
• there are partisans, the militia, either seduced or of
their own free will, prefer jui ll ill g them to obeying
the Government, and the idea of having to go
and fight in Catalonia, contributes to this de-
sertion. 'rhir, however, is not the case in G intent,
where the militia have punctually obeyed the call
uddreered to them, and of eight regiments already
rots foot, six were on the point of marching to Valla-
dolid, and also 10 piece, of cannon from the arsenal!
of Comtism and Ferrol. The destination of this force
is not known. About 3,000 men, mostly militia, were
reedy to embark at Algestras for Catalonia. The
want of money will delay the espedition fur • few
days. •
. The Madrid Journals do not enable Ira to form
• just opinion of the affairs of Catalonia, for they
always publish favourable accounts, which are con-
Irtdicted by those from Arrsgon; the most certain
het is, that the constitutional troops keep on the
defeasive, expecting the reinfoiceineuts which are
promised, and which are in fact on the march from
different parts of the Peninsula.
The sceounts from Guipuscoa mention the de-
feat of the podium, Viungit, on the 11th Moen',
near Cespeitie, as well as the measures which have
been taken w that country against the factious, whose
excesses are incalculable.

We have no positive news of Quesado, and have
only learnt that his troops have made a movement
into the interior of the province towards Estella,
svGilQ *e Coustitutionshrts were near Pdinpeluna,
but we do not know of any engagement since the
surprise of the SO men which we mentioned in our
Ilk. We are informed that this drfender of the
faith, with the view of dimintalitng the force of the
enemy who pursue him incessantly, has lately de-
filched Guerillas of 100, 150, and 400 men into the
provinces of Vet-nitre, Navarre, and Arragon, which
Hives much. employment to the Constitutionalists,
who are inferior in number.

It is said that the Spaniards have declined sc.
ceming an *auxiliary force of 15,000 men which
were offered them by the Court of Lisbon.
BAYONNE, AUGUST 17.

The reports of war between France ausl Spain
are renewed litre ; however we do.not see any great
preparations. Only within this week three or four
pieces of cannon have been mounted on the inner
wall of the place, and as for the external works
they have out yet been touched. The garrison re-
aming the same. Some cannon balls have indeed
lately wired from the interior; in truth there does
not seem to be any necessity for preparations unless
hostile views are entertained ; the Spaniards are not
at this moment able to revenge themselves for the
grievances which they allege against France, and
that with maw, for the protecting' and support
which Equis and Quctada have found, and it is
a.ifirmed still find here, or really offensive ; the pro-
testations &recalled to mind which the Cabinet of the
Tuileries has made of its pacific intentions with re-
spect to Spain ; the Spaniards would rather that the
French 'Government should declare war against
them, and have conceived an extraordinary hatred
towards it. The plan which has been formed
to raise the provinces beyond •the Ebro, under
the partisans of Equin and Mataflorida, will me-
aptably fail as soon as the new Ministry begins to act.
1. Because these men do not 'Enjoy any consideration
:whatever la Spain, either among the citizens or the army,
and are detested by the Liberal party, which is sow reale-
sows and powerful.
IL Because they have given ensoifest proofs of their inter-
bon to revive despustistn.
A. On account of the ridiculous title of " Defeaders of
site faith," which they • have given to the bands of poor
Amides whom they have seduced, and especially for the
potion that they are supported by • govereaseot which
„cdlk itself the friend of that of Spain. A fatal blow night
tyo been givers to the Constituilini if they had acted more
etirgUy in all retkpects. At Ovoid it world be very dif-
„Atiely'•ut 14/ Fy ispOaible, as the moieties Is is the
Ueda of its .sathers, sad the mimosasm of the Liberal. is
)inC,lts height i• principal cities of Spain, except in Cris-
Apt* and Nemec,, which will be speedily subdeed„ if the
Mar the liberal. are rot disappointed., •
• .../Ay the accounts from Madrid to the 13th, we
Jelin the following particulars:— •
°emit Mies is batty lippohited to the eon-

insztA of Narnrre, awl received his instructions on
the I in the et. g ; )et the Espettado still
announces that he i• going to Catalonia.
It is not General Bollasteros who is appointed to
the etunMand of Catalonia, us the journals stated,
but the Marquis of Cisteldorius.
The battalions of the national militia, both infan-
ley and cavalry, were under arms on the Ilth, and
'dress up on the promenstle of Atocho, to hear the
regulation concerning their corps decreed by the
Cortes. The crits of •' The Constitution for ever !"
were vtniversal—the enthusiasm of the Liberals is
extreme since the nomination or the new Ministry.
The irritation of the Anti-Constitutionalists is en
proportion. The new Ministry would willingly take
vigorous measurer, but they went the means—" No
money," iv the general cry. Reaction makes a
rapid progress in propottion to the eagerness of the
Constitutionalists, to defend the new sy►tem, and in
general the accounts from the provinces ore unsatis-
factory. Every where the armed bands increase, and
threaten to deluge Spain with blood, or to convert it
into an abode of banditti. The state of Catalonia to
particular is deplorable, and without a respectable
army of twenty or twenty-five thousand men, it
is to be feared that it will long be the theatre of
civil war.

It is affirmed that the King has promised to
convoke the Extraordinary Cortes for the 24th of
September.
Mean time the Ministry intends strictly to en-
force certain Decrees of the Cortes, the ezecuttoo
of which has hitherto been delayed, especially that
of 29th Juile, which commends various meusures
well adapted to the present political situation of the
nation, and which his Majesty sanctioned on the
tOth July.
An alliance between Spain and Portugal is more
talked of than ever. The journals of the capital
,hew the advantages and even the necessity of it,
adding, that if it were to he effected, the two patio'ss
might be secure from all attacks on their new in-
stitutions, both from within sod without.
The accounts which are received at Bayonne to•
day from the three Provii.ices of Biscay are afflict.
ing. The Guerills of the factious daily increase;
the partisan, Aguiere. has returned from France,
and eve'', where spreads terror. The two priests,
Gormtedo and Bretz°, surprised the town of Er-
nasie in the night of the 10th inst. with about one
hundred men; and after colltcting all the arms and
ammunition they could find, and setting fire to a
house, carried off to the mountains several of the
ptacesble inhabitant', whom they sent home the neat
day, thteatewiog to arrest them again if they did not
send an enormous sum, by way of ransom, within a
week. The Authorities have taken rigorous men.
sures to remedy the evils which effect the Province;
but public opinion is so adverse to the system, that
the offer of forty-Biz sous per day to volunteers
who will join the Constitutional troops has induced
very fear pemous; they prefer moving under the
standards of rebellion. The conduct of the fac-
tious has an incensed the inhabitants of Bilboa,
that on the 1311 t in the evening, 50 persons, who
were reported to be miti•constitutional, were arrest-
ed, and embarked fur the fort of Santini le Na-
varre does not offer a more favourable prospect.
The two parties are daily fighting, with alternate
success: it would be endless to give the details.—
The Royalists have also had some success in all that
part of Arragon which is contiguous to Catalonia
and Navarre. Spain, in short, presents a melan-
choly prospect, aid the Government must almost
perform miracles to deliver it from the disasters
into which the enemies of the constitutional sys-
tem, both at home and abroad, have plunged it.