The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-11 00:00:00

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SPAIN.

AMERICA.

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FOREIGN INI ELLIGENCE.

MADRID. Sip?. dismissed Ministers set off for
their destinations en the nicht of the 74th—H..Pirsirro, fist
Vale ...ia; M. Garay, for La Alumni* (Aragon), and H. Vas-
.qn 2 Ptgiseroa, for Santiago (Galicia). 'l'he cause of their
•di•greee is yet a matter of spendatiois ; hut the people welt
informed ascribe it to the indlienee of the King's emitessor.
M. Bencomo, the Patriarch of the Indies, aid the Pope's
Nuncio. These individnAls, his supposed, have eume su the
ossistireee of 3lessrs. Egoie and Lozano sic 'forces, the fora
rues Minister at War, and the latter at the head of the Des
'pertinent .of Justice. The Maier the measere, altlionsh
stu-
•dionsly concealed, is believed to be to put a check to the
linuileial plane of M. Garay in the part whic.ll has relation to
.the clergy. Nothing demonstrates it more than the attempt
made at Forija (a village near Gadd/14%4ra), by a crowd
'lnstigated by some oriests, against the person of M. G ;ray,
wthu was obliged to flee in the middle of the night in order to
•present any mischief. The new Minister of Finance en-
Aliwviiiirt to inculcate that his intent tun is to carry into exe•
+Elicit the plans of his predecessor, and For that
purpose he
wilt ;midis') very soon a circular adds eased to the intendants
and tat eatherers.

Money Wetmore 'e‘ery day more scarce, and the public
fed very much the effects of env scarcity. The rola
,C•assomars suffer a loss of 79 to s 3 per cent. ; the Nott-Cost-
amidated love more than SI prr cent. t nen! the•Consolioluted
propurvimially. The National Dput without worm is only
worth 4 per cent.; and, notwithstanding, buyers are not to
•Ive found at the Exchange. In several provinces the only
coin in circulation is copper and a little geld ; sliver imp-
:sacral is withdrawn from circulation. . .

K`reparations (or fitting out the expedition againstSonth
Atiterie4 arc carried on iv; quickly as the penury of the
Trea.ury permits. The expedition, it is said, will be coin-
pe.rd of 4 line of battle ships, O frigate*, and several light
vessels ; the land forces will amount to 18,000. commanded
by Gets. Freirr, instead of the Count of L'Abispal, who has
been dismissed ; and his seconds in command will be the
Generals Sarsfield unit Croix Ni _ . .

A rumour is in circulation that a system of espionage is
among the views of the new Ministers, with its usual appen-
.ilages of opening letters, &c.

Some cnrions articles are presented to ns by the American
papers respecting the Bank of the United States. That ex-
lensive•establishment is of recent date. A capital of several
millions of dollars was subscribed to it. Blanches from the
parent bank were fixed in theqirincipal towns throughout the
Union, it being understood that the notes of each of these
were to be of equal credit every where, and to be convertible
Mato rash, when tendered to the Central Bank. From some
causes not detailed, It would appear, that the system has not
very eminently prospered. A circular letter from the cashier
of the New York branch has been published, declining to
*receive any notet: either of the principal bank, or any of its
'branches, except the same shall he made specially payable at
'the New York office. The jashrwaullaguieire sitsespohat thi
Mother bank has refused the notes of its own bidinehes, ex- 'I
'eept in payment of debts due to the Government. 110-sblsor
Es it not,•etptivalent toe declaration of banitrapaer? ,
We have also received papers to the Bth tilt.—tly au article
*tn New Orleans it appears, that the Goveroaorf Cuba hod
'dispatched a Spanish frigate, of 38 guns, and two other
smaller vessels, for .the purpose of capturing Commodore
Amp; squadron : that an action took place near the Spanish
Main; and that the 'latter, not being able to effect an escape,
resolved on boarding the frigate, which be carried, but was
'so dreadfully woonded in the action, that he died a few days
afterwards. It was stated that the frigate. was cruising off
4Certhagena under the Insurgent flag. Admiral Brian's sgoa-
dron the beginning of August, cruising off Cape St.
411.ntonio. According to an article from St. Thomas's, he had
'ordered two English officers to be shot, during his last visit
So the Oroonoko. This statement, we trust, will prove to be
Jas incorrect as another assertion in the same article, relative
/o the arrival of Sir Gregor M'Gregor in that river, witb 600
English recruits.
The noted pirate Mitchell had left his old station oft the
mouths of the Mississippi, and was understood to be ciLis,ng
•off the Bahamas.
Thcrentoured retreat of King Christophe from the vicinity
witPort.an.Prince is confirmed.
The-Spanish Minister at Washington had, in consequence
.of instructions from his Court, made a tnrmal demand of the
restitution of those parts of both the Floridas iu the occupa-
%ion of the American troops.
Thedetails of the trial of Messrs. Arbuthnot aril Ambristie
are cot expected to be made public, until they shall have
'been laid before Congress.