The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-01 00:00:00

FOREIGA 1 ATELLIGENCE.

ACCOUNTS 1,11074 SPAIN.
We have remarked with surprise an art; in the
cionel , in which thc Chief of the Venezue-
lan Patriots, Simon Bolivar, is warmly attacked.
It is said, that at Santa-re de Bogota he put to

&fah 250 ecclesiastics, monks, and rich persons ;
and that, not content with these murders, he en-
riched himself by exactions ; that General Morales
has assembled a body of 3,000 men, well organized,
who are the terror of the Patriots. It is also an-
nounced,
that General Morello has obtained an ad-
vantage over the Patriot Pacz. It is true, that
these articles are extracted from a paper of Carac-
has, but the Constiluciund adopts them without
adding any reflections.
The present composition of the Ministry com-
prises the most influential members of the Corte3 of
Cadiz. This circumstance renders them ineligible
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as Deputies. The Government is in this respect
in the same situation as that of Louis XN'I. would
have been, it; as had been proposed in 1790, the
King had talon Mirabcau anti his friends as Mi-

misters.
The Junta of Madrid is occupied seriously in
putting in activity a regular system Of itostom du-
ties. They will be immediately applied to the eN•
tretne fconticrs of the kingdom, and those which
exist in the interior, from province to province, will

be suppressed.
Some anxiety has been felt at Madrid respecting
General Cruz de Mourgeon. On the 31st of March
he entered Xeres with half of the division under his
command, that is, 3,000 meti, who had arrived there
by forced marches front Utrera : it is not yet known
tor what object. On the 30th General O'Dompu
ordered the Queen's battalion and that of America
to march out of Cadiz, and to station themselves
between the land-gate and the Cortadura. It was
said that they purposed to circa a counter-revolu-
tion ; but we have received a proclamation addressed
by this General to his troops. He prays his soldiers
to believe that " his Nesty swore to the Constitu-
tion without the least constraint, and by a move-
ment of his own magnanimous heart Soldiers,
listen not to Use rumours, our holy religion is not
outraged. The person of the King is sacred and
inviolable." This proclamation proves that there
bad been some fermentation among the troops.
MADRID, AVAIL 10.—Yesterday the Members of
the Constitutional Municipality were chosen, and
the elections have met with general approbation.
Among theta are merchants, laud proprietors, gran-
dees, &c. The unfortunate aflitir at Cadiz is the
only blemish our revolution has experienced, and it
is lucky it was, not worse, for a counter-revolution
was plotted, and was to have been carried into
effect on Maundy Thursday, the SOth, but it was
discovered by a sedeant of one of the regiments,
who had received :2 , 0 0 dollars to distribute among
his people. Some arrests have followed, and among
those sent to prison are three Members of the Junta
de Reemplazos. In the place where they were in
the habit of assembling, 10,000 dollars were found,
and it appears that a few friars and curates were the
persons who had formed the underhand project of
suborning the troops. Fortunately these mad and
nelitrious projects arc of no avail, and will only serve
to ruin a few embitions individuals in the opinions
of their fellow-citizens. The troops in La Isla will
not quit their positions till the Cortes assemble. In
the Provinces the militia are arming.
CADIZ, APRIL 4.-1 was just going to dine, when
I heard that the valiant Quiroga was about to make
Iris entrance into the town, and that every prepara-
tion was making to receive him. I hastily finisoed
my repast, and on reaching the street of San Fran-
cisco, I saw descending, front the square of San
Antonio, the battalion of Arragon, 800 men, be-
longing to the La Isla party, whence they had just
arrived, having first gone to the square of the Con-
stitution to salute with their colours the obelisk
r.dsed there in honour of our national code. It
wculd be impossible to explain the enthusiasm of
Cie troeps belonging to this corps, and the people
who were seen hailing and embracing them on all
sides. The balconies were hung with silks, and
crowded with spectators, and the inhabitants walked
before the troops, with palms in their hands. The
Im:talion moved off to their quarters, and I went on
to see Quirogit's entry, but Low can I convey to you
an idea of this pleasing and tender sight ? Scarcely
was his tainting know n, and the whole of the ground
from the Cortadura to tire square of San Juan de
Dir s, was thronged with people; balconies, tops of
t..e 'houses, all tided, even the city walls and to..vers,
7ai anxious was every body to sec this brave and
d:;l:tguished man to whom his country is so much
indei,ted, and who little more than three months ago
was an imitate of one of our prisons.—The party
La Isla reached the Cortadura, and was re-
eeived with discharges of artillery and every other
demonstration of joy. The people Ihreed Quiroga
tLcse who accompanied hint to taiglit front thew

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horses, and they ascended a liJaatiful triumphal car,
prepared fhr the occasion, in which sat Quiroga,
Iliego, Lopez Banos, our new Governor, Don Cur-
unto Valdes and O'Don.ijno, drawn by the people.
Parties of soldiers preceded them, and an immense
concourse of the most distinguished inhabitants on
horseback. Gmerals Ferras and Cisneros attended
in coaches. On reaching; the square of San Juan
de Dios, Quiroga alighted at the Governor's house,
but the people demanded I.e should shew himself at
the balcony. There the Governor placed on his
head a crown of laurel and roses which had been
prepared fur him. The scene was too much for
Quiroga, he was so greatly affected that he burst
into tears, and they were obliged to take him in.
A more interesting spectacle was never witnessed ;
it filled me with a thousand recollections. Would
to God those could have been present who think we
are incapable of apprecicting the advantages we have
just attained. In short, we are all happy, with the
excepiion of a very few, too servile and too merce-
nary to prize the blessings their fellow-citizens
enjoy, but this is only a dark spot in the general
scene, and they will be left to the remorse of their
own consciences.
Pants, April ^2.—Yesterday, after mass, the
King transacted business with the Duke de Riche-
lieu and the Minister of War.
A pamphlet, entitled Apercus Ilisloriques, has
been scizedly authority, at the Constitutional Li-
brary of Brissot-Thivars.
M. Chevalier, one of the Editors of the Habil°.
thew Historique was arrested yesterday. The cause
is not known.
The Journal de Paris says—" We can inform
certain propagators of disastrous reports, that their
efforts are useless ; no one believes either their af-
fected good intentions or their bad news. What-
ever they may do or think, France enjoys in every
quarter the most perfect tranquillity."
It is said, that the Cabinet of St. James has re-
plied to the official notitical of the changes recently
produced in the government of Spain, that it sees
with pleasure the adoption of a system which Eng-
land had long considered useful, and even necessary,
fur the welfare of the Spanish nation.

CORFU, APRIL B.—Sir Thomas Maitland. the
Lord High Commissioner, has just opened the third
session of the Legislature of the lonian Isles. His
Excellency commenced his speech on the occasion
by congratulating them upon the tranquillity of the
United Isles. That tranquillity, be observed, had
been last year momentarily interrupted by the
tumult at Santa Maura; but the instigators had
been detected ; four of them had paid the fOrfeit of
their lives, and the property of the fugitives from
justice had been confiscated. That event hail been
preceded by the most heinous calumnies against the
executive power, and against Great Britain ; his
Excellency therefore recommended, that a committee
of the legislative corps should be immediately ap-
pointed to investigate and record upon it. He was
determined to exercise the const.tutional power
intrusted to him with firmness, but at the same time
with that moderation and mildness which became
the subject of the free nation to which he belonged.
Alluding to the cession of Varga, he observed, that
it took place by virtue of treaties to which England
had been ever faithful—she had indemnified the
Parganiotc. and granted them the rights of citizen-
ship in the lonian Isles. Ilis Excellency next pro-
ceeded to review time financial resources, and
congratulated them upon their satisfactory state. He
assured them, that the administration wme actively
occupied in measures for the promotion of interaal
prosperity, which would promptly be laid before
them; the health laws particularly would be ren-
dered .ess burdened, by new regulations. Lard
Guildford, he observed, had been charged to organixe
a plan of public education. After tlevelopin7, at
length, these points of political economy, his Excel-
lency thus concluded;—" l am so fully convinced
of the advantages which the Constitution of 1817
will produce in these isles, that I frankly avow to
you I am not at all disposed to make the slightest
changes in concession to the titcoreti;aal opinions of
any one. Should experience demonstrate the Mm-
perfection or inadequacy Of existing enactments, I
shall be always ready to concur in such measures as
may promote the prosperity of the United States of
the lonian Isles."
STUTGARD, April I.s.—The marrimge of his Ma-
jesty the King ►yith her Seiene Higness the Princess
Pattlina of \V urtewherg. daughter of his Highness
tl►e late Da ke Louis of Wunemberg, was solemnized
to day in the Royal Palace.
The ceremony was perforawl at twelve o'clock, in
the Great Gallery, by the Chief Court Chaplain,
Prelate d'Artd, in presence of the members of the
Royal Family who are now here, of the whole
Court, as well as of the officers of the Household
of his Majesty, the Queen Dowager, and of those
of the members of the Royal Family present, the
Diplomatic Body, the Staff-officers of this and the
neighbouring garrisons, the Royal Ministers, a de-

putation from both the Chambers of the States and
of the University of Tubingen, and the Magistrates
of this city.
After the ceremony their Majesties went to the
Presence Chamber, to receive the congratulations of
the Court, the Diplomatic Body, &c. after which
there was a grand entertainment, and in the even-
ing a bull.