The National Register.
London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

THE LISBOY INQUISITION.

LISBON, OCT. 24.—0 n the Bth of October the
Palace of the Holy.office was opened to the people.
—The number which crowded to see it during the
four first days rendered it extremely difficult and
even dangerous to attempt an entrance. The edifice
is extensive, and has the form of an oblong square,
with a garden in the middle. It is three stories
high, and has several vaulted galleries, along which
are situated a number of dungeons, of six, seven,
eight, and nine feet square. Those on the ground
;lour and in the first story, having no windows, are
deprived of both air and light when the door is shut.
—The dungeons of the next story have a kind of
breathing hole in the form of a chimney, through
which the sky may be seen. These apartments
were allotted to prisoners who, it was supposed,
might be set at liberty. In the vaulted wall of each
dungeon there is a hole of about an inch in diameter,
which communicates with a secret corridor running
along by each tier of' dungeons. By this means the
agents of the Inquisition could at any moment ob-
ser% c the coaduct of the prisoners without being seen
by them ; and whets two persons were confined in
the slum: dungeon could hear their conversation.—
In these corridors were sAtts so placed, that a spy
could observe what was passing in two dungeons,
by merely turning his eyes from right to left in
order to look into either of the holes between which
he might be stationed. The spies wore list shoes
that they might make no noise in walking over the
vaults of the dungeons. A familiar of the Inquisi-
tion was often shut up in the tame dungeon with
a prisoner from whom it was wished to draw con-
feasitins to be used afterwards against him. Human
skulls and other bones have been found in several of
the dungeons. On the walls of these frightful
holes are carved the names of some of the unfortu-
nate victims buried in them, accompanied with lines
or notches, indicating the number of days of their
captivity. One name has beside it the date 1809,
and SOO lines, which marks a confinement of more
than twelve months, terminated probably by the
execution of the prisoner. The doors of certain
dungeons which had not been used for some years
still remained shut, but the people soon forced them
open. In nearly all of them human bones were

A French journal gives the following intelligence
in a letter from Madrid, dated Nov. 1. The M.,-
drid papers of the same dat do not mention the
affairs—
,' Au extraordinary courier w this. day received by
the Government (tom Saragossa. He brings information
thst fur smite time past the cries of . Riego for ever' 114.1
been heard in the public promenades and the theatres cf
that city. Songs in honour of the General had been sung
in all the public places, and regret fur his removal from
office was loudly expressed. The authorities tried in
vain, by a proclamation, and some measures of severity,
to repress the manifestati n of these sentiments : tkese
measures served only to rritate. On the 2stli of I,:q
month the acclamations n favour of Riego recommetsci .1
with more activity than ever. It appears that the Polit.-
cal Chief, Illoreda, took a wrong comae far re-establishing
' tranquillity. The coridnet of his agents excited a com-
motion in which three persons were wounded, and two
arrested. Next day the milit#assembled in the politic
square with a piece of artillery. This hostile attitude had
for its object to obtain reparation Mr an insult given on
the preceding evening to one of the members of the COI ps.
A deputation was sent to the Municipality to demand the
dismissal of the Political Chief, Moreda, and the arrest or
several persons wino, during the preceding days, had
*loused their powers. The Municipality did nut think lit
to refuse this demand, and the Political Government was
given provisionally to the Intendant Queratto. General
Amer at the same time assumed the military command.
During the whole of this time the militia preserved order
In the town, and the troops of the line took no part in
these movements. No misfortune has occurred. On the
same evening Oen. Alava art iveil to take possession of his
government, but he set out again next day. The courier
who has hroticht this news preceded him. At the moment
of his departure perfect tranquillity prevailed in Sip a-
gosta."

Extract of a letter from Marseilles,dated October
29, 1821 :—" I have been obliged to return hither
without setting my foot on shore at Naples. So
great an alarm had gone abroad as to the yellow
Lever being set Marseilles, that the Office of Health
at Naples hail forbidden any ship from this port to
enter their harbour ; and we were peremptorily
ordered out of the Bay, without having any com-
munication with land or vessel. The voyage, espe-
cially- in coining back, has been a very wretched
' one: adverse winds, tempests, heavy gales, rough
sea, short allowance of bad provisions, and all kinds
of frightful things, thinking sometim:s we should
be driven upon Spain, and sometimes upon lfarbarv,
and just now I know not which would have been
the worst."
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A meeting took place lately at Paris betwem
Norton, attended by G. Ferguson, and Lieut.-
Hunter, of the grenadier guards, attended by Wt. -4
Gronow, of the same regiment. The parties wekto
fire by signal; Air. Norton fired witl.olt •
which Lieut.-Col. Hunter dischar,;ed his pistol
the air. Upon this the seconds put a stop th !'sk
further proceedings, conceiving thc result to
been perfectly satisfactory to Mr. Norton's honour,
and equally so to the honour of Lieut.-Col. Huuter.
There is a regulation in the army, that if officers
do not pay their legal (fats, they are liabl: to be
cashired. The same regulation should ex:end :o
every person holding a civil office under govern-
ment, particularly tviiere persons have largo sala-48i,
and refuse to pay their debts, NV hid' many tradviatien
would rather lose than invelve tin:nisi:Ave:tin law.

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