The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-09-21 00:00:00

lli111•11.1767.40 kblOils.
g 211,444 4904411roomilohlto outidod, 0 Sioloii of
tiliONl4ooo oi Alipisie *dile Itfpo-ookano.
.0.- ,•:16,44iii )14 . _ . ,
-..f I P . Mit IV r•Perilt ifitiant. &It)
. ,
041',I•ipOittassWOHIAil, that it hart.. Agilely hem intended
toliolloo• ahead the refutation, during the enisteieee of the
emosiviet.Seteli. in the pirmilirog monik of Ilitay. There
the Xerefetatt i eitissient attendance on the amsterverre «f
Ike Val!, Oat I with which he meowed to mood is, and
the pail affability of his manner to his suirjects, had
sitterelleett germ a share of popularity, that it was
ditsnadmegndietst le drier the peojetted excertisti of the
Oa . Mere .1' severable opportunity. -
.1 ,the ether band, the formalise of this vamp, which
F - ioel two months, sod which had brought How several
*ire
together in nearer relation of mein' habits, had afford-
'ample seeps foe the dimeraisiation of the Certiorari prim-
Ztiesfilllsefinesit opportunities of increment( the number
. a fOlt tigrareetay, the nether thioks he Ism inalteiently
irkpatiallaylep lido partsrulsr subject. to twom that the army
*as Out the lidpal *Oa in This siogolar revolution, and
that the W~ Ise dintite• of it (for it will probably bear
either applibillais)lmlNlOM MS popubstinn of the king-
Shim at Imbrium* elarlirdierekit moutistlighteited portion of its
inhabitants (1).
" To return to the Piitress of events: the 7th of hely
proved a day of orissiderable a/native, rot unmixed with
I alarms. to ohs hativesof the capital.
6. Is was understood lbws' the Simon& Constitetios wool*
be proclaimed at maid-day, with all doe solemnity;:rproil
itif which, a decree, signed bribe King. made its
en hour later, is the shape of no address to hitt=
muntog him Vicsr•General, sad appointing kiwi Mate tem-
perer, maimpresamit of all affairs of State, from *hit*
hi. Majesty's ill health obliged him to retire fur the re-
veal?'
After describing the telings or ditappointinent.
Mistrust, and suspicion, which this delay lit pro.
claiming the Constitution mined, and the sinister
rumours *hitch wire circulated in consequence, by
the sttlchstits principally, the WritcY continue! his
thirrati've thus :
" A few bouts, however, terminated this pliantl suspense,
and the first pruclantaliuu was torn from the walls to make
room for another; Whitt, still thaintaining the Duke of
Calabria in the functions of VicarGcneral, exhibited hie
rays) fathees isoreptimiced secepialitos of the Spanish con-
stitution of 1512; iiihik • third ileelaratioli, from she Duke
himself a. Regent, announced the adoption of this form if
Government, *object to inch theililleations aw might render
it sure suitable so the genies mid habits of the nation, to
be established by • Joatikuf twenty persons, elected for that
particular purpose.
" Another edict was also issued, appointing • Committee
for the better internal itivority of the city.
" All meeasitlesi and dotutis having been removed by that
judicious measures, she remainder of the evening was posond
In the (reltest trauquillity, and a few houses weir dhow&
seated.
" On the thh, the streets retuned their usual appearance
of bustle and motion; and the comMandsitta of the were tit
torts, though not obnoxious, were replaced by Akers of .
rank, remarkable for their popularity among the troop% mad
their attachment to the constitutional party.
" The entrance of General G. Pepe, now the avowed
leader of the revolutionary forces, comprising the provincial
militias awl the small portion of the regulars which had
joined Owns, bad here looked to for the Sth; but goose ar-
tangements, indispensable to facilitate this ceremony, aid
provide fur the accommodation of so large a body of indi-
viduals, most of whom were entire strangers to the town,
delayed it until the Sib, for which day it was publicly
• announced.

" The peaceful and idle natives, of a luarrious mid opu-
lent metropolis, could nut Inuk forward so murk an event,
louder abets circumstances, *liberal some degree of uneasi-
ness. •
• * ♦ ♦ ♦

" These fears which appeared far from ill-grounded,
were, however, nut realised; and it is but doing instate to
the precautionary sneasnres wheels had been takes' and to
dm character of Home against when. they were decoded ne-
' eessary, to observe, that their entrance, stay, sad departure,
were unmarked by any excess on their part, or any com-
plaint on that of the towns-people.
" They came in on Sunday the 9th of Jelly, at about mid-
day; and proceeding by the'Strada Toledo, drilled before the
-Duke of Calabria, who stood at the window elf the royal
palace, and admitted their leader to the honour of an sods-
race; after which he was granted the adelitioaal favour of
'Uighur the King's band.
" The regular troop', headed by General Nspolitaiso,
opetted the warded and were foilessed by the mass of two-
visseisl militia, tralklag rapidly without any order, con-
ducted by General Cu. Pepe, sod a priest of Ike Name of
Menichi ll i , who may he looked upon setthe principal mover
of nil the ferret springs whirl, haul set the Revolution in
motion. This tmtellir ewl and inderelipaVe maw attracted
.fell as much notice, and by .far more cariosity, than his
anopanion, and is said to hare passed severed rani in
Rapiated, mad Se hare bees in Spain since the cliantre which
has taken place in that kiatpdons.
" The Coestilutiom itself, in a palpable shape, made its
appearance is the procession, eu•veyed in a common hack-
ney one-borse chair, milled a currienlo. The spectacle dus-
played by the bands of provincial militia was singular in glee
extreme; 'as, though they were all most formidably armed,
their weapon varied as emelt as their accoutrements: •
very small proportion of them were clad in military mei.
form, the majority being habited according to the different
costumes uf their team etive districts, which at the same
time bore a my warlike aspect.
" It must be acknowledged that the cartridge belt, the
sandalled legs, the bread stiletto, short musket, and grey
peaked hats, so peculiarly adapted by painters to the repre-
sentation of banditti, seemed here to realize alt the ideas
which the iobabitants of the north have formed of sock be-
ings; and the sun-bunt compkxions, and dad' bosky hair
and whiskers of the wearer, greatly contributed to sender
this reseniblauce more striking.
0 A strange couttast was exhibited by the more opulent
classes of these same legions, oho, though equally well pro.
ruled with arms or all desciiptions, marched among the
ranks of their picturesque companions' attired in the full
extreme of modern French and English fashions. huge
the Carbonari colours at their breast, white scarfs of tbe
same, or duffereat medals art emblems (3) tied to their waist-
coat, the rank they severally held in the sect. Biumers
with inscriptions in honour of this patriotic association,
were slier carried by them. Nearly the whole of these indi-
viduals had been absent from their homes nine days, during
which they had never slept in a bed, or even order a roof,
but they all seemed in perfect gond humour and spirits, and
appeared amply repaid fur ajj the. hardships they might have
enditued, by the success which had followed them.
The meets] deptitatiuns ftorn the provinces had esta-
blished themselves in the main street. each forming a place
of rendezvous, where their countrymen could apply for any