The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN I.‘TELLIGEACE.

ACCOUNTS FILOM SPAIW.
We have remarked with surptise an article in the
Constitucionci, iu which the Chief of the 'Venezue-
lan Patriots, Simon Bolivar, is warmly attackel
It is said, that as Santa-Fe de Bogota he put to
250 ecclesiastics, monks, and rich persons ;
und that, not content with these murders, he en-
riched himself by exactions ; tha General Morales
has assembled a body of 5,000 men, well organized,
who ore the terror of the Patriots. It is also an-
nounced, that General Motiilo has obtained an ad-
vantage over the Patriot Paez. It is true, that
these articles are extracted from a paper of Carac-
has, but the Cons!iimeionel adopts them without

add:ng any reflections.
The present composition of the Ministry com-
prises the most influential members of the Cortes of
Cadiz. This circumstance renders them ineligible
as Deputies. The Government is in this respect
in the same situation as that of Louis XVI. would
bare been, if, as had been proposed in MO, the
King had taken Mirabcau and his friends as Mi-

nisters.
The Junta of Madrid is occupied seriously in
putting in activity a regular system of custom du-
ties. They will be immediately applied to the ex-
treme frontiers 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 men, who had arrived there
by forced marches from Utrera it is not vet known
for what object. On the 30th General O'Donojhu
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 dint they purposed to effect a counter-revolu-
tion ; but we have received a proclamation addressed
by this General to his troops. He prsys his soldiers
to believe that " his Majesty swore to the Constitu-
Cain without the least constraint, and by a move-
ment
of his own magnanimous heart Soldiers,
listen not to false rumours, our holy religion is not
outraged. The person of the King is sacred and
invio able." Ti,is proclamation proves that there
had been some fermentation among the troops.
MADRID, APRIL 10.—Yesterday the Members of
the Constitutional Municipality were chosen, and
the elections have met with general approbation.
Among them are merchants, land proprietors, gran-
dees, &c. The unfortunate Alit. at Cadiz is the
ugly 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 SUtli, but it was
discovered by a sujeant of one of the regiments,
who had received :2,000 dollars to distribute among
Ma people. Some arrests have followed, and among
those sent to prison are three Members of the Junta
de Itemoplazos. 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
nefarious projects ure of no avail, and will only serve
to ruin a new ambitious individuals in the opinions
of their 1010 w-citizens. The troops in La Isla will
not qui, their positions till the Cortes assemble. In
the Pi-winces the militia are arming.
CADIZ, APRIL 4.—1 was just going to dine, when
I heard teat die valiant Quiroga was about to make
his entrants into the town, and that every prepara-
tion was making to receive him. I hastily tintsbei.
ray repast, on reaching the street of San Fran-
cisco, I sae descending, from the square of San
Antonio, the kittalion of Antigun, 800 men,
lEnging to tla La Isla party, whence they bud just
arrived, having first gone to the square of the Con-
stitution to salute with their colours the obelisk
raised Intl. in lamour of our national code. It
would re inipt,ssiuk to explain the enthusiasm of
the tro ps belooging to this corps, and the people
who wee seen hailing and embracing them on all
sides. The balconies were hung with silks, told
crowded with spectators, ant the inhabitants walked
before toe troops, with palms in their hands. The
isatalittu loov,•it off to their quarters, and I went on
to see Quiroga s entry, but how can I convey to you
an idea of this pleasing and tender sight? Scarcely
was his coluni • known, and the whole of the ground
from the Cort;lura to the square of Sall Juan de
Dios, was thl in•ged with people; balconies, tort of
the houses, t tilled, even the city wails and ton ers,
so anxious was every hotly to see this brave and
distingui.iu,l man to whom kis country is so much
Indebted, and who little more than three months ago
was an inmate of one of our prisons.—The party
from La Itsl.l reached tile Curtadura, and was re-
ceived with tliseharges of artillery and every other
demonstration of joy. The people forced Quiroga
and those who accompanied him to slight from their

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horses, and they ascended a beautiful triumphal car,
prepared for the occasion, in which sat Quiroga,
Riego, Lopez Banos, our new Governor, Don Car-
tano Valdes and O'Donajhu, drawn by the people.
Parties of soldiers preceded them, and an immense
concourse of the most distinguished inhabitants on
horseback. Generals Ferro and Cisneros attended
-
in coaches. On reaching the square of San Juan
' de Dios, Quiroga alighted at the Governor's hoe e,
but the people demanded he should chew himself at
the balcony. There the Governor placed on his
head a crown of laurel and roses which had been
prepared thr him. The scene was too much for
Quiroga, he was so greatly atkcted that he burst
into tears, and they were obliged to take hint in.
A more interesting spectacle was never witnessed ;
it tilled me with a thousand recollections. Would
to God those could have been present who think we
are incapable of appreciating the advantages we have
just attained. In short, we arc all happy, with the
exception 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 remerse of their

own consciences.
PAIIIS, April 2,2.—Yesterday, after maw:, the
King tra.isacted business with the Duke de Riche-
lieu and the Minister of %Var.
A pamphlet, entitled Apercus liistoriques, has
been seized by authority, at the Constitt.tieaal Li-

brary of Brissot-Thivars.
M. Chevalier, one of the Editors of the Biblio-
Ilique Hislorique 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 had news. What-
ever they may do or think, France enjoys in every
quarter the most per Let tranquillity."
It is said, that the Cabinet of St. James has re-
plied to the official notilical 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,
for the welfare of the Spanish nation.
COlOl.l, API:IL B.—Sir Thomas Maitland, the
Lord High Commissioner, has just opened the third
session of the Legislature of the lonian Isles. Its
Excellency commenced, his speech on the occasion
by congratulating them upon the tranquillity of the
United Isles. That tranquility, lie observed, had
been last year momentarily interrupted by the
tumult at Santa Mauro; but the instigators had
been detected; firer of them had paid the finiCit of
their lives, and the property of the fligitives from
justice had been confiscated. That event had been
preceded by the most heinous calumnies against the
executive power, and against Great Britain; his
Excellency theretbre 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 hint with firmness, but ut 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 I'arga, he observed, that
it took place by virtue of treaties to which England
had been ever faitaful—she had indemnified the
Parganioto, and granted them the rights of citizen-
ship in the lonian Isles. His Excellency next pro-
ceeded to review ,he financial Issiturces, and
congratulated them slime' their satisfactory state. He
as-used then, that the administration was actively
ocarytea in measures iltr the promotion of littera:4l
prosperity, watch would promptly be laid before
mem; the health laws particularly %salad be rea-
tiered .ess burdened, by new regulations. Lord
Guildthrd. he observed, had been charged to organize
a plan of public etimatiott. After developing, at
length, these points of political economy, his excel-
isncy thus concluded:—" 1 am so fully convinced
of the advantage, which the Constitution of 1817
wilt proauce ism these isles, that I frankly avow to
you I am not at all disposed to make the slightest
changes in concession to the theoretical upioions of
any one. Should experience demonstrate the im-
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."
STUTOARD, April 15.—The marriage of his 7•_.a-
jest y the King with her Serene Higness the Princess
Palllitla of Wurtemberg, daughter of his highness
the late Duke Louis of Wurtemberg, was solemnized
to day in the Royal Palace.
The ceremony was performed at twelve o'clock, in
the Great Gallery, by the Chief Court Chaplain,
Prelate d'Artel, 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 Hoosehild
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 garrison, the Royal Ministers, a de-

lunation from both the Chambers of the States and
of the Unit ersity 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 ball.