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SPANISH PAPERS.
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4Datto, 3t11.T 18.
It is reported at Cadiz that an 'lnsurgent Ova-
teer has captured in those seas a frigate coming
frosts the Havaunah.
Account• from Gibraltar say, that lay oalvices,
from Tangier of the '2611i tilt. tlist city and Rabat,
and the neighbouring rouotry, enjoyed good health.
The situation of Fez was same as at the time of
the last news. The number of deaths at Tilnan.
'from the II ih to the 24th, was 40. Positive news
had heen received that the A Igrtioe squadron svi?
cruising, and communicating with all the merchant
ships, thus imposing the •t dreadful alarms in
the people of the coasts.
By accounts from Cortiona, we learn that a eon-
'piracy was prepared fur the inst. ;llama Vigo,
by the Junta called Apostolic, which has established
itself 1111 the frontiers or Portog.t. Some persons
have been 'taut into prison, lint no fears are enter-
tained fur the public tranquillity.
On the night of the Silt Ihr public tranquillity
was disturber) at Tolosa de Gotipuscni. At nine
o'clock the house of Don .10ze Sit tirnioo de
Sosoaga was iota( ked by a mob of ill-disposed tser-
, POW, who weer, doubt Ir‘9, the same that nu tAe
' night of the 30th attacked that of the first All:ode,
Don Lorrooduliono, who was prosecuting the in-
quiry into some disorders winch took plaice on the
I;th in the same city.
On the 2.1 of this month several persona were
arrested, and Sosonga being the Judge in the cause.
it is most probable that those who attempted to get
• into his lonise on the night of the Bth, sought to
revenge theism-lees fur the firmness which hr .hews
against the disturbers of the peace. The troops
6u.1 the national militia came to the spot, but
could effect nothing, the navies htninc !led. The
existence, the number, and the activity of these
persons, keeps the capital of Guiptiscoa in a state
of alarm.

EXTRACTS FROM THE SITTINGS OF TIIE CORTES.
Juts' 13.

The Minister of Finance commenced the rentbrig
of a very long Hewitt on die state of the fitiericre.
(Iv she wed the princilial camera which had led I
decline of the public revenue, so that the Trews"
eves exhausted and without resources wheal Ada
Excellency entered on his office in March; hernia..
meratrif the means which hail been taken in surii
utlfictiiig circumstances, to meet as far as possible
the dully and ino.t urgent claims, which howeviire
could. not induce his Majesty to listen to the pro/
pond of a foreii:n loan, on secottot of the high in-
terest required, though he was obliged to open one.
in the Peninsula, which, by the disinterestedness*
of the lenders, some din interest. sod ,niter
very moderate interest, might !restated ntithe elide
at 41 per cent. Without fallowing the Mrnister
throng:l all the details, mite of which were nut envy
to be understood ftoin the r•ipiility with which he
semi, it appeared that the arreais of the•currewl
obligation amount to 000,000,000; that the, cgs
peonies of all the drpuitietents of the Ministry
amount to 680,000.000 ; that the total valtreof the
ierenue it miry 470,000,000. Among the expensed,
that of the army, calculated at 119,000 men, is
taken at 375,030,098 reels. For the Ministry of too
Marine, 190,000,000. lie ,hewed that the great em.
barrassment of the State required that the seventh
port of the property of the church should be sp.
plied to nii et the exigency. and lie proposed, also to
have recourse to a mercantile loan, which should
be laid before the Cortes for their approbation.
JULY 14.
The Minister of ripanee continued his Report,
in wl6ll, among other thiug,d, lie shelved the ad-
vantages of repiewiitstive government in forming
a good system of finance ; lie sheared that the
productiulis of agriculture were tint sUlEcient to
cover the expenses of the State ; he estimated ut
four thousand millions, the annual representative
riches—hence deducing luminous principles to
fix the bases of the system of titmice, in the
most equitable and ecoootnical manner. We mutt
re:tee:nice, beside,. the thought of aspiring to our
aitcseut splendotir—enntent to heal the wounde re.
ceived, to obtain for Spain its independence and its
libelty. In speaking of the dutirscfcnstoms, he made
many oilirel rations on their object end origin ; lie
said the present system subjected commerce to ini.-
trietice-dinicoltier, and that the Junta binned to
regulate this branch had proposed union, means to
,ensure them, one of which War, to remit the ex-
portation of knelt, from alt the ports when its price
did nut exceed redb, 011 peyment of an export
duty of 8 per cent.
system of prohibiting the exportation of
various articles, has been fatal to agriculture; and
injurious to the State. and that the more liberty
commerce enjoys. the inure will the ;robite reeentte
increin.e. ile'preitiosed the lireeit ation or the aboli-
tion of several of those prohibition,. and that when
the duties of ,ens sere onue p.tid, the goods
.should be allowed io circulate without reslrictibis
. through the *bolo king,dunt.
wipe 15.
:The Secretary At Ws, Made a long report on
the straits 4 Ina eleparittent.
M. t'epero, ermaiderrog that the
sstrength and
paresperitrof a notion depritd on the unioh of •11
Ott cuieerife.propairris Lust the' Curter', following' the
(141111 e, of: mond policy, shall. proclaim a tenfold
emieresty for all political (Aimee, Irish) 111010
Plell--Ltead a first time.
JULY 16.
A praitosal Of M. Motitio Otterho. td *Nor' the
return IA the tient:rude olio had oftathert.le
the mintier, gusernirreirt, was terrified Iv the Com-
mittee Of Leg •iitium-:-(Misceihmea, 141/, to 11;h
Jay.) " • • • • . . .

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