The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-01 00:00:00

BAIONYE PAPERS.

BAYONNE, Nov. 19.—Frequent couriers pass
through, to and from Madrid. One dispatched by
the I. rench Ambassador, and who lett Madrid on
the Kith, reports that every thing was quiet at the
moment of his departure. On the 10th and 11th
the Cortes discussed and approved the plan for fo-
reign legions.
Travellers daily arriving from the Peninsula com-
plain bitterly of the great number of robbers who
itife:4 the high toads; but otherwise tranquillity
generally prevails, especially in the great towns
The most
.perfect union continues between the
Cones and the Ministry. _ _ _

The writer of a late article in the Journal des
Debuts seems not to L acquainted with Spain, or,
at least, he must have been misinformed ; tbr to
believe that modifications in the Constitution might
by force of arms is an illusion. The new system
has struck too deep root—the revolution must pro-
ceed in its course: the liberals know that they can-
not go back, and that they are able to surmount all
obstacles to the consolidation of their work. The
invasion of the country by a great army, supposing
it could even reach Madrid, would increase the dis-
order and anarchy, but not lead to the triumph
which is desired, Spain is not a rich nation, whose
people dread a foreign enemy—the great mass has
nothing to lose; naturally poor and miserable, they
are always ready to take up arms, and there is no
doubt that the present government has sufficient

to set them in motion. It is but too true
. the three Biscayau provinces and Navarre would
,e glad to see an auxiliary army which would re-
store them the privileaga and commercial immuni-
ties which they enjoyed before the revolution; but
this would have no essential influence in the interior
—for these provinces have always been considered
as if they were a foreign country ; the rest of the
nation was jealous of the immunities they enjoyed,
and had frequently demanded the suppression of
them, and the Andalusians, Castilians. and other
people of the Peninsula, would desire no better than
to make war there, respecting the places which ma-
nifest attachment to the Constitution, such as Bit.
boa, Vittoria, &c. It appears certain that if the
late ministry had proceeded boldly, in a constitu-
tional manner, there would not now be any instil.-
gents in the three provinces, or in Navarre, nutwilt-
standing the protection they have received abroad ;
fix, in &et what have Eguiu, Qaesada, &c. hitherto
done ? In all this time, though they flatter them-
selves with having the inhabitunts in their favour,
they have not been able to possess themselves of a
a single point d 'appui in the country, except that
miserable turtified house Irati, which they would
have lost long ago if Espinosa had chosen to take it;
whereas the eatiNtitutioualists, though they cannot
depend on the inhabitants, like their adversaries,
still maintain themselves with a handful of brave
men.
The Gazette of St. Sebastian contains nothing in.
teresting, it tnerely mentions the arrival at Vittoria
of two battalions front the interior.

The Saragossa Gazette says that Mina, whose
head-quarters were at Agramont on the Bth, hoped
to approach Urgel in a few days. The company of
Miquelets under his command has lately been rein-
forced by :.:00 deserters from the army of General
Eroles. The same journal says that Balbastro is
evacuated by the Trappist, and that the troops of
Velma.* again occupy the banks of the Cinca from
Fraga to Andaguesa. Another battle was soon
expected on the banks of the Segra, in the territory
of °liana.
It is supposed to be the plan of Eroles to draw
Mina into his almost inaccessable position. Arrests
and emigration has begun at Saragossa ; three of
four Canons are mentioned as being thrown into
prison and the clubbists demand that the Archbi-
shop shall be deposed ; the authorities have refezred
to the Government,

Gcn. d'Autichamp yesterday reviewed the whole
of our garrison on the gluels ; the troops having
manoeuvred fan shonr, marched off the groand with
repreated cries of " Vive le lloi." It was a fine
sight, but unhapily cost the life of a most valuable
officer, M. Welch, Lient.-Col. of the 3d battalion
of the 23d regiment of the line, who was thrown
from his horse, and dragged by the stirrup along
the glacis, and received a mortal wound.

An article from Bayonne, dated the 21st, contains
the following particulars :—"A report has just been
spread in this city that General Torrijos, who had
been for some days in the vicinity of Salvatierra, four
leagues from Vittoria, at the head of about 2,500
men, had an engagement on the 15th with the
united bands of Navarre and the three provinces, in
the valley of La Buronda, and that he completely
routed them. We cannot guarantee this news. It
is affirmed that three batteries, of eight pieces of
cannon each, have received orders to march from this
place at the first notice. Major-Gen. Longa arrived
yesterday at Socoa, flying from the Constitutional-
ists: it is known that he was implicated in the affair
of the 7th of July, and that he had even shown
himself on that day. Yesterday some unfortunate
inhabitants of Estella, who bad been taken prisoners
by Guerquel and Arredondo, and who saved their
lives only by promising a sum of money, caused fifty
thousand francs to be paid to the Defenders of the
Faith who are at Bayonne. People even go so far
as to mention the house which bus advanced the
money, which is truly scandalous."
Jamaica papers to the sth of October have been
received. The House of Assembly met on the Ist,
being earlier than the usual period, in order to take
into consideration measures for giving facility to the
operation of the new acts for extending the trade
and intercourse of the colonies. Motions for consi-
dering the distressed state of the island, and adopt-
ing strict retrenchment wherever practicable, were
before the Assembly. The Lieutenant-Governor,
H. Conran, in his opening address to the Assembly,
intimated his approaching retirement from that
post.
I'ORT CHARGES IN PRUSSIA nectreasen.—Extract
of a letter from the agent to Lloyd'a at Memel,
dated 9th November:—" Notwithstanding the able
petitions sent to the Lower Court at Konigsberg
some time ago, and afterwards to Berlin, the new
extra port charges of a dollar per last on the British,
Swedish, Norwegian, and Spanish shipping, is to
take place on the 7th instant ; and this is not in
unison with the reduction of the port and other
charges in Great Britain,"

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER I.

In the absence of any political circumstances, on
which comment might be requisite, we proceed to

make some observations on the present law, as to
sentences for offences of which parties may be con-
victed, either at the assizes, or by indictment in the
King's Bench, under either of which convictions the
judgment lies with the Judges of that Court—but
in doing so we beg to premise that we have no inten-
tion to be personal—we know that it would be dan-
gerous, and we solemnly declare that we mean not
to run any such Quixotic risk.—The present state
of the law, then, we declare, appears to us to be most