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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

pettorm.their duty with more propriety. They weie
(went!y provoked to acts of volence, but conducted them-
selves, notwithstanding, with great moderation and for-
bearance towards the rabble. No lives were lost that I
have heard of, but several were wounded by the sabre.
From twellie o'clock in the day all tne shops and ware-
houses were shut up.

41 Light o'Clock at Night.

,g I just learn that several of the rioters have been
loLiged in New Bailey prison. The constables and military
:lie parading the streets. The mob in small bodies, are
still assembled at distant pans of the town, and appear
to be refractory.
The night is dark, and it is apprehended some mis.
chief may occur before morning : the inhabitants are
mostly afrdid of fire, and many will not go to bed. At
crebent, thank God, all is well, and I hope will con-
tinue so."

231

I show how cramped the movements of the enemy must
be, through the general want of provisions Ruined by
constant warfare, the country was last year but partially
I cultivated, and in consequence of this neglect, with the
enormous consumption of the French armies, are now
severely felt. In return for the devastations committed
by their plundering legions, wherever they carried their
arms, the Guerillas who penetrated to the very gates of
the capital, and by changing their seat of action conti-
nually, over-ran almost the surface of the country, de-
stroyed the existing crops wherever they went. The
' scarcity is so great, that it is supposed it will pre-
vent the intended junction of the French armies to re-
lieve Badajoz. Instead of concentrating, they are com-
pelled to divide themst.lves in order to obtain subsistence.
SoULT, however, had repaired to the besieging army be-
fore Cadii, and after renewing a fruitless bombardment,
as it will he seen by the following letters, had detached
' nine battalions to march towards the Guadiana.
cApiz, MARCH 13.—The night before last the enemy repeated the*
efforts of December, 1810, and March, 1811, by throwing from the
l, C.:ablate:lla to the street nearest the land-gate a few grenades charged
i with lead. The effect has keen exactly the same—a few windows ben-
; 1 k tit —a wall destroyed—some stones removed in the streets, at without
lany injury to the inhabitants whatever. The grenades thrown by them
aniotinted to 10(1, of which seventeen fell in the town. This born-
teird.ment of the enemy has no other effect than to teach the inhabi-
tants to despise their menaces.
MARCH 14 —According to letters received here from the East, the
head-quarters of the third army were on the 17th of February in Mur-
cia. Utneral BALLAsTeaos, in his official dispatch to the Regency,
dated the Cap las Nieves. February the 18th, states the loss of the
French in the battle of Cartama, at 1300 men in killed and wounded,
and 100 privates and 40 officers made prisoners.
The new Constititution was .completed on the 19th.
and on that day it was solemnly proclaimed in Cadiz,
and 7'e Deum celebrated with great magnificence. The
' people hailed it With enthusiastic acclamations. The
• , Cortes will soon be dissolved, and another elected. By
the regulations adopted relative to the succession, or even
removing the Sovereign in case of misconduct. FERDP.
SAND the VIILII. is proclaimed the lawful Sovereign.—
1 The French renewed their bombardment of Cadiz on
' the 13th ult. without doing any damage. SOULT, who
was before Cadiz, set out on the 21st for Seville,
The coast of Spain, from Puerto Santa Maria to Aya-
monte, has been declared in a state of blockade, the
more effectually to distress the French before Cadiz, and
prevent their receiving any supplies by sea.
I Tie Lord Hobart is arrived at Falmouth, and has
brcught Mr. EwEas the messenger, with dispatches from
Cadiz. Is is reported that he brings a confirmation of
the oppeatance cf. Smut' in the French lines, and ti e
removal, by his orders, of a considerable part of the
blockadiog army, which is supposed to have marched
towards. the Guadiana. It is also said, that the new
bombs, 'which the French have lately employed, have
done some damage in different parts of the town, and
hnve eve's reached the shipping, but. we believe with
little or no effect.
i 'lie following is one of the letters brought by the Lord
1 Hobart. .
I
CAD: Y., MA RC II '24 .—The p tssengers by the Lord Hobart packet will
no donut all carry home different accounts of the bombardment of this
; ;her; kit whatever nry be said t.n the subject, the real state of
the matter is this:-The enemy opened their fire against us on the
the night of the P2th soon after twelve o'clock. This was certainly un-
expected en our part, as we were all in bed. They threw, altogether,
' about 140 .hells of different dimensions, from 70 to 1401 b. weight, of
which 17 only reached the town; but these did no other mischief than
to excite a rifling alarm, which might naturally be expected on such an
ocet!s;.;:l. Since the 111th, the bombardment has continued at intelvalse
hut -unotir success; not a single accident has yet taken place; whilst,
on the -ther hand, we have good realm to know, that the enemy has
' .1 suil-..r,d very -.aversely, in the returns made to them, from Puntales, the