The National Register.
London, England, 1822-07-15 00:00:00

Our lain, QConatitution, onn Ra 1336.

No. 1,378.—V0L. _l' V.]

MONDAY, JULY 11, 1822.

PRICE Sid.

MUTINY AT MADRID.

" Distrait the alarming which are spread at times by
the malevolent, under the mask of seal; experience insist
have taught you by this time that they are commonly false
and exaggeiated. The Innitainental law of this state
points out the way of punishing and repressing every kind
of excess; and the distressing event of yesterday will be
investigated with the greatest activity, and the dvlin-
(pleats punished with exemplary justice.
" Madrid, July I."
JULY occurrences of the last two
days have proved what we have ollth said, that when
liberty is thought in danger, and the coustittition is
threatened, public spirit gives new force, and greater
prodieies of patriotism and entlinstasin are 'displayed.—
tlie Ist there occurred nothing worthy of considera-
lion, but towards evening there was observed in the
quarters of sonic battalions of the guard, symptoms of
seditiou and insubordination. The body of officers whe
had a.symeelete in their respectiveqo tiers could not re-
strain their troops. The coustitutional junta had asactil•
bled likewise, and waited for the resolution of his Ma-
jesty for an energetic representation to repress the tumult.
'three battalions of intantry sod a squadron of cavalry
of the Nation Militia were under arms, resolved to de-
fend liberty if it should be attacked. It was about I
oclock when the guard of the militia announced that
two battalions of the guards, who were in the quarter of
Isabel, were in movement. 'I he militia remained within
their (martyrs, determined to be passive, if no act of
hostility took place oil the ether side. These two batta-
lions proceed, d to joi is the other two, and having obtained
; an accession of various panics of the same corps, who
band:Hied their posts iii the garrison, forced the gate
of San Fernando, and yroceeded to the pirade of the
guards. His Excellency, General Don P. Alorillu,
communion% of the district, who displayed on that
occasion a heroism worthy of Greek and Roman fame,
sallies! forth to meet the deluded men, and to db-
' suade them front their rash enterprise. " The King
(they replied) has Bed to the Prod°. and we wish
to defend hint." " you may be convinced of the
contrary," said the General." tint kohl how much you
are seduced and deceived, let four soldiers from each
consoany cense along wi•ii use, and they will see how
his Majesty remains secure in his royal palace, and how
highly ne disapproves of the conduct of the revolters."—
, The troPps agreed, and the General conducted the dele-
gates rich to the Ki.tg's chamber, wheat his Majttsy
j told them he coufidad.. *lmmo ac h mei St which
they sitaiiilet to his royal person, but that it Was
peimilelc they should return to sisbordmatioo, that they
should obey the authorities, a nil re-establish order, con-
cluding that he wished they should retorts to their Com-
panions with these exhortations limn lnin. Gen. Mo-
rino mounted his horse, and reti.rtted to the battalions
in the parade, where, upon being seen, he was salined
with cries of " Long lave our General I lowa live Nlo-
tillo." But as he heard also among the exclamations
voices calling out, " Long live the absolute King," lie
replied with remarkable firmness, " No, not so—the
whole army and all the nation have sworn, for the good
of his M tjesty himself, and the welfare of Isis people,
to obserte the constitution, and I shall support it at all
hazards, and in the lace of every dancer.' " Let your
Excellency place yourself at our hen,:," they replied,
" and you will give us one day of glory, by destroying,
that istramous race, (ihe Decantissdos) who have endea
voured to destroy your reputation. Read the Impar'ial
of this morning. and you will see the crimes of the
whole Itheral faction, with their wicked intentions."—
" In vain (replied Mor.llo with great calmness) in vain
would you squire sue to stain toy career by such an
outrage on the constittstime which we have sworn to
maintain. I can easily despise four pedants, who en-
gage in writing more front boiler than Irons patriotism.
kV hat would be said, if 1, who have grown old in bat-
tles, and have procured for toy country smile days of
gloty, should place myself at the head of 000000 inotts
'moos, to attack a people who confide in our loyally and
honour. Filially then, listen to the order of your Chief,
otherwise I must abandon you." It appeared !hell that
some of them were proceeding to detain hunt ; but Isis
Excellency, despising the risk which was indicated by
certain seditious cries, turned the reins of his horse, and
oceedeci at a regular pace to the house where theKltal, was. His Majesty hof there conferred upon Mot,
ad pilesism, the command of the two regiments of Roy 11
Goaids. Tile Junta had taken new measures, and
collected 800 muskets, which had been abandoned to the
quarters of the guards, whence they ban been stolen ley
tic lowest of the people. Is the mead time all the
garriton was under arms, and animated wain the best
spirit. Olt passing in front of the hall of the junta, the
squadron of cavalry del Principe cried out—" Long live
toe liberties of our country, and ;knish the perjured mu,
totem.' Tins cry spread like un electric spark •
the boolss--thc.disbanded officers, the ex-guards of St.
Jeronittie, aid lite ()Ulcers on half lay, presented ibe • -
salves, and receives: tile muskets fr ttttt toe junto- Many
of me cottony people also armed thestiseltes. The tilt-
mums battalions remained some hours on the paaJc,
awl then rented so the hull of the I'm ado—l heir hirer was
:whin 1,500 !hell, aillo;i4 *Yellin' Inert are very few
othcas. The trouiis lit the garrison have confined
ackci to observing the ;Motions of the minute. rs ; Ills
Captain General is tuakitig the best dispositions so FL-

vent the ret•olt from spreading; and the Government,
before resorting to force for reducing it, employs all the
means nt its power to obtain its object without blood. •
shed.

The Madrid papers of the 2,1, 3d, and 4th inst. con-
tain the following interesting narrative :
The King hurl closed the session' oldie Cortes on Sun.
day the 3001 ult.; in constqlsence of some imprudent
coilltict or insolent expressions of a party of the guards
the evening previous. the public mind was considerably
mitered on the morning of the protogatiou ; our the
e.:ng's leasing his palace to go to the hall of the legisla-
ter e assembly, the shouts of " Liberty and the constitu-
tion" on the part of the I Murk, were met by the sedi-
tious watchwords of arbitrary rower on the part of urine
soldiers ; this maim of political acclamations led to
blows between some of the guards and the citizens ; and
in endeavourina to check the violence of his risen, the
life of a lamented and meritorious officer (Landabiarii)
was sacrificed to the fort' of military insubordination in
tire palace, and nearly under the rye of the Ktitg. An
order was immediately issued to bring the assassins to
j•istice, and the citizens were assured that the daring
atrocity should not co unpuuislied ; but the public anxiety
and terinent did not immediately subside. 'llie militia
were called out, the garrison remained under arms, and
every precaution was employed by the civil authorities to
precut disorders, and to restore confidence. Nothing
further occurred during the night of Sitetday, or the
wl!ole of Monday, the lit inst., though it was evident
the public apprehension still continued, and that neither
the ds of the citizens, the soldiers, the municipal au-
thorities, nor the Court, had recovered their settled calm.
It mums were industriously tread by the servile ene-
t&es of liberty and order, that the King considered his
life in danger, and that he had in consequence deter-
mined to seek refuge in the Prado, or to flee from the
capital. The liberal papers on the other hand, threw
suspicions 011 the views of the Court, and indulged
'severe invectives on the temper and spirit of the house-
hold troops. Towards the evening of the 2d theta ex-
citements had so wrought on the minds of the guards,
Mae four battabotis, amounting to between 1500 and
sJoa own, evinced symptoms of itisithordination; and
and after displaying attach disorder and tumult, raised the
standard of revolt. As if by previous concert, they de-
serted the posts where they were stationed nti guard, and
two bait Sums from the quarter of St Isabel met two
battalions from other quarters, and having taken up a
hostile position on the parade ground of the guards, pro-
ceeded to the Prado, where they had held out for more
than 24 hums when the last accounts catne away. They
even have made regular desnands of rations, and have
appointed delegates or commissioners to treat about a
surrender. That surrender cannot in any circumstances
be much longer delayed, or civil war cannot be prevented.
The mutineers, instead of being encouraged by the ap-
probation of their fellow citizens, or a. florist.," to hope
cur their support, seem as isolated (tom them as if they
were a forelo enemy. These things cannot fail to strike
the least attentive reader, in' the accounts winch we have
received of these distressing thougit not %cry alarmitig
transactions. First, the union and excellent spirit ul the
civil authorities, and the orderly disposition of the gene-
ral body tit the inhabitants; second, tine courageous pa
trionstit and unfelterioz loyalty of tite and
the desertion of the miaowed soldiery by :ready all their
()slicers. who Calllll/1 be, like them, induced to believe
that they can serve their King by overthrowing the coil-
blittlliioll which ensures his rights while it limits his
powers. Ac the satire time it is proper to stale that much
so-incur!' is entertained of the setitiments of the King
from the conduct of those troops, who, as they pretend
to act trout a regard to his interest and an attachusent to
his person, would trot certainly contravene his will or
opt:use his iniucil,k , if honestly and decidedly pro-
untamed. A passage from the Universal, a paper dedi-
cated to the support of ministers, speaks of money em-
ployed to seduce the troops to the support of despotism ,
and whence could this money conic but through the
Court or its partisans/
We proceed to give a copious abstract of the news in
the three days' papers which we hate received:—
MADRID, JULY Secretary of War wrote
yesterday to the commandant or this district as follows:
—" The Kung, having learnt tire horrible and scandalous
outrag co iiiiii sued the person of the officer of his
royal guards oh infantry, D. Mamerto Eandalutru,,
ilppta-
ter.tly by a few soldiers of the same guard, and executed
WI/ 1111 his royal ilialaCe, renouncing all 11141 rtes net and
colt iderattote due to his royal person, to politic justice,
and in the dis,iidine which has always instine;uisheil
these Loris, Ira. lilJl without tire least ttcdiy
lour Excellency draw up ;.ii indictment auaiiist tile an-
enors of tine scandal, awl pioceed apitisi /116:111 aCC1111:.
role to the usual rules."

CRUELTY AND INJUSTICE IN IRELAND.
Sir Robert Wilson, in his Speech against the re-
newal of the Insurrection Bill for Ireland, men-
tioned the tbllowing occurrence--we do not give
it because it is the worst we have known, for we
know that thousands of cases, cads of ten times
greater atrocity, could be verified, but because the
one in questbm was recently alluded to by so good
an authority, who was an eye-witness. The facts
alluded to by Sir R. ‘Vilson, were as follows :
" Mr. Wright, a teacher or French, hearing that Mr. Fitz-
gerald, High Sheriff of Tipperary, had received some
charges of a seditious name against him, waited on Mr.
Fitsgerald, who, without investigation, sentenced him to
be Hogged, and then shot. The unhappy 111411 surren-
dered his keys to have Isis papers searched, psotesting
his innocence. Next day the unhappy mon was shagged
to a ladder in Clonmel-street, to itisderp,o his sodem:v.
He knelt down in prayer, with his hat before his fare.
Mr. Fitzgerald came up, draeged Isis hat from hint and
trampled on it ; seized the mail try the hair, dragged him
to the earth, eat him across the forehead wills his sword,
and then had hint stripped naked, tied up to the holster,
and ordered him fifty 14. hes. Major Rial, an officer in
the town, rime sip as the fifty lashes were completed,
and asked Mr. Fitzgerald the rause ? Mr. F. handed
the Major a note, written iss French, saying he did not
himself understand French, illutt;;lt be lerstood
but he (Major Mal) would find in that letter what would
justify him in flogging the scoundrel to death. Major
trial Lead the letter.—He found it to be a note addressed
to the victim, translated in these words Sir. I sin ex.
tresnely sorry I cannot wait oil yois at the I app.anse.l.
being unavoidably obliged to attend Sir Laurence Par-
suns. 11.u•on lie Club,' 'Notwithstanding this
translation, nine!. Major Itial Veil I to Mr. Fitzgerald, Ins
ordered fifty lashes more to be inflicted, and snob such
peculiar seseLity, that the hens Is of the victim could 1.41
pesceived to be convulsed and working Hissing!' Ib,
wounds. Mr. Fitzgerald, finding he could net cautilllle
the application of Isis cat-o-nine tail: on that past nsionst
elating his way into his body, ordered the oats:baud of
his breeches to be cart open. and Inure lashes to br fivo.
tilefeei there. He then lett the unfortunate twin Ithfeslisix
and suspended while he went to the barracks to demand
a file of nb, it to come and shoot him : but bring reises,nt
by the Commanding Officer, lie came back and sosso:lit
fur a rope to hang him, but could not get on-. Ile Ilica
ordered hint to be cut down dud sent bar kto !., into is
be was confined in a slat k small boom, with ~o obi
ulture 111411 a wretched pallet of straw withins:
and there lie reinathed six or seven days without ,41. In sal
assistance. Sir Itoisert's object in lefts sing to tie•,::
transactions, of all of which he was an eye witness, was
to sheer that the system of violence had been protect• I by
the Gaserninent of the day and that the rewards
cou-
ferred on the actors of these scenes had given esirourasze-
ment to the lawless treat nem of the Lists people;
the G isessiment of the present day, instead of eradicating
the evil:shy suitable remedis a, pursue the system recoil,-
Mended by the High sniff."

Ilis Royal Highness the Duke of York, we un-
derstand, has made over his estate at Oatlands, with
the growing crops, &c. to trustees, for the payment
of his debts. The Trustees are the Earl of Lauder-
dale and Cul. Stephenson. liy terms of the arrange-
ment, all debts not exceeding 501- are to be paid
immediately in full. We can find nu feelings but
those of contempt and ab!torrence for a man, who,
with en income of more than 50,0001. a year, can
allow executions to be constantly out against hint
at the suit of tradesmen, who are absolutely ruined
by his delay of payment.
Accounts from Borneo, to the :end of January,
are in town. .They state that great frauds have
lately been praised ut Sambas and the other ports
of that island, in the delivery or gold dust as pay-
ment for merchandise. It has been been discovered
that silver filings coloured, and a species of yellow
sand is mixed with the gold dust : u very great pre-
caution is therefore necessary in receiving this article
at those places. It is stat.d that a loss Of 17; per
cent. had been experienced is two in,tances. These
accounts further rsay that the Dutch now levy a
duty of 8 per cent. on ail merehandis:, and 100 dol-
lars on every chest of opium.

*.Tit: Pointed' Cstiel of Malik' 1126 addressed the ful.
lowittzt ProdJotattott if, the 111119hit3itts
" Fellow Citigidss,--The prudent conduct which this
heroic capital has observed in the disagreeable occur-
rea•ccs of )tstkaday, is worthy to the grva est Indio:, said
imposes Itit.to me the duty of declasmg so. litere is Ito
itherty u;thout respect to the Less: that respect, cuelis
home h 1 the Authorities, nod the care which vv. ay wall
linint to litt,e to avoid, as far as in him lies, it liai4AVE may
eadsprrdie retitle uiiva, of tailrodiatv division, Mint
frustrate the attcuipts of the enemies of order said of
put hint ty.

The will of the late Cottntess FitxwiPiam was
proved in the Prerogative Court, D wtors' Commons,
on the 26th ult., by Eurl Fitswilliam, who, ns lin-
band, becatue administrutor, with the will anacx:d. 0 tilt,N,
there being no executor appointed; no: is it stated It -I
by what deed or power her Le.Zyship was enabled tit%
....
execute such un instrument. It contains verb few
legacies, the chief of which is 1,0001. to I:iffy C t ... r .
reline nwits. The p w
personal estate is sot%) by hilt- I.t.
it
►
Lordship to be under 20,0001.; bat there is :v.) tli4l;ev • .. ..
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