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AFF.IIRS or SPAIN.

MADRID, MARCH `23.—Private lettersfrom Cadiz
of the 17:11, state, that there was no excess of any
description to which the troops had not abandoned
themselves; 414 of the inhabitants were killed,
t'oo dangi.rously wounded, and about 400 wounded
s.:verely or slightly ; there was not a house which
Lad not been plundered of something.
On the 1 I th, in consequence of an inhabitant
firing upon a whiter, the disorder re-commenced;
but General Carapana put himself at the head of
score patroles, and restored order.
Tl:c 13th, the troops in the Isla de Leon, opened
the fire of a new mortar battery on the Cortadura,
but Admiral Villavicencio having communicated to
them the decrees of the 6th and 7th March, the fire
ceased on the 16th, and the troops in the Isla
eat a flag of truce, with military music, to Cadiz,
to announce their submission to the Kiug.
Our Official Gazette gives the public a crowd of
rt;:urts o'' the military chiefs, both of the land and
:4:4 forces, entrusted with didbreat services in An-
d4iusia, and especially in the town and port of
The only document which relates the circum-
st,inces of the catastrophe of the 9th itLitant in that
unhappy town, is the report which Admiral Villa-
vieemio makes to the Minister of War, which

is as follows
" The day before yesterday, intelligence, which
I received from all sides, announced to me that un-
easiness prevailed among the crews of the fleet, on
account of the fatal and contradictory news which
had been propagated respecting the state of some of
the Provinces. I wrote to the Commandant Gene-
ral to watch over the maintenance of order, anti to
to take care that the navy should not lose in an in-
instant the good r2putation acquired by conduct as
wise as it has been steadily maintained. I sought
to gain time, and I thought that the pretext on
which the agitators would rely would speedily &N.
" Thi pcople were also in a state of effervescence;
every thing auflounced a terrible explosittn. It
was said 11 ut the garrison were resolved to carry
every thing before then, and this report was but
too wail founded. At this ,nom,t:t, Dan. E. Freyre,
General in Chief of the United Army, who being
informed as well as myself of the state of men's
songht to remove by his presence the evils
with which we were all menaced, came to me. I
informed him of the measures which 1 had already
taken, and he approved of them ; wishing on his
aide to follow my example by gaining lime, without
directly opposing to the people a force which (be-
sides) did not inspire entire confidence, lie detached
some officers to different quarters to sound the dis-
position of the two parties, and to endeavour to
obtain a sort of truce till the general wish of the
nation Gib positively known, and till the orders
which were expected by the two couriers who were
in armor, were received from the Capital. But all
the report:. convinced us that as soon as it was night
the troops would throw off their obedience, and that
the City would be in a state of combustion.
" General Freyre and myself, with our Aides de
Camp, and other persons, went through the Square
ot Sun Antonio, when the alarm depicted in all thces
announced the alarm of the mind. Nevertheless
there was no positive disposition, and we each went
to oar homes to vintner. I made haste to return to
General Freyre, because every thing made me
I.:el the necessity of corning to a resolution before
night tall. It was necessary to save Cadiz from the
evils which were about to overwhelm its inhabi-
tants. We thought the best means would he to
r:puir again to the square ot San Antonio, and invite
vie assemlded 'ante to wait with tranquillity UM'
news of wi.at passed in the interior of the kingdom,
and for tl.e orders of authority.
" Scarcely had General Freyre began to speak,
when an alarming and universal cry of ' Viva la
f_Awastrel the stifled his voice. To these noisy ex-
clamations was swill added the sound of the parish 1.
bells of the square. Nothing was to be dune but to
yield to the torrent; it was necessary, to calm the
gercral effervc cence, to promise that time next day
the Constitution should Le proclaimed The night
was consecrated to joy. The people gave themselves
up to it with transport. '1 he city wa.: illuminated .
grcupes of musicians paraded the streets: nothing
was heard but' Yiaa la Constitution,' but no excess
.eule place.
" The beat order was observed till the nest day
at eleven o'clock, when the people flocked to the
Square of San Annn° to (witty the festival, at
which every one had promised himself the pleasure
of Ming present, and which was announced in the
Diaru of that day. Stiddenly the battalion of the
guides of the General presented themselvs, and first
a volley on the multitude. I arrived at this moment
with Freyre, and we exhaus:ed ourselves with
a'' rts to restrain the ardour ot the troops : the tab-
. ens rushed towurad the side streets to escape from
death ; but fixing was ht.tard on all sides, and in a

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few minutes, the troops having generally declared
in favour of the King, spread itself tumultuously in
the diarent quarters of the town, and committed
all the horrors of which an unbridled soldiery,
deaf to the voice of its Commanders, is capaide.-.-
There were numerous victims, many robberies,
and other crimes against person :Lad property.
" General Freyre ran to the head-quarters to
give orders, and endeavour to restore discipline. I
myself went to the Cortadura of San Fernado,
where my presence was not useless ; for the report
had already been spread, that I was arrested, and
the troop of the royal marine, which covers this
post, was much agitated. I went home to take
some refreshment, and immediately after I rejoined
the head quarters, from which successively issued
numerous patrols, commanded by officers charged to
restore good order, and to call together the soldiers
who abandoned themselves to all sorts of excesses.
At live the town was nearly tranquil ; the night
was tolerably quiet, and at eleven o cluck I returned
to my dwelling"

Letters of the 17th ult. have arrived from Cadiz,
but without communicating much additional iathr-
pation on the state of that City, or affording any
distinct clue to the origin or the authors of the late
massacre. Up to that day the shops and the
houses remained closed, few persons venturing into
the streets; and mercantile transaeti. as were so
completely suspended, that no bills were paid, or
indeed offered for payment. It appears that some
time previously to the fatal 10th of Marsh, the in-
habitants of Cadiz had been called on to deliver up
what sabres and fire arms they had in their posses-
sion, and were forbidden to appear in public with
the long knife usually worn by the lower orders,
which is rendered in their hands, by peculiar dex-
rerity in its use, a most formidable and dangerous
weapon. Deprived of this defence they fell an easy
prey to the brutality and fury of the soldiery. They
had subsequently, however, again equipped them-
selves with those and other means of defence, and
had accumulated in their houses quantities of ::tunes
and bricks, so that there was reason Jim supposing,
hat the tr,,ops manifested any disposition to renew
the attack, that a general massacre of the military
would have taken place. This spirit had already
manitested itself in individual acts of revenge,
particularly by the gypsies, who, in Cadiz, exetetse
the more laborious description o: trades, and who
are said to have destroyed seventy men of the regi-
ment of Guia, the leaders in the tragical deeds of
I the 10th. They would have despatched inure of
them, had not those troops been removed in the
night, and carried across the bay to Port St. Mary's.
A considerable portion of the garrison, it is said,
have been removed in a similar manner. Notice
was given that the Constitution would be proclaimed
on the Bth, but the civil authorities were deter-
mined nut to attend any solemnity of that nature
till the whole of the troops were removed front the
city. These letters contain HU mention of Freyre ;
and, what is still more remarkable, are silent con-
cerning Quiroga, and the troops in the Isle ut Leon,
as it they had never existed. The number of per-
sons killed on the 10th is now stated to be as
follow :-371 men, 29 women, and 36 children.—
No names have hitherto been published, but they
are supposed to have been chiefly of the lower
ranks.

SETTLERS IX AMERICA.
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The following extract from a letter just received
by u gentleman near Portsmouth, trum 'Alr. J.
aidlow, , a much esteemed man, anti a good prac-
tical farmer, who kit liorndean to settle in toe
United Statc:t, %%111 Ix: read with much interest :

" Park Place, Hear Evansville, Indiana.
United :lwtes of Aim.; ca, pcc. 23, 1819.

"By r,our iti Mr. Patillips, an English t.o.lii1,111.:0,
residing near Prim:elms, iu this iteig,tabourh,iol, vs Ito
will take his departure in a few dal?* for Etiriti.e, 1
avail snyseli of tile opportunity of at:dressing toy first
lever to you ; 1 sitould have written much earlier, but
knowing that dour :treat ul jest was information, I de-
termined to wait 141 had akaptircti sufficient experience
in eatable me w desetthe our teal situation, as well as
our twine prospects, and that of the olitittlt lit:10%11.
" My Wile and family, alter a tedious, toil not tut-
. pleai,ant, passage actoss the Atlantic, and a lotal...er and
mole tedhais one down the Ohio ]titer, occasitimd
tare great draught of Clue season, this water being lower
hat; almost ever was before renaentb•red, at rived here
in goon nealiit and sputit the latter end of October rand
sun happy to intern' von, they are notch pleased with
the country, •and ilia situation I had selected fur them,
hiving preterreil 'lndiana to the lll.uois, Soon after my
arrival, I entered two h dhseettons land, containing
WO acres each , on one of those 1 had a caldit hulk at
logs, which cost we 55 itollars it consisted of one rotint
ei..,lttetut and a half feet syitare, with J chuomy of wood
and plastered w ith rued, act:tutting to the custom tit the
country. Almon the latiduie of liteettiser, Mil, after
hating traversed the Laitahtry in various directions, 1
removed what mings we hail in the boat to my new
cabin, then in an unfinished state, acid commenced
house-keeping in Indiana. Mr. Ilortibru,ls, Eat lash
•

gentleman, with a younger brother and two Tiger:4 who
had been to Mr. Ilirbeek's settlement, in quest of land,
but not approving of Mr. B.'s terms, had, previous to my
arrival, cost red a considerable quantity Of land, and built
a cabin about a mile distant from where I ereeoqi mine;
front this we da.e the commencement of the English set-
tlement near Evansville in Indiana Mr. H.'s cabin and
mine, with a Mr. Armstrong's, an American, were the
only urn that were (tinseled on a space of several miles in
exte and the greater part of the adjoining being un-
cuitivated, we found considerable difficulty in obtaining
a supply of rot isams and forage, and were often under
the necessity of sending many miles to obtain it. In
January, a M r. Potts, from Stockport, near Manchester,
entered, built a cabin, and settled near Mr. Honibrook :
and soon after, Mr. Ingle, from Huntingdonshire. also
settled near us. lit April we laid olla new town, winch
is called Sandersville; eleven cabins are already built
and inhabited; it is situate on the main road from front
Evansville to Princeton, Vincennes, and Fort Harrison
Emierants from different parts of England are continu-
.oly joining us, and our number falls very little short of
Von persons.
•' During the wittier, which was very mild, we were
busily employed in building two new 1011115, 13 feet
square, behind the first cabin, for offices; splittin4 rails
for hawing and clearing the lamb In April, 1 planted
21)1) peace a trees, cost three cents each, and peach-stones,
from which 1 have trees oh the amazing height of .5 feet
7 inches, so astonishing is the vegetation in this country.
In Mae, and early part of June, 1 planted t!O acres of
maize (Indian corn): it is set in hills, front 3 and a
half to four feet asunder, and though the be3SOll has
been ra,her tinfaentir.tble, and the land new, I have
grown upwards of 700 bush( Is. The leaf or flag, ga-
thered frinn the hock, in September, anti dried in the
sun, makes excellent fodder for cattle; of this 1 have
secured a considerable quantity, which together with
grass mown on the prairies, anti made into hay, with
which I am well provided, will subsist my horses and
cattle during wittier. 1 had almost lorgottell to tell you
that my garden was uncommonly productive, and gave
us abundance of vcaetables; and my crop of potatoes
and turnips is tolerably good. I have since built aont her
room, same size as the usher, with brick chimneys,
and sash windows to both, anti have another house
neatly finished, of two 1001115 on a floor, two stories
high, besides several buildings for the use of the farm.
I have sown 13 acres of wheat, there is inn in this set-
tlement, and I intend to ohm 40 of 'whim corn, he-
s:des barley, &c., of which I wind give yon the paru-
codas in my next, :titd of which Mr. Ilernbrook, jun.,
will be the bearer. He expects to le.lve this country in
fen days by way of Orleans.