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London, England, 1820-03-21 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

rams, MARCH 37.
NEWS FROM SPAIN.

The determituttion of the King of Spain to adopt
the 'constitution published by the Extraordinary
Cortes assembled at Cadiz in the year 1812, was
hastened bye new defection of the Count de l'Abis-
bat, who, having marched from Madrid on the
4th of :iliac'', at the head of the regiment Imperial
Alexander, commanded by his father (q. brother ?),
proclaimed the constitution at Ocena, a town ten
leagues from Madrid. It seems that this regiment
war appointed to escort a convoy destined for Gene-
ral Freyre. It is said that a regiment of cavalry
also pir:.ed over to the Insurgents with the Imperial
Alexander.
The Count de l'Abisbel was one of the members
of the Regency when the constitution was decreed
by the Cortes. The ordinance for its publication
was signed by him. It may be remembered that
he was Governor of Cadiz in the month of July
last year. when the mutiny brake out at port Santa-
Maria. It was he who arrested Colonel Quirogs,
who is now Commsnder•in.Chief in the Isla de
Leon, arid also several other officers. We are in-
formed that on the 4th of the month, before leaving
Madrid, he kissed the King's baud, and assured
his Nlajesty that he would spill the last drop of his
blood for him. It appears that he forgot his oath
when be arrived at Ocana.

It is said that General Ballasteros has been ap.
pointed Commandant of Madrid by the King,
and that he had already entered on his duties on
the atl► ; that all persons imprisoned on account of
their political opinions have been set at liberty, as
also those who were in the prisons of the Inquisi.
but who were very few in number. The city
was illuminated, as also the King's palace, and his
Majesty, on returning from au airing, was received
with the acclamations of an immense multitude,
who chanced to meet him. The column of stone on
which the constitution was engraved, and which
was pulled down in 1814. has been restored to the
place on which it was originally raised.
Sarragossa declared itself on the sth of March.
The journal of that city of the 6th, contains an ac.
.•n tint of the ceremony of taking the oaths to the
Constitution by Ow Authorities, at the head ,of
whost were, the Marquis de Laxan, Captain Ge-
neral of Ibe kingdom of Arragou ; Martin de
'Gasay,Znapaseilor of .State, and former Minister of
Fisiance; several Generals, and principal ,Magic.
testes. A proclamation to the Arragonese was pub.
bolted on the 6th, and on the following day a new
proclamation was addressed by the people of
Arrsgon to the people of Spain in ,gepecal, to ap.
prise them of the motives by which they were in•
dueed to adopt the Constitution.
Letters from Bayonne state, that Oviedo, the
capital of the Asturias, and also San Andero, have
followed the example of Gallicia. The same let.
te►s say, that iu the kindom tiC Murcia, the con•

stitutional system hat been adapted. It lappears
that GetieralFreyre could no longer retrain his truops
and that he was in Breit einba cots, appre-
hending their defection.—(Caveue de France.)
The electoral assemblies of parishes, districts,
and provinces, have been summoned throughout
the entire extent of the kingdom of Spain. Their
successive operations Cannot be terminated sooner
than in three months, if the letter of the Sikh,
00th, and 7gth Articles of the Constitution be ob-
served, for these require an interval of one month
between each meeting. This delay will doubtless
be obviated by an ordinance or an udvertisement.
His Majesty on the gth of March nominated the
seven Ministers required by the Constitution. We
are informed that M. Agar is of this number.
The city of Navelune has proclaimed the con-
stitution, and Mina then desisted from his proceed-
ings against that city. Provisional armistices had been
concluded between the several troops in Andalusia.
War has therefore ceased throughout all Spain.
May it not be renewed !—/Journal des Debuts.)

the lower classes in E.sgland is to be attributed to
the excessive use of machinery, we may fear the
same result in Germany; fur as soon as • high duty
is laid on foreign goods, the rich German manu-
facturer, finding himself free from the competition
of foreigners, will think more or increasing the use
of machinery than of employing the many workmen,
who, as they are gradually put out of employment,
will, like their brethren in England, have to be
provided for by the public.
9d. The Poles, Russians, &c. who are accus-
tomed to purchase in Germany all their supplies of
manufactured goods, will be obliged by this high
duty to seek some place out of Germany, where
no such duty augments the price of the goods, and
thus by the execution of the proposed plan the
German transit trade, ■nd all the German fairs,
will bs ruined at p blow. How shall the State be
indemnified for the loss of the transit duties, end
how shall those who have hitherto subsisted by
the transit trade and the German fairs, be employed
and saved from ruin I—(Frankfort Pape►s.)