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MONDAY, JULY 16, 1821.

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the Austrians are not the less masters of that ram-
part of Piedmont. There has been a talk of a num-
ber of executions which were to take place there in
.consequence of the sentences of the military coin-
mission.
NURLMBERO, JULY I.—Tbe Gazelle of this day
contains the following article relative to the affairs
Iffe/davis and Wallachia:—" When Ypsilanti
received inilliiinenee of the events which had taken
place in Moldavia, he immediately dispatched a corps
of 1,000 men thither, under the command of Prince
('antacuzeno, to restore tranquillity. The Prince,
who was formerly a colonel in the Russian service,
arrived at Jassy on the Ist of June, and published
the subjoined proclamation. •
" The Seraskier has attempted no further enterprise since the
occupation of Galata.
fhe isolated corps of Turks which advanced as far as Baccn
are not of his party, and the engagement which took place at
Fokschan was between one of those corps and the Greeks but
the result has been tidal to the inhabitants, the greater part of
whom are ruined. The accounts' of the issue of this action are
very contradictory. This is certain, that the Greeks loot more
men than the Turks, the former having en killed and a much
greater number wounded.: -The conflagration by which the town
was consumed is imputed to the Greeks, who set fire to the con—
vent of St. James's, where the Turks were abut up, and from
which quarter the flames spread."
MADRID, JUNE 26.—Accounts from Cadiz of the
16th mention, that dsepatches have been received
from Lieut.-Col. P Viver, commanding the detach-
ment in pursuit of the insargent Ealdivar. In the
first (June It), he states that he had received infbr-
mation of a band of 100 smugglers, near Tariffa,
and had not then been able to come up with them ;
but in his despatch of the following day, he states
that he had proceeded with all the local militia of
the district, and had taken 44 beasts of burden,
13 loads of tobacco, and 42 peasants, whom he
detained as prisoners, till he received the instructions
of the Political Chief of the province of Cadiz.
Accounts from Seville of the 19th gives the de-
tails of the conspiracy discovered in the province of
Andalusia.
The plan of the conspirators seems to have been
communicated to the Political Chief of Seville by a
courier sent by the Minister of the Interior, who
arrived at Seville on the 15th. The police was ob-
served to be very active, the judges assembled, and
the Political Chief with some troops went to the
hotel in the street called Ancha de la Feria, where
he arrested Don Isidore Mir (chief of a conspiracy
supposed to be carrying on at Xeres, Cordova, and
this city), and Don Juan Dato. These two persons,
with their papers and effects, were conducted to the
convent of St. Anthony, where the battalion of Cat-
talonia is stationed. Oo being examined, Dato
made a long deposition, in tvhiell he discovered the
nature and extent of the conspir:.cies in the three
cities, their plans, their ramifications, and the per-
sons he knew to be implicated in them. At mid-
night the examination of Mir was begun, who
appeared to be a chief leader of the conspiracy. In
fact, after imploring the benefit of the amnesty
offered by his Majesty, for himself and his accom-
plices in these infamous plots, refusing to confess on
any other condition, he disclosed every thing relative
to the conspiracy and the persons engaged in it.
In consequence of thew depositions runny other
persons have been arrested. Gen. Don lkslro Gri-
malest, as it seems, was to place himself at the head
of the conspiracy, together with Brigadier General
Mir, with the titles of the first and second com-
manders of the Army of the Faith. Their meetings
were held at the abode of General Grimalest, who
furnished the money, but, as it seems, very sparingly,
for the necessary expellees. Their plan was most
absurd : they were to seize the horses of the depot
of a regiment near th.i town of Bornos, to release the
innocent prisoners confined ut Xeres, which respect-
able force was to serve as the nucleus for that which
they fancied they could assemble.
The insurgent Zahlivar engaged to reinforce this
great army witl»i body of partizans, and humor
companies of his at the time he «mimanded a
party of Guerillas in the French war. All be:ag
done, which was to be accomplished without money,
fin- they had none, they were to proclaim the King
alisolut:!, to overturn the monumental stones of the
constitution, and to conic to Seville to join their
comp:talcs there. Several parsons woe arrested,
and several fled, in search ot• whom the most active
measures are adopted.
It is reported to-day (25th) at Madrid, that there
had ',Len a turible commotion at Val.:ll6a. Tu

prevent all error, we think it our duty to say that
we have befiire us a proclamation of the Captain-
General of that province, in which he states that
sonic malicious persons, taking advantage of the
night, discharged a petard, which led the citizens to
believe that cannon had been fired from the citadel,
and that General Elio was going to be set at liberty.
Hence a great agitation naturally ensued, which,
however, was happily calmed by the prudence and
firmness of the Political Chief and the other
authorities.
JUNE 27.—The draught of the penal code which
the Cortes are to sanction, has been printed, and is
at present on sale. This work, though partly copied
from the French code, has not answered the expec-
tation of enlightened men. The preliminary tide,
which embraces general notions, begins with a clas-
sification of infractions of the law, which are divided
into crimes and faults (cu/ixi.) But this division
is not aftertards,perceptitale in the course of the
I work ; so that; besides being inexact, it is useless.—
Punishments are divided into corporal, nun-corporal,
and pecuniary. Among thein are found-Ist, death,
always by strangulation, occasioned by the pressure
of an iron collar (eravatte de fee)-2d, perpetual
labour, with branding-3d, transportation-4th,
perpetual exile-sth, public tabour-6th, presidio
(the galleys-7th, reclusion-Bth, exposure on the
pillory (Carean)-96, exposure during the execu-
tion of a sentence to death-10th, imprisonment in a
fortress-11th, exile from a particular district—
' 12th, perpetual exile from a particular district.—
Conspiracy against the Constitutional regime, against
the Convocation of the Cortes, or against the per-
manent Deputations, is punished with death.....
Conspiring against the life and person of the King,
his autlio:ity, and his prerogative, is also punished
with death. The same punishment is applied to
those who conspire to establish in Spain any religion
differing fiom the Catholic, to the chiefs and orga.
nizers of rebellions and insusurrcctions, and to vo•
luntary homicides with plemiditation (murder.)—
Highway robbery, false coining, arson, and forgery,
are not punished with death. Adultery on the part of
the wife is punished by reclusion tor as lung uperiod
as the husband wishes, provided it dues not exceed ten
years ; her accomplice is to undergo the same
punishment, and exile besides. Adultery by the
husband is punished with infiamy. In general the
code is sparing of the punishment of death, but there
are puerilities in it, material omissions, useless repe-
titions, and very little exactness in classification
and definition.
The Cortes demand from the King their extra-
ordinary:convocation by an addrrss presented by a
committee:of deputies. Ilis Majesty received these
representatives or the nation with peculiar gracious-
ness. He replied to them, that desiring only the
happiness of the Spanish people, and the consolidation
oldie constitutional system, he would immediately
convoke the council of ttate, and presiik at it (a cir-
cumstance that rarely occurs), to hear its opinion un an
affair so important. This took place on the atith.—
The council of state was convoked, and the Kum„ on
opening its deliberation, said, " I have said that 1
‘visli to be the first constitutional monarch uf Europe,
and I shall maintain it." The whole Council was of
opinion that the Cortes might to be convoked ex-
traordinarily. The King said that he should con-
voke them fur the 2d of July. There will thus be
no suspension of their sittings.
Tratiquillity has been disturbed at Zamora. A
report was circulated there that General Morillo
had left Madrid ut the head of 4.000 men, and had
gone to unite those with the furves of Merino. The
Servile: instantly Kogan to triumph. and forced the
Liberals to hide themselves ; the error was axiii
after dissipated. The ()eerier from Madrid contra-
dicted the news, and order and tranquillity were
restored.
I he trial is proceeding of the Ot ctatspicacy at
Seville, Iteatlod'hy Generals i;ritiatleat and Mir.—
'rhea: persosit,- without money, without troop.:,
popularity, or influence, proposed to destroy the
constitutional system, and to re-establish an ah.otilte '' tt. ,
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re4ime. • flmey wilt be very severely puuislied, tied •‘,.es%
tlitie.Wat probably be the last thing of the kind do. - u ' 11.-
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