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THE NATIONAL REGISTER .

tonton.
SUNDAY. APRIL 9.

A crime has been committed in Spain, for which
history scarcely gives a precedent. Freyre, the com-
manding officer of the troops in Cadiz, summoned
the inhabitants of that town to meet on the morning
of the 10th ult., to swear to the Constitution, and to
join in erecting a pillar in honour of it. They met,
but the treacherous soldiery, in cold-blooded villainy,

commenced a regular fire of musketry on the

defenceless unoffending people, without even the
excuse that was urged in a recent instance in Eng-
land, that danger was apprehended, for these Spa-
niards had met by the desire of the authorities,
when the wretches who bad invited them, for a
professed purpose of amity and patriotism, availed
themselves of the opportunity for a. general butchery.
The day of St. Bartholomew, to the disgrace of the
ging of France, most nearly rivals the bloody deed
of the soldiers of the beloved Ferdinand. We give
to-day all the particulars we have been able to col-

lest. It will be seen that the brave Patriots medi-

tate revenge--we hope it will be signal—we trust
• it will be to satiety. Their moderation was a pledge
of their courage in achieving the revolution ; but if
they allowed the inhabitants of Cadiz to remain
without a sacrifice to their waxes, they would incur
a charge of pusilanimity which but ill accords with
the feelings by which we believe them to be actu-
ated.
Every arrival from Spain, beers increasing ptvefa
of the infamy of the massacre at Cadiz. It ap-
peal now, that it was not the effect of momentary
madams, produced by intoxication, but a preme•
ditated and digested plan. It is-well known, that
the lower classes bear about them constantly long
knives as weapons of defence; these they had been
desired to desist from carrying. The artillery had
been taken possession of, and in short every thing
connected with the affair, bears witness to the cruel'
ability with. which the arrangements had bees
made.
The Paris Papers of Thursday state, that the
King is better. The spasms• in his stomach were
alarmingly severe, but they fortunately yielded to
mustard-seed fomentations applied to his feet. His
Majesty has much gout in his system, and his de-
bility must increase, being so afflicted, that he is
not able to take sufficient air and exercise. Since
his illness he has transacted business with his mi-
nisters, and received the visits of the Archbishop of
Paris and Ptince Talleyrand. While the people of
Spain have thrown off their yoke, we are concern-
ed to find that in France the Bill. for restraining the
Freedom of the Press is passing through the Cham-
ber of Deputies. The second article, enacting
'• that no journal or periodical work should be pub-
lished without the authority of the King," was,
after a feeble opposition, adopted. The third ar-
ticle, importing " that the Royal authority should
only be granted to those who proved that they had
conformed to the conditions of the first clause of the
law passed on the 9th of January, 1819,- was
then put to the vote, and also adopted. The fourth
article was neat brought under consideration of the
Chamber, it is as follows.—" That before publica-
tion of ea h sheet, &c. the manuscript shall be
submitted by the Proprietor or responsible Edi-
tor, to a previous censorship.' M. Savoye Rollin
proposed, as an amendment. to this article, that
the reports of the sittings of the Chambers
should be exempted from the censorship; but it
was lost, on a scrutiny, by a majority of 127 to 119,