The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-16 00:00:00

No. 1,410.--yoL: XVI.

SUNDAY,

. Deputaa,
stances in which this session of the legislature is
opened, presents a vast field to the patriotism of the
representatives of the Spanish people, and will ren-
der it memorable in the national annals.
Spain, at this moment the object of the atten-
tion of all nations, is about to resolve the great
problem which occupies Monarchs and people. In
its solution are involved the hopes, the fears, and the
4nterests of mankind—the caprices of ambition and
pride.
" The Continental Powers of the Holy Alliance
tiave now raised the cry against the political institu-
tions of this nation, whose independence and liberty
have been conquered with its blood. Spain, in
reply to the insiduous intimations of those Poten-
tates, have solemnly manifested to the world, that,
her fundamental laws can only be dictated by
herself:
" This clear and luminous principle is incapable
of- being.atiacked, except by sophisms supported by
arms; and those Who, in the lyth century, appeal
to this last reason, give the must ,'ecisive proof of
the injustice Of their cause.
• " The Must Christian King has said that 100,000
Frenchmen are to eOlllO to settle the domestic affairs
of Spsdn,. and tissassend :be errors of our isstitu-
tions. Whim before were soldiers commissioned to
reform laws? In what code is it written that
nsi-
liiury invasions way be the precursors of national
felicity to any people?
" It would be unworthy of reason to refute such
antisocial errors, and it would nut be desirous in
the Constitutional King of the Spains to apologize for
the just national cause before those who, in order to
subdue every feeling of shame, cover themselves
with the mantle of the most detestable hypocrisy.
• " I trust that the energy, the firmness, and the
constancy of the Cortes ytll turns the best reply to
the speech of the Must Christian King. I hope
that, steady in their principle, and resolved to walk
jn Ille,patli of their ditty, they will always be. the
C.ortes ut tfie 9th and 11th of January, and ever be
tOuad in all respects worthy of the nation which has
intrusted to theta its destinies. I hope that reason
and justice will nut show' less courage than the
Gctuus of oppression and s:avery. This nation
whiclicapitulutes with enemies whose bad faith is
so notorious, is already subdued. To receive the
law which is to be subdued by force of aims, is the
extrame of ianon: ,y.
" I war te altaady an unavoidable evil, the na-
tion is maaartraisaus, and will again hasten to coin-
bat fur independence and civil liberty. The path of
glory is already known to Spain, and all the sacri-
fices which this .contest may require will be easy to
bar. Constancy and patriotism present a. thousand
resources; which in the
.hands of Spaniards, always
praouce the happiest results.
• " For my part, I once more °War to the National
Congress the co...opeTatuott of all my eti:nts to reJlize.l
• lii,pes which the I riends of liberal institutions place
in Spain, by carrying into execution all the mea-
sures within the compass of my authority to repel•
force by force. The seasonable removal Of my ',er-
ica' and the Cortes to a pint less 'subject to the in-
Vacsicr, of military. operations, will puralyza the
enemy's plans, and prevent any suspicion in the int-
pulse of the Government, the action of which ought
to Le felt in eta:l7.point of the monarchy.
" The army, whore services in the just cause ate
so great, is complain:gond organizing, in pursuance
of the last (let. IVO of the Cortes. The victories
which it obtained against the factious, arc tinapre-
cursor.> of others 01 a snore important nature over
the foreign enemy.
" The provinces ia general, exhibit a very good

portant. __ _ beee,coromented.
the .national prosPerity•eli which those Jabbers lead
will consolidate the constitutional system which
valont and energy now defend.
" Pal Ace, March 1. (lliipsd) w 11111161T1AND."
A committee was appointed to draw up an an-
swer to the above speech, of which Arguelles,
Valdes (Dun Cayetano), Solvate, Prado, and laturiz
are members.
The President adjottroad the sitting amidat the
acclamations of the speceotocs izt the galleries.
Matte* 4..-His -yesterday accepted the
resignation of the ire `11( i 4416 who
have been replaced. ' .• • •
The seven eX-Ministate, who, after deserving the
praise of all true lovers of liberty iluring their eon-
actuation tit the head of public affairs, returned to
their posts on the night-of the 19th in order to pre-
vent evils tif greater consequeoces, and thereby' made
one of the greatest sacrifitafx an the altar of their
country, will carry with Oran, in their retirement
to the rank of siMple Indititloals,•the hettedictina.
of all honest men, and'otleU true lovers of their '
country the great services which theY have reu-
dered.
We. Sire aisurtil that tbdiew ministers 'allot
enter Open the function, till the former have given
an account to the Cortex Of the state of their re-
spective departments.
Estrum. of a private Letter front Madrid —The
sitting of the t2tl was very important. A member
ruse and stated, that positive intelligence had been
received that 35,000 French troops were ,to enter
Spain un the 3tli of March. Ea proposed, that the
ministers should be culled in, and required to state
what precautions they had ruken for tile defence of
the kingdom? and -what arrangements they had
made to transfer the seat of Government to a safer
place than Madrid. The ministers declared that
they had taken all the measures in their power for
the defence of the 'kingdom twainst•foreign invasion,
but that they experieneed obstacles iu changing the
seat of Government. The Cones ea this decreed,
that on the following dayi(the 3d) they would take.
into consideration the necessity of changing the seat
of Government, and detenpine the place to which
it should be transferred. The mioistry had net
been changei, as was anticipated.
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• RiIYONNE L'II'E.LLIGENCE.
BAYONNE, Marten 8.7-The troops whose arrival
was announced continue tit conic in regalia succes-
sion, and, almost all go i cantonments in the vit.
lades on tho frontieritti,f pain. The 23,1 of the
y
hue, and 7ili of light it antry, are the first which
girinto the camp forming between Urragne and the
Bid:is:ant, and which opusist, it is said, of 10 or
12,000 men. A great dumber or v‘:ssels have arrived
in oar port from Bretagne, laden.wit;i grain, „hick
has given occaSitna to great speculations and pur-
chases. The contractors lOr bread and forage to the
army. have bought 12 catigoes.
(enenil Quesada has returned to our city, after
having embarked a grAstAaaatity of muskets and
aminiiiiiiion, and a large sum of money, on board
of three harks, belongmg to the I)e:enders of the
Faith, which were at Sueoa, and were to sail .yes-
terday. ''he getteralAutving learned that three or
Cour vessels of the constitutional party, sent from
Balboa, were cruising in the neigithourhood, pii).
bably did not thiakproper to embark. The Trap-
. pist remains- at St. J(1111 tle:Luz, where he has be-
come an object of the ridicule and conteinpt of the
inhabitants and of the French soldiers. The (uiluw-
incl is malt us trom thtt town:—
The Ctitaluniaus most.be very fanatic and ig-

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icanselves to be led away
as this Trapp*, who,
inspirations, would, mike
trance into Spain, those
f religion would vanish
,hich he always carries
ventured to pass the
follower's, though there
Constitutionalists on
he succeeded, 'as ho
est to facilitate the de.
. lastly, though be pra.
powder and adman, he
proposal of a sergeant
the cross in his hand)
his musket at the distance of 416. paces.
These people (the Defenders of the Faith) Cannot
inspire our soldiers with much eotifidence, for we
all despise them."
The valet de chembro of Lard Somerset. whom
his master had sent before, liras been at Bayonne fir
these six days, waiting liir him, which makes it
imagined that some new incident had detained
,his
lordship at Madrid. Mr. Harvey, the English cop-
Sal at Bayounc, has just sent an express to Madrid
with despatches which he received from the English.
-consul at Bordeaux.
The regular mail from Madrid of the•24.l has not
yet arrived at Bayonne. We do not know whether
it has.been stopped by the band of Merino at Su-
minima; however, we have news ham Old Castile
by way of Valladolid, the mail limit Vittoria, mad
the tl.:ee Biscayan provinces. The news spread by
the Conimittee of the Faith, that 'l3,aisieres was
marching to the Ebro wall lU,uOO or 22,000 hien,
lit false.
. We have received accounts from Madrid by a prig
vete conveyance, from which we euraet the folios-
ing pasaiges:— •
Idantuu.' Fira: 18.... We • **Jo). perfect irentioil-'
lity here, though Still a prey to the division of par.
tics. A change in the ministry is ?till spoken of;
, some are thr claiming a new 'ministry from the pan yr,
of Cevallos, Castanus, Palafox; and others from that
of Catibai, Salved, and ltuateru.Alpuente. floweve4
it be, under the circumstances in which the nation is
now ptseed, it,will be difficult to find a ministry 'able
to conciliate all parties, and •to take the measures
that are requisite to suvu the country front thedis..;
• solution with which it is threatened, ter various very
alarming reports are in circulation. It is said that'
there will immediately be funned in Andalusia, Va-
lencia, Catalonia, and Galicia, separate governments,
which shall provide for the defem-c of their respec--
live territories, detaching themselves from the capi.
tat, which is at preset* only a 1012113 of intrigue and
dis,;ard. Such at least is the real plan of the Cow.
inunerous, and the 4...xecution of it is inure than pre-
bable, evecially in case of foreign invasion.
There never was such a mass of inflammatory-
-publications as may inundate the capital.
party labours at its uwa ends, but none attend to the
-
prutawal object. t

Extract of a Letter from Perpignan, dated March.
I.—Every thing announces the approach of lava.,
sion ; the arrival of troops, caissons, and ammuni. •
Lion ; the labours of the Regency to arm and dot,..
the soldiers of the Faith--‘tiic arrival of the airon
d'Ernles. It has been Kcltled that the soldiers of
the Faith who are in this department' shall be or-
ganited into five battalions, under. tin
The Division of Spain." On the .
company of bonze artillery-and of the train
from this town: trie one to Thuir,. the
Terrats.. On the same day ant ived from
rior, 2t caissons, 5 eigh.-pounders, Ssi7
witzerm, IS::: horses, and 110 soldiers of
and one company of artilleri, of the
Narbonne, who escorted the convoy. G,
merest has departed -our Tottlou•a: —l'c si
millions t:f francs in ,gold arrived lot
the receiver general, and a cousii.ei al&
serve is to b: supplied by the departments.
hundred thousand frames arc already provided.

The King is again under the'painful influence rf
the gout, thoult the attack is much less revere ?Ivo)
on the late occasion. The unweheu.ue return or the
inaludy is attriLutod to the sudden change in the
:readier.

SPANISH PAPER. . spirit; the evils Which they have suffered frepu those norant to have suffered themes
• who style themselves de - et) of religiop,have die- by as stupid and &tunic a man t
ORDINARY COItTES, SATURDAY, 111i1.01 1. pivoted the illusitins of ignorant, and convinced by meant of his pretended loop
. OPENING or TIM. SEMIIOI"..—KIND'iI bPELCII%, all men that the conati , . is the only right path. es believe that at his cotton
A letter was read from the Secretary of State fur , „ The
chaegeew ...
wive taken place in our whom he calls. the enemies of i
Grace and Justice, which informed the Cones that
fbreign relations hove , ' .eptented the spirit of the at the of the crucifix wli
'the state of his Majesty's health did not permit him
nation ;--tber tiinid, alit never see the re- abdut him ; yet he has not 1
• • to be at the opening of this Cortes, but.the Secre
sources of the, Amen - . - the malevolent who Ilidassoss with twenty of his fill
Caries of State were in attepdanco to sowalaAV 11,0 - .... .
it ,
• rub waskiweaviavvr can was dilly a week post at the
to tote President, the speech • hitt
would 4,,,e the ietisf.,. t, , - alt. s: - ti -•.,• ' ". litaatiliaus of bit,- slan other side. Neitbir has
'digefieffitrtilUtift =''''''q • re mak* row toast6On ollnyhag the Wipe,
parture of the yawls; and L- - , -Ilse Secretary of State for the Hasp Dworep ..,, TheillNgrogen'th i •
of the public admini- tends nth° invulnerable by poi
anent then handed the speech to the Prtaident, *ha
read it to the Cortes, It is as }allows:-4 stration afford in general ti very favonntWe prospect. has declined acceding to the pi
Senores Deputies,-i—The extraordinary circum-
The Cones with their itiOgla saki continue the un- ur the 23d, to stand (with tl
stances in which this session of the leeislature is ..
Konae t.tauoun which hive been tormented. and the fire of his musket at the (J

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