The National Register.
London, England, 1811-05-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REctsTr,n.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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SPAIN.
• From the last received numbers of The Cargo's(); a paper ih
which the debates of the Cortes arc published in an abridged
form, we learn; that with a view to anticipate expected appli-
cations from Britain, that Assembly was occupied with the con-
sideration of propositions For abolishing torture, includ-
ing the use of handcuffs, chains, &c. in the confieement and
securing of prisoners ; mod, For abolishing the slave trade; and
3d, Communicating the decision upon these propositions to the
British Government. The proposition for ab,)lithing torture
was instantly agreed to. The proposition for aholrhing the
slave trade gave rise to mime apprehensions of mischievous con-
sequencc, in Cuba, similar to those that had occurred i:i St. 4
Domingo. This Resolution was referred to a Committee. Thc
Assembly in a subsequent Sitting, entered into the considera-
tion of the recent Military procetdi, gs, in the cner;e of which
some dissatisfactiotT was expressed at certain omissions and
forms of communications in the Sitting of 5:11 April, the Regency
presented the plan of a Decree, having for its object to declare,
" that if any Governor of a place, either of himself or in con-
currence with a Council of War, should propose to surrender,
that the command should then fall to the next Officer in
gradation of rank, who miblat vote for continuing the de-
rence."

t:aniz, APR it. 17.---The Conciso contains a letter from Yelees,
dated the 10th, in which there is the following statement .—" A
cavalry soldier has crossed the river by swimming, at 'Talavera
Real, and gOt possession of the boat which the enemy had there.
Ceneral Beresford has made a reconnoismice, in the course of
Which he was nearly taken prisoner.
Maortio, MARCH 13.—The review of the troops here, that
was fixed for the 10th inst. did not take place, on account of the
unfavourable state of the weather, it was said, hut rather in
consequence (Attie arrival of a Courier on the evening of the
9th. King Joseph would see nobody on the 10th. On the llth,
the detachment i (-turned hare had been sent to escort a
body of yrisrers from OliVenza to Segovia. Th..y had
them several wagyons, and several French and Ca-titian fami-
lies who were waiting for the escort at Segovia. D'Armagnac,
lately appointed G vernor of Cucnoa, set out yesterday on his
march, p; eceded by several troops with artiliery, which, ac-
cording to general report, arc destined for Cuenca by the way of
Arganda ; but others say that their object is to fortify them-
selves on the right of the Tagus, between Toledo and Villaman-
tigue, by which an easy communication may at all times he
preserved between the troops of Guadai..xara and those of the
province of Toledo, towards Tata vera and la Mancha, advanc-
ing or concentrating themselves as circumstances may require;
avoiding in this manner the incursions of the parties of La
Mancha, in the provinces of Madrid, and that thestroops may
be saved the excessive fatigues to which they are exposed from
continual marches.and counter marches, on account of those
hostile incursions.

We are assured that, on the I.sth or 16th, a convoy k to set
out for France, along with which Aranza, the Commissary of
Seville, goes to meet his wife; this, ut least, is the pretext;
but, without doubt, there are whet- objects in view, anti one of
the first will be to represent to the Eel:el-or the impossibility of
keeping possession of the Andalusias, in the present circum-
stances, with the number of troups there, and the little import-
ance that the French Generals attach to the orders of Joseph.—
It is oleerved that Aranza uses two sorts of language. In pub-
lic he says, that the people of Cadiz: ardently desire to be sub-
dued by the French ; that the Cartes are divided into mary par-
ties, and that all despair of a happy issue to the affairs of Spain,
account they would have opened their gates to the
French, had it not been for the, predominating influence of the
English. But in private, where he reposes czndence, his lan-
guage is very differem, and he confesses the difficulty there is
of preserving the AnCalusias with the troops :hat arc now there;
and, in short, his relations with .loseph have contributed much
t') put him in bad humour, as well as coMpelled him to take
other measures, and to try all possible means to keep up the
communication of that army by Estremadura and La Mancha.
The Ministers and &Allard feel very much alarmed learning
that the guerrilla parties compel the transpoits and waggons with
goods and provisions fro:n Andalusia, to. make their ‘vuv for
Valencia. In s!v they are much afraid that there may be a
want of provisions in the capital, as they would have every rea-
son to he appi'ehenlive of the resentment of the people, should
scarcity begin to he
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Letters from Paris tt, the 9.15 th ult. were received on Tues-
day. They communicate .:hat the embarrastmcnts of the coin-
t-nercial cLsses were daily incrtasing. Some of the cldtst and
best established houses in that city live been under the titres-
t y of yielding to the pressure of the rims) and suspending their
paymeats.

IMPEL?IAI, PARLIAMENT.

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