The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-08 00:00:00

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SPAIN.

The following is nn extract of a letter dated Ma-
drid, Nov. 20, received by way of Bayonne:—
Never has the fermentation in the people's
winds been su extraordinary as for these few days
pest, and especially on the night of the 19th, in
omnsequence of the account of the falling of the
funds at Paris and the reports of war that were cir-
culated. The agitation was so great, that several
patriots went in a body to the office of the Minister,
to know whether the Government had received any
despatches from abroad concerning the probability of
a war ; but it was soon learned that only a commer-
cial house in this city had received an express,
stating the agitation on the Exchange at Paris ou
the 12th. However, the enemies of the system
soon spread a report that the Holy Alliance had de-
cided the armed interference in the affairs of Spain,
and this news assumed such a degree of credit, that
it was the general subject of conversation in all pub-
lic places and private circles; and if the leaders of
the Landaburian Club had been allowed to take
their own way, the capital would have been filled
with consternation. In fact, on the same evening
several ecclesiastics and others, whom opinion points
out as adversaries to the constitution, were publicly
insulted in the streets. The alarm continued the
whole of the 18. h, and in the night the same house
received an express, with the news that the funds at
Paris had risen on the 13th, and that the reports
which had caused the fall were beginning to be dis-
pelled. 0.1 the other hand, Government received
on the I 9th, at 2 a.m.,. an express from its Minister
at I'aris, with despatches very satisfactory in respect
to the reports of war. On the 19th, in the morn- '
ing, groups of people assembled in the Puerta del Sol,
anxious to know the contents of the despatches of the
Duke de San Lorenzo, and they soon learned that
he had written that Congress had decided nothing
with regard to Spait : it is even affiuned that the
Minister has said to his friends, that if he had re-
ceived any unpleasant news, he should have imme-
diately published it in the journals. Nevertheless,
people's fears are not wholly dispelled, and they
await with impatience the result of the Congress.—
The merchant's expresses which arrive are sur-
rounded by numbers of persons. It may be said, that
at the first news of a declaration of war, we should
see the revolution make ravages at Madrid, and all
the provincial capitals.
" All the Journals make reflections on the incon-
veniences and obstacles which stand in the way of a
resolution of the Holy Alliance, to declare war
against Spain.
" There is nothing interesting from Andalusia,
except the dissolution of the Municipality of Lucena,
time arrest of its members, and of several other per-
sons, in consequence of the discovery of a plot
formed by the Committee of Gibraltar, tending to
renew the insurrection in Rued:, Lucena, and even
Ceuta.
" In the sittings of the Patriotic Society of Se-
ville, on the I th, the arrest of forty serviles was
demanded, so that Gibraltar is filled with emigrants,
who however embark successively for other parts of
the Continent."