The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-05 00:00:00

MONTIIT r AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

Since the breaking up of the long frost, ploughing anti
field-culture generally has proceeded a ith all possible dili-
gence, and in proportion to the factliturs ode.eil by the
soil. The late and present renewal 1,1 the rigours of wiles
lei have occasioned some impediment, end also stone de-
glee of oujuly to invipient vegetatiou. wheals, how-
ever, and all arable lands, will receive a NI
si awn, of the benefits which never fail to accrue from a
frost of considerable duration, attended alai a stifficient
cover of snow. The youug clove's, and all clops of that
desiiption, it is apprehended, have sudeied greatly
fr the rigout of the frost, which has been so severe as
to ruin great breadths of :Swedish turnips; as to the CUM.
111011 turnips, they are in many parts totally destroyed.
Considerable quantities of potatoes in store have beets
limited, whilst the apples have never been known to keep.
better, and never was there a mote plentiful season of
that most useful fruit. The low meadows have been ge-
nitally flooded from the sudden thaw ; and the wheats, so
?inhaled, are supposed to have aecrived heavy damaire
Cattle, and all stock, have done urn at the hoinestall;
all such as have been exposed abroad will take a lona
time, and expensive keep, to recover their lost condition
and aptitude for thrift. Money is said to be scarce in the
folllliry, although its abmidance is boasted in the meld ()-
polo. Prices, whether fur coin or flesh meat, have
suffered little vat ration. Wool a doll trade, with the es.
ception of a few places, where the iiiii veintnt is not very
noticeable. Nothing is doing in hops ; the stock on h aid
great. Horses of all desciiptions fetch less money.
Universal cinuplairits of distress in the country. In the
Nor th, it is reported that the labourer call scarcely, by
hid earnings, " keep life and soul together." at 41 the
poor's sates are teal folly advancing. Tin and twelve
shillings per week, sail to be the maxi 1111 l us obtained in
the best counties fur those lahourets who can find em-
ployment. Heavy losses expected to be sustained by the
destruction of the turnip crop, of %hick, a 1 1111 l ith !wore,
there will be full experience. Indeed 1111101 hay and corn
has already been expended mum cattle and sheep, and
moult expence incurred by the necessity of picking up
the turnips from the frozen sort, where they coital he at
all tome at. But all these difficulties and losses, in a long
frost, seem iusulfick tit to prevail on the unmindful farmer
to take the easy and comparatively unexpensive method
of taming part of his turnips, certainly one of the best
and must profitable of his economical precautions. 'l'ne
heavy heart with which the farmer proceeds in his la-
bours, Is reiterated through most of the reports. Prom
the aspect or things, Inc can discovt r no hope of tewwie.
ration. This, indeed, may come to be a swat ce of bitter
'egret to those who have sided wills the measures, %%Inch,
during the last lise.antl-twenty years, has e (nought such
bitter distress upon the country; it may, in good time,
work a favourable change in their sentiments, and re-
kindle their pairimilin; Colts liming them, that all rem:.
dies shot tot removing the whole burden tit 'cessary
and corrupt taxation, are Inert plausible And contemptts
ble inanities.

CORN IMPORTATION.—OvitIioas of the Attorney and
Soliettoi A.:cot:tat, tot .1 p.m' of coosldcrablc ittiputtatice
relating to ti tidy totportation.—

"TO CO LUX"! ORS AND COMPTROLLERS OF r PORTS.

" (.1113101U.11U118e, LOllllOll, I. 13, I tv2o.
" Gentlemen, 'the Allot ney and Solieitin-Getteral hay-
ing gives' it their opinion, in thr ease of a vessel bound
to London with a cargo ut 11413 that no rived %ohm the
limits ut an out-port which was open tot the flee
lion lllefeOf, but did not teach I onion mitt' alter that
port was shut, that 31101 rang.) elltllil lien be admitted to
rutty for home consumption, and that the case would to t
be :itiec lett by ilie 1:111•1111131Jile0 ut the vessel having al-
ei within ;lII' !hints of an uni.puit, while that port was
.•till open to .he 41111) of 8.113 lul home Coll3llllllllloll, we
1111111 iiiiii Wale Inc 0.11113 to you tut the inthrtnatian and got
et i nment of )(mist:lves, and the several orncris tinder
yin's sin V. y

A person answering the description a Rain, the
eonsinrator, for witont a reward of 200/. ha►► b►en
uttered for his apprehension, was reen, we under-
stand, on Tuesday last, at au obscure village in heat,
on his way to Deal.

INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.

Letters received on Tuesday from Gibraltar of the
7th, and from Cadiz of the Sth ult. supply some
additional intelligence of the progress and designs
of the Cunstitutionul army ; and, in proportion as
the cauee gains •tren;,;th, the accounts appear to
improve in authenticity. Quiroga still held pos-
session of the Isla de Saint Leon, where no at-
tempts had been made to molest hint. It is stated
that a free pardon for him and for his troops has
been offered by the King, but not an individual
mild be found who was willing to accept it. A
small pitrty of Royalist troops, to the number of
about fifty men, were stationed on a spot called
Green Island, strongly foriiticd, and within musket
shot of Algesiras, where they were suffered to re-
main in quiet ; neither did they attempt to assail
the National troops. A few English officers, on the
evening of the Gth ult. went over from the garrison
of Gibraltar to Algesiras, where they remained all
night with► the Constitutionelists, whom they found
in high spirits and discipline. They nssured our
countrymen, that they were so well informed of the
state ot pablie feeling, and the disposition of the
King's troops in their favour, that they feared little
interruption to their designs, which then were, to
proceed in successien to the principal owns, where,
if favourably received, as they anticipated, they
would establish the constitution, and afterwards
march direct upon the capital. The former part of
this design appears to have commenced on the morn-
ing of the 7th, whet, a division of the Constitutional
foice in Algesiras was seen from the rock of Gibral-
tar, which commands a view of the whole country,
marching in the direction of Honda. In Algesiras
the numbers had augmented to 4,000, and this di-
vision would probably contain half that force. The
troops of General O'Donnell, who was at St. Roque
with about 2,000 men, were at the same time seen
in motion ; they marched out of the place, when,
the morning being somewhat hazy, they were lost
sight of All this, passing immediately under the
view of Gibraltar, must have been, as it is described,
a scene of great interest. The entire force of the
Royalists in the neighbourhood of Cadiz consisted
of about 9,000 men, including those commanded by
General O'Donnell in St. Roque; and the re-
mainder were distributed under Generals Freyre in
Port St. -ary's, Cruz la Mourgeon in Chiclana,
and Islieheino in Puerto Real. A report was in cir-
culation in Cadiz, and generally believed, that
Freyre had sent in his resignation to the King. It
1,, now stated, that could the inhabitants have found
arms on the night of Santiago's insurrection, so pre-
veleta was the disposition to join him, that the
affiiir must have led to the most important cause-
qeences. Of the Royalist fierce above-mentioned,
abut one-half was composed of troops formerly at-
tacked to the expeditionary army ; and it was gene-
rally understood that no confidence could be placed
in them, but that they would join the Constitution-
alists on the first opportunity that presented itself.
NI A DIM), e'en. 14.
The troops which spread from the Isla de Leon
to the surrounding towns, in search of provisions,
proceeded as far as Algesiras, and there received
some money, on account of the contraband commo- ,
dame of which they authorized the introduction
into that place from Gibraltar. Seeing themselves
afterwards threatened by the troops of O'Donnell,
they were obliged to alter their line of' march, and
Lave at last halted at Vejes, where they are sur-
rounded on all sides by the divisions of Freyre and
O'Donnell.
'face remainder of the patriots remain in the Isla
de leea, and the garrison of Cadiz is mating con-
tuinal sallies upon than to fbree them to desist from
the fortifications which they arc raising for their
defence.
Within these few days Captain Vasquez has ar-
rived here from the ceibessy to Petersburgh, and,
according to report, leis brought pledges very satis-
factory to our Court of the intimate relations and
friendship which subsist between his Wjesty and
the Emperor of ltus:ia

SPANISH GAZETTE Pl' BUSHED BY THE
PATRIOTS.

IFrom the Gaze& Pat, it,Nra of Jan. 25, the new paper started
by the Pati.iots.i
ON THE LAWFULNESS OF OUR INSURRECTIO7
When we consider the origin of our glorious insurrection,
Ixt;un and hitherto maintained by an army of Patriots, we are
snuck with tne singularity of the event and the great euinge of
f.dteme. The Spanish army has always been a model of valour
and patrienism, but obAliehee to the Government ever naarked its
to iduct, tor in that respect it conformed to the example of the
**military force in other commies, and to what reason prescribes as
tTie rase of military duty all over the world. Serving the King
has always bean toe terms u-ed in Spain to ele,ignate the noble
profession of the soldier, and this language wa.. very properly
emplcyea! ; for the King being considered as the head of
nanou, wa. in that re.pect the repte.caltative of its power and its
rights. The eporh, lio.vever, strived when the nation be an
tit
exist as a political body, in which the regal authority was
limited by the authority of a popular representation. Cones
were aseembled, and a constitution es!ab.istied, and the army
swore to obey the former and maintain the latter. always serving
the public cau.,e with loyalty and devotedness during toe absence
d the blonarch. At length came the unhappy da)a of May,