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London, England, 1820-03-14 00:00:00

LON DON,
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, MO.

GENERAL INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.

The Paris Papers of Friday last contain some in-
formation bight), interesting relative to the progress
of the insurrection in Spain. In the province, of
Gatheist, Astoria, Arregon, and Valencia, the
spirit of discontent lots burst into action, and in
several places, particularly in Corunna and Santan-
der, the constituti tttt has been proclaimed by the
troops. The military apf►ear its esti, instance to
be the principal actors in effecting the revolution in
Spain ; but although the people take no active part
its the enterprise, their concurrence in it contra be
doutized, and possibly their apparent indiffer-
tme to the cause of firedour arises from a
comic:taro. that as the troops on whom the Kase
had principally depended for the support of lies
power have disavowed the Royal authority; uo op-
position to their progress can be contemplated,
and the aosistatice of the people is thereby ren-
dered umitcesory. It is evident, indeed, that no
effectual opposition has as yet been cffereci to
the progress of the insurgents. In Corunua the
troops not only raised the standard of revolt,
and procleimed the constitution, but they also
made sure of the person of the Captain-General of
the province, whom they no doubt will detain as
a hostage for the treatment of such of
their ow* party us may chance to fall into the

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pourer a tie 'Rol alias. The Martio6 A LAZA
Cepteisi.Ceeneral of Arragon. has fled front hi. pear,
and repeiled to Madrid, to inform the King of
she !motile state of the public mind in Serregoma,

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substituted the word •C
Thellyieg divii.toti, under tgel 114,0, hid
on the teth of Fehrigail smdlimkniloSitonfishin
thirteen Imps, of Cireesdn!.,nneonleiedg
march by fY De a w cow aild.siiiepowd I y
say force dispatched arinst it from brewed.. T.
Captain dents.' Eitofe, commandism the pro.
since, has fled frost dryings's, pain with hoes
some prisoners of stole, so dist Reecho's. mitten( et
into that important cwpital will be in reery..reoprtl
triumphal. • hits• is organisios a irelre iu Naysne,
where he has hathorto'encountered ope:ppimpition
*whatever. • •
Gram' CASTANOI, Captaist-Gewefid
!loggia, has informed the Goverment that 'icons
se ieert answer for the fidelity ef that
as secret snertiap were daily held betweeig•tbe mi-
litary and the people.
In Vslencia, Nebo?, an socket demilleChier.
bps mustered 400 partisans, and Weeinweeedieg to
join Rum,.

Getters! ELto, according to these accounts, has
been disgraced, for having advised the KIS° to
quit the capital. Generals Boom- and BAL..
LAiTiROS have, it is said, refused the offered com-
mend of the army under General Farrar.
The progress of the Royal army in Aadalassie
ender General Fat Tee is not noticed in these pa-
pers, but it would seem that the in►urgent troops
in the Isla de Leon have commenced offensive opt..
rations against the town of Cadiz, for they base
taken a battery which had been erected in hoot or
la Considers to defend the approaches to it. 'TI e
number of the King's alley in Andalusia cea•rs
now to be as object of much importance; for either
the troops, animated with the spirit that %(I.7tis so
actuate their brethren in tams in other ports ui the
kingdom, will refuse to fight against their former
companions, or their officers, distrusting their fide-
lity, will hesitate to employ them.
Accounts have artived in town that the constitu.,
firm has been proclaimed in the litmus of Saint
Sebastian and Whoa.

The eels:tint(loaf/ states, " the Infant Dou
FRANCIS was twenty-four hours under meat, for
having observed to the Kier), in the most energetic
terms, that he was :oat if he did Hot accept the con-
stitution.'• The same Journal adds, that "on the
evening of the 2fith ult. some seditious 'words were
heard amongst the troops at Madrid."
Such is. the sum of the intelligence that has
reached town respecting the state of Spain ; and
even admitting that it may be in some respects elk*
aggerated, there is enough to olarm the friend, o£
the Spanish Monarch, and make them tremble for
the continuance of at least hi. arbitrary power. We
do not think that his personal safety is endangered, '
for the troops in the Lila have, we are told, carefully
abstained from all expressions disrespectful to
the KING personally, and they with their friends
in ■ll parts of the kingdom will most probably.
be eatisfied in the event of their success with the.
establisbruent of the constitution of the Corti..
Indeed, as we on a former occasion remarked, we
conceive it an advantage to Spain of so light im-
port, that the revolution has been undertaken and
will be conducted by the military power in the
state, as their overwhelming force will be calcu-
lated to prevent a protracted struggle between the
contending prrties, and check the exercise of the
ferocious passions of the populace. Had ►here •
been a struggle in England previous to the al.-
dicetion .of JAMES 11. the triumphant ',arty
had never been enabled to display the happy
temper and regulated energy that distinguished this
Whigs at the Irerind of the Revolution, when that
glorious body of men reformed the errors of the
Government, eradicated the principles of de•potrc
power, and preserved to us the wondrous Constitu-
tion under which this country has for so long a pe-
riod enjoyed a more uniform surd perfect system ,•!
practical liberty than ever fell to the share of any
other people in aucient or modern trines. Ti e
absence of a protracted quarrel in Spain. in the
present instance, will, we trail. he attended with
consequences no less advantageous to that cl•i-
valrmis and high-spirited nation. eltitough
must confess that the constitution of the Cott.,
*lnch is the railying cry of titeSpotrir,ll intrergetr,%.
seems not to us well calculated to ensure the r.thrri-
lity of political and civil liberty in the Pei.i.isuis,
The power of the Kato is too much limited in the
proposed form of the constitution, and those ti•e
Cruwit, which in a mixer; monarchy ottglit to be the

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moving principle iii the system, must, undtr tile '
constitution of the Cortes, become either an J•
less burden, to hr shaken off at the cspri the
other Palates of the realm. or mast_oisdr s own 11:-...
fence. usurp tots authority wk.lr 'being umletipil,
wilt in the end destroy ea the forms ~f ii,
reprrs, ntative goverumen Nothing indirsd is
more difficult to be eertained tit theory than
that precise pivict which the opposing ele-
ments of a raised/government became so nicely
balanced as to ne Sallee their respective injurious
qualities. TI can be determined by practice
only ; mud t t man is equally en enemy to ull who
would en at. by tiny indirect means. to give
to any one of the component parties such an in-