The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

GENERAL AMNESTY.—ROYAL DECREE.
" Desiring to perpetuate the recollection of the proclama-
tion of the Constitution of the Monarchy, and mark by an
act of clemency, which shall be worthy of so great an event,
the happy day on which I have freely and spontaneousl)
sworn to this Constitution, in the midst of the National
Congress, in the name of my august daughter abella,—l,
'n my quality of Queen Regent, do hereby grant a general
amnesty, as extensive as the laws and situation of the king-
dom will permit. In consequence I ordain as fo lows :
" 1. All prisoners at present confined in the l'ednsula or
the isles adj.icent, for whatever crime they may be confined,
shall enjoy the benefit of this amnesty.
" 2. With the exception of those individuals condemned
as principal authors or accomplices in the crimes of high
trees n, sedition, parricide, homicide, incendiarism, sacri-
lege, blasphemy, crimes against nature, subornation, coining,
falsification of public acts, resistance to justice, rape, vio-
lence, bigamy, theft, selling by false weights, and swindling..
" 3. Publiainnationaries„ who have abused their
tions, and committed serious faults in the execution of them,
a e also exempted from this amnesty.
" 4. Smugglers who have been guilty of offences against
the export or import laws shall enjoy the benefit of this am-
nesty, and the penalties to which they have been condemned
shall be excused them.

" 5. Individuals condemned to the gallies, if not included
in either of the cases of exception, awl those who have not
yet arrived at their place of destination, shall also enjoy
the benefit of this amnesty.
" 6. In offences betwixt civil parties the amnesty will not
be applicable, until the damages which the authorities have
adjudged stall have been paid.
7. The amresty will not apply to offences committed
after its promulgation.
" 8. The benefit of this amnesty applies also to eccle-
siastics ; in consequence, the archbishops, bishops, and
other prelates, shall receive a notification of it.

" 9. The political chiefs are charged to overlook all the
persons receiving the benefit of this amnesty, who are in
their respective districts.

" 10. The authors of crimes comprised in this amnesty,
who shall be absent or contumacious, to enjoy the benefit of
this amnesty must appear before the proper tribunals,
within three months, if in the kingdom, and within six
months if abroad, that the tribunals may take note of them.
The individuals who may be in the provinces occupied by
the rebels, who can prove that they were not able to pre-
sent themselves within the time fixed, will nevertheless
enjoy the benefit of the amnesty.
(Signed)
" June 18, 1837."

" I, THE QUEEN.

ANOTHER DECREE.
" In order that the benefits with which I propose to so-
lemnize the promulgation of the new Constitution may
extend to the greatest number of unfortunate persons, I
grant, in my quality of Queen Regent, and in the name of
the Queen Isabella 11., to all Spanish subjects who are
undergoing their punishment in the prisons and arsenals of
the Peninsula, and isles adjacent, the remission of a quarter
of the time remaining to fulfil their punishment. Except-
ing always from this favour the authors of crimes not
comprised in the general amnesty which I have granted by
the preceding decree. You have for authority,
(Sig►ned) " I, THE QUEEN.
" Givcn at our Palace, June 18, 1837."