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SOLEM QUIS•DICERE FALSI.I3I AUDEAT

LON DON,
MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1523.

We have received the remaining Paris Journals
of Friday. The journal des Debats contains
the following Article :----

MADRID, MAY 31.
[Extract of a Private Letter.]

The Gaceta of Madrid, of to-day, published the following

Decree :

" The Regency of the kingdom, during the captivity of the.
King, our Sovereign, having received authentic information
respecting.the horrible and sanguinary crime committed on the
evening of the 20th of this month, and in consequence of
which a considerable number of peaceable inhabitants of this
city were put to death, in the most unjust and cruel manner, in
the streets and fields out of the Alcala gate, by the hands of
soldiers unworthy of the mune,—tiesiring to give to the heroic
citizens a proof' of the sentiments of grief' which this event
excites in it, decree as follows :—" Ist. The regiment of in-
fantry of the line Guatlalaxara, and that of light cavalry Lusi-
tania, shall be erased for ever from the roll of the Spanish
army. 2d, The individuals who have taken part in this hor-
rible deed shall be proscribed and punished according to the
law. Signed by the President and other Members of. the Re-
gency, at the Palace, 30th May, 11123."
By several decrees, the Regency has nominated Lieut.-Gen..
the Marquess de Campo Sagrado, Captain-General of New
Castile ; Major-General D. Linen, provincial Military Gover-
nor of Madrid; Major-General D. Pedro Grimarest, Provin-
cial Inspector of the Militia.—(This General was one of those
who signed the protest of the Royalist Guards against the for-
mer Regency of Urgel). •
Don Vargas y Laguna, who is appointed Minister and Se-
cretary of State, being still abroad, the Regency have entrusted
his office for the present to D. Saes.
The two departments of the Peninsula and the Colonies are
united under the denomination of the interior.
The garden du corps, the hallebardiers, and the military of
any other Spanish corps who may be at Madrid, are invited, by
an order of the day, to appear before the military authorities
named in the order. It seems that the formation of an Army
of Spain is going to be undertaken.
The Courier Francais contains accounts from
Seville to the 90th of May inclusive, and the
interesting, in-
telligence is as it proves that the
Spanish Government and the Cortes were far
from being, as has beets represented, disposed to
make concessions, and enter into some disgraceful
compromise with the atrocious invaders of their
country. The proceedings of the Cortes are in
unison with the views of the Ministry, and dis-
play•
a truly patriotic spirit. In the sitting of
the 16th the following decree was proposed on
the report of a Committee, and carried :
Art. 1. That the property of all Spaniards who follow the
French army, and all factious, be declared sequestrated.
Art. 2. That the property in unoccupied territory, of Spaniards
or Foreigners, who, living in occupied territory, favour the
operations of the French Government, or of any person who
usurps legitimate authority, or &ll:ounces or persecutes patriots,
shall be seized and administered for the use of the State.
In the sitting of the 18th, the Cortes adopted
a decree enabling the Government .to dispose, for
its urgent wants, of 160 millions of reals, on the
extraordinary war service, to be reimbursable
from the 7th part of the property of the Clergy.
In the same sitting, a message announced the
appointment of Don MANUEL GARCIA 11 ERREROS,
Minister of the Interior, and of Don FRANCISCO
P.AULA OSORIO, Minister of the Marine.
In the sitting of the 19th, the Cortes proceeded
to vote on the Report of a Committee, which
contained articles to the following effect, viz.—
All persons aiding or assisting the invading army, or parties
of factious—soliciting, accepting, or filling any functions of
magistracy or of judicature, in councils, tribunals, municipa-
lities, Ate., which have been suppressed by the Constitutional
system, shall be respectively included under articles 118 253
and 279 of the penal code, and subject to the penalties thereby
inflicted.
Every individual who directly and actually conspires to over-
throw, destroy, or alter, the political constitution of the Spanish
Monarchy, or the limited hereditary Monarchical Government
which that constitution . establishes, shall be prosecuted as a
traitor, and sentenced to the punishment of dotal.
In like manner shall be held a traitor, and subject to the
punishment of death, every St, tniard who, by act or by counsel
facilitates or endeavours to facilitate the entrance of enemies into
the territory of Spain or her allies ; or who, by the same means,
favours the progress of the enemy's arms against Spanish forces
by land or sea; or who delis ers, or endeavours, by act or coun-
sel, to cause to be delivered to the enemy, any town, village,
castle, fortress, arsenal, magazine, park, port, squadron, ship,
or manufacture of ammunition, belonging to the nation or her
allies.
Public functionaries, anti ecclesiastics, secular or regular, who
by exhortations, speeches, or sermons, delivered before the
people, or who by edits, pastoral letters, proclamations, or other
official publications, cause rebellion, or foment it when it has
broken out, shall be declared traitors, and suffer the punish-
ment of death.
After some debate, in which the Minister of
Grace and Justice shortly supported the proposed
measure; it was adopted upon a division by 107

against 6.

The Decree of the Regency at Madrid, which
we have given in our preceding article, spews
any thing but a disposition on the part of the
Spanish Royalists and their French Allies,
to publish a general amnesty, or to adopt other
conciliatory measures for the pacification of the
Peninsula. Strong suspicions have been enter-
tained that the Duke d'ANacruLEmE, especially
since his advance from Burgos, has formed
the determination of rejecting all overtures for
an accommodation with the Constitutionalists,
on any other basis than that of unconditional sub-
mission,—in other words, that whatever may be
the ultimate conduct of France towards Spain,
it has been resolved in the first place to effect an
absolute conquest of the latter country. These
suspicions are strengthened by an article in the
Journal des Dads of Friday, dated Head.
qualers, Madrid 31 a y 30, from which we extract
the following passage :

• " The following is the cause that hastened our march to
Madrid :—The Spanish General Zayas came to Buitrago, to
the Prince's head-quarters, to treat with his Royal Highness,
who, refusing to see him, ordered the Major-General to receive
his proposals. Zayas demanded to remain in Madrid with his
soldiers, who should do duty there together vela the French,
and promised, on this condition, to let us enter the Capital.—
The Major-General replied to Zayas, that the French would
enter Madrid when they pleased. Zaps then contented him.
self with requesting that our entrance might be on the 23d, and
that our troops should replace the Constitutionalists, to prevent
any bloodshed. Zayas soon abused our generosity." &c. &c.

The rejection of the propositio►►s of ZAYAS,
therefore, accounts for the failure of any results
from the resolution adopted both by that General
and by ABISBAL. The French may sorely re-
pent of their rashness and temerity. The reso-