The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-09 00:00:00

CORTES, TWENTY-FIRST DAY.

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In consequence of an official dispatch fromthe
Secretary of Marine having been read,' and various'
other documents, stating,- that General- Monti
verde had pacified all the- province of Caltiteqqi;
and takcn the rebel Miranda and all the other in-

surgent chiefs prisoners,. SenOr Calatrava proposed,
that the -11,•gency;Should, be instructed to infori
Don Domingo Alontiverde,.--that the: Cortes had
seen, with great satisfaction, the happy results of,
',. his operations; as likeviise the important services
Which he and the troops 'under his .ciiruniand tad.
performed.,, in the pacification and reconquest of
the Caraccas. This proposition. was . approved,-
with the suppression of the vr..rd " re-conquest,''.
on the proposal of Senor Men diola:'
The Cortes then proceeded to thesconsideration•
• of the Ultramarine Commies ion -(see the Sitting
of the 12th August last), relative to the abolition
of the Mitas (1), and the other pro Positions of
Senor Castello.
This Senor, in along and learned discourse, in.
Which, 'with the most solid reasons, he proved the.
inhumanity, injustice, and barbarity,Of such an
establishment. Having concluded, he begged 'of
Senor Coride ,1e Toreno, that they should imme-
' diately proceed to vote, as the point did not re 7
quire greater illustration; and. all the Deputies
being convinced (except perhaps Senoi•Ostola'za),.
Who hi:d made a proposition in favour alias Mi--
tas, of the , necessity of, abolishing an establish...,
ment which . opposed the principles of equality
established- bet-Ween the -Ultrainarine Spaniards
and those On the Peninsula. After some discus-
2iOn, in which Senors Ostolaza and Laravehel-
took a part, the report of the Commission was
pAkt to the"vote; and utianinions!y unproved:
Ist, That Las- Mitas should be for ever abo-.
tilled.
2d, That the Indian .s
should be exempted from
the personal service they gave-the Clergy; or. any
other public functionaq whatever, obliging them,
however, to satisfy 4:e parochial rights, the same..:
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as .the otner classes.
3d, That the public charges, such as the re-
building churches, making roads, ' should ' be..
equally borne by all the inhabitants indiscrimi,-
uately.
4th, That divisions of land shnuld.be made 'to
the Indians; leaving- to the Provincial Deputies
the care of assigning the quotas, &c. &c; .
sth, That in all the territories of America, some-
of the dignitaries should necessarily remain with
the Indians. .
LISBON, OCT. 22.—The following communica-:
tion 'has been made by the administrator of , the
post at Badajoz, to the General Post-Office in
this capital :--
" The province of Estremadura, and the four
kingdoms of Andalusia, are free from the enemy;
and consequently their communications, by post,
are in full activity. The same is the case in New
and in Old Castile,as far as Burgos, in the Asturias,
the kingdMus of Leon and GalliCia, with Puebla
de Senabria, Za:nor, Toro, .Guadalaxara, Soria,
km ~
and the province of enca. -. ' .
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" In the Lingdom of Valencia, the Alicant post-
!s free, and in circulation ; but in Murcia, though,
evacuated by theenemy, here is little communica-
tion, on account of the•epidemic, which prevails
in various_ towns of that kindoal. .
" InArragon,,the towns bordering ',upon Old
Castile, !And the provinces of Soria and Cuenca,
are alone in a state to receive correspondence by
,letter. , -- - -
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Tlie Balearic istei; and tbatof Ivi•sa, enjoy ac-
tive intercourse ; as_ 'also does great part of Cata-
lonia, from whence letters are conveyed in vessels
destined for Cadiz. . . .
(Signed) . " Jost TIARRETO GOMRZ."
(1.) A certain contribution. of nten, Which the people were
obliged-to give for the .cultivation of the land, working the
mines, &c. . . , . .
(i.) People of the vast Spanish Monarchy, you have in
these wise and beneficent regula',ions of the National Congress •
fresh proofs: of the akantages you may promise yourselves
-from your Cortes. ' ,

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The Royal, Society on. -Thursday evening had
.their first meeting for the season, when a, letter
from Sir H. Davy to tlic Presidentwai read, cola-
taMing an account of a most -extraordinary-new
detonating substance. It is composed of the two
elastic Binds,' azote and chlorine, and it appears ,in
the forum of a yellow oil, heavier thin water,' and:
explodes with great vi:mlenee by heat.equal to that'
of the human body: It may he preserved for a
time under water, but it requires the greatest cau-
tion to be experimented, upon in dry vessels, as
mere Motion will cause it to detonate. . Sir A.
Davy, Mattempting to explode a small quantity,
not larger than a mustard seed, in 'a close vessel,
with a view to collect the products, received a se-
vere wound in the transparent cornea of the eye,
which at present prevents the "Sight. We learn
that he ie attended by Mr. Ware, and we.are happy
to state that he is likely to sustain- no permanent
injury, in consequence of the accident. It is men-
tioned in a. private letter from Paris, that a sub-
' stance, probably. analogous,, has latelybeen disco
vere:d there, but the preparation of 'it has not been
m ode public. 'There is reason to suppose it has
been concealed, from its being applicable to the'
pu vuoses of war. „
On Wednesday last in the Consistory Court of
the Court'of Gloucester, the Rev. Thomas Ireland,
D.D. rector of Bourton-on-the-Water, and the
Rev. G. Cooke, D.D. rector of Tortworth, were
elected, by the Clergy there assembled" by public
advertisement to be Proctors 'for the Clergy of
the Diocese of. Gloucester in . the ensuing Con-
vocation, which will meet on. Wednesday, the
25th inst. in the Cliapter-hOnse of Stb, Paul's Ca-
thedral.—(Gloucester Herald.)