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LONDON,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1810.

French Journals have been received to the. loth
inst. They abound in-misrepresentations respecting
the affairs of Spain. The Spanish Usurper, it seems,
hnsissiled two Dacrees,,ohe respeeling the Fine Arts
which lie proposes to promote in Spain by robbing-
all the convents of piaures that had long been h-. 11
in religious veneration; and as the bet. means of
resioring the Arts, in Spain, the chief part of those
pictures are to be presented to BVONAPART4,. in or-.
der to enrich the Gallery at Paris. 'The other De-;
Cree divests the Ecclesiastical Body of all judicialan-
thority, transferring it wholly to the secular Ma-
gistrates. This Decree, among so religious a-people
113 the
,will probably be considered
.as an
alditional 'outrage, and wilt of 'course, induce the
Priesthood to increase the general detestation of the
Usurper and his hordes of
,Military ruffians. ,As to
the important subjea of the repeal of the Berlin and
M:lati Decrees, the French Journals are silent, but
the fact'of their relaxat?on admitS of no doubt;

According to private advices from Lisbon, 'of the
6th inst. the Spanish GoVernment have dec!ared the
Tsince Regent of Portugal, Regent of Spain, during
the ca7tivity of their 'beIoVed'FiRDINAND. 'Tbere
. .
velani, however, to'be little probability in this re-
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•
port:

It is said, that the'Court of Vienna has *strongly
urged' the immediate return of Prince STAICHEM-
x4nG, and his depart:9re, which may forthwith,be
"expe will of course put an end to all those rp-
' monrs efracific Negotiations Ix ith which several of
oar carlpetitor,s.
..have so confidently amused their
'leaders.

_• ; ;
A lery northing account has been. given -clan in-
surrea ion which is said, to have'hur4t,fo-rt hat Cadiz,
on the pit instant, and Whicit'iinf;'ilie 4.th ntul sth
bad not ceased to prevail. It is 'supposed -that the
French.have been instrumental in producing this'
dreadlial event, which is related in the following
but as we have no Corroboration of its con-
tents from other sources,. we .conceive that it should
not he received 'with implicit credit. The Vessel
which broiight the .account, must have made her
passage,in even days, and we do not see her atrival
returned in the port letteri:—
", The Hannah', oil' fain-4011th,, Friday, r r &clock, A.M.

••
" request you to convey
,the inclosed• letter to
try frien4, Capt. WILLIAms AmeriCan), if he
be still^ in the habit i,f
,frequenling your. House;—.=it
not, that you u ill Jur ward it b). the post arcotditir to
/its addruss. The reason I give yo,a trouble is, that
tie letter contains iofoimation of iwportance' to
Capt. WI LLIA A ship, which,he is'parrowber
of, I have reason to belik ve, burnt, in a ge9eral
conflagration of the 'shipping in'. Cadiz Larbour,
amongst which I apprehend most of the Spanish and
,French men of hiVe suffered, as well as
men of. war that had recently arrived from the HA-

vautiah with specie. -
"If you have nut heard 'the business, ,it may be
interesting to you to know, that on the I,st instant,
an insurrection broke out at Cadiz,,,headed b) a large
Freach party, who have been -laying this plan for
some time, to get ihe place, into their posseoon.—,
'On tie 4;h, they rose and seized th (.3o:vernar VE.•
NEGAS, and most of them in the contlence•of the
Government. _A strong force, notwithstanding, re-,
listed them, and there was fighting on, shore all
ntAht, and the very gutters ran .with blood; as I am

'informed.
I heard the firing of' small arms almost con-
tinually, and in the etening of the sth, perceiving
that the bulk of the -shipping was set .on fire, I
thought it wise to put to sea with the half of my cargo
tmloaded; The blaze at sea surpassed every ttivg I
ever beheld. The wind Continued westerly for several
days, and-l'reached off this place this day, and land-
ed three passengers, one of whom has prOmised to
leave this I,2iter. I learned from the shore, li,2t
attempt was made to liberate the „French prisoners

on board of the hulks, but whether with success, I

donot know.

I am, Sir, yours, &e,

44 M-ITTIIEW WEBSTER-."
" To, the Master of the Anti. Gallican Colfee-house,
near the Royal Exchange."

A Morning Paper o ..)csterd3y contained a mys-
terious account , of a, vast defakat ion of public m 0.7
Bey,
.calculated to excite great alarm and di,content.
The transaction alluded to rdated. to Mr. VILL‘RS,
.symaster of, ',Marines,. whose accounts were found
to he so much zrrearS, that the Navy Baird