The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-28 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The following is an extract of a private letter
from Cadiz. The deplorable picture which it
draws of the actual stat 4 of Spain, cannot, we
fear, be accused of exitggeration :—" CADIZ,
7.—The Lady Mary Pelham packet sail.
ed this morning for Gibraltar, after having expe-
rienced a severe pnssage of 25 days from Englaud
to this place ; therefore her arrival excited no inte-
rest, as we had news from London of n much'
later date than Ns hat she could bring. The cup
of bitterness hit b this ill-fated country is doom-
ed to drink is nearly overflowing. Commerce
has fled from her shores, and the interior lies waste
and uucultivated, the miserable inhabitants •of
which are found dead in the fields from inanition.

People of all descriptions, both Spaniards and
foreigners, are flying from the enormous contrthu-
tions which are levied upon them, and those who
remain must pay or have their property segues.
tered. The Algerine corsairs are swarming along
the coasts of the Mediterranean, and the in.
trepid Colombians are intercepting all the
coasting vessels on the shores of the Atlantic,
so much so, that at this place, insurances
cannot .be effected at any premium. Ferdi-
nand seems blind to the best right and interests
of the nation, and is carefully rearing up in the
front of freedom and improvement, monkish in-
tolerance, and superstitious prejudices. I would
have written to you respecting the supposed
expedition which, the Spanish Government said,
sailed from Gibraltar to re-revolutionize Spain ;
but, as I knew that it had for its object plunder,
and nothing more; and, perhaps, too, got up
by the enemies of freedom, I &env(' saying any
thing about the matter. However, it was quite,
sufficient to cause the tocsin of alarm to be
sounded in Spain, and the re-commencement of
acts of proscription against every one known to
be attached to the liberal cause. In Cadiz, and
some• neighbouring cities, the local authorities
have increased the police,
or spy establishment,
to the number of thirty in each Berri°, by which
Meting they know, by the joint report of three or
four hundred of these gentry, what is done and
said every day throughout the town, and
in the different
coffee-houses. Every one is
afraid to communicate his thoughts to his neigh-
hour or friend, lest be should be overheard and
betrayed ; Consequently there is nothing now in
this once gay and flourishing city, but dull mo-
notony, without diseciation, and without bu•
siness."

A Lough's LEA P,--.The tin) of one of the
towers of ltuthien•honse, Scotland, once the seat
of the unfortunate Gowries, is
occlusion : --A daughter of the first Earl of
Leap,- receiving its name on following
called 11)1, aideo's
Cowrie was addressed by n yoting gentleman
of inferior rank in the nsightourhood, a fre.
quent visiter of the family, who never would
give the least countenance to his passion. ilis
lodging was in the tower, separated from' his mis.
tress's ; the lady, before the doors were shut,
conveyed herself into her lover's apartment ; but
some prying duehna acquainted the Countess with
it, who, cutting off, as she thought, all possi-
bility of retreat, hastened to surprise them,—
The young lady's ears were quick; she heard the
footsteps of the old Countess, ran to the top of
the leads, and took the desperate leap of
nine feet four inches over a chasm of sixty feet,
and, luckily, lighting on the' hattleinent of the
si t,)titii srl,i,erdh leer) ottilli)ti.lri
sfrtoeut:stalptilettti;tiries,l
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who towvr, crept into her own bed, w here her
lenp, (gut
did not ehoom, to nctxt
night vloikod and wus married.