The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-05 00:00:00

TIIE MASSACRE AT CADIZ.

BRISTOL, APRIL 3.,—The Sandwich Bay, Capt.
Samna, arrived at this port on Saturday,- bring.
ing dispatches, which were immediately fora,arded
to London. The Captain reports that he was in
Cadiz on the 9th ult. when the Spanish General
and Adthiral proclaimed the Cons, itut inn amid. tire
most enthusiastic applause of the inhabitants.
The people exclaimed Viva la Constilacion I The
garri'on and the fleet the same evening fired.
fau• de joie. On the ensuing day, the Constituted
Authorities and the British and other Consuls,
wereinvited by the General to hear the Procla-
Mation of the Constitution read at twelve o'clock,
,on a platform erected for the purpose, in the cen-
tre of the Grand-square, and an immense mass of
people congregated, in joyful expectatidi of 'ibis
consummation of their liberties. About an hour,
before the time at rived, a large party of Royalist
troops, without any possible assignable cause,
except that of plunder, marched down and in-
stantly commenced a most destructive fire on the
mourned multitude, killing nearly 500 Men and
women ! From-this period •it was instant death
to appears in the streets. Several instances of
robbery 01 British individuals by the soldiers oc-,
entre& Otte Captain of a ship was deprived of
a valuable watch and chain, besides a considerable
sum of money ; and another was glad to escape
with his life, by• the instant surrender of his pro.
perty. The military seemed to base determined
on an indiscriminate slaughter, for no sooner did
an individual appear in the street, however re.
spect able, than lie was instantly shot. The •in.
habitants were fired at in the balconies of their
.windows, and on the 11th upwards of two hun-
dred and fifty more fell victims to the ferocity of
thetsoltiiers. The British Consul had retired with
his„fanrily to St. Mary's, on the other side the
Bay. The 'military were- in possession of the
town when Captain Squire sailed on the 15th,
but the gun-boats were preparing to attack the
city gates ; and on the 16th he heard a continued
firing for five hours in that quarter.

IMPORTANT IN FORMATION.-From calculation
by the College of Physicians, no less than 40,000
die annually in Great Britain of Consumption,
and at least 10,000 in London. The late IVilliam
Turnbull, Esq. a very ingenious Surgeon, aster•-•
rained that . every 20,h person was rnpttired.7--.
These complaints are truly alarming to every
iti-
tlividual who uses the least exertion. It is also
incredible the number that suffer from a certain
Disease, by being improperly' treated. It wr;s
those CiretlMSt atiCCS induced Dr. COOPER to selekt
eminent Physicians aud Surgeons, of at least .30
years' experience,- co form a. Medical Board ; and
since the establishment upwards of 30,000 Pi-
tients have been cured. Without confinement—
many of them after hospitals had failed.
Messrs. Coopea and Co. are consulted at
Wood Poc- street,'Oxford-street ; and at Char-
lotte House, Great Charlotte-street, oppo,ite the
Rev. Rowland Hill's, daily, from eight till eight..
Mechanics have advice gratis etety evening, from.
six till eight ; and on Sunday mornings until 12
o'clock.

*** RUPTURES of 30 years standing radic,illy
cured 'without confinement.

There Hre private, doors at each houseuart'd
private *rooms for Females.
N. B. The Afflicted would do well to read
Messrs. COOPER and Co's LectUres on two pre-
vailing Diseases, published at oue shilling, by Me.
Harvey, 22, Blackfriars-road. They will 'aka
prove Aleful to young Practitioners.

FRENC PAPERS.

SPAIN.

PROCLAMATION OF 'I HK PROVISIONAL JUNTA OF

GOVERNMENT.

ClTlZENS—lmmediately on their installation,
the Provisional Junta has followed, without hesi-
tation, the course which was dictated by the con-
fidence with which the people had clothed it, and
the most signal attachment of all the Members
Who compose it to the Constitutional Charter—a
document in which are consecrated, to be never
violated, the rights of the heroic Spanish nation,
and of the Constitutional Throne which is destin-
ed to raise it to that high degree of glory which
is reserved tor it. As inimical to flattery and in-
terest as exempt from timidity and weakoses, the
Junta has sent forth no opinion in which either
the rights of the throne or those of the people are
'violated; it will follow this svitem so long as it
exists, with that tranquillity whirl' the testimony
of his own cons, icnce gives to a just man.

The Junta has seen with satisfac.ion, wi-bin a
few days, the Constitutional system established
in all the branches of the Administrative and Ju-
diciary system of the capital of the Monarchy ;
it has seen measures taken to establish the same
system throughout all Spain, in execntiou of the
decrees issued by the King, by the advice of the
Junta. This first step having been taken, the
political liberty of the press has been estahlished,
the 'Tribunal of the inquisition has been abolished,
the property restored to the administration of the
public debt, this branch separated from die general
treasury, and the Directors appoity ed by the Cortes
called to the performance of rheir tholes ; the re-
establishment of the Council of State has be-en ef-
fected, and the worthy men who had been driven
from it have been recited ; the Chamber of Ac-
counts has been organized, and nbe Junta It 45 re-
cognized the necessity of choosing for all offices
virtuous men devoted to the Charter. ;Many other
important Works Lase Item undertaken, and in
short the difficulties which opposed a sudden and
(pier esttiblisliment of the Constitutional system
have been as much softened as human prudence
could pet mit ; but what has exclusively demanded
the attention of the Junta, is the laborious and
dangerous labour of prepiteing the convocatiou of
the Corlett, which must form the aegis of liberty,
and impose an eternal silence on passions and con-
trariety of opinions.
Bur, Citizens, how many difficult anti thorny
questions have presented themselves to the Junta
on examining this important matter, which 'would
have been simple if the constitutional system bad
experienced no alterations, but which becomes so
complicated when it ;s necessary to create even the
bases of it. The Junta has been obliged to
treat these grave questions without having time to
consult the learned men and the writers who could
have thrown light upon them. Supported by its
slender information, it has given to the King
those Councils which its love to the Charter
and its own conscience dictated, in order that
at least the spirit of this precious code might be
followed, if it was impossible to adhere to the let-
ter of it in some points. These labours, which
can only be considered as tire fruit of the purest
attachment to the Constitution, of the most sin•
cere desire of socceeding, and of tire inspirations
of a clear Constitution, unbiassed by personal
views, 4111.ve been presented to the Ministry for his
Majesty's examination, end the Junta has the saris-
fact ion to announce, that it has just officially learn-
ed the approbation of his Majesty. It cousegnently
is already occupied in drawing tip the regulation
for the convocation of the Cartes, which, in
circulating throughout the nation, will diffuse
the balm of confidence, and sbew the path of
glory and prosperity in which it must here-
after walk. It is then, well-beloved Citizens, that
the Junta will, with the openness and good faith
which characterise those who compose it, mani-
fest to the nation the foundation on which it tests
its opinion, and the painful alternative in which
it found itself as to the choice of the means which
presented the fewest inconveniencies.
Mean time, full of confidence in your love for
order, in your adherence to the Charter, and in
those singular virtues which distinguish you from
all nations, the Junta holds itself obliged on this
great day, the Anniversary of the Constitution,
end that on which that precious code, the deposi-
tory of the general will, is to be published, to
warn you that the impatience which is excited by
great events, when it does not depart from tine
bounds of reason and prudence, is the hest indi-
cation of the constancy of general resolutions
and the firmness of principles; but when carried
to excess and agitated by untenectiug minds, im-
patieme becomes a powerful weapon in the hand
of malevolent emitting, to disunite opinion, to ex-
cite fears and jealousy, which in all political
changes are the origin of calamities, because they
keep the public in a continual state of agitation,
which weary out good men, and drive them to
abandon the helm of the State, to the irreparable
misfortunes of their country.
The establishment of a new system on the ruins
of one that has fallen, is the greatest, the most
difficult, and laborious operation which is known
to man. It exhausts all the resources of human
understanding and prudence ; it exercises and
elevates the social virtues. The history of ell re-
volutions and the example of France should ren-
der you prudent wad moderate your impatience;
they will strew you that every revolution which im-
patience would terminate in a day, has caused tears
to flow for ages ; and that, on the contrary, the
quiet and constant movement of new institu-
tions-consolidates instead of destroying. We
may compare the one to the results of the stormy
inundation of a torrent, which sweeps eves y thing
away, and the other to the majestic and beneficent
ea:tiling of the Nile, which fertilises every tiring
and destroys nothing.
Citizens ! Let us follow our sublime impulse
with the order and tranquillity hitherto observed,
to render us the objects of the admiration and re-
ajtect of Europe, and to strew how well we de-
serve our liberty.

(Signed)

LOUIS DE BOURBON.
Cardinal de la SCALA,
Archbishop of Toledo, President,
(And the other I‘l4auliers of the Junta).
Madrid, }!arch 19, Itlio.

• LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM THE NIORNING PAPERS OF VHS DAY.
[The 'limes.]
MASSACRE AT CA6IZ.

No additional letters arrived yesterday (tom
Spain direct, nor was any intelligence obtained
through the French mail, later in date than our
letters of Monday from the scene of action. Those
we subjoin were also received in town on that
day, and derive their chief importance from their
attempts to throw light on the origin of this atro-
cious deed, though they are very far from setting
the question at rest. Indeed, with respect to the
guilt of General Freyre, the passages we are about
to quote are in direct variance with each other—
the letter Irons Madrid learhog to the .inference,
that the whole was an act of deliberate treachery;
while that from Cadiz represents the excesses of
the soldiery to have taken place without his con-
nivance, and to have assumed a violence beyond
his primer to restrAu. We proceed, however, to
our extracts, and must leave the character of Ge-
neral Freyre, for the present, to the judgment of
out readers.

'NI:10111D, MARCH 20.-1 have related to you
the scene which occurred at Cadiz on the 10,h.
At the. conclusion of that dreadful affair, the
troops repaired to the barracks called La Bomba,
and front that time till the 14th the inhabitants.
remained closely confined to their houses. On
the morning of that day the Commander of the
Royal troops issued an official notice for the pub-
lication of the Coostiution, but from their pre-
vious experience tic inhabitants would not ven-
ture to trust him, but kept within their dwellings
secure. Meantime, uotwithStandiog this want of
communication with each other, the opinion was
current throughout Cadiz that sows dreadful re-
taliation was niedtta'ed on their hart. A dispatch
bout General Freyre to G,neeal O'Donnell has
been received, dated on the 10th, from Cadiz,
concluding with tin se words :—' The inhabitants
of this town compelled me yesterday to promise
them the Constitution on this day, but 1 ant happy
to inform you that I have gloriously disappointed
their wishes, with the assistance of my brave
troops, who continue faithful to the august per-
son of the King.'

The annexed letter from Cadiz contains clic
only circumstance we have hitherto collected
tending to exculpate General Freyre from the
guilt of massacre
" CADIZ, MARCH 14.—The carnage and plun-
der on the 10th commenced in the morning, to the
cry of Live the King!' and continued till eleven
o'clock on tie following day. General Freyre,
in person, used every endeavour to restrain their
violence, but without effect ; the troops lost all
subordination, and at three o'clock he was com-
pelled to quit the city. This cruel excess has
emanated from the Commanders of the garrison,
in revenge for Freyte not having officially commu-
nicated to them his intention of taking the oath
to the Constitution in public. History furnishes
no instance of an outrage of so violent a nature,
as the people certainly had not ventured to mani-
fest any external symptoms of joy until they were
authorised to do so by their governors. Before
to-clay none of the doors of the houses have been
opened, and scarcely a person &as beerfseen its the
streets. All are clamorous for vengeance. Such
is the hatred to the soldiery, that every one who
ventures out alone dies, and snore than 30 have
already shared that fate. In general, the soldiers
have not ventured to break into any private
houses, because they are, for the most part, very
strongly barricaded, and they feared being tired
upon from within. A few of the shops, particu-
larly those for the sale of provisions or fruit, and
which were secured in a slighter manner than the
private houses, have been forced, and in them
many of the soldiers passed their time, enjoying
the fruits of their ptunder. After all, it is but too
well understood that the soldiers are less guilty
of this atrocity in the comparison than the offi-
cers, it being asserted that they have mutually,
and in a brotherlike manner, beets sharers in the
spoil and pillage. Tbe Civil Authorities here
continue the same as before. if these vile !loops
had 'an inclination for fighting, %%by did they at-
tack an unarmed and unoffending people, at a
time when the soldiers of Quiroga were stationed
so near to them, and they might have covered
themselves with glory ?"

WARWICK, TUESDAY MORNING.

EXTRACT OF A LETTRR2-111 consequence of
Mr. Justice Best's indisposition, the whole of
yesterday was employed in the trial before Mr.
Clarke of Crown cases possessing no general in-
terest. The defendants in Cartwright's case ap-
plied yesterday to the Judge, expressing their re-
gret at the cause of his absence, but requesting,
as they were living at a great expence, to be in-
formed when this case would probably be beard.
In answer to this Mr. Justice Best's son waited
upon them, and stated that it was at that moment
impossible to mention any time precisely, but that
his tatter was equally desk ous that no delay
should take place. He added, we understand,
that the physicians had advised his father not to
go into Court this day.
Mr. Clarke sits in the Crown Court, and Mr.
Sergeant Vaughan at Nisi Prins, this day—at least
as I ant at this moment apprized.
Dr. Parr is here, anxious to be present at the
trial ; he is a personal friend of Cartwright, hut
has no participation in his politics. The Doctor
is at present very infirm, from a severe cold in his
h ands.

Mr. Denman, I understand, cannot prevail on
the defendants to adopt any prescribed or regular
course of defence, and I think there is,reasou to
expect a good deal of variety.—(lbid.)

[New Times.]

(Extract of a Private Letter flons Manchester, dated April 3.]

" Considerable agitation has been excited here
within these few days by the military movements
which have taken place. On Saturday afternoon
two field-pieces were taken from the barracks in
Huhne ; they were tscotted' by a proportionate
quantity of artillerymen. A cannon with the-
vaux-de-frise is now placed at each entrance to
the New Bailey Barracks, and the epanlements
which IN ere erected at the time of the exPccre4

TIM SUN.

SOLEM gills DI CERF. PA I,SITN! A u iiKAT ?

LONDON,
WEDNE,SIMY, APRIL 5, 1320.

We received this morning the Pat is Papers of
Sunday last, on which day the Offices of the
Journals were shut, and none were to be publish-
ed on Monday. Neither of the Chambers met
on Saturday. There is no further news in these
Papers from any part of Spain. The following
are Extracts

" PARIS, APRIL 2.—Yesterday the King trans-
acted business successively wills the Duke de
Richelieu, the Baron Pasquier, and the Count
Simeon. His Majesty also transacted business
with the Cardinal. Grand Almoner. The King
likewise received the Spanish Ambassador.
" Some disturbances occasioned by the soldiers
have taken place at the Synagogue of S. i asburg.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Saturday

... 73f. 70c.

DEFERRED STOCK.

Of the 22d March, 1820, BB f. —c.

" DARMSTADT (HESSE DARMSTADT), MAR. 24.
—Our Grand Duke has just given u a Constitn-

Lion.

" VIENNA, MARCH 22.—The preparations for
the journey of the Emperor and Empress of Aus-
tria have recently been countermanded until fur-
ther orders.

INSPaUCK, MARCH 22.-Iccording to the
last accounts from Italy, the Queen of England
was again residing at Pesaro, 'but her Majes:y
would not stay long there.
" A very beautiful Statue of a Priestess has
been recently discovered amongst the ruins of
Pompeii.
" Lord Spencer, during his stay at Naples, has
purchased the superb library of the Duke tie Cas-
sano, which is embarked on board an English
vessel to be conveyed to England."

The Massacre at Cadiz, however it may have
miginated, is an event deeply to be deplored ; but
we learn that letters bare been received in the
City this day, which import that the 9CCOUnt3
that have hi►hei to been received have greatly
exaggerated the real state of affairs. The Morn
in; Chronicle, however, followin4 the base ex-
ample of the Old Times, news dispoted not to Liy

the blame upon a loose intoxicated soldiery,
but upon the officers, though itiis yet impossibl'
to arrive at a true statement of the real cause of
the melancholy transactions in question. The
Chronicle, referring to the intoxication of the sot-
Biers, says, " this we own, is very suspicious."--'
Vat would it not deem suspicious that tended to
the honour of all loyal men ? and then being very
adroit in irisidious questions, it adds, " How came
the whole of these soldiers to be in that state ? who
furnished them with the means of intoxication ?
Could such a general intoxication take-place with'
out the' knowledge of their Officers ?" It them
proceeds to admit—prodigious candour—that" the
Officers, it is said, in sonp: accounts, do not appear
to have taken any part in the fray ;" but then it
malignantly adds, " This may or may not be die
case ; (wonderful sagacity) but if Cr mach vir-
tue in an if) the Officers supplied the men with'
money, and inflamed their passions when in *
state of inebriety, their criminality is not the less
because they took no active part in the out-
rages." Is not this observation nearly tanta•
mount to a direct charge against the Oficers►
atter having admitted that their exculpation may
be well founded ? It is difficult to say which is
most entitled to the indignation of the people at
large, the Morning Chronicle or the Old Times, but
they both seem to be actuated by an inverted am-
bition, end to have entered into a competition fur
the cuutempt of mankind.

There will to-morrow be two Celebrations of is
very different description. In the City of London
a numerous body of the most respectable cha•
ratters will assemble to celebrate the restoration
of Sir WILLIAM CURTIS to that station in the
Legislature of the Country, which the spirited,
independent, and patriotic Baronet fulfilled to his
oven honour, to the honour of the City, and to
the advantage of his Country. We heartily
wish that the triumph of the worthy Baronet
had been rendered more complete by his eleA
ration to the bead of thL: Poll. But as it is,
we rejoice that so many honest men gave a
successful support to a Gentleman who, in every
relation of life, is entitled to the esteem of his
friends and the confidence of his fell() cv-citizens.
On the other hand, there is in Westminster to be
celebrated the triumph of Radicalism over Loyaltrs
Decency, and Common Sense. The Public, on this
occasion, will have to witness the insulting pa"
rade of the Chairing of two Members, one of whorrs
has been lately released from a gaol, and the other
who is likely soon to be his successor in the same
situation, unless, to prevent repeated riotiogs and
confusion in the Metropolis, he is placed in a
more distant retirement, in order to give him 39
opportunity of reflecting, on his political errors,
and to commence in himself, what he so much
wants, a Radical Reform.

DOTER, Aram 4.—His Excellency the PBS'
SIAN AMBASSADOR and suite' arrived here about
half past seven o'clock on Sunday evening, and
proceeded to Wright's Hotel. Owing to the un.*
favourable state of the wind, his Excellency► did
not depart till this afternoon about two o'clock,
when he embarked on board the Pioneer schooner,
which had been in readiness awaiting his arrival,
under a salute from the battery : his Excellency
was attended by a guard of honour, and severtd
hundred persons were on the Pier-heads to wit'
uess his embarkation. On arriving in the Roads
the Pioneer fired a salute of fifteen guns, which
had a very pleasing effect.—His Excellency the
NEAPOLITAN AMBASSADOR arrived here from Calm
late last evening, and proceeded to the Metro.
polis about half past one this afternoon, tinder 11
similar salute from the Heights.

MEMBERS. RETURNED.
Wigtonshire—Jacues Hunter Blair, Esq.
Elgin District of Burghs—A. Farquharson, En.
Glasgow District—Archibald Campbell, Esq. '
Fortrose District—George Cumming, Esq.
Ayr District—T. F. Kennedy. Esq.
Argyleshire—Lord John Campbell.

CORN-EXCHANGE, APRIL 5.—A considerable quantity of
all kinds of Grain remaitted over from Monday's Market,
addition to which we had a fresh supply of Wheat and 13 r
ley from :introit; and Norfolk, both of which articles well
exceedin4ly heavy sale, and only a few picked samples (
each c6uld be got off on Monday's terms ; all other sort;
may be considered Is. per quarter cheaper ; the arrival °f
I
Oats is very large, and to effect sales, an abatement of
per quarter was submitted to ; in Beans and Pease there is
no alteration.

Yesterday her Royal Highness the Duchess E,
CLARENCE took au ailing in her carriage in tbg

Regent's Park. of
Yestrrilay tier Royal Highness the Duchess
al?
GLOUCESTER visited the Princess SOPHIA, ti
their Royal flighnes,es took a carriage airing /

the Pirk, attended by Lndy CAMPBELL.
, 06
is koivices trom India, received yesterday, tirt
Ate intOlinC(l (IP uNa now GtricowSll "'rt
on ills' B,h of October, in the fifty-firth Ye°r, Li
his nge, and 2Oth of his ieign. He is sticeecui:v
the IViiistatt) by Si JER How, his brother' 11'
(1-3 prweolui, of the•bri