Star.
London, England, 1808-07-04 00:00:00

SPAIN.

To the accotuns we have already given, we are this
day enabled to add a number of.particulars respect-
ing the proceedings of the Patriots in different guar-
ten. It is a circumstance not less striking than im-
portant, that the measures taken almost.at the same
instant, at Oviedo, Corunna, Saragoza, Cordova, Se-
ville, Murcia, Granada, and Valencia, though no com- ,
munication could have taken place, and though they
were produced by the arrivalof unexpected and alarm-
ing intelligence, are all cox-Sired in the same spirit,
and all directed to the same end. The honest feelings
of patriotism have every where dictated the same mea-
sures, and given to the sudden exertions of the people
both the-appearance and the effect of a well-concerted
undertaking. This affords a happy omen of the con-
cert and union with which the Spanish nation will act
when their legal representatives shall be called, as, no
doubt, they shortly will be, to some.general assembly
of COrtes. Among the various bodies who have dis-
tinguished themselves on this occasion, the most
active appears the Supreme Junta of Seville. They
have established a Gazette, for the avowed purpose,
not only of carrying intelligence to their countrymen,
but of exposing the, sophistry and refitting the false-
hoods of the papers published at Bayonne and at
Madrid, under the superintendence of the French.
—From an article in this Gazette, it appears that Co-
lonel Ecinvmutt, who is there named, was collecting
troops and arming the peasantry, near Cordova, on the
Sd of June, with an intention of harassing or attack-
ing, as tbe-occasion might require, a body of French
troops, supposed to be at the Carolina, on their march

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to Baylen. Where the Commanding Officers have been
averse or lukewarm in the cause of their country, the
-Juntas", the Army, or the People, have removed them;
'and replaced them by persons of better principles and
more. enterprising characters. Such has been their
conduct at Carthagena, where in lieu of a Commander
who attempted to check their enthusiasm, they have
placed General CRANEROO at the head of that depart-
, ment. Similar occurrences took place at Granada and
other places ; and at Seville and Cadiz, after the un-
fortunate SOLANO had fallen a sacrifice to his own mis-
conduct, the people chose by acclamation their former
Governor, MORLA, a man of great abilities and expe-
rience, celebrated for his talents as an engineer, and
justly esteemed for the vigorous and well judged
measures by which, in spite of the remonstrances of
monks, physicians, and merchants, he checked the
infection of the yellow fever, in 1804, and saved
both Cadiz and perhaps the whole of Spain, from the
ravages of that dreadful disorder. He, as well as
General Casraxos (whose joint forces amount to
26,000 regular troops), act under the orders of the
Suprime Junta of Seville. The publications of that
body, of which some are addressed to the Portuguese,
lothers to the inhabitants of Madrid, others to the na-
!tion at large, are all admirably conceived, and exe-
' cuted with a spirit and judgment that cannot fail to
produce the most beneficial effects. They are signed
by one or two Secretaries, of the names of Esreta.en
and Napo. They contain regulations for the
Juntas of inferior towns and places in their district,
well digested plans for the enrolment and enliatment
of soldiers, and an organization of civil and military
authorities, by which confusion and disunion may Ve
prevented, expence in some measure controuled, and
a regular system of defence established throughout
the country. Nor have they confined their labours
to the immediate exigencies of their own districts. In
a paper styled Precautions, which our Readers will
find in another part of our Paper, they have taken a
larger and more comprehensive view of the situation
of their country. This paper contains such just rea-
soning, such wise and temperate views, and such no-
ble and elevated sentiments, that we confess it has
exalted our opinion of the talents and knowledge of
the Spanish nation, and added not a little to our ex-
pectation of their ultimate success in this great and
glorious struggle for their independence.