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NEW YORK, JULY U. •

Hi; Excelier cv 61. tie K.lntzow, the Swedish Mi-
nister, his arrived in this city on his way to the

SAVANNAH. JULY VI.
ins% "F THE BRIG WARRIOR.

The brig WAlfi' r, Captain Dickinson, of and from
New Ymk, bound to Havannah, struck on the Grand
B,i'-ama Bank. near the Little Isaac Keys, on SOth
June last, ',ft wean eleven and twelve o'clock at night.
while going at Ote rate of nine knots, and was totally
kit. The Captain and the crew, after remaining on
the wreck two dar, were t +ken off by the American
ship North Star of Bath ( M.) bound to Havannah
a part of the crew, eleven in number, left the North
Star on the 2d instant, having been furnished by the
Captain of the ship with a lung boat and provisions,
'oath the consent of Captain Dickinson. Two days
after leaving the North Star they fell in with the ship
Charlotte from Boston, bound to Havannah, on baard
t.t which they remained ten days. They then left the
Charlotte, after receiving every assistance that could
I.e rendered them, and mad their way for the United
States. Oa Tuesday last they were landed on St.
Catherine's Island, and arrived in this city last night.
C 'pram Dickinson and the rest of the crew of the
Warrior proceed to the Havannah in the North Star.

WORCESTER, JULY sa.
FROM Niknana.—Tuesday the Lady of the Lake
arrived off Fort NiAgar., from Sackett's Harbour;
?fi jor lir.tun, who came in her, brought orders to the
Commanding Officer on. this station for the troops
which had left. and which were leaving this place for
at. a 'rut uestioations, to return and continue here until
furft,er orders. In consequence of which the 10th
and 12th regiments, which had embarked, were land-
ed. The sth Ilvd proceeded too fir to be counter-
.d. T' e 4th had sailed for S Ickett's Harbour
brfnre the orders were received. The 16th had been
ordered into Ni tgara. The cause of this movement

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i• not certaintyknown. It is however probably oc.
c tsionetl by the expectitinn of a war with the Wes-
tern hi...lions, who have latety manifested a disposi.
Con to ri new bn,tilities. The Brithh, we understand,
delay surrendering Mackinaw, and the Indians are
col,-. 111 g 4 taroe force in that vicinity, and threaten
to tike ossessi .a of that post, as soon as theßritish
le ve

Ti.e new 2.1 and .51h reeiments are expected here
in ai. w ,ia)s on) Sackett'. Harbour. The destina-
tion of tliese t,, (p. ii,s been altered, in consequence
of threatenino alii..ir...ncts to the westward.
M .jor.General Braun, we understand, is expected
here soon.

RI: /W M' of Mt PARSZCUTION of the SPAWN!
P4l

Though the designs of Ft:id:rand VII. were well
known moment of his arrival in Spain, and
thane+ every intelligent person believed that the
Cortes would be dissolved, and that the national re-
pre.entatires would not be again assembled, yet no
one could persuade himself that the Deputies to the
Cortes, and the majority of the patriots who had so
'ltaly distinguished themselves in the war of the
Pen nsula, by their heroic services, and by their de-
votion to the independence of their country, would
have been the victims of an or grateful persecution.
In order to be able to form a correct idea of the
injustice with which these unfottunate individuals
hay.• been treated, it is unnecessary to do more than
to trace a sight comparative sketch of the patriotic
conduct of the persecuted, and of that of the Judges
appointed by- the King to try them.
The Deputies imprisoned at Madrid in consequence
of the events which began on the 10th of May, 1814,
were the following
Senors Senors
ArgueSeg, T)eputy fur Asturias, Ruiz Padmn, for the Canaries,
lola-tines to u Rnea,lor Grenada, Ramos Arispr, for Waco,
Cain rava, ier F.treniadura, C. pert., for Cadiz,
Zorratitsin, for Madriel, hitinna.l'orrero,ror Est renaadors
Garcia Herrera., lur soda, Oliv cr.'s, for ditto,
Viliallittita. for Valencia, Caps, inr Cadiz,
7. Guitauscoa, La. 'lmam!, for analgesia,
Can ga Argio:gote, tor AMAMI., Duetiae kir Granada,
Fan for Peru, thral.l.4 for La Mane.ha,
fe,r Von Crig, eastaneda, for Jaen,
Se:ma. e. 1.1. for VA.-meg. Tend! is, tor Biscay,
, I
Goner'. ade't r rail, tor Mexico, knew., for. Peru,
, Ganrt,a, for Zamora, Garcia Page, for Cuenca,
'Touts Mae bf, for Valencia, Traver, for Valencia,
Golfiti, fur Jr et tamed tes a, it we Yukon, for the Canaries.
All these individuals, well known in Spain, and,
many of them in foreign countries, for their attach.
:mot to the cause of the independence of their coun-
try, were, and continue prisoners, like so many male-
facto, s, althi,ugh tin re are among them ecclesiastics
• of great dis..ity and no common merit, respectable
itn.igistratt s, military men covered with wounds, and,
ice fitle, men of honour, whose only crime was that of
baring always preferred the welfare of their country
to their own interests; of having discharged the func-
tions of legislators in virtue of the toil powers which
they had sectived from their respective provinces,
and of haviog sanctioned a constitution conformable
to the general will of the,Spanish people, and posi-
tively recognised by borne of the anted powers, while
it was tacitly acknowledged by others.
It is impossible to recollect without grief, the atro-
cious manner in which the distinguished deputy ;and
patriot Aetillon was treated. The persons charged
by tie government to take him into custody, though
they found him in bed, afflicted with a very dange.
row disorder, tare him from it, in order to convey
him in a cart hum the village of his residence to the
city of Saragossa, thns totally regardless of the laws
of humanity, and de.if to the reflections which could
not tail to be excited by the deplorable situation of
she sick man, vitikettied in the cart in which he was
convey cd before hiving at the place of his des-
Besides the abbfernentinned deputies, many other
indi e•doals of eharacter were also Imprisoned: among
thew Ore Admiral Valdes, who WAS governor of Cp-
diz during the siege, dad one of the most decided
patriots, Who parented five ships of the line from
failing into tie ids e f the "tench, and who was
covered +rtll two ds vaile fighting against them in
the celebtated hat' of Espinosa; Lieutenant-General
Copse, the defend p 1 Tarifa, and General in Chief
!['the' fitrat arbyi. of trio?. is f yillacampa, Cover.
itiof 'Madrid, sind Cireireral 14 the Division which
bore his pa pt woo ctaulticied the war so successf wry
fgainst the thurper is the South of Arragon ; 1111 U

the Ex-Minister at War, Osposojo ; the Camp-Mar-
shal Porlier, so well known for his exploits, when un-
der the name of the Hammitt, he commanded his
division in the Asturias; and the Camp-Marshal
Aguirre, one of the intrepid defenders of Saragossa,
who has died in prison.
Among them are also various other officers of me-
rit, such as Brigadier Don Juan Moscoso, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonels the Conde de Torre-Nueva, Don
Jacobo Escario. Don Luis Landabura, and Don
Joachim Esc ;aio of the General Staff, Brigadier
Mnreda, fitc.
Lieutenant-Geoeral Lacy has been banished, who
was General-in-Chief of the Army of Reserve of
Gallicia. and who distinguished himself so much in
the war of the Peninsula.
In,fact it may be observed, that almost all the
Chies who conducted the war with success have been
disgraced, imprisoned, or banished.
The following also have been imprisoned :—Senors
Agar and Ciscar, celebrated mathematicians, and
members of the tegency ; Alvarez Guerra, Minister
of the Interior; Cano Manuel, Es-Minister of Grace
and Justice ; Quintana, secretary of the king and in-
terpreter of languages ; the Conde de Noblejas, mar-
shal of Castile. and his brother Don Ramon de
Chaves; Domenech, political chief of Madrid; Ace-
vedo, the same for the Asturias, Btc. ke.
Every Journalist who supported the character of
the Government during the Revolution. is either a
fugitive, or groans in dungeons, or has been cant
destined to banishment, or to the fortresses. This,
however, can be no ground of wonder, when it is known
that the number of persons in prison, in Spain, for their
political opinions, is supposed to exceed 51,000.
Leaving nut of view the question of legal autho-
rity in the King, to bring to trial the Deputies of the
nation, who acted in virtue of the unlimited powers
which they had received from the provinces they re-
presented at the very time when the nation had been
left to its fate by the King, it is necessary to point
out still further the contravention of those ancient
laws of Spain which regulate the forms of trial ; and
we shall likewise give some biographical notices
of the Judges who compose the Special Commission
named by the King for the sole purpse of deciding
these causes, because the Tribunal of the Alcaldes of
the Court, to which the commission was first given,
twice refused to take cognizance of them.
In the first place one of thew Judges, Senor La-
sanca, was at the same time judge, witness, and ac-
cuser. The principal charges brought against the
Deputies were, the baring approved of the two Dr.
creel of the let of January, 1811. and of the It of
February, Ibl4, upon the conduct which the army
and the authorities should observe in case the King
should present himself on the frontiers of the king-
dom, either surrounded with the troops of Bonaparte,
or tinder his influence. These two decrees, known in
almost all Europe, and particularly by the Allied
Powers, were highly applauded for the patriotic sen-
timents with which they abound ; particularly the
latter decree, which was justly celebrated in England,
because it annulled the peace concluded at Valency
between King Ferdinand and Bonaparte
Beside these charges of accusation, was that of not
having approved in the Cortes a motion made by
Father Ostolaza, wtio is at present one of the princi-
pal of the' King's Councillors.
Almost all the other charges, as being ridiculous,
may be passed over in silence ; but it is not possible
to do the same with regard to the acts of illegality
committed in the conduct of the trials. The chief el
these illegal acts were, that almost all the sentences
were passed, when the proceises were still in a state
of siiimario—that is, before the accused could defend
themselves; before they had brought forward wit-
nesses for their exculpation ; which is the same as if
its England the accused were condemned oison no
other evidence than that of the Coroner's Inquest ;
for that which in Spain is called the **marl, of a
process, ,is nothing else but the first information. -
Those processes, in which a more regular course has
been pursued, abound with a thousand other invali-
datory circumstances. Among these one of the most
shocking is. :hat of the persons accused having been
prevented from defending themselves in person be-
fore the tribunal,. which the laws of Spain authorise
them to do.

It would, however, require volumes to detail all the
Acts of injustice committed in Spain since the return
of the King, whose ungrateful conduct towards his
best defenders and servants, is well known through-
out all Europe. What has been said on this heal is
quite sufficient, and let us now advert to the politi-
cal conduct during the invasion of the Peninsula,
pursued by the judges appointed by the King. The
President, Lieutenant-General 1)on Joseph Arteaga,
was in Ceuta during almost all that period, and there.
fore never saw a single enemy, which is certainly no
high compliment to his valour and patriotism. He
however might pass for a good patriot by the-side of'
his colleagues in the Commission, which is composed
of four other individuals besides himself. The,first
of these is the Conde del Pinar, who at the begin.
ning of the insurrection in 1808, was sent into the
Asturias, in order to preach obedience and submis-
sion te she intrusive mammoth He fulfilled his coot,
mission with so much zeal, that be was within an
inch of being cut in pieces through a popular coin.
motion in the town of Oviedo, which was allayed,
among others, by Don Alvaro Flores de Estrada,
who was at that time Procurator-General of the prin-
cipality of the Asturias, but whose great services,
arid his having been the first authority that in. Stain
dechired war against Bonaparte, have been insuffi-
cient to protect him from the present persecution, and
he is now a refugee in England.
The second person in the Commission, Senor Ga.
liano, was one of the Judges or the Criminal Junta,
established at Madrid the Frani :imminent. It
appears that it has always been his fate to persecute
the patriots. In 1809, he persecuted, in the name of
Joseph Napoleon, the defenders of the independence
of his country, as in 11114. under Ferdinand VII.
he
.condethned as criminals the patriots who had
fought and bled in the same cause.
The third, Senor .Lasanca, who, as mentioned
above, appears under the triple character of miniver,
witness, and judge, signed an humble and iespeatio
exposition which the Council of Castile addressed kb
Bonaparte, in which they begged an individual of
his family, for King of Span!. '
The fourth is Scour Mosquer4f Auditor oittle•All-
dictr4i4 of the caraccss, who, when. news arrived in
'bat cooatrf 9f the lOdicatien of Charles 11e. aid