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We have received to-day, by Express, the Etoile of
yesterday, from which ive extract the following itn,
portant intelligence from Spain :

MADRID, FEBRUARY 2.
The King of Spain has signed an Act, by which he
acknowledges to owe to Frances sum of thirty-four mil-
lions, and he a,,signs as a payment for the above debt,
die Salt Mines of Arra..;oli and the Customs of Miranda.

The departure of the Body Guard is adjourned.
The Government has published the following ofliz;al
article in an Extraordinary Gazelle of to-day :
" Lieutenant-Colonel B.irrada, who was dispatched to
Cuba to convey intelligence of the deliverance of the
King, and to re-establish the authotity of his Majesty.
has completely succeeded in his mission. From the bay
of Cadiz, where he performs quarantine, he has sent to
the First Secretary of State the folio Aing communication:

1 arrived at the Havannali the 9th of DecenAer,
and I immediately transmitted my dispatches to the
Captain-General. Ile commenced by dissolving the
Revolutionary A:,sen:hly, and broke the Constitutional
stone. The following day Te Delon was chanted. I
must give great praise to the justice and loyalty of the
Cal:vain-General.'"
To this dispatch is annexed a Pi cclamation of the
Captain-General of the lde of Cuba, Don Francis Viv es.
The Castle of Saint Juan de Ulloa continues to brave
all the efforts of the insurgents; and reliance can be
placed on the zeal of General Vives ; his artillery is
immense.

A Royal Decree announces, that his Majesty has re•
commended to all his Ministers, and particularly to the
War Minister, to observe the strictest economy in their
respective departments.

On the 31st ultimo we published the Proclamation
is.ued by the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and to which allusion has been made in Parlia-
ment, respecting the violation of territory in the islands
of St. Maura and Ithaca, on the part of some armed
Greek vessels. We have now to lay before our Readers
the following interesting particulars of the same event,
supplied by the Malta Government Gazette of the 30th
December, and which do not ceutatnly tend to lessen
,the impression produced by the Proclamation, that a

very flagrant breach of the established rights of nations
was committed on the occasion s
MALTA, DECEMBER 30, 189.5.
The Proclamation of his Excellency the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Islands, which we this day
publish, will announce to our Readers a most outrageous
violation of the neutrality of those States, committed
by the Greeks in the islands of Ithaca and Santa Maura.

The serious effects of such a breach of the Sandi;
Laws are sufficiently exemplified in the Proclamation
itself; and the violation of neutrality cannot fail ulti-
mately to fall with a heavy responsibility upon the Greeks
themselves. These violations, however, of the laws of
nations are trifling, when compared with the cold-
blooded, barbarous acts of atrocity subsequently corn-
mitted by the Greeks, who, in breach of all laws human
or divine, landed in a neutral territory, for the sole and
express purpose of murdering theexhausted remains of an
enemy whom they had already conquered and plundered.
It appears that, on the morning of the 10th instant
a Greek fleet, consisting of seventeen sail, were seen off
Ithaca, firing on a Turkish brig, which they had neatly
surrounded, and which shortly afterwards was driven
on shore to the southward of the island. On the Turkish
brig striking on the rocks, numerous armed boats front
the Greek fleet immediately pushed off, for the purpose
of plundering the vessel, which they soon effected, mur-
dering all the a ounded they found on board; but not
content with this, they afterwards lanied in pursuit of
those unfortutia.e Turks ssho had stuvived the fire of
their ships, and swam on shore for safe.) . aad, however
disgu,,ti-Ig the perusal of such butcheries may be, we
deem it to be a most impottatit part of our duty to pub-
lish, lot general information, the details of scenes widths

had they not been sent to us by. an eye-witness, we
could not, for the credit of Christianity, have believed.
We give them in our Correspondent's own worth:

.‘ I have been minute is the details, but were I ta
dwell upon all the circumstances, I should strike the
reader with horror. The difference of killing an enemy
on one piece of wound or another, mAy be only a poli-
tical queition ; but the manner of doing so is the thing.
That hatred and revenge can be carried to such a
height,' by a people whose great boast and cry for as-
sistance is is it mild religion !—The bodies on shore
were mangled—pounded—cut up ! Under the eye of
the Captain of the Port, a Greek killed a man, then

took out Vs knife, severed his heart, ripped up his body,
cut up his limbs in every direction, and then, putting
his knife into his mouth, walked down to the shore
exultingly. The bodies on the decks of the Turkish ves-
sel seemed tai be trampled—not on, but into—for the
mere pleasure of the thing.
" I am ready to make every allowance for people si-

tuated as the Greeks are, and have been; but it is im-
possible to palliate for a moment such atrocious cruel-
Lies—such barefaced, open defiance of the laws of an
established Government, and of which they cannot plead
ignorance. Even their strongest f: tends here are not
sparing in their opinion upon such an open violation.

•• The Turks, on the other hand, have been much
more honourable with us. During the summer they
have been sailing about our coasts, which are unpro-
tected by any resident Authority, and which, to their
knowledge, had Turkish subjects or refugee Gteeks on
them, yet they never presumed to land."
In concluding the account of this most atrocious act,
we have infinite consolation in knowing that, through
the zeal and attention of the Commandant of the island
of Ithaca, assisted by the Officers of Sanda and of the
Police, and by a militen y guard, neatly fifty of the un-
fortunate Turks were saved, and secured in the Laza--
retto; amongst these, however, seventeen had been pre-
viously wounded.
We understaud that the Turkish vessel destroyed was
a brig of 12 guns, going from Prevesa to Patras, with
a crew of 75 people belonging to Jussuf Pacha, two
Officers of rank were amongst them. The principal of
the latter and the Captain were killed and plundered on
shore. She had on board 25,000 dollars for Jussuf
Pacha. The plundering of the vessel continued until
the middie of the night, when the Greeks towed her into
dell water and sunk her.
\Ve have not yet received the particulars of the land-

I.lg, at Santa Maura, but we understand it was nearly
sitniiAr io its consequences to what we have above stated,

Inteliigence has been received fiom Lima to the 26th
of Septeather, which leaves no do:ibt as to the issue ofll
the campaign. The defeat Of BALDEZ is confirmed
and the army of the Patriots, consisting of the united
forces of Colombia, Chili, Peru, and Buenos Ayres,
amounting to upwards of 20,000 men, was in posses-
' !ion of every hold in the country of importance. The
three small divisitms of the Spanish army—one of 3,000
men under CANTEttAC, another of 1500 men under LA-
S LENA, and the third, of 1200 men, under OLANETA,
were completely cut otr, the one from the other, while
superior forces were marching against each, in the dif-

feient directions of Huancavilica, Pomata, and Oruro.'
No doubt whatever seemed to be felt as to the speedy
termination of the campaign.
The following is a copy of a letter from BOLIVAR,
which was received on Saturday, by the Gentleman to
whom it is addressed, dated Lima, September 11 :

" Sta—At the urgent request of the Congress and Magistrates
of Peru, I have come here. The Sovereign Congress has granted
to me, by the Decree which I have the honour to enclose, the fut..
lest possible power, and I am determined to use it for the salvation
of the country.

•' I have heard with pleasure that you have been empowered by
this Government to negotiate a Loan in London, and with not less

satisfaction I May assure you, that the military operations in Peru,
will be conducted with rapidity, vigour, and system. Financial re.
sources will consequently assume a different aspect, and the country
will be enabled, with punctuality and exactness, to meet its
engagements.

44 The occupation of the mining territory of Guanlanga, will be

of infinite advantage; and this operation will be an& rtaken, on
must solid bases, within thirty days from this time. It will be co, ,
ducted by me in person. The happiness of the whole of Soutt
America being at issue, I feel bound not to leave Peru till it shall
have been completely cleared of the enemy.

" Don Rafael Ravenga, Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia,i;
now in London. If you should be pleased to communicate with
him, as to how he might be of use to you, he will do everything in
his power for this purpose, and such communicstions might possibif
lead to the better success of your mission. But this is only to be
understood as a suggestion, which is by no means to limit the
powers with which you have been invested by this Government, nor
to circumscribe the independence with which you are to procveiL
" I may assure you, without the fear of being deceived, that if
the pecuniary aid we now require be obtained, Peru will lei,
shortly be free, and the security of her creditors complete.,[
with all consideration, Sir, your obedient servant,

(Signed)
" To John Parish Robertson, Esq."
MEXICO.

~ BOLIVAIL

A Committee of the Mexican Constituent Conte,ess,
on the 20th of November, repotted a draft of a Cousti.
tution, in which they propose to est:ll)nd) a National
Governmeot, to embrace the province; and intendenci.s
lately included in the Vice-Royany of New Sok, and
modelled pretty closely after the Constitution of the
United States, with the exception that the Roman C.
thelic religion is to be the religion of the State, alio dl e
exercise of any other religion is prohibited. r,ro.
poses to leave the a,lminisration of internal concerns ts
the provinces, which, to the ndmher of fifteen or 11,t,ir,
shall have Republican Constitutions of their o‘k n, (A,
Ithe same general principles as that of the nation.

We have received to-day a file of Frankrort Papcis
to the 4th instant. The following are extracts:--

FRANKFORT, FEBRUARY 2.

In the Sitting of the Diet on the 15th of January,
one of the questions brought forward was the basis to
be finally adopted for fixing the military contingent of
each State. When this contingent was fixed pro-
visionally for five years, in 1818, the population of the
State was adopted on this basis, and Austria now pro.
posed, that as the subject had been at that time fully
discussed, the principle that the population should be
taken as the sole basis might be still continued.
Prussia and Bavaria assented to this, and the latter
stated its pcpuiation at 3,560,000 persons.: The other
States likewise acceded, only Oldenburg observed, that
if the population afforded a good basis in some res,xects
yet the less powerful States were not equal to the ex:
pense of equipping and maintair;ing the contingents,
and to that of the general expenses of the corps and
divisions. This deserved the more consideration, as the
same proportion was to be adopted for a war establish-
ment, in which it was evident that the small States could
not be placed on the same footing as the larger ores.
—lt therefore proposes to reduce the peace establish-
ment from 300,000 to 9.00,000 or 150,000 men : ;he
Minister of Oldenburg concluded with saying, the fist
years for which Oldenburg adopted the regulation pro.
visionally filed in 1813, are passed, and his Highness
by no means pretends to destroy at once a work which
has but just been completed with so much labour ; but
in voting for this Military Establithment, his Highness
must add a proposal for reducing a burden which the
Duchy cannot support on the scale hitherto adopted.
The President proposed, that as all the votes related
to the NI ilitary Establishment of the Confederation, only
that of Oldenburg added an observation on the amount
of its contingent, the other •otes, and the first part of
the vote of Oldenburg should be referred to the Corn.
mittee engaged on that subject, and the latter part to
the Milit:try Committee. This was adopted by all
the Votes.