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London, England, 1820-03-23 00:00:00

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MAIICH °3, 820.
THE Ft.Nai.

?RICE or TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
- 3 per Cent. C:)nbols a
5 per Cent. Navy 10i•1/2 10378
Exchequer Bills (2,1.) Is. 3s. dis.
Consols for Account GSA 78.
Bank Stock, 3 per Cents. It_ lucid, 3i pm- Cents. 4 per
Cents. India Stock, and 13ank Long Anus. are all shut.

The Revolution in Spain—for it is a Devolution
that has taken place in that kingdom, and of a most,
decided character—should operate to open the eyes
of those Continental Sovereigns who have forfeited
their promise to their Subjects in withholding the'
Representative and Free Governments which they
pledged themselves to establish, on the expulsion of
the li-ench from their territories. Trusting to the
Military force which they found at their disposal
after driving out the enemy, they have been slow to
perform their promise. EERDINAND counted on the
continuance of the same support ! His Army asserted
the Rights of the Nation ! and where then was his
power ? Had he delayed for forty-eight hours longer
to accept the Constitution, he would not even have
had the choice of becoming a Legitimate Monarch!
He called himself such before ; but it was a mis-
nomer. He never had a right to the Throne from the
moment the French were expelled, till the day on
which he accepted the Constitution. He is now King
by law ; but he may yet forfeit his right.
But, as we have said, how ought this Revolution
to operate on the other Continental Sovereigns? They
stand, and they have stood, on the verge of a vol-
cano, ever since they forfeipd their promise to their
People. They have, to be sure, leagued together to
support each other in their evasion: but what is their
alliance wor►h, if the military shall take upon them
to refuse to obey their antisocial mandates? They
hold their authority by a tenure, the value of which
may be estimated by what has happened in Spain ;
and however much they may hide their apprehen-
sions, it is impossible that the event that has taken
place in that kingdom, can have passed without filling
them with fears and apprehensions—fears, too, which
will sooner or later be realized, if they fail to profit
by the lesson that has been given them, or madly
continue to imagine that mankind are to be coerced
into a forgetfulness of their rights, as fellow-subjects
and freemen.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived last night.
The KING went on Sunday afternoon to St. Cloud.
The Committees of the Chamber of Deputies on
the Budget of Expenses, the .Customs, and the
Elections, sat on Saturday ; but no public business
was transacted.

The Journal des Debats says, " The authentic news
from Spain was, on Saturday, in very small quantity ;
or rather, to speak more properly, there was none at
all. They say that a Provisional Administration has
been formed in the following manner :—Pizarro to
be Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Garay of Finance;
Ballasteros Minister at War ; Agar of the Interior ;
Arguelles of Grace and Justice; and Villavicencio to
be Minister of Marine. They speak of the Conde del
Abisbal, or of the Cond6 de Montigo, as Minister Se-
cretary of State. But it is to be feared that some of the
Provincial Juntas will demand that the exercise of the

Royal Audit-sky should be confided to a Regency, no-
minated by the permanent deputation of the Cortes,
until the King can, in a more formal manner, take the
oath of fidelity to the Constitution. All agitation
among the military has ceased in the provinces. There!
is to appear at Madrid a new Journal, called The con- •
stitzdiunal.. They expect a Proclamation to be issued,
addressed to the Colonies, or, as they are now called,
the Provinces beyond Sea, to invite them to join the!
Mother Country : a: well those who hare refused the
Constitution as those who have adhered to it. They
expect also a Proclamation, by which all the Exiles
of all parties shall be reaalled ; but in the meantime,
Mina threatens to arrest the Joseplinos, who are in
considerable numbers at Bayonne, but who have not
.hared to pass the frontier. Cadiz bad not opened its!
cafes on the 4th inst. but the besiegers, informed of
the changes that have taken place, had ceased their
Ci.e. Couriers set off on the 9th, bearing dispatches
to all the Spanish Ambassadors at Foreign Courts.—
ikese dispatches were signed by the old Ministers."

Letters from Madrid, announce the death of Car-
dinal Cyprian-y-VJda, Patriarch of the Indies, and
(rand Almoner to the King of Spain. Ile was born
in 1734, and was created a Cardinal in 1816.
French Five per Cents, Saturday, 74 fr. 75 c.

The Paris Papers of Monday have also arrived
this forenoon.

The last letters, says the Moniteur, received from
Madrid, are of the Oth March. No accounts from
Andalusia had then arrived, and it was not known
what effects the events of the 7th had produced at
Cadiz. On the 9th the KING held a Public Levee at
tiic Palais. The attendance was numerous, and FER-
PrNAND conducted himself with calmness and affa-
bility. In the midst of the effervescence which the
Revolution of the 7th naturally excited, it was im-
possible, we are told, not to remark, how dear the
person of the KING; WAS to the People. So strong
was this feeling, that when the garrison, compre-

hending the regiments of the guards, took the de-I
termination of going to join the Insurgents, if the
KING would not accept the Constitution of 181'2, it'
had resolved to leave two battalions to watch over
his safety.

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