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London, England, 1820-03-07 00:00:00

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We subjoin a letter-received yesterday ftotts Spain,

on the subject of the insurrection at Cadiz. It comes
direct from Madrid, and our Readers are aware that,
in whatever state a piece of military history may

leave the hands of the writer, the slightest filtering
through a Spanish Post•ofice will cleanse it from all
nauseous and offensive particles of disagreeable truth.
tVe:snd, accordingly, that the corps of RtEco, after
harassing Algesiras and its vicinity by the most
cruel exactions, was unable to return to the Isla, be-
cause O'Dortsm.c had interposed to prevent it ; but
it does not appear that the interference of that
Poyalist Chieftain was at all of a forcible nature, in-
asmuch as no engagement ensued, although the re-

bels (" reduced to no more than a thousand men")
remained between Barrios and Tarifa, in an exhausted

condition. It must be allowed, that the retiring from
Algesiras appears to be a ♦irtual abandonment, for
a time, of the plan described to be in contemplation,
of marching in succession to the different towns on
the coast, and prochiming the Constitution. This
change of purpose, whether rendered necessary or
not, is the more to be regretted by the friends of
their cause, as they were nearly certain of success.
Leiters from Malaga of the 16th ult. express strong
expectations of the speedy arrival of the Constitu-
tionalists at that place, and add, that the town was
neither in an efficient state of defence, nor the inha-
bitants Indisposed to receive them. Had Rrzuo's
detachment marched on direct from Algesiras to
Malaga, it would have arrived at the date of these
Letters.

The Letters from Bilboa are wholly silent on the

subject of the Insurrection in Asturias ; but to those
who know the temper of the Province, the event is
considered by no means improbable.

44 MADRID, FEBRUARY 111.
" We hear from Algesiras, that Riego's troops
having arrived at that place on the 31st of January,
their Commander exacted rations in greater number
than was requisite : that he ordered, on the following
day, a new Municipal Council to be appointed ; and
that, finding only six individuals prepared for the
election, he threatened the principal inhabitants with
the most severe chastisement, if they did not realize
the choice; that he ordered the whole neighbourhood
to surrender their horses, which he distributed among
his troops that he commanded the persons who had
Composed the different Councils since 1814 to the
resent day, to prepare an account of the produce
of the different branches of Revenue which they had
received ; and that he finally imposed a heavy con-
tribution on the most wealthy inhabitants. After
committing all these acts of violence, which filled the
town with terror and dismay, Riego left Algesiras,
giving liberty to the prisoners who were confined in
the jail of the place. The Insurgents then proceeded
to Vejer, with the object of penetrating thence into
the Isla, as they had at first intended; but not being
able to realize this plan, they thought of penetrating
into the Sierra, by Alcala de las Gazules; but the
division of General O'Donnell having interposed,
they halted among some cottages, between Tarifa
and Barrios, where they remain at present in an ex-
hausted condition.

" The Insurgents of this party are so much re-
duced, that they amount to no more than a thousand
In the Isla they are daily losing by desertion; they
are therefore obliged to order all the inhabitants to
take up arms.

" Colonel Don Nicolas Santiago, who succeeded
in effecting his escapo from Cadiz, after having at-
tempted to excite a revolt in that city, is now in
command of Torregorda.
" General Freyre having commanded a recon-
noissance on the bridge of Suazn, the Provincial
Grenadiers manifested such courage and intrepidity
as to excite the admiration of the whcle army, and
to create a fcar in the Isla that a general attack had

begun.
In the Isla there has been formed a junta of go-
vcrnment, under the presidency of the Marquis de
Urcna, a rich proprietor of that place ; and a Journal
li.is been established, under'the name of the National
(Catete. On Saturday last, General Elio left this
capital. Ik proceeds to Valencia ; and it is said
that his departure was hastened by the report which

!satin circulat►on, that the partisan chief, Fray. Asen-
sio Nibot, had Left Gibraltar for that province.
gg It is likewise said that Mitia is now at Bayonne."
Since writing the preceding we have received,
through the medium tof The Monitors of Friday last;
the following circumstantial details, on the authen-
tt

[city of which, that Paper says? the Public may place
the fullest reliance :
PRIVATE .LETTER.
6, CADIZ, FEBRUARY is.

" Since the 10th of this month a report has been
current here, that Lieutenant-Colonel Riego had left
Algesiras, after being joined by a party of the troops
under General O'Donnell ; that he had marched on
Chiclana and beaten General Cruz ; and that even
General Freyre was in full retreat on Xeres. To make

sure of the truth I went on th* 11th to Port St. Marie.
The same reports were in circulation there. On the
leth I went to Port Real ; not obtaining there any
information, I repaired, on the same day, to Chic-
lana, where I satisfied myself that all the accounts
circulated at Cadiz were false.

" The Ist division of the Royal Army, under the
orders of General Cruz, is still at Chiclana, and has
not fired'a shot; the second division, which was at
Port Real, is encamped about one league from that
city, on the left of Conduit-a-Chilana, in front of the
Arsenal of Caracca ; General Freyre, who repairs
every day from Port Saint Marie to the Camp, has
re-established, in order to cover it, a battery con-
structed during the last war.
44 Lieutenant-Colonel Riego (the Insurgent) ex-
acted from the inhabitants of Algeciras the sum of

10,000 piastres fortes, befdre quitting that City. On
the 10th and llth he retired upon Veger. General
Cruz had dispatched a strong detachment against
him, but Riego left Veger in the night, It is sup.
posed that he marched towards Medina with the
view of regaining the Isle de Leon. General Freyre,
informed of this movement, gave orders to General
Cruz to send his first brigade, commanded by Ge-
neral Fleires, to take position in the wood between
Chic:am and Port Real on the right of the second
division. This order was executed in the night of
the 12th and 13th. I saw myself, on the 13th, the
positions.of the Royal troops.
" Since Riego left Veger, his route is not posi-
tively known. It is presumed that he is gone to-
wards the mountains of Alcala, or perhaps Ronda.

" There are at this moment in Cadiz 150 trans-
ports, five vessels of the line, several frigates and
armed brigs, who were destined for the expedition
beyond seas.'

To these details, The Moniteur adds the following,
received from Madrid, under date of February 23:
" According to the letters received from General
O'Donnell, dated from Malaga, on the 20th, at tea
o'clock in the morning, it appears, that having gone
in pursuit of the Insurgents commanded by Riego,
after they had left Veger, he had had three engage-
ments with them ; the first, in the environs of Este-
pona, on the 17th ; the second, near Marbella, on
the 18th ; and the third at Malaga, on the 19th.
The troops of General O'Donnell had given proofs
of bravery and fidelity; the Insurgents had suffered
severely, and their numbers greatly diminished,
on entering Malaga on the 19th were still more
so, at the time of their precipitate departure from
that place, on the same evening. After allowing
some moments of repose to his troops, General
O'Donnell renewed• the pursuit of the feeble remains
of Riego's corps, which had taken flight towards
the mountains of Ronda.
" The letters from Cadiz, received at Madrid,
come down to the 19th; but they add nothing new.
The armed chaleupes continued to cannonade the
works which the Insurgents are endeavouring to con-
struct for the defence of the Isle de Leon."

of the Central Commlssien, presented a Report on
the Project of Law on Individual Liberty, which was
presented by the Ministers to the Chamber on the
15th of February last:
The Report proposed several most ;important mo-
difications of the Project; in particular, that' erfthin
fifteen days after the arrest of any individual, the
Procurator-General of the Royal Court of Appeal
shall be bound to take a precognition of the charges
against the accused, and to transmit a report thereof
to the Minister of Justice, to be communicated to the
Council of Ministers, who shall be obliged on their
part, before the lapse of three months, either to send
the individual before the Tribunals for trial, or to
give an .
,order for his liberation. The Chamber or.
dered the Report to be printed.

Five per Cents, Friday, 74 fr. 40 c.

Following up the proceedings •at Glasgow against
the Delegates from the Radicals, two persons have
been apprehended in Ayrshire, James Logan, a
weaver in Wallacetown, and John Kennedy, a weaver
in Kilmarnock. The lodgings of both were searched,
and some papers connected with their proceedings,
were found in the house of Logan. This person acted
as Chairman of the Public Meeting at Wallacetown,
in October, and the letter which one of the Dele-
gates tore, on their apprehension, bears his signature.
Both of these persons, after being examined, have
been admitted to bail, have found sureties, and are
out of prison. One of the Delegates taken up at
Glasgow, was a cobbler, of the name of Sinclair Camp-
bell, who represented the Radicals of Wallacetown.
It is said that, separate from political considerations,
a combination has for some time existed among the
cotton-spinners of Glasgow and neighbourhood, for
the purpose of procuring a certain rate of wages fixed
on by themselves. On Thursday night last, a gang
of these confederates made a most atrocious attack
upon the workers belonging to Messrs. TODD and
STEVENSON'S cotton-mill, Coal Quay, in the neigh-
bourhood of Tradestown, Glasgow. The villains had
previously assembled at a public-house, and thence
proceeded along the Paisley-road, as the workers
were leaving the mill. When within .6i few yards of
Mr. TODD'S gate, they began their horrid work, by
knocking down and beating the foremost of the
workers: the Police of Gorbals being at hand, a
scuffle ensued, and four men were taken, three of
whom appear to belong to the gang. One of the
workers in running along the road, received four or
five small shot in his head, but is doing well ; the
four taken were lodged in the Gorbals Police Office.
They are supposed to be the same villains who re-
cently attacked Messrs. DUNLOP and Son's work peo-
ple, and who also attempted to burn their mill.