Star.
London, England, 1820-03-06 00:00:00

SPANISH INSURRE.CTION.

(I'llOM THE FIZENCII PAPERS.)
We lave received flow Madrid, dated
the 17th, ai.,l foal Cadiz, dated the 1111 February.

It appears that a very sharp action took place on
the 91.11, between the divi,isni of Gencial Cruz, sta-
: tionei at Chiclana, and the column under Riego,
which, after having vainly :I:tempt:A to proceed to
:Malaga, endeavoured to make good- its retreat on
the Lle of Leon.

On the ~.ante day, a general attack was made upon
• Torre tiarda, Santa-liana, and other points of the
Lit, by the Marine forces. the ganison ofCortadura,
and a part of that of Cadiz. The fire was kept up
1-r a very long time on both sides, but without pro-
, dicing any important
The Instil -,ents committed nrtny excesses during
•
their staj' at : they exacted heavy contribu-
. is money from tln, town in general, and from
same individuals in pa. ticul.a ; they forced the towns-
people to pr,ceed to the election of Alcades, accord-
ing to the Constitution ; they set at liberty the
pri-
soners of every description, and compelled the inha-
hi:ants to mount the red and green cockade, the ral
, lying sign of the insurrection.
The most pt:rftct tranquillity reigns at Madrid and
in the rest of Spain. The Imperial Regiment Alex,
a de7, c )rnmandel by Colonel O'Donnell, brother
of the Count has art ived in the environs
of Madrid from Val a !01i.!.--lournal des Debats.

Intelligence from Madrid o- the 17th, which has
arrived by the ordinary courier, annminces that
• Treyre, having endeavoured to attack the Nat:onal
troops fortified opposite to Cortadura, was coin-'
pelted to make a precipitate retreat, after having lost
300 men by a well-directed fire from the batteries
opposed to them The Constitutional army . has
- made the Isle of Leon impregnable by woi ks con-
structed on that important point. Colonel Itiego,
after having visited Algesiras, returned to Veger with
provisions, money, horses for drawing his artillery,
and good segars for the troops. From Veger he en-
tered into the Isla, with the troops and his convoy,
without suffering any interruption. The Constitution
Las been proclaimed at Algesiras, And trade has been
freed from all its shackles. Tariffic and Veger have
declared for the Constitutionalists. We arc assured
that these towns have collectively formed a Provi-
sional Governn.ent.
• We hear that when two Cavalry regiments of the
Royal army were about to join the National troops,
the Royal Carabineers endeavoured to prevent them,
but were obliged to yield, after having lost their
commandant, some oßicers, and several soldiers.
The intelligence that Freyre has been obliged to
disarm several regiments, whose fidelity he suspected,
ha's been confirmed. All the troops, moreover, have
declared that they- neyer will tire upon their com-
rades who serve the cause of liberty.
There have been some popular tumults at Sara-
gossa. Amidst two crowds a cry was heard, " Long
live the Constitution, and down with tyranny? The
Authorities suppressed the tumults without much dif-
ficulty ; but several patties of Guerillas, consisting of
three or four hundred men, traverse the• kingdom
of Arragon.
The news supplied to-day by the Journals of Bour-
• dears, arz c3nsistent in many points with those which
we had antericrly received. We have letters from

Cadiz down to the 11th. They contain no informs-'
tion of importance. It was said in subsequent letters,
that on the 13th that city had opened its gates after
some bombs had fillen within it.
According to letters from :Madrid, the column of
Riego has received deserters horn the division of
• O'Donnell. Wier accounts say that O'Donnell him-
self had pissed over to the Insurgents. A letter
from Gibraltar informs us, that he bad been aban-
doned by 500 of his Cavalry.
There is a ieport of a discovery of a correspon-,
deuce between the Colonel of the Regiment of As-
turias and General Freyre. The Colonel had, it is
said, been shot.
A report circulates in Paris, that Mina has gone
to Spain. This intelligence appears certain.
The report, which was spread some time ago, of
an insurrection in the Asturias, is to-day confirmed.
On the 14th of February, the Constitution was pro-
claimed at Oviedo, the Capital of that Province.—
(Constifutionnel, March 1).
We are assured to-day that the Insurgents of La
Isla have created a Provisional Government, formed
of five. persons..
A superior Officer, under the disguise of a dealer

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.We have receiv: d the four days Paris Papers in ar-
rear, to. Thursday last inclusive.
The Project for suspending the freedom of the pub-
lic Journals has been passed by the Chamber of Peers
(136 to 71), but with several material alterations.—
The Journals now existing are exempted from its.
operation, and the duration of it is limited to the end
of the next Session. The Commission of Censorship
is also struck out, but it remains a part of the Pro-
ject, that the Journals shall be subjected to a previous
Censorship, under the pains and penalties directed
in the original Project, but without stating by whom
that Censorship is ro be executed. This strangely
anomalous Project, as it is now framed, was on-Wed-
nesday (the amendments of the Peers.' having been
previously approved by the Crown) present to the
Chamber of Deputies, and the preparatorrexamlna-
tion of it in the Bureaux appointed for Saturday last.
In the last mentioned Sitting of the Chambet of Depti-
ties on Wednesday, a rather stormy scene took place.
M.CLA USEL DE COUSSERGUES, who, on the 19th nit. put
forth an accusation in the Chasrber, against M. DE-
CAZES, charging • him with being an accomplice in
the assassination cf the Duke de Ilz.ant, arid who
v.:as in consequence stigujatised by M. de. SAINT Au-.
'LAIRS as a calumniator, had in the interval, by a
letter to the PRESIDENT, withdrawn his charge, and
the whole that took place upon it was left out of the
Proces Verbal of the Sitting. - On the Prores Verbal'
of the Sitting .being read. as .usual, M. BENJAMIN
CONSTANT insisted upon the restoration of the epithet
of " calumniator." M. B. CONSTANT founded his
demand on this—that the charge of being " an ac-
complice of assassination" harbeen made public
throughout France, and that the countercharge
against the accuser, of being a slanderer, ought to be
given equal publicity. After some speeches pro and
con, the question was put ; and on a scrutiny of votes,
M. B. CONSTANT'S proposition was adopted,. In re-
venge, M. CLAUSEL de COUSSERGUES resuthed his
notice of an intention to bring forward and prove
the charge, which he had dropped, against the Duc
'DEGAZES.

The Gazette de France of Tuesday states, that a
report was circulated at Paris on Monday evening,
of an attempt having been made to assassinate the

who, in enlestvouring to4urtt
The'weapon of the aitasain, iceisied• a wound in his
hand. We do not find, in any [he subsequent
Journals, that this report is at all tnnfirrned..'
Wefhave made ample extracts from the French
Papertiffipteeing the state of affairs in. Spain, which,-
though not guile so definite in their details as we
could have wisberii.4.sostuthentic as those derived
from Gibraltar, -nevertheless throw great light oa
the pro'gress of the Insurrection. We have been
particular in copying the articles contained, in the
Ministerial Journals, those which again and again
tell us that Spain is still perfectly tranquil, because
we wish to let our Readers see all they have to say
in favour of FERDINAND'S party. It is, in faci,
curious to remark the shifts to which they are put.
As a kind of consolation, they have now found out
that " some differences had arlien among the Insur-
gent Chiefs, in consequence of which ColonelßleGO
had sallied forth." Some private quarrels, such as
are inevitable in a military camp, bad, we understand
by the last Gibraltar advices, taken place among
some officers, but they had nothing to do with the
cause, and were settled in the usird military Way.—
IliEno left La Isla with a view to penetrate to Ma-
laga and Grenada, but &Ming supplies, and having,
no douht, something important to communicate to
his comrades, he returned• to head-quarters, seem-
ingly withodt any apprehensions from the immense
army that was intended "to blockade, besiege; and
soon destroy the rebels."

The story of the Colonel of the Asturias Regiment .
having been caught ina correspondence with General
17aEy as, we disbelieve altogether. If we mistake not,
that Regiment is commanded by the two SAN MI•
GUELS, and from men of their character, such a thing
could not be expected. In fact, from all we have
been able to collect, greater union and fidelity never
existed in a camp, than are to be seen at La Isla ;
indeed, the Constitutionalists are the elite of the Offi-
cers and men of the Spanish Army, and animated
by a cause which hitherto not a man has sought to'
betray, notwithstanding all the insidious offers and
allurements of their opponents. They hold a position
that is impregnable—their numbers daily augment;
and if FREYRE has conveyed his troops across the
hay into Cadiz, it is not for the purpose of attacking
them by a sortie from the land-gate, but to keep his
soldiers aloof from infection, and check the wishes
of the inhabitants within. On the point opposite
Cadiz, the Constitutionalists have been-hard at-work
ever since they raised the standard of revolt, and it is
not likely FREYRE could hope for success in that
quarter, when his adVance must be in close column
along a narrow unsheltered strip of land; for more
than a league, exposed to . a galling fire, which it
would be impossible to withstand. _lt appears, in
the meantime, that there has been some smart
skirmishing between the parties, though not attended
with any decisive result to either party:
It is now distinctly said, that General MINA, the
uncle of the Guerilla Chief, who so much -distin-
guished himself during the Peninsular War, is gone
to Navarre. He left Paris on the 19th, and in the
course of four days he would be among friends ready
to receive him with open arms. He is a host in him-
self, and no occurrence can excite greater dismay at
Madrid,. where many of the • KING'S *partizans are
already in secret consoling' themselves at the idea
that, as the system it is attempted to restore is Con-
stitutional, and the party. promoting it act mode-
rately, they will not probably lose their property,
though they may lose their places. . .

Two Hamburgh Mails arrived yesterday evening,
with Papers to the 29th ult. The following are a
few extracts:

lIAMBURGII,.FEBRUARY

We have received, direct from Algiers, the follow
ing account, dated the 12th of January ;—" The
plague has at length left us; there were some traces
of it only at Constantia, and on the western frontiers."