The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-04 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

implicated in the atrocities of Cadiz, and other excesses
committed in Andalusia.

MI the Pr, feet% named by the Cortes are re-esta-
hlished intheir offices.

The office of Secretary is restored. His Bureau, his
Seals, Papers, anti the oriicinal of the Constitutional
Act, hays hren surrendered to bins. All persons whom
he employed are recalled to their respective posts.
The Duke del Parque will not accept of the embassy
to Paris. His habitnal infirmities prevrist him. It if a
great loss; be would have honourably represented his
Prince and his nation. A Charge si'.ltfaires is to ilium--
(Gately occupy this important office. It is doubtful
whether the Count de Torino will arrept of the office
of Minister at the Conn of Berlin; the %irtim of a furl-
otts persecution, condemned to death, a wanderer in
foreign countries, his estates. which were very consi-
derable, were confiscated, and now demand the presence
of the right owner. M. de Toreno Isstill young.
The news of a free anal entire adlierrnee na tae part
of the provinces, cities, corporations, and antlicaities,
civil, military, and religious, to the constitutional sr-
tem, arrives continually from all points of the Pe-
ninsula. Our Gazette, so long silent, culler!, anal pub-
lishes all those acts worthy of being preserved and
transmitted 5.. posterity.
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It is not yet aseertainefl what was the real occasion of
the disastrous events of %%Melt Cadiz has hern the
theatre. It only appears certain that the Ex-Governor
Valdes, and the General l'ampans, have been the ic-
tints of them ; but the people suffered severely before
they proved vie!oritina. These misfortnnes might have
been nvoi4k4l; they tend to augment the regrets of all
moderate men.

Letters from Bayonne give some farther details re-
specting ti troubles of Cadiz. Arcording to these
letters, the authority of General Frryre was set at de-
fiance by the authors of the disorders, who obliged him
to retire to Port St. 3larie. These letters farther men-
tion, that the number of persons killed amoontetl to
MI, and that of the wounded to 1,211 n, and add. that
after the massacre the soldiers photo !steed many houses.
Measores have Lien taken to pursote and punish the
instigators to this violence.
According to one of these letters, Mint was to be pro-
claimed Captain-General of Navarre. The Count of St.
Romano, who, at the head of a handful of militia, op-
posed himself in (OaHid* to the whole of the nation, 11.0
been driven from that Fiorito..., and Isis troops entirely
dispersed. This feeble resistance has hoc caused
the death of Colonel Aceredo, a Commander very toomlo
esteemed liv the um-mg. These events have
increased the pulolie iuspatirnee i 'Madrid for the con-
vocation of the Cartes. 'llse troooldes experienced at
Cadiz, and some parts or A tidalty-i.o, are warmly attri-
hooted to certain Chiefs, among who'll General Fret re
has been mentioned. W. Sll4ll be sorry to find him im-
plicated. As to the brothers, O'Donnell, they have
fur ever forfeited the public opinion. As to General
O'Donoilou (thin Juan), it a ill require all the pledges
which lois itosprisonment and torture have given, to pre-
vent his Irish origin Irons losing the esteem and affec-
tion of the Spaniards. He is an officer of extraordinary

The l'onstitution was proclaimed at Murri• on the
Itch, and at Carthagena on the lIWt. Alicant, which.
from the beginning, has displayed the most anxious
impatience, received on the 19111 the official authority.
and will celebrate the restoration with the most lively
expressions of joy.

Well might the French Royali,ts prophecy that
the Spanish revolution, though commenced in
peace, would terminate in blood, if they knew the
course which the King's adherent's intended to
pursue. Neither is it impossible, or even impro-
bable, that they may have possessed such know-
ledge ; for it appears almost certain that the
first concessions obtained from FERDINAND were
only conceded with a view of temporising, until
he knew the result of secret schemes, as un-
principled in their nature as they have !rimed
atrocious in their execution. It is, therefore,
more than likely, that when extraordinary con-
tiers poured in so fast upon the French capi-
bd with intelligence of the momentous events
taking place at Madrid, they also conveyed a pri-
vate and ermaoling assurance, that Despotism was
not in so desperate a state as appearances might
justify its friend+ in apprehending : and that strong
though secret renicZes had been applied, which
could not fail to effect its recovery. Sech pleas-
ing information would of course be communicated
to the Journals devoted to the support of arbitrary

power, tiosmigh prwlenee woold not allow them
to reflect it to the public, except in broken gleams
and with oracular mysteriousness. Hence all the
dark insinuations about desolation and death,
when, to every uninitiated eye, Spain appeared
like one vast family, rejoicing at the return of an
erring father, and celebrating in concord and unani-
mit',, the restoration of its liberties. We have
already seen that the attempted delusions were
foiled at Madrid by the spirit of the people and the
patriotism of the military, and that the king was
compelled, in self-defence, to adopt the sincerity
which he professed, and not only to accept the
Constitation but to convoke the Cortes. Ignorant
of his submisssion, or availing themselves of it as an
additional means of deceit, in the hope of being
able to effect a counter-revolution if they could de-
stroy the chief leaders of the Patriots, his ministers
of infsniy and death, the FRF.YRIVII and the O'Dos-
nat.'s, have endeavoured to execute at Cadiz, and
in the neigbourhood of Seville, those parts of the
original plan entrusted to their care. We published
yesterday an seeount of their treachery and of its
failure ; fresh details are now continually received,
which reveal deeds of dishonour and atrocity unsur-