The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-09 00:00:00

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THWEEHENCY OF UROEL AND THE ARMY OF
THE FAITH.

The following is an abridgement of a curious detail
said to proceed from a very well-informed quarter
In eider to appreciate justly the Regency of Urgel, it
finicessary to be aeqttainted 'with the places where it
hat' been formed, and the persons to whom it has ad-
idiessed itself. There already existed in Spain hands or
wboaeieed every opportunity of rising and of
infesting the roads, for want of a more peaceable ores-
p 'Non. Spain is, of all the countries of Europe, one of
tim least ettifised, and that in which industry has made
the least progress. There are few great roads, and
•several provinces the traveller passes over immense dis-
tances without meeting with any cultivated laud, or a
atingle habitrion. Among a people thus destitute from
their want of industry. andposeessed of a lively insagin
'don, it is easy to hod tufa disposed to range the moan-
teitrs. with oninsitet on the shoulder. These men, united
into a band. rosy succeed in molesting but could not
baler, an array. Thus it happened with the guerillas
ntqmsed to the imperial troops of Napnleon„and with
the bands of. the Faith opposed to the Constitutional
Army of Aline. The Regency of Urgel was established
sin the 'seers of the Pyrenees, the most favourable place
for an insurrection, on account of the height of the moun-
t sins, the niiiery ofibliababi tants. tied the proximity of
protection from Fromm, whose Alleistri afford it as much
assistance as they 'MY with compromisitig themselves.
'to excite the pending of Ciirdagne, the poorest province
of the Pyrennees, Was eat difficult; to obtain some de-
serted seeress in,vainteissr which were not defended,
was not more difficult; and it has been imagined in
Enrnpa that the Regency, composed of men of genius.
of intrepid chiefs, end fanatic soldiers, was about to
uterturn'the Spanish Constitotioaal (iovernment. Yet
nothing was ever more untrue. Tare soldiers of the
Faith are not fanatic; they are poor and wretched, and
are without clothes, throng), Hain' under a rather
titmice. (lidded by feelings of mere interest, they lent
themselves to the first power which promised them food
and clothing. The proofof this is, that they frequently
utter cmupluints agaitist the [Weary —that after the
apt ore of Poyeerd a they would have greatly ill-treated
She King marafivrida. if the French army bad not pre-
seine,' them ; and that, finally, since the law of the
amnesty, -a great number of them has returned to
Spain and entered into the army of Mins. • • • •
To the peasaistrwhom famine has led to insurrection,
Mist be 'welded the smugglers who abound throughout
▪ tie Pyrenneco. and who are more constantly procur-
able then any of the Insurgents; as to them, all parties
fray reckon no them as soon as they bare occasion for

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them.
. With regard to their leaders. they are not better
*hexed thin tie soldiers for the trlumpla of the Faith.
There is not among them one man of enlficient eons.-
. (pence to make en impression on the Spanish nation.
Mataflocida le. a mere advocet., why was only the other
day great obneerity at Madrid, and who be-
came first a Marquis. snit then a Minister, for having
iirawn np the adilasmai„of the 72 Parses, in which the
lolitiou of the &methadon ties requireddf Ferditmoil.
The Baron d'Erialep is unspestiooaLly a man of culti-
yatedamterstanilieg, and tots studied the law ; bat he
possesses neither the physical our the mental tralifica-
ti es furs tortilla chief • • •. The Baron had
under him Romanillo. Misas. Mintier, Fleyres, Rom-
ps.. the Travis'. and an army where esch person eau
r,.uunand a few men whom he may have collected togas
r. Most of these chiefs are old or new gurilllarista,
wtri devestath the coding., bat Itre incapable of
*Mille in _a concerted ptsn. Romeoillo was se-
'aired by 'the Army of the Faith, of not haeibt
throe what he uoght to, seeoml a plan of d'Eroles,
by which lie occasioned his defeat • • • •. Almost
all die monks or fusfliveSpanlartla, when questioned on
the subject. agree in describing Mims as one of the
Moot 'atrocious brigands that has appeared for a long
time in the Spanish mountains. Besieges is an old sal-
Aire, who has heensentenced to death both in France
, and !.;vain, and alio at la-t has bOttayfil his own parti-
als'''. Mollorillo is a Piedosomese. The Trappist is a
ginuntehank, who. after hiring been guilty of the most
shameful irregularitirs of condAct, took rernga in a con-
vent/ whence he issued daring the late insurrection
• • • • This fellow is of the middle size, and has
very black hair; he always wears the dress of a Capes
e!iin friar. with a very large bood.On his breast is a cross
composed of white wool, resembling the antient crosses,
anti a Ware roaary hangs by Lk side. In this costume lie
!Shows hioseelf every *hero. Ills gown is perforated in
many platers as he say s, by musket balls, which have not
the pots*. to inJere him. • • • This saint is not
exempted from human feelings ; far lie quitted the army
of the Faith a long time previous to Its defeat and the
rapture of Pnycerds, and at is said that a jealousy with
reepei; to the command was the motive of this anticipa-
tor retreat.
It is unnecessary to say more for the purpose of ides
arribing the Regency of Urge', and those who direct
and otwy it. Its* ofiliers when they entered France
were in a state of absolute destitution. With the 'Keep.
tion'of some officers and some persons who were called
gazes of the Regency, nobody wore uniforms. A great''
span of the army was without shoes, and wore only a very
eirty kind of dress which is common to the Spantane of
those provinces. The fate of the women was most de.
adorable ; with great difficulty they proceeded along the
node, carrying their children on their backs, or in
their avius,antl were frequently obliged to sit down in
the snow. exhausted be fatigue and hunger. By their
rides travelled Or fat moults, closely wrapped up in warm
gowns of all colours, black, gray, white. and browo,anit
for the most part mounted on excellent Spanish mules'
Vhes gentlemen, called pages of the Regencvaravelleil on
lisireelsacir. wit' old wobbles, and sometimes without
either ierldisis, /*idle*, we' mindpiy: The Atom* were
tissue of Cerdagne, which are badly shaped, but racial-
lenity is.lepted for travelling in a moontainosis country.
The numbet of Spanish refogers who have entered
fraece s;nce theceptarit of Pnycerda may be calculated
at rout thousand, Nearly three tiodoiand rations were
delivered gig at RostrisMsdame, on the road w high leads
• so l'.-rPiX•^l•• . It',,. proceeding froiu Catalonia to Arra-
gim *lid Navarre, use estimates the numlier of Wear-
gents in these two provinces at eight thousand, inch'.
dint in this number those who bare bee. dispersed, it
will appear that only between ten and twelve thowssoll
men took a. part ie the geweral insurrection. Besides,
this 'mother is nothing in a country where soldiers are
worth so lints, and tire so easily . A subscrip•
tion company may at any thaw procure soldiers on the
frontiers of Spain, who will fitla for any body. If rich
ennegli to clothe and arm a few banditti, and to hire a
good officer, it might expect more success thematic' Re-
gency of Urge!. poor, incapable, and divided, has been
able to obtain.

(la Sunday morning, a man of the name of Ryan
baring gone out to shout crows, near Doom's. and Dot
finding his gun go oil, went into the louse of his neigh-
bour, alulsineecy, to strike the dint, in the set of doing
u tiicli the gan wenr.off, and lodged its contents in the
breast et the daughter of litialoneeny, a girl about
tiselre years; she was' close to the muzzle of the Iron
at the time, so that the.allot bad nor time to scatter; it
entered in
.a.e!ose body, immediately under the right
•t resist, and lolged to the lungs.
,Surgeon Wilkinson,
jot.. visited the girl • few bouts after the accident, bat
'4Ol his arrival found her in the agonies of death. and be-
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Jail all boleti asehtaoce.—(Limerick Chres.)

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1823

TO THE. YEOMEN OF TOE COUNTY OP Iv

NORFOLK. •
Kensington. Jas. 9, 19!i3.i

RNTLEMRN,—This morning the London pvesoappears
to be settling down from a state of rage into a state of
gloom. The Vipers have been looking at, turning over,
and trying to bite our Petition ; bat, like their brother
viper in the fable, they have found it to be &fife ; that
is to say, they have found it to be sterling steel, on which
they can make no impression. Many of you, gentlemen,
bate given your money to WEBB BALL and the " FARM.
gas' Joux,tom," ; that deluder and ruiner of the Farmers-
That paper is published on a Monday ; and. woold you
believe the fart ? while it gives a partial and false: re-
presentation of the proceedings in Norfolk,. IT beigg
xtEr INSEiti"l'llE NORFOLK PETITION. This
is an act surpassing in foulness and wickedness the con-
duct of all the other persons belonging to the Press,
aho have acted foully npon this occasion. This" Faux-
gas' JocuN tt."; this thing that has taken so much
money out of time pockets of the Farmers', misrepresents
your proceedings. calumniates the person who had the
honour to present the Petition for your adoption: but
tikes especial care not to let its readers see your petition,
front the same motive that the shameless persons at Nor-
wich wished to prevent you from hearing it. This: essrs.'
Rune and Evoss, to whom so may of yon bate been
so long giving your money, have read your Petition
themselves ; these two printers and publishers, of Badge
Row. in London, bare read every word of your
fetitiog; but, being unable to say a trord
against say part of it ; being enable •to at.
seek Hr I they do not insert it. How right then
titLSt yon he! Gentlemen, those who have found fault
Of the Petition, seem to have written tbeir commenta-
ries 6eAre hand. They seem to have supposed that I
should bring forward a proposition for the reduriop time
interest of the Debt, and for nothing else. TbTy were
not prepared to see Mr. Thuilell and Mr. Cole, propose
the same Mimi,. and, in a meek more exceptianallie 4oem,
log. This has throwo them asbark, se the 1011ecall
k. They found it awkward to accuse Mr. Cons, Mr.
Wormnovss, and all the ree, cf a desire to commit
robbery, as they call it. But, not a manor than sm.
dertakes to remark upon the Petition point by point.—
They cry oat robbery here and there. They exclaim
confiscation ; they forget that confiscation is going, on
against the Londlords and Farmers ; and they
forget, too, that there is not now one single man,
who proposes any relief at all for the land, who
does not include in Isis project, a Reduction of
the interest of the Debt. There is Mr. Witertas;
the Messrs. Arrwooo, Lord STOURTOK. These have
appeared in pamphlets. There is this vary ‘•
" JOURNA L." itself, a hick, io its last number, saps, " we
" declare that it is impossible, to read this new produc-
tion of .Lord Srocarom without being perfectly con-
" winced and satisfied of the justice, as weU as necessity
"of immediate protection AOA I NsT THR CLAIMS
"OF TIM I'UNDI4OLDERS; which else. will
" speedily absorb the misfile properly of Me kingdom
Just twenty years aga. Gentlemen, I foretold that this
would be the case. From that day to this. I have neg-
lected no opportunity of warning the Ministry, the Par-
liament, and time country. Had my advice been followed
at en earlier period, all the cads cities that you now ex-
perience would have been prevented. There would
have been co necessity for measures which hare now
become absolutely necessary. The measures that I re-
commended se reral years ago, would not now be sufficient.
The ploughings and harrowings which are sufficient.
when a field has but little couch-grass in it, do not
suffice when the field has become hematted with that
grass. Slight work will not then clean it :. you mast
tear the mischievous berb up from the very bottom.
The ploughings, the cross-ploughings; the dragging.,
the borrowings and the burnings must come, or thereis
no more crop.— You will observe that our opponenta
never take notice of those parts of roar Petition which
would render a reduction of the interest of time Debt, an
act of which no reasonable fundholder could complain.
All our adversaries take care-to say nothing about thitse
parts of the Petition. The things which you have
prayed for would cause, if they were adopted, neither
confusion nor discontent, except, indeed, amongst those
who would have taken from them emoluments which
they unjustly receive.—Mr. Arrwood (in his letter pub-
lished in this paper of Tuesday) says, that his is the
mild mode of reducing the interest of the Debt, and that
mine is the violent mode. It is, in fact, his which is the
violent mode; because it would be flagrantly unjest
Besides, he does not propose to touch the enor-
mous sinecures; lie does not propose to apply any p tit
of that immense mass of public property, called the
Crown lands, towards time liquidation of the public debt.
im satisfied that this property would pay off a tenth
part of the debt; and, what should it be suffered to lie
for, and bring in nothing; to the public, While we owe
this enormous debt ? Mr. Arriveow sloes not propose
to touch any of that property called Church Property
but which is, in fact, public property. Now, I say, Ow
here are the means of paying off another large part o'
the debt.

Mr. ATTIVOOD means to reduce the interesi

of the debt, and suffer all those that have received grei
sums of money out of the loans, to go on receiving kb