The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-01 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF :110..KINU OP SPAIN TO

SEVILLE.

Extract of a letter from Madrid, Thursday, March 'V.
_Although it was generally known that the King
would set out on his journey to Seville this morning, at
eight o'clock, yet the concourse of spectators in the
square of the Palace was inconsiderable, not exceeding,
at the utmost, three hundred persons. But there was a
vast crowd at the gate of Toledo, through which it was
generally understood the cavalcade would pass, and this
belief was confirmed by the guards, who attended at the
gate from an early hour. Amongst this crowd theiv
were, of course, persons of a thousand different senti-
ments, but all seemed depressed, dejected, and inspired
with a wish that some 'circumstance might occur to pre-
vent the departure of the King. There were mostly of
the class of artists, tradesmen, shopkeepers, lodging-
house keepers, and of those citizens who are likely to
snarrr severely in their different individual interests by
the removal of the Government. Several, also, of the fa-
mily of those of the Local Militia, who volunteered to
go with the King to Seville, were present to take a final
farewell of their husbands, fathers, and other r-latires,
as they passed through the gate to join the escort who
were stationed at some distance 'on the road. It was un-
derstood, that there were also in the crowd parties who
intended to create confusion, and who counted, not with-
out good apparent grounds, on the co-operation of num-
bers of the Ultra inhabitants. A body of two or three
thousand men, infantry an cavalry, was stationed in
the Piazza de a Constimcion, in order to repress any
disorder which might arise, and they had with them two
pieces of artillery.
The report here we', that the cavalcade would pass
through the Gate of Toledo, which opens to the road of
Andalusia, was circulated purposely, for the purpose of
drawing attention of the public to that quarter. It was
intended that the King shoulshleave the Palace by a dif-
ferent road. In the front of the Palace, there is, about
a league or two distant in the country, a villa belonging
to the King, to which a private road leads from the Pa-
lace. This private crosses the high road, from which it
is shot in on both sides by two gates. The Royal car-
riages were rent round to wait where the private road
opens on the public way, and to this gate the King.
Queen. and lnfantes were conducted in sedan-chairs.
They left the Palace about a quarter before eight, and
were in their respective carriages at eight o'clock. They
then drove rapidly round to the Andalusian road, attend-
ed by the great Officers of State, and a small escort of
cavalry, and ovsrtook the main body of the escort some
distance on the road. They thus avoided passing through
the Gate of Toledo, and the crowd waited until nine
o'clock, when orders arrived for the guard at the gate
to return to their barracks. The people were informed
that the King had left Madrid an hour before, and thoy
dispersed quietly, though evidently disappointed.
The Cortes still remain here a few days, and when they
go. Madrid will be quite desolate.
The Factious are again at Guadalajara. Yesterday
morning.an advanced guard of seventy cavalry arrived
in Alcala, to reconnoitre the town, and, after some skir-
mishing In the streets and neighbourhood with the
Constitutionalists, they retired again towards Guadala-
jara. Troops have gone out from Madrid in pursuit of
them
It now five &clock in the afternoon, and every thing
continues quite tranquil.
It was yesterday reported that press warrants were ex-
reed to be issued in a few days.
The election for a Foreign -Associate, in the room of
the deceased Dr. Jenner, of the French Institute, took,
place on Monday. 'The following gentlemen were pr,..
posed:—Dr. Wollaston, Dr. Young, Mr. Gibers, M.
Scemering,. M. Von Bach, Mr. Lambron, Mr. Brown, Mr.
Dalton, and M. Wester!. The number of Members who
voted was 44, and the ballot was as follows :—Dr. Wol-
laston, 3S ; Olbers, 5 ; Von Bach, I.—lt is highly ho-
nourable to the English nation, that out of nine per-
sons proposed by the Institute, amongst all the learned
and talented men of the civilized world, five should be •
Englishmen.
The eery extensive and beautiful spinning-manufactory of
M. Mourgue, in the department of Somme, in France, was
lately burnt to the ground. The proprietor sustains a loss
of 400,000 francs (10,0001. sterling); but the heavier distress
is-400 families e t workmen ere at,oace plunged into a state
of mendicity.
Extract of a letter from Bahia, Feb. 9.—" The general
opinion here is, that the pending struggle is nearly at sit
end. The Europeans have not, since the commencement
gained any advantage whatever ; but, on the contrary
from a foe which they affected to despisC, they have sus
tamed severe losses. they
up here, they are perfectly f
e.
duced to defensive tactics. Their reverses hare entirely
broken their spirit, and we think that were they pressed
bard, they would oppose but a feeble resistance. Con-
stant hard service under a vertical sun has knocked up
about one-thbd of their numbers, now in the hospitals.
The soldiers are in consequence disgusted and very re-
fractory. The treasury is drained, the army in arrears
of pay, and provisMns are becoming scarce—they have
long been very bad. The Commanders throw blante out
one another, and aroadaily quarrelling among themselves.
Such is the general outline of our situation at present.
and even if 45.100 men should arrive from Lisbon, un-
der our present circumstances, they would prove very

harmless."
The New York Commercial thluertiar:r, announcing
the death of Thomas Scott, Esq. Paymaster of his Ma-
j• sty's 70111 regiment, and brother to Sir Welter Scott,
observes, " It has been stated frequently that some of
the novels ascribed to Sir Walter Scott were written by
this gentleman. We have often heard it *asserted in Ca-
nada, that Mrs. Scett was entitled to a share of the lite-.
racy honour atmched to the author of the Waverley No-
vels, but not her husband the Paymaster. It is so well
ascertained, however, thit Sir Walter is the author, that
even his enemies have mostly given up the point."
FIRE IN WITH STREET, TESTERDLY MORNING. FURTHER
PARTIULA..S.--It is seldom that a calamity confined to
such at contracted space as that in which tne tire happened
yesterday morning, has bereft unfortunate sufferers, more
suddenly or completely, of all the necessaries of life, or
plunged them into more severe distress. Mr. Noyes, at
1 whose house the tire originated, had, we learn by report,
fortunately, a short time ago, insured his goods, but lest a,
I eonsidsrable sum of money he had collected for his rent. Two
I lodgers in bishouse. however,of the name of Ahrams,fatheri
1 son, journeymen tailors, lost every thing they possessed, ea-
I apt their shirts, it; which they escaped from their beds.
I Mr. Lindsay, Glazier, who held the lease of both the
1 houses destroy ed,and occupied the one with his family that
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the street in a state of nudity, and lost every article they
bad in the world. Mrs. Coaxley, a lodger in the house
of the name of Huddrll, with a wife
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end four children. These poor ereatirrs also &A into
of Mr. Kilpatrick, contiguous to that of Mr. Noyes,
being in the family wey, %las prematurely brought to
bed, yesterday, in consequence of fright, and is in great
I distress, with four other children, and a husband out of
employ. To the list of sufferers we must add the names
of ,ilr. Tuck, broker, and his lodger, Powell. Tuck's
house adjoined that of Mr. Lindsay, and. has been coo-
si•lrrably damaged. He and his lodger bare lost arta
little by removing their goods. and were neither of them
insured. We are happy to subjoin that the case of these
unfortunate sufferers have been laid before the officers of
the parish (St. CI ement's Doges) in which they resided,
and that some relief is likely to he immediately adminis-
tered from a fond, that had. been previously c illectell for
eliarimble pnrposcs, to those whose distresses are was:
setere and urgent.