The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-29

with the advice Of our ministers, decreed and
do decree as follows:
Art. 1. All ecclesiastics and public off
GERS, Of whatever class they may be, who
quilted their employments and have been
absent since the LIST November, 1905, are or
dered to return to their posts within twenty
days from the date of the present decree.
2. In case they shalfbe absent. after that
term, they shall be deprived of their en-
Payments, and their estates shall be sc
queStrated. -
8. Our royal commissaries, presidents,
attendants, governors, archbshops, bishops,
chapters, and other chiefs Of establishments
are required to furnish us with alist of those
officers who shall not have returned. to their
places, within the time specified. in order
that we may, as we are bound to do, nomi
nate persons in their stead, who shall be
competent to the discharge of the respect
i've duties.
a. The regulars, who shall not, within the
said term, return TO their converts. unless
they shall have received permission to be
absent, shall be subjected to seclusion of
ten years.
s.. The religious, who belonged to con-
vents that have been suppressed, shall be
condemned to four years secluson, if they
do not proceed within the said term to the
converts to which they were nominated !;
the same punishment shall be inflicted on
such clergy as shall be absent from the pla-
ces assigned them.
6. The superiors of the regular orders
are hereby enjoined, at their responsibility,
to send to our minister for ecclesiastical af-
fairs lists of those religious who shall be
absent.
z. Every secular or regular clergyman,
who, shall attempt to mislead the people, or
to excite them against our government or
person, shall be arrested by the magistrate
of the nearest place, conducted to the ca
pital. and tried by the extraordinary criminal
Junto, according to the decree OF the 10th
Feb. last : s g..
8. EVERY convent shall be suppressed in
any district. in which any individual of the
army may be assassinatcd unless on the ap-
prehenson of the guilty it shall appear that
such convent was innocent" 49,. -...,
Another decree of the 9th May, contains
the following regulations:
% Every public officer, on entering upon
the duties of his station, shall take the fol.
lowing oath: - i.
II swear to fulfil the obligations and du
ties of -, solely for the welfare of
the nation and the glory of the king, accor
ding to the dispositions of the constitution -
Nkw-Yoak, August "a.
x%SL LSoI SFf'D ~ L'NOIH INV.
Yesterday arrived at this port, the brig
Fame, Boroughs, from Cadiz, which place
he left the 18th July, -. ,.l
: Captain b. informs us, that 3 or 4 days
previous to his sailing, advices reached Ca
dir, that Gen. Blake had been defeated in
Gallicia, by the French, with the loss of
1000 men and that Gen. Blake had broke
and dismissed from his service, 100 of his
officers.
1t was also reported at Cadiz, that king
Joseph was marching against Seville, at the
head of 10000 men.
Admiral Purvis, with three sail of the
line and several frigates was in Cadz bay
Saragossa, Il appears from our Spanish pa
pers, has been retaken by the Patriots.
A letter from Cadiz mentions that the
new Spanish Ambassador extraordinary was
to sail from that port in the frigatc Cornclia
for New York, about the 25th of July.
Markets were very dull at Cadiz for Anne
rican produce.
Captain h. has furnished us with Cadiz
papers to July II, and the Seville Gazette of
the 7,h, from which the following TRANSLATE
ons have been made.
From, tie SeviNe Gazette Of Juiy TN.
AT a meeting of the Supreme Iunta of
Spain, in order to consolidate, and bring
nearer the relations of friendship which exist
between Spain and the u. States of Ameri-
ca; in manner suitable to the reciprocal in
tereSts OF both powers, it was considered ne
cessary to employ for that purpose person
enjoying the highest confidence, OF known
merit and distinguished patriotism, and his
Majesty has accordingly thought proper to
appoint Don Louis dc Onis Y Gonzales. one
OF the oldest and most respectable members
OF the department OF State, who possesses
all the above mentioned qualities, and who
is shortly to go.to the u. States in the charac-
ter of Minister Plenipotentiary and envoy
Extraordinary, for the purpose of fulfilling
that important commission
Grain ard Pulse, imported from foreign
countries, are for the present, free from du-
~"
MANKEsA. June 81.
RETAINING OF SARAGOSSA.
Yesterday at in the afternoon, we receiv-
ed the pleasing and positive accounts of the
capture of Saragossa by our arms Who
would believe that place taken after siege
ct o. days by numerous army of I,luinci.
6ies could be wrested from their invukuera
Die clutches by small Spanish army com
posed OF raw and inexperienced troops?
SEVILLE, July 10.
Conclusion Of the .AdUices from 1zadrid.
We know positively that IN a Council ex-
traordinary, which had been summoned On
the 18th of June, between IL and one o'clock
at night, to meet next morning at 6, violent
debates were held about abandoning King