Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-11-29
baltimore American.
800 LONDON, Sept. so.

(naiumore american.
LoSDoN, Sept. 80.
REVOLT IN SPAIN.
We know that we have not been singular N
execrating every act of the Spanish goyernmen,
SINCE the people by their loyalty and bravery
AIDED py tue generous exertions of this country
succeeded IN bringing back Ferdinand tn tLe
Throne. Never did any people reeve en- -, rN
grateful return for loyalty and duty to then
Sovereign as the Spanish Patriots. Never IN an,
Country was there exhibited system of move de-.
iiberate and sanguinary tyranny than has been
exercised over the Spanish nation by a cold.
oiooded Ignorant bigot, acting under the inh,,.
ence OF the worst Of men or rather TRANSFERRING
tue whoie executive power into their hands. and
suiiering them to glut Their private vengeance
for real or supposed sights, or injuries inflicted
on their sacred order.
mat any people, participating in the common
knowledge OF the nineteenth century. should
continue TO submit to such debasng and degrad.
ing slavery, for single day longer Than absolute
necessity might command, was not 20 be believed.
Even hsObest5eTTe, .JLarat, Bonabarte, CT,
reign by terror only for few years how short
must be such reign under such creature as n
FEHDISAND None but the most Ignorant and
brutalised of mankind could long submit to be
hevictims Of suclfa system, guided and direct
ed by such Government.
we have been for some time in daily expecta.
ton that the unproyoked persecution and cruel.
~ exercised over the Patriots, would at last urge
some individual TO resist the lawless exercise of
power. From an incident which occurred The
OTHER day the state'of The public mind could not
be niistaken-we allude to the inyectiye of the
Frar against the Spanish Patriots, when he was
reminded by Cavalier, among the hearers, that
ms was not preaching the Gospel and the effect
was so electric, that The whole congregation got
up ina body, quilted the church, and at lasf 6es-
troyed the house to which the Priest had retired
for safety.
1t now appears that in one quarter at least the
resistance has brokeHOut in open revolt Blythe
Corunna Mail, which arrivedst late hour laqt
night, accounts have been received, stating that
an organized insurrection, headed by the cele-
DRAFTED Gen. Porlier, has broken out there Oar
private letters are to the 2lih at that time eyer,
thing was as tranquil as if nothing uncommon
had occurred-only the people were, each IN
their own sphere exertIng Their influence to gam
adherents, not meielyin their immediate neigh
borhood but in places more distant.
Whether any previous concert with other GUAR
tiers had been settled for general rising. we
have not yet the means Of ascertainine but in
the present state Of public feeling in Spain we
would not be surprised should the bold step thst
has been taken in Corunna, even without any prev-
Gus concert prove the means OF exciting otheri5ro
ynces to take the field in maintenance Of ,he,r
JuSt ilSntSs britain, winch fought along with
the Patriots to emancipate Their country from
tyranny, will surely never fight aga nst them 10
assist IN riYetting upon their necks the chains of
the lnquisition.
we subjoin the principal articles which have
rescued us relative to this important event. Fye-
~ succeeding mail may be expected 10 bring most
interesting intelligence, and We shall rot fail to
lay before our readers the earliest and most au.
thenuc accounts Of every thing that occurs
FaLNoUra, Sept. 81.
have just time TO advise you that he brig
Juno, Capt Chancellor, is this evening arrived in
3 days from Corunna, and brings an account Of
an lnsurrecbon IN Galicia A Proclamation IA a
beenissued BY General Don Jun Dies Porbep.
commanding in that Province declaring thai
Ferdinand VII. By his iniquitous conduct, is un-
ut 10 reign, and calling on all the other Provin.
ces ioloIn him and his army (Which are unani-
nous IA the eausc) to establish the Cortes and
JH1ta thc adjoining Provinces arc said to be
qGte Of opinion with tbat OF Galicia, and that
'hc mex accounts axe szpecsed 10 he thai ,Ae