Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-07-28
Boston, July 81.

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Boston, July 81.
FROM GIBRALTAR.
By the brig Margaret and Sarah, from Glib
raltar, we have received papers and letters
to the 4th ult.
Gibraltar, May q.
OF SPANISH AFFAIRS.
Abstract of the most interesting official in
telligence in tbs Madrid Gazettes received
this week.
decree, of the 18th inst. after prealn-
bic stating, that the public tranquility is en-
dangered by the presence ofthe members oil
the ordinary Cortes who signed the NANTES
to of the Istb April, 1914 (asasnst the con-
stitutional system) directs them TO be conf
ned in the converts of their places of resi-
dence until the meeting OF the legislature,
with the exception, however, otsuch of them
as are invested with the episcopal dignity.
Two circulars of the 96th April. call for
detailed statements Of the pensions granted
to private individuals, or to public bodies,
on the revenues Of bishoprics and other &c.
clesiastcal livings in the Spanish dominions,
previous to submitting to the Cortes plan
for preventing the misapplication of such
part of those revenues as may be opposed Of
as above.
A dispatch from the officer commanding
the Callao station to the Minister of Marine,
dated the Esd Oct. last, relates the unsuc.
cessful attempt made by lord Cochrane, in
the evening of the 9Th of the same month,
upon the shipping 10 that harbor; and an in
closure contains copy of the challenge
made, previous 10 the attempt, by his lord
ship TO the viceroy OF Peru, to engage the
squadron under his orders with an equal
number OF ships, if he agreed to send it out;
which challenge Viceroy Pezuela did not
think proper to accept.
An official article, of the 18th inst. ex-
presses his majesty's satisfaction at the ex-
ertions made by the Populations or boards OF
government in several provinces to psocuie
funds not only to meet the local demands of
the different branches of the service, but to
make remittances to the capital towards de-
fraying the general expenses OF the king
DOM
A royal decree, of the Cd inst. directs,
with the full appreciation of the provisional
board, a negotiation to be opened for loan
of millions Of dollars within the kingdom,
in shares of goo. 400 and Goo dolls. bearing
an annual interest of 10 per cent and to be
in two instalments Of 8 and IA
months, reckoning from the 3oth inst. the
whole Of the public revenue, and especially
the taxes known by the denomination OF FL
Noveno, Excusado, and Tercias Reales,
being mortgaged fer the payment OF 10th
principal and interest.
A report from the civil governor of Sara
gossa to the minister of the interior, dated
the 18th, apprises him OF some disturbances
which had broken out on the preceding
night in that city, but had been fortunately
appeased before six in the morning, without
any other accident than one man wounded.
The report further al!udes 10 dispatch OF
the 29ih April, from the same tunctionary,i in
which be had gwen 10 the minister an &C
count of what had taken place in Ssrragossa
upon the arrival of camp-marsbal Haro, and
his confinement by the late captain general
of the army of Arragon, marquis de Lazan,
under pretence that the public tranquility
was threatened. 1t does not appear, how
ever, that it was disturbed at that tlme-but
the governor, aware OF the Vaccinations Of
some persons apparently interested III reall-
zing the apprehensions expressed, ioresaw,
then, that they would ultimately gain their
point, and had prepared the minister Tor it.
Now, as stated above, they have made the
attempt, and failed, and 80 of their under
lings have been secured. And yet, as pre-
cautions are never amiss, the governor oegs,
in'conclusion, that some troops may be sent
him by forced marches, in order to overawe
the disaffected, and to defeat any further at
tempt on their part.
A decree of the l4th, eWoins the execution
of on, OF The DEGREES of the extraordinary
Cortes, issued in Feb 1911, aud directing
orphan girls who marry wounded soldiers to
be porlioned, in preference 10 others, out OF
the funds bequeathed by charitable persons