Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-06-21
From the Brilish Press, .4prsl 90.

FROM th6 6T2ttM FTeSS, .dpTtt 20.
Paris papers ofFriday last have arrived at
our office. It is very evident from many cir
cumstances obscurely and indistnctly noii.
ced in the Spanish news conta med in these
papers, that there still exists in Spain an UNI
easy feeling in the public mind. threatening
| the tranquility of the country with the most
serious consequences. II would appea, that
| certain persons, iancying themselves friends
to the king, have disseminated rumours, par
ticularly throughout the army, that Ferdi-
nand, in adopting the constituticA, acted un-
der the influence of immediate violence that
his personal safety was endangered, and the
religion of the state outraged and degraded.
These circumstances we can collect fro N a
letter of instructions addressed by the king
to certain officers of his army, in which he
tells his troops, that, in adopting the cons,i,
tuition, be was subject 10 nc constraint; and
also from proclau alton addressed by &C.
neral O'Donoju to the tloops in garrison at
Cadiz, whom he exhorts not to listen to false
and idle stories, assuring them that The king S
person was sacred and invioable, and that
their holy religion had not been outraged
The regiments were marched out of Cadiz,
and stationed within the lines of the Cor,a-
dura and the walls Of the city. Their f.
deliiy to the new order Of things was sus-
pected ,and considerable apprehensions were
entertained in Madrid in consequence of
General Cruz de Mourgton having marched
suddenly upon Xeres with three thousand
men.
In the kings instructions to the officers, he
complains of some expressions disrespe ctful
10 the constitution which had been used by
one fhis body guards during tue night OF the
18th, in Madrid and We are informed in a
short note appended to the letter of instruc-
tons, that the king aIudes 10 riot which
had taken place at the Cub Lorencin,. This
club, our readers are aware, is composed of
the most active partisans Of the constitution,
and il is not improbable that if " the powers
that be- would suffer the journals to notice
the affair more circumstantially, we should
hnd that some OF the club were insulted by
the soldiers as the enemies oil the king. The
troops and people of Spain are for the most
part devotedly attached to the ministers of
their religion, who, in consequence, exercise
great influence as well in public as in pri-
| vate affairs. The success of the present re-
volution, by destroying the tremendous pow
er OF the luquisltien, and con6scsting its i'm
nense wealth, threatens severe blow to
the domination OF the priesthood and it is
therefore to be expected that this numerous
aud intriguing body OF men should endeavcr
by every means in their power TO excite the
| people and soldiery to counter revolution,
and no preiences are better calculated to et-
iect this object than to represent royalty out
ragged and oppressed, and religion insulted
and degraded, its property the spoil of sac
riiege, and its solemnties the sport Of here
sy and atheism. The kings declaration,we
nope, WIFI counteract the Vaccinations of his
worst enemies, and preserve Spain from the
violence OF civil contentious 10 which such
proceedings must necessarily tend.
committee, composed of the leading
members Of the opposilicn in the French