Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-03-16
Nsw- York, March IL.

Cashier.
Neg York, March IL.
LATE AND IMPORTANT NEWS.
The London Statesmen of Saturday 29th
January. states, that the Prince Regent had
been confined to his room, during the whole
week, by the prevailing severe catarah OF
the season, but was better on that day. A
mother paper mentions, that he had so far
recovered as to proceed to Windsor to at
tend the bed of his dying father and soYe-
reign.
Advices from Morocco TO the latter part of
December, announce the assassination OF
the Viceroy of Fee. II is stated, that the
Moors attacked the Viceroy at the!door OF his
palace, put him to death, and then tore his
body in pieces.
The same advices mention, that the
plague bad entirely subsidized in Barbary.
On the subject of the lnsurrection in Spain
seyera! letters from Madrid will be found "a
mong our foreign extracts. In addition to
these letters, which represent Madrid as be-
ing in state far from ffsnqui, the different
Paris papers contain the following:
The Gazette de France says Our cor
respondent at Bayonne has transmitted to
US, under date ofthe Goth inst. copy ola
mother letter q Madrid, of the I4th by
which II would appear thai the rebels have
taken possession of Cadiz. The revo, Of
the infantry regiment of Suria, and of three
squadroo' of cavalry, Of which two were
Royal Caribaheers, it is represented, had
decided this success of the rebels. The
same letter says, that the constitution was
instantly proclaimed in Cadiz, and that the
oathS IN ITS favor were taken at the Town
House. II is added that the merchants had
given grand banquet to the civil and mi.
iitary authorities, and that the insurgent for.
ces amounted already to "a, O0Ome The
editor however, expresses his doubts of the
correctness OF this account. At least, he
thinks It exaggerated.
The Constitutional remarks The news
from Spain continues to be alarming, as ei.
iec;ing the Spanish government.
The effective of the insurgent forces is
now estimated at "a, 900 men, exclusive OF
a great amber Of citizens who are ready TO
take up aru's. A private letter says they
are in Cadiz.
1t is confidently asserted, that when the
conference between the Insurgents Chiefs
and Gen. Freyre closed, the former offered
him battle, which the General refused.
King Ferdinand, on appointing NJ. Frey
ere, General in chief of the army and Cap
tain General of Andalusia, conferred upon
him unlimited powers, Amongst the in
structions given him, there is one, the tenor
OF which proves how far events and the OPT,
mons OF the provinces in general have
changed The spirit of his majesty's councils.
II is affirmed, that gen. Freyre is authorised
TO offer TO the insurgents. in the name Of the
King, formal Constitution.
Notwithstanding the affected silence of
the Ministerial journals ofthe affairs of Spain
sour government does not appear to regard
them with indifference it has to-day (the
25th inst.) despatched an extraordinary
courier to its Charge d'Afairs at Madrid,
with instructions.
" It's asserted that, at the solicitation of
The Spanish Ambassador, two French ships
ofwar, have left Rochefort to cruize near
Bayonne, and to remain there in observa-
tion.''
The Independent, of the S6th January,
IN postscript, dated at 10 O'Clock, P. NJ.
says Letters from Madrid Of the 9Th in
s'An', announce, that the king of Spain, bet
i ausisea than hitherto appears disposed
- dissolve his Ministry, and to pronounce
"'nS's IN iavor ofthe constitutional regime. >
AoS'ces from Lisbon to the l7,b January.