Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-12-21
From The Boston. Palladium Of December ID.
FROM SPAIN.


We last evening received Via Provi-
dence,) Gibraltar papers to the 26th of
October, from which we have extrac-
ted the following interesting articles:
The Madrid Universal, of the 18th
Of Oct. publishes translation of pa
ragraph from the Journal des Debats,
which has given rise to many conjec.
lures in Paris, and has been variously
spoken of in Madrid. The following
are extracts
"The troops who hitherto had form.
ed the Sanitary Gordon, have taken the
name Of Army of Observation ;" and
this Is TO declare, with the frankness
and dignity becoming a great nation,
the new reason Cnsurrection in the
Spanish provinces bordering on France)
for their remaining on the frontiers af-
ter that for their first assemblage had
ceased. This new denomination offers
nothing hostile, offensive or threaten
ing. On the other hand, the govern
ment of Madrid has lost all right to
complain, since it openly encourages a
system of insults and threats againet
France, end particularly against the
Royal family.
1.-The government of Madrid cannot
deny the state in which the provinces
of Navarro and Catalonia now are: &
to demand, that we should leave our
frontiers exposed to plumber and assas-
sination, would be the same as to re-
quire US to open our ports to the plague.
''If France should think herself
bound to interfere in the internal dis
sentions of Spain, she would so say
without fear, and would come forward
without disguise. 1t does not appear,
that any power whatever is inclined so
to interfere. The policy of Europe does
not desire the re.establishment of the
anc lent absolute monarchy but it may
be hoped, tina, from the conflict of par
ties, better order of things will arise,
end that Spain, generous, patriotic and
religious, but unfortunately little skill
ed in the art of Legislation, will be a.
BILE, by the assistance of her own iDtel-
ligence, and by means of her own eff
forts, to free herself from the yoke of
revolutionary theories, whose incom-
patability with social order, and espe-
cially with vast monarchy, composed
of many heterogeneous provinces and
people, is admitted by the authors of the
Constitution Of Cadiz themselves"
The Redactor General, of the 18th
of October, under the head Of Statls-
tics, for the third quarter of the year
1922, article Commerce, afirms, that
&" the state o. the Commerce OF the City
ofCadiz declines rapidly to It's ruin
This melancholy prospect is sufficiently
notorious, and it may be asserted, that
daily may be perceived. the lamentabie
effects of the decay, and almost exter-
mination of the mercantile establish
ments Of this city. From these sad ex-
amples. may be inferred the necessity
for the adoption by the superior powers
of the most efficacious means to renee
DIV evils of such nature, and upon
which the Consulate have made such
repeated and energetic representa-
tons"
The mail from ST. Roch for Gibral-
tar has been robbed.
Sitting Of the Cortes of
| the 18th of Oct.
The report from the committee OF
War, upon the memorial presen I'd to
the Cortes by the Secretary of that de-
partment, was taken into consideI1-
ton. The committee states that the
picture drawn by the government III
that memorial of the state of the pro
vinces bordering on the French from
tier is correct: and, that it appears, lst,
That the insurrection of those provin-
ces has become so strong as to require
forcible means to repress it; and Cd,
That measures of pacifcation have
hitherto produced no effect.
The committee proceeds to state, that
France has furnished the means Of sup.