The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-08-26

employed tntrc several counties are sill
under the Instruction act. How fortunate
is America 10 be SO distant from all the dis
cord Of Europe
From The " York .1mericanl
Nina, according 10 an official despatch
of Nar-hal Money, has sustained a defeat
by which h: is said IL have LOST or 300
men and some'or his principal officers as
well ~ we can Judge, lie sllil however kept
the field. Balasleros, we are gricvcd IN
iind, has been compelled 10 retreat with
tbel,oss of 1000 men, from before SaSuntum,
aud 10 abandon the whole Kingdom of Va.
lsata. lie would not have time To march
upon Cadiz with any hope OF throwing
himself into that city before it was invested
-nor we fear had he sufficient force 10
induce him to risk battle for its relief after
thai event.
The ministers Of tie United States, Of
The Netherlands and Sweden, are SAID to
have remained at Seville at the last dates.
The Secretary of Legation ut the United
States might indeed, have been there, bal
our minister, MIR Nelson, WAS on his way
To Spain in The L. ). ship Congress, Capt.
sinally bound to Cadz but from the err
cumstance OF her carrying out Mr. Rodney
as minister Ia Bucnos Ayfes, where she
was, after landing Mr.. Nelson, To proceed,
1t nds thought more dccorous that she
should go to Gibraltar. This alteration, ms
things have turned out, may have been the
means of avoiding ii collision with the
French blockading squadron, which posi-
bly, might have objected to the Congress
entering Cadix.
Sir Robert Wilson, travelling quietly
aud unarmed from Oporto Ia Lisbon, had
been arrested 10y their jealous royaIlsts.
The state of Ireland appears 10 excite
the deepest apprehension in the British
government, and if there be not the gross
EST exaggeratlon in all the accounts we re-
ceite of the condition of that i'll tatcd coun-
try, wei may its oppressois irembIe.
Sir Nllllam Curtis, and other fat and
loyal Aldermen of the city Of London, had
protested against the gotr of the Common
Council of that city appropriatng sum
OF money To aid the Spanish Constitution
alists.
Ashocklns parirlde had been committed
in London b, Il Mr.. Griffith, who afterwards
shot himself 1t appears this wretchcd
man had been ON bad terms With his father.
a respective planter ef Babadocs, aud fer
merry Speaker of the House of Rcprcscn
tati'es of that island and after having
made several incnectahl attempts to sre
HIM, had been finally admitted by his father
To an interview OF which he took advan-
tase to commit the honid deed, he seem
ed TO have meditated, hy shooting his
father through the head with ii pistol and
afterwards blowing MS own brains out with
another. The monster WAS buried as 4
sei-innrdtrer IN cross road. The old
CEREMONY, however, of driving a stake thro'
the body was Dispensed with.
-'"evs.".
An Official bulletin dated al Madrid ON
the 18th of June, States that the terror
with which the march IF the French CO.
lumns filed the Goites, caused them to
DEPART from Seville with so much prccipi. |
tation, that they IcIt several millions in the /
Golfers, and great dead of plate taken
from the churches that there had been
great destruction among the troops. and .
that about i00G officers remained at So |
vile.
TE@ same bulletin announces that TN
Constitutional troops of Villa Gamma ard
Lopez Bdnos, who had retired towards
Honda, on being acquainted with the obi
Gus manner in which the king had been
carried away from Seville, had Dispersed.
abandoning their generals.
We know these representations to he
false, from the Information furnished in the
tadll papers of a letter date. Lopez Ba
nos catered Seville on the 10th, and with
ms troops, reduced the Royaiist populace
To order, after the departure of the King.
Official communications from him and1
' lila Campo, 10 the constitutional govern
ment at Cadiz, stated their several dl,i.
SONS TO he entire. 1t is possible that the
Cortcs left money and plate behind them.
as their removal was certainly precipitate
but it's not probGJle, as those articles were
likely TO be the first secured. The refusal
"t the King to depart caused DELAY of
eight hours. The intelligence of the an.
proach Of the French took the Cortes by
surprise. II Is evident. from their debates
that they dd not expect 50 much holiness
on the part of the French; and their So
cretdry at War, whether from treacbery