The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-08-06
FOREIGN NEWS.


from the New-York Evening Post, July &c. I
Spam.-Files of the London Morning
Chronicle to the 10th June, received at
Philadelphia, contain statements and an
ticipations respecting Spanish affairs,
much more favorable than those of the
Paris and London Ministerial journals
The Spanish Gazette, published at Sc
vile from Goth May TO list June, COM
prises the journals of the proceedings
of the Cortes, reports from the various
divisions of constitutional troops, and &C
counts of the political and military
movements in different parts of the Pc
ninsula, among whichis an official report
of the occupation of Valencia by Ballas-
tercs. There are also various des-
patches from Nina in which he gives
details of his marches through the rug
ged and mountainous region of Catalo-
mia, in order to battle the plans Of the
French, and keep them occupied in that
quarter. On the 9Th May, he routed
body of Spanish royalists and French
troops, with but small loss on his
part.
After the DETECTION of Abisbal. and
the occupation of Madrid by the French,
the orators in the Cortes announced, in
eloquent speeches, their resolution 10
perish or live in perpetual exile, rather
than submit to foreign dictation; and in
this language they seem to have been
seconded by the whole body. The fol-
lowing extract from an official govern
ment circular, issued at Seville, on the
9th May, to its diplomatick agents in
foreign countries, speaks a language
very different from that of disposition
to compromise matters with the French
cabinet:-
'sThe Spanish government, pledged
in the face of a nation, generous, though
distracted by foreign intrigues, to sup
port not only her cause but the cause of
mankind, will either triumph over its
bastard enemies or fall with glory and
honour. 1t would be false to its most
sacred duties, if it did not energetically
raise its voice on so great an occasion.
1t should, and does solemnly protest, in
the face of the world, against the mon
strous Pretension of one powers right
to interfere in the domestick concerns
OF another, set up and acted upon by
the Cabinet of the Tuilleries. 1t pro-
tests against the establishment of an I'm
lawful, seditious junta, or any other pa
geant of a government which may be
substituted for the true one; and it de-
clares absolutely null and void all the
acts and arrangements of such psgeants ::
1t consigns these enormities to the exc
Grafton of all governments, and all ma
tons, and Of posterity.''
The Seville Gazette of the 26th
May contains the following decree =
"Don joaquin Anduaga. minister
plenipotentiary Of MS Majesty in the
United States Of America, haSins de-
serted bis post, and Joined the enemies
of his country, His Majesty has resolved
to strip him forthwith of his honours
and distinctions, and has decreed that in
case of being taken, he shall be Judged
according to the laws.o
From the New-York Evening Post, July %.
London papers to the evening of the
10Th, and Liverpool to the 2lst June,
have reached US by the British brig
Minerva, in 35 days from the latter
place.
France and Spain.
The latest official intelligence from
Madrid is contained in Telegraphick
despatch of the 18th June, received at
Paris on the 18th, by which it appears
that the French corps, destined for Sc
vile, had previously begun their march,
and were advancing slowly and with
great precaution. In the route, they
had encountered some scattered parties
of the Constituencies, who so far
from joining the invaders, and, no way
inundated by superiority of numbers,
gave them battle in every instance. Of
one of these affairs, which took place
on the 7th June, and in which the
French took two pieces of cannon, and
200 prisoners, the Madrid Gazette, set
up by the Regency, speaks in the fol-
lowing bombastick strain -
This glorious action, which will &C.
CELEBRATE the release of our king from
his captivity, has filled the inhabitants
of the province with the greatest Joy -
The only farther notice, in these docu-
ments, of the patriot troops in this quar-
ter, is the following laconick article !:
An enemy's corps is entrenched al Te-
ruel; Bailasteros is in front of Valen-
cia." It is added, that the French ad-