Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-08-08

more onformaLle 10 The representative consiilu-
honsJ The other monarchies Of Eirope-aDd
wishing tn give the said Infant IN additional
proof Of the confdenceI have in him, have
resolved that he shall be called into the de
partinent of war, when any important bust
ness relating tO the army is under discussion"
The Cadiz Espectador of the Goth says
"Why should We not expect, notwithstand-
Ing the trials and conflicts which all lovers of
Their country must now meet, that the cause
nr liberty s. independence will triumph? We
have yet five armies, and hold possession of
all our fortresses; we are yet masters of two
thirds OF the soil of the Peninsula; we have
The king and executive government and the
Cortes IN our island, safe from the numerical
superiority OF our enemy--we have national
honor, steel a I'd arms Without money, arms
or government, we contrived to destroy the
armies OF Napoleon. Those who reasoned
from probabilities in our last war of indepen-
dence, found themselves at the end of a few
years complete mistaken"
General Lopez Banos was appointed, on
the 18th June, Political Chief of the depart
ment OF Seville. He levied IA contribution of
$4,000 upon the ecclesiastical council of the
city, as retribution for the excuses committed
10y the popu!ace. The havoc committed in
the plumber of the effects of the goyernm ent
aud individuals, embarked on the river, was
immense. The Cortes decreed that the first
opportunity should be taken of inflictng the
se'erest punishment upon the rioters.
AT sitting of the Cortes On the Goth
June, the President of the Deputaton who
waited upon the King at Seville, to announce
the determination of the Cortes 10 remove,
mentinned that lac had forgotten to relate that
fiis Majesty, after refusing TO 20, observed
That" as an individual he would make am
KIND otsacriics, but as king he could not IN
his conscience"
On the Goth the Cortes sent a committee Ia
The king $ To feiicitale His Majesty upon his
happy arrival in Cadiz." la short time the
committee returned, and reported, that they
had performed their GRAND, and were recrv-
ed 10y the King with his usual goodness. His
Majesty thanked the Cortes for their atten-
ton
On opening the Cortes on the 18th June
The Speaker pronounced this short address.
III, IN our removal from Seville To this city,
we presented no idle and costly array of po.np
To the nations, at least we offered to their ewes
the great spectacle of the public liberties led
iOrth under the auspices and safeguard of the
sworn representatives of the people. This
example and our sacrifices will not be lust
no: the people will blush not to initiate them
and woe TO the treacherous invaders of our
soi, II the bitter cry of our outraged country
shou'd awaken and electrify the pride aud
plety OF her sons ! Let US then proceed in
kindiing the patriotic fame and now that we
are happily stationed in the very cradle of the
Constitution which we defend, let us initiate
the constancy and magnanilniy ofits trainers,
To deserve with them the gratitude of Spain.
WIN such virtues, they saved it then--with
such virtues, zoe may save il now Shall we
be wanting in them Ibeliere not"
A decree of the King of Portugal, dated the
xyh E,;Ik II
Majesty entered Lisbon triumphantly, calls
back all the arms, ammunition &c, delivered
rom the arsenal to the battalions of national
guards TO enable them TO keep order in the
city and cooperate in His Majesty's most aus
picous return.
The Lisbon papers of the 18th June an
nounce that the new order of things in Pur-
tusal 1.-THE restoration of Legitimacy meets
with no resistance in any part of the kingdom.
but on the contrary, had been hailed with en-
thusIasm. The Cadi2 editors assert, how ever,
from verbal information, that much discon-
tent and disorder prevailed among the Portu-
guesc.
On the 18th June, the King abrogated, by
decree, that article of The convention of the
9Th March, 1898, between Spain and Portugal,
by which it was stipulated that the insurgents
of one country taking refuge in the other,
might be pursued thither. The decree forbids
Portugal and u'ce rerSa it says:
AS for those who are STYLED in the said
article the factious, they are truly the worthy
Portuguese who declared themselves the FIRST
defenders of the throne and enemies of
the revolutionary faction, whose iron yoke
has brought so many calamities and almost
total ruin on this kingdom"
The following paragraphs are from the Lis
Ton Gazette of the 1Slh.
:" The Charge d'Ailaires of III. NJ. i. Ma
Jesty at the Court of Paris, has arrived in this
capital, with all the members of The Legation
in consequence of orders from the late govern.
mcnt."
Is 1t is ascertained 10 be the desire and will
OF the King TO re establish as speedily as pos-
sible the relations of friendship and national
interests with all the sovereigns of Europe.
The most suitable measures to this end, will
be Immediately adopted
An agent from the districts under the COM
maDd of General Morllo embarked for England
from Corunna on the 9Th of June, to procure
a supply of muskets and ammunition.
The CadiZ editors express great indignation
that on the birth day of King Ferdinand, the
Brigand BesSieres, as they call this parizan,
should have been permitted TO appear by the
side Of the Duke d'AngouIeme in the uniform
OF Spanish camp marshal The French
officers and soldiers are said not to be able to
conceal their contempt for their allies of the
Hrmy ofMe Faith. Constitutional Guerilla par
ties lowered in the immediate neighbourhood
of Madrid.
The text of the 187th article of the Consti.
tuition, under which the Cortes created the
Regency, when Ferdinand refused TO go TO
Seville as king, is this: