Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1823-07-19
FOREIGN.
important News from Europe.

Neac Fork, June tf.-The new line
packed ship New York, Captain Mar
lceU, arrived AT Al O'Clock this fore>
noon.--By this arriva! the editors Of the
. Commercial Advertiser have received
their regular files of London pa pA.s to
the evening OF the 3ist of May, aud
Liverpool Of the 4ih Of June.
FRANCE AND SPAIN.
We fear that our hopes of the sue.
eessful resistance of the Spauiards ars
d'saPpointed. and the misgivinss that
we have occasionally expressed, more
than realized, In other wurds-that
the most efficient of the Spanish Chisf
are deserving the cause of the Consii.
tuition, and dissraeing themselves b,
measures which in effect will be thu
same as embracing the part of the M .
raders. The reader will fad below
three documents Of great interest the
hrst is letter OF tbs 11ih of May. from
the Count de Montilo, to the Count d.
Abnbal, calling upon him TO declare
himself independent until the King
shall! be released, and asserting tina sto
put in practice the Constitution of fsf :
Is Phy-ieaily and morally impossible ::
IN Other is the answer of Count d'A.
oia6si, dated the 10Th, declaring ssthai
The majority of the natisn does not de
sire to continue the Constitution Of IS.
~, add suggesting the adoption of
the following measures, viz:
4. TO notily to the Duke D, Anson
iems that the Spanish nation, in CON
cuFrence with the King, would alter
their Consultation.
.. To bring back the King TO Ma.
drid.
8. TO e' invoke new Cortes.
+. That the King should nominate
a new Ministry.
o. That general Amnesty, shonll
be published. The substance of this
letter was pIacarded through Madrid
on the f6,h of May, and on the 18th
the Count a 1isbal issued Proclaim.
tion which ~ilI be found below ex-
bortinS the inhabitants to receire fhe
french army as. friendsi On this sui.
ject, as the Courier remarks, Some We.
Ty important consideration IL, whether
Abisbal has acted in concert with the
other CONSTITUTIONAL Generals, or whe
Their, having the defence Of the caDita,
entrusted to bin, his surrender of it
has been merely an insulated act of ne.
sotiation. If we are to suppose the
former. then we should say, there re.
mains no chance Of Spain making a
successful resistance but, If the latter
should turn out to be the case, then.
whatever may have been hitherto the
probabilities of ultimate triumph, they
will not be materially diminished by
the traDsaction.'
The Paris Qaotidienne, speaking Of
this news, adds, that the Sou bern pro
vince of Ia Maneha ia in fui lnsurrec-
ton against the Constitution; that Fer.
dinand is expected shortly at Madrid,
and that Abisbal is believed 10 have
acted M concert with the Generals Mo
milo q BaliasterOs. One thing is VERY
evident, whether the war be brought to
a close IN consequence of this turn of
affairs, as the LoDion papers oil pre-.
dicfi or not, there has been a lsmenta-
bic want of something in the Spanish
eabinPt-they have certainty shown
more energy in writing than fighting.
The morning Chronicle # the 2Stb.
states positively, that tie defnitiye
formation of The new Spanisb Min,sir,
has taken place, subject on which
there has been some hesitation, and.
We might add, m4uy iDtrigues. Tn.
names are as fotIows M. Perez de
Castro, Minister Of State NJ. ZaTco
del Vale, OF War ri. Calatrava, of
the interior; NJ. Yapdiola, Of Finance:
NJ. CePaz, of the N Wy /; sDd NJ. w
dIlo, OF Uitra-mafine Affairs, The
two latter have been in their place for
some time. The Minister Of Grace &
Justice has not been named.
We have proceeded TINS far, before
our papers OF the Stst Of May reEched
Us. The Sun of the latter date. az.
sures The pnblie that what they "baye
previously said respecting negotiations
between France and the new Spanish
Ministers has been confirmed; that they
are now actually IN progress, and that