Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-03-19

e'ic"' mas acquired ceSree of conirma-
non by the ARRIVALS Of yesterday. Among
'hesr ~ said to he letter from Paris, stating,
upon the authority Of telegraph despatch
rom Madrid, that Ferdinand had granted.
OF pretended to grant, the privilege of which
we spoke, and that therefore the maritime ma
IONS oithe world might, with his permission,
lre,ght vessels direct for all the ports Of Peru :
Ch,l', Buenos Ayres, and Mexico.
MADRID, Feb 1.-The King of Spain has
signed an Act, by which he acknowledges a
deot I" France Of thiriy-f,ur millions, and he
sss'sos as security the Salt Factories OF Ar
ragon, and the Custnms of Miranda. The
departure Of the Bady Guard Is suspended.
me .4Mhor Of Horerisy.-We have been
informed land we think from the names eiyen
us az authority, our readers may consider the
Information trne) that the author of IVayerl.y
mas contracted with his bookseller 10 furpi.f,
MN with three novels year for three wears
ana mat he rs to have ten thousand pounds
year Tar the supply, and that four novels hn,e
actually been delivered IA per contract.
Globe and Traveller.
The pRFsIDENT's MEssAGE.-The Lon
don Courier of the I9tb January. speakinp of
the Message of our President to Congress, re-
marks p ~ -
we consider it not Mt all unlikely tina.
J me Message oi the President of the IJni,pu
States will give umhrage To the Russian CO.
vernment. To trLth. the tone Of that Message
| Is very decidedly hostile 10 the exttaynpant
preiensions of Power, which. with ALI ina.
Sinabie GOODNESS, contemplated the turning. by
Russian Ukase, of the Pacific Ocean into a
RUSSIAN Lake.-We have reason TO believe
tnat the explanations which have taken place
ue'wern our own Government, and that Of
Tie United States, upon the subject of the
message, have been of the most satisfactory
KIM. we believe, also, we NAV venture 10 as
sure our readers, that upon all ;he grea, mea-
snrts now cngrossIng the attention Of Eurone
and the u. States, this country and Amer;c,
understand each other perfectly and are upon
the best possible footing"
Accounts from Madrid, SAYS The Liverpooj
Mercury, present dreadful picture of the
situation OF that country. A decree of the
fyrant has d"omed to the galleys. for ten
years, all those who were Alcaldes during the
constitutional system The Marquis of Santa
Cru1 Is included IN this atrocinus decree AT
famFelnna the tribunals have been dealing
thelr terrors TO women: proceedings were
instituted against some liberal ladies'. accused
OF having sung liberal songs and declared
against the absolute system, during the Consti-
tut'ona' Government q lady, named Sarasa.
was accordingly banished at her own cost
from Navarro, and four years' imprisonment
TO follow return TO the district another
Josepha Maria Alfonso, WAS sentenced to two
years imprisonment, and 1000 livres fine; The
widow OF Echrrerria, 20 Years Of age to six
years exile, and to be conducted out OF Ma
varre al her own expense another of these
ladies', Madamoiseile Ilarigue was doomed TO
Iour Years Imprisonment, and fne of $500
francs. AT Saragossa, ten helpless indiyidu-
ais were sentenced to imprisonment of from
three To ten years, IL is said that these ex-
cessrs have produced such q sensation That
were The French troops not in Spain, Ferdi-
nand's tyranny would not endure for a week.
Alter The surrender of Pamprluna num-
Der %! ladies were arrested under pretance of
aitachmentto the constitution, and subjected
10 trial. principally, it is thought, with "a view
to plumber Several were severely fined. and
10 he imprisoned for four years. The sister
0f General Nina, whose husband was killed
III one Of the batteries during the siege, was
sill IN prison, and her trial was 10 have come
on asst week, when nothing could avert ac-
coro'nS TO the information received, her being
sentenced to The hulks at Malaga. The only
crime of this lady was that Of l,-ing General
Mina'a sister. A great uumber of ladies.
nom Old and young were in the prisons of
Pampclnna when the letters were dispatched
which was on the 3th instant.
CnSa irujo, the Spanish Prime minister.
Died about the middle of January but NO
new measures are anticipated from this event
In the cabinet at Madrid.
The South American Q,.esiion.-A French
paper (fhe J,urnoi des DeJats) announces that
Viseount had left Paris for Madrid, not as
an ambassador, but on an extraordinary
mission to The cabinet of Ferdinand" The
London COURIER ON this fact, remarks -
" What the object ofthis mission may be, we
shall not attempt To- conjecture but were We
called upon TO hazard one, we should think il
lkeiy That he is the bearer of some important
communication respecting South America
we SUSPECT the Presidents Message To Con-
gross, has worked great change 10 regard to
medltaied schcmrs, not so much on account
ct what The President says. as because it is
pretty generally believed Mr.. Monroe would
not have held quite such decisive language. if
there had been no previous explanatinus he
tween The Cabinets of London and Washing
ton" m Y M az