The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-10-17

LONDON, Sept.
The following are the new ministerial
arrangements
First Lord of the Treas
NY, Lord Goderich
Chancellor ofile Ex-
chcquer, MIR. Herries.
Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. Lord Dudley & Ward.
Secretary of state for
the War and Colonial
Department, Mir. Huskisson.
Secretary of State for
the Home Department, Mos. of Lansdowne.
Master General of the
Ordnance. Marquis Of Ang'esey.
Lord Chaucelor, Lord Lyndhurst.
President Of the Council, Duke of Portland.
Lord PriyY, Seal .,,,.r, II OF F'''i 81 I'll
Trade and Treasurer of
the Navy, AIR. C. Grant.
President OF the Board Of
Control, MIR G. w. Wynn.
Secretary at War, Lord Paimerston.
Chancellor of the Duehy
of Lancaster, Lord Bexley.
Master of the Mint, Mr. 1ierney.
Surveyor of the Woods
and Forests, Mr. S Bourne
Secretaries to the Treasury-Mr. Panta and
MIR. Courtenay.
Junior Lords of the Treasury-Earl Mount
Charles, Lord I. l.. Cover, Lord Eliot, Mr.. NJ =.
Fitzgerald. Mr.. Macnaughten
Admiralty Council Boarl-Sir G. Cock urn,
Mr. Denison, Sir w. Hope, MIR. Keith Douglas
The Duke of Clarence aud Duke Of Yelling
ton, (the former os Lord High Admiral OF the
Fleet, and the latter as COMMANDMENT Chief of
all his Majesty's Military Forces,) being COM
pletely independent OF the Cabinet, we, of
course, have not eassed them with the ordinary
Ministers.
SPAIN. The accounts from Spain, in
the French journals, continue to assume
every day more threatening aspect. The
whole of Catalonia is in open Instruction,
and the rebels, under self-styled Captain
General, enter almost every town, and car
~ off the arms of those who refuse to Join
or to aid them. The government has mt
length assembled troops to contend against
the difficulties and danger which every
hour assumed more serious character,
Meanwhile, the Colombian privateers in
suit all the coasts of Spain, blockade al
most every port and seize upon almost every
ship which attempts to make its escape.
Private letters from Barcelona, of Aug.
u, say" Although the administration Of
the police has passed into the hands of the
Apostolics, yet the wishes of our warlike
Catalonians are not yet satisfied They
say that they will not lay down their arms
until the Government shall have re- estab-
lished. the Holy Inquisition, and banished
all those who filled any Office under the
Cortes. Jap del Estanys is besieging the
fortress of Berga. This chief of the reb
els has raised the mountaineers as son,nte3,-
es, companies of armed men, raised bv
province for its own defence.l More than
5000 men, armed and unarmed. already
the town. Our authorities have
also learned. that the commandant of the
fortress, in order to increase his forces.
which are insufficient for its defence. has
taken the precaution of arming all the in
habitants, who formerly served as national
militia, under the banners of the Cortes.
It is certain that if the place does not re-
,eive speedy succour, the garrison will be
orccd to open for itself passage by force.
I It be at all able to pierce through the
anks Of the enemy.
Saphes, better known by the name of
1aragol, is making progress also every
lay. The check which he sustained on
he 10th inst. near Piera, by the movable
olumn of the 10th of the line, under the
riders of Don Julian Losada instead of
,eakening his band, seems to have given
new strength. The loss of men Killed
nd wounded in the melee, has been repair
d by an accession of two hundred fresh
scruits. From the enyirons of Vich to
rose of Barcelona, nothing is seen but a
roWd Of small bands scattered abroad like