London, Saturday, Novembe...
The Times, 1824-11-06T00:00:00

The Frenclk papers of Weldnesday, which arrived last night, are nearly barren of political intelligence. The Infanta Donna MIARIA FrANCISCA, the sister-in-law of FERDINAND, has presented the Royal family of Spain with a son, who is named FEFDINAND. It is stated in a letter from Madrid, that this event, which in ordinary Circum- stances would have occasioned some festivity or public re- joicing, has not at all broken the melancholy tenour of suffering and alarm to which that devoted city has been subjeet for the last 18 montlis. The Intenidant-General of Police had consulted his iMIajesty FERDINAND on the ex- pedietncy of banishing the heads ef 4,000 families fromn the capital. His iMlajesty referred the mnatter to the Council of Castilc, which declared, in answer, that such a procceding wYould be contrary to the act of amnesty. 'The authority of tlhis Council for the present prevailed. The most lamentable scenes of cruelty and persecution are described as afllieting nearly cvery province of the Peninsula. By the express whlich brought the papers of Wediieslay, we received the following letter:- "PARIS), Nov. 2. "For some months past the French Cabinet bas been debating whether the Army of Oecupation should be withdrawn from Spain_ Ii.measure which muany setious reasons rendered almost necessary. Oine of the principal was, the conduct ef tlhe Spanish Governnient, which refused to yield to the influence of the French Cabinet. The ;deplram1le state of the Peninsula-the anarchy that prevails in it- the arbitrary proceedings, and the disorder of its administration- the rigorous decrees of Ferdinand-convinced our iMinistry and the slministers-of the Holy Aliance, that extraordinary mneasures were asrgently caUed for to bring Spain back to a happier situation. Many stroposals were m.ade to Ferdinand' rMinisters; an amnesty was desired which ehould not be a list of prosedption, a new mode of government; the recognition of a part at least of the loans of the Cortes-iushort, iecurities for a-eturn of abetter order of things. A11 these proposals have beea of no avail, the influence of the Apos. -tolic Junta which governsthe Peninsula has oplposedinsutnountable ,ob ptacles to the re-establislment of order, ' The continuation of the abode of the French army in Spain ~would bave lcen considered as a sanction given by France to thc course foliowed by the Supreme Authority in Spain; and France could nQttake upon itself such a responsibility. It has therefore )een decided in the last Councils of the. Alinisters, that the army shsll leave Spain, except 22,000 neft, wio will occupy Cadiz, Bar. celona, and St Seba;tian. These 22,000 man willnot be considered as an army of ocedraiion: there -riiU be no -Genral.in.u3ief nor Intendant-general. These troops, except-those whicl remain at Cadizi being all in frontier towns, will be provided w7ith all they -want by the French military-Boards, in the sanme w4nher as those in ,the interior af the kingdon. Thii measitfc will reduce, by 800,0O0 .franasper month, tfe, extiaoOdinary c*penses for the army, whicl liave amounted hitherto to2,C0,00. All the contracts negotiating -f6rthe supply-of tbe troops in1 825 bave beepnsuspended. Several expresses have been sent to Madrid to aniounce this important de. eision. "The Frencb Miniitry is atill the object of the attacks of all par- t k. Te most decisiveranwer it can rnake i, thatit stiU subsists and that it is nhiw very difficult to dete2rmie the Jiifitt of its durn. I tion. The King might, perhapt, have yielded to the iolkiitatie which came ftrom all quarters, liadl he not apprehended that-by chan, ing his. ministry,he shoul only give rise to new remonstrances as urgent as those which have been addressed to him everrince lie hba been on the throne. It certainly was not difficult to ptull dowA whi already existed, but to know how to replace it. de Villele, await- ing his destiny irn lis palace, smiles at hia numerous adversaries. " Messrs. de Corbiere and Peyronnet have made no change in the mode of their administration; and the other Mlinisters, of whom no- body speaks with harshness, seem to take no interest in the war of the journals and coteries, the result of which may, however, en- danger their plitical existence." LONDON. SATURDAY, NOVEBJfBR 6, 1824.