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Incidents in and near London, 



in the House of Commons, after a most 

 able speech, moved that tlie present 

 state of the representation of the peo- 

 ple in parliament required the most 

 serious cousideratioii of that House ; 

 which, after a long debate, was nega- 

 tived by 280 to 169, a f^jreater minority, 

 however, than has heretofore supported 

 this great question. 



SPAIN. 



Early in the month the Bourbon 

 haiiditti, accompanied l)y a train of 

 Spanish monks, and their ignorant 

 worshippers, entered Spain on tlie 

 north-west frontier. Tiie policy of the 

 Spaniards being to allow these slaves 

 and fanatics to extend their line and 

 divide themselves, the Spanish army 

 under Ballasteros has fallen back to 

 the left as the others advanced; and 

 hence these latter have pushed for- 

 ward, with trifling opposition, even to 

 Burgos. They have left St. Sebastian 

 and Pampeluna in their rear ; and, at 

 the former place, the garrison re- 

 pulsed an approach by a considerable 

 slaughter of the banditti. At Logrono 

 on the Ebro, also, a small corps of 700 

 Spaniards opposed some resistance; 

 but were forced, by superior numbers, 

 1o retire. Oudinot, Duke of Reggio, 

 who once made a figure in honourable 

 campaigns, disgraces himself by lead- 

 ing tlic advanced bodies of these in- 

 vaders of a peaceful nation, and tlie 

 left wing is assigned to Molitor, a 

 name which once was respectable. 



Old Marshal Monccy, who served 

 under Dumourier in Chanipaigne, 

 commands the south-cast army ; and. 



[May 1. 



on the I8th, his division entered Spain, 

 but also met with no enemy. 



If these invaders were to be per- 

 mitted to enter Spain, and Were not 

 attacked as they deserved in Frange, 

 ripe as that country is for insurrection, 

 then, perhaps, the best plan is to allow 

 them to scatter themselves, and so 

 destroy fhem in detail. We entertain 

 some apprehensions, however, from the 

 general ignorance of the Spanish po- 

 pulation, and the consequent inilu- 

 ence of the monks who follow in the 

 train of this legitimate banditti. 



The king and the Cortes, however, 

 have removed to Seville; and, all that 

 can be effected by activity and patri- 

 otism, will be performed by Mina and 

 Ballestcros in the northern provinces. 

 Spain is now in the exact moral and 

 public state of France in 1791-2, when 

 France was invaded with equal wick- 

 edness by the Prussians and Austrians. 

 We hope Spain will also have her 

 Dumouriers, I'ayettes, Barreres, and 

 Carnots, and will equally avenge her- 

 self on slaves, who, by wanton inva- 

 sion, place themselves without the pale 

 of the law of nations. 



Those of our readers who desire 

 to see a true picture of the invaders, 

 and their monkish auxiliaries, should 

 consult Thier's late Travels in the 

 Pyrenees, 



PORTt'GAL. 



An insurrection, fostered and excit- 

 ed by the despots and priests, in the 

 northern provinces of this free kingdom, 

 has happily ended in the destruction 

 of those engaged in it. 



INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, in and near LONDON, 

 With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 



CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 



APRIL 4. — A general meeting was held 

 at llie London Tavern, of tlie fi lends of 

 a general Steam-vessel Company, for the 

 purpose of tradins, and carrj ing passen- 

 gers to and from foreign ports. Mr. 

 JoliiTu stated the objects of the meeting, 

 and moved a resolution, that the snbscrip- 

 lion be kepi open imtil the ?4lli of Jtuie. 



— 7.— Mr. Fysho Palmer, m.p. for 

 Reading, obtiiiued 2001. dama<;es, from the 

 .Sheritl's Court of Snrrey, of Mr. Nicholas 

 Bull, for a false and wanton libel. 



— 9. — lntelli!.'pnre received, that the 

 Tennessee steam-boat, bonnd from New 

 Orleans to Louisville, was lost, and 30 

 passengers drowned. 



__ 9. — A respectable nieelins of mer- 

 rhanis, and ijlliers roncerned in the wool 

 and woollen trade, was held at the King's 



Head Tavern, in the Poultry, to petition 

 parliament for the repeal of the Tax on 

 Foreign Wool. 



— l.i. — AboiitSOO of the freeholders of 

 Middlesex held their anniversary dinner at 

 the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, to cele- 

 brate the return of G. Byng and .S. C. 

 Wliitbread, es(|rs. 



— 16.— Intelligence received that a 

 dreadfid fire had happened at Constanti- 

 nople : — 12,000 bouses, three extensive 

 barracks, thirty mosques and chapels, and 

 nearly 400 boat*, were consumed, and 400 

 persons lost their lives. 



— 17. — The Catholic question virtually 

 lost iu the Honse of Commons by au 

 adjournment ; but, previous to the divi- 

 sion, many uiembcrs v^itlidrew in disgust. 



— , A (■(iinmittre has recently bcfu 



established iu London to aid the Greek 



cause ; 



