The Virginian

Spain.—By the Brig Washington, from Cadiz, we have received the following letter from our correspondent there, dated the 7th August. It fully confirms the previous accounts we had received through the London and Paris papers of the present abject state of the peninsula:—

"You are no doubt anxious to know what is doing in Spain. This famous nation, which formerly shone in all the glare of ostentatious wealth: she that poured the vial of her wrath upon the helpless inhabitants of the southern continent: this holy land, where the son deposes the father, where brother offends against brother, and whose flag is the symbol of despotism, disgrace and slavery. The time has arrived when the wicked deeds of former days meet with that sore retributive justice which assuredly follows tyranny and oppression. Ferdinand is losing his power; the monks have deserted him, and cabals are formed in favor of his brother, whose wife he has seduced. A body of French troops have entered Castile to support the adulterer upon his tottering throne, and the French flag waves in triumph on the harbour of Cadiz. French officers execute the laws which are most agreeable to them, and the Spaniards sneak about the streets with fear and trembling. Misery and distress are at every corner; swarms of famished monks devour the substance of the land: and, in short, all the evils which can result from ignorance, superstition, and bigotry, reign wide through this degraded land.

"The quarantine laws are very severe. No vessel from New York and the ports south of it, can enter the harbour until the 50th November. Vessels from Gibraltar performed eight days quarantine, from Malaga and other ports of the Mediterranean fourteen days, from Boston and our northern ports ten days, if not containing cotton or colonial produce. The ship Factor, of Salem, captain Floyd, from Antwerp in ballast, is not allowed any communication with the shore, because she had landed a cargo at Antwerp, from Havana. No British man of war is allowed to anchor until examined by the health boat. These restrictions, combined with many others, have reduced the trade of Cadiz to nothing; the walls of the city are falling down in many places, and almost every house has a bill upon it "for sale or to let."

"An expedition is fitting out at Corunna against the Colombians. Eight sail of transports, under convoy of a sloop of war and brig, will leave here in a day or two to join the force at the above port."