Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser

Norfolk, Dec. 7.—Captain Hatton, of the brig Undaunted, arrived here yesterday, in 35 days from Cadiz, states, that the day he sailed, 28th October, being at the office of the American consul, a gentleman called in, and after some conversation in Spanish, which he did not understand, departed, when capt. Hatton was informed by our consul, that the purport of the conversation was, that a severe battle had just been fought in Catalonia, between the constitutionalists and royalists, in which the latter retreated with great loss. Capt. H. did not learn any particulars.

Captain Hatton represents the state of Spain as lamentable in the extreme, convulsed with internal dissentions, and misery and want every where manifest. Nothing was doing in Cadiz, and the people almost in a state of starvation. Assassinations, robberies and murders were matters of every day's report. The streets were continually thronged with mobs, and combinations forming hourly among the hostile parties, to facilitate the purposes of mutual destruction.

Capt. Hatton brought papers to the day of his sailing, but we did not receive any.

Markets at Cadiz, dull for American produce.