National Gazette

Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated
April 22.

"Many of your people will wonder at
the dissolution of the family compact, the
ties of religion that formerly held Spain
and France together, and our new junction with a power with which we have for
centuries been on bad terms. The mat-
ter will be plain when it is said, that in
France becoming a free and republican
nation, Spain evidently sees the emancipa-
tion and independence of all her vast po-
ssessions in America. The event is dread-
ed here universally, and those who dare to
think (for speaking is out of the question)
are convinced that it is not remote. Your
Mississippi will then be free, and your flag
appear in ports of your adjoining conti-
nent that, while dependent on old Spain,
will ever be inaccessible. One thing is really
wonderful that England has so far over-
seen her interest as not to unite with
France in hastening the freedom of Ame-
rica, which would be immensely to her ad-
vantage in a commercial view of things.
But this it is thought will yet be the case.
when the people there are governed by
their own voice, and not by the voice of
the court."