Daily National Intelligencer

Extract of a letter from a gentleman on board the Cleopatra's barge, dated BARCELONA, JUNE 8.

"You have undoubtedly heard of our movements in the Mediterranean, indeed you must have heard of us from every place at which we have touched—for the Cleopatra's barge is more celebrated abroad than at home. Even the Moors of Tangier visited us, though they abhor the Christians. At Gibraltar the Englishmen were astonished. In Malaga, Carthagena and this place, the Spaniards have been thunder-struck. For these four days past, the whole of this great city has been in an uproar. They begin to crowd on board at day-light, and continue to press upon us till night. This morning the Mole was so crowded with people waiting to come on board, that we have been obliged to get under weigh, and stand out of the Mole, yet the boats, with men, women and children, are rowing after us. Thus it has been in every place we have visited. In Port Mahon we were visited by all the officers of our squadron.

"Yesterday we were amused with one of the processions of the Church. It was a splendid show. The whole was preceded by eight giants, 4 men and 4 women, gorgeously dressed. Then followed music, friars, priests, people with lighted wax torches; children dressed in muslin and gold having wings on their shoulders, and strewing flowers in the way. Then the mystery of the real presence, carried on the shoulders of priests and others, burning incense before it. This retinue was two hours in passing, and the innumerable flags, standards and gilt devices, were almost indescribable."

The Cleopatra's Barge arrived at Leghorn July 15.