Daily National Intelligencer

As one of the curious means adopted by Ferdinand VII. to affiance his newly assumed power, we learn from Spain that he has sent out Missionaries throughout all the country to doctrinize the people who have been influenced by the late revolution. These Missionaries are Franciscan Friars, belonging to the Apostolical Colleges: some wear beards, and those who do not are called Fernandines. At a town twelve leagues from Madrid, one of these friars got up into the pulpit, and harangued his hearers on the subject of the late Constitution. He said it was heretical, jacobinical, destructive of religion, morality, &c. For a long time coughings were constantly heard throughout his audience till at length a tall whiskered muleteer, who could bear it no longer, got up and cried out, 'Father, this is not the Gospel; you were sent here to preach the Gospel and not a political discourse.' In an instant all the audience rose up, the poor friar took up his heels, escaped through the sacristy to the Curate's house, and being pursued, fled over the garden wall. The enraged people set fire to the Curate's house on finding their bird flown. This fact is not a small token that the minds of the Spanish people do not altogether accord with the views of Ferdinand and his friars.