Constitutional Whig

SPAIN.

The advices from Madrid are to the 16th of July. A private letter states that a decree will shortly be issued, setting forth that all persons who have belonged to Masonic lodges, will be required to give up to the police, with a delay of 30 days, their diplomas and other papers and documents relating to the lodges; and that upon having fulfilled this condition, they will be comprehended in the act of amnesty.—Those who refuse to comply, will have a month allowed them to quit the kingdom. Upon the expiration of this delay, all persons suspected of being masons, and at whose houses papers to prove it may be found, will be hung within 24 hours. The ultras consider this measure as a triumph and a pledge of their early victory.

Well informed persons say that in a few months the French army will recross the Ebro in Castile, and the Llobregat in Catalonia. It is certain that the formation of the army goes on rapidly, and all the tailors are employed in making up clothes. A new Ordinance has been issued to carry the Madrid royal volunteers to 10,000 men, and four regiments of the provincial militia are in march to be garrisoned in the capital.—It is rumoured that the Count d'Es pagne has been appointed Minister of war instead of M. de la Cruz.

A great number of persons who have arrived at Madrid from the provinces have been thrown into prison. Among them is the brother of Empecinado. We are assured that the Spanish conscripts of the new levy flee in numbers to Portugal, and the mere mention of the expedition of that country to America suffices to occasion a multitude of soldiers to desert. Many well informed persons think that the Baron d'Eroles will be the new Minister of War. Certain it is, that the Minister of the Marine, who is charged ad interim with the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, has written to the Spanish Consul at Bordeaux to contradict the rumour of the nomination of the Baron d'Eroles to the Vice-royalty of Peru.