The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

Spain has involved herself in a war with Morocco, at a time when all her vigilance requires to be exercised at home, to prevent a universal spirit of discontent from breaking out into action in her own provinces. The late edicts directed against the French inhabitants of Spain have (and little else could be anticipated) set the natives to enquire what this liberty is which provokes such a spirit of persecution; but the advocates for freedom in Spain have a stubborn foe to contend with in the clergy, who are a much more powerful body than ever they were in France; moreover, the French being expelled the kingdom, they have no philosophical leaders to urge them on; the Spanish people of weight and consequence being at present by no means remarkable for that liberal manner of thinking which has long distinguished their Gallic neighbours.