The lovers of liberty have nothing to desire relative to Spain, beyond what is accomplished by the enlightened patriots of that country. Its south-eastern corner has been unhappily afflicted by the scourge of the yellow fever, which, it is presumed, the approach of cold weather will extinguish.

The following is the speech of the King on opening of the Extraordinary Cortes, Sept. 28.

Gentlemen,-Since I expressed to the Cortes my motives for believing it advisable to call an extraordinary meeting of the Cortes, nothing has so much engaged my attention as the desire to see them assembled. I now see them with the greatest satisfaction, and give myself wholly up to the pleasing and just hope of the good which the country will derive from their labours. The subjects which I have prepared to lay before the Cortes for their consideration are mostly such, the regulation of which is necessary for the more speedy consolidation of the constitutional system, snch as the division of the territory, and the best means of placing, according to it, the political government of the Cortes, the military ordinances, the plan of decree of the organization of the naval force, and the decree for the organization of the active militia.

I particularly urge you to place every thing in consonance with the fundamental law of the state, leaving the administration

free from all those serious embarrassments which it often meets with for want of this necessary harmony, and which the government cannot remove. I have also thought that some other points ought to be determined, which though not so intimately connected with the constitution, have a great influence on the general prosperity: such as the measures to be adopted to restore the tranquillity and to promote the welfare of the Americas, the examination and reform of the duties of customs, the means necessary to prevent the seric us loss which the nation sustains by the currency of false or defective foreign coin, ard the project of a decree in the charitable institutions. Though all the subjects that are going to be discussed by the Cortes are of so much importance, the fact itself of their being assembled to discuss them is still more so. This new proof and guarantee of the union which prevails between all the chief powers (of the state) must convince all the enemies of our institution that their efforts to subvert them will be vain.

I shall take advantage of the period in which the Cortes will continue assembled to give orders to propose any measure or project which may appear to my government necessary and u gent, as well as to ask their co-operation when circumstances may require. The field, gentlemen, is most extensive which is open to your zeal and your talents; an those qualities which so greatly distinguish you, combined which have marked all your deliberations, with the prudence and circumspection ensure to the country the completion of those advantages which it already owes to

"Notwithstanding the favourable influence of several years of peace, the situation of our manufactures does not present

in all its parts an aspect equally prosperous; yet several of the most important among them have increased in activity, and almost no-where does the want of employment give ground for well-founded complaints.

"The administration assumes every where in the provinces, as well as in the cities and rural communes, a more regular and more secure march. Improvements, which experience recommends to my care, become the object of my serious deliberation. The communication between different parts of the kingdom become more and more easy. That between the two seats of the court has been considerably ameliorated, and I entertain the hope that, with the cooperation of the provinces most interested in the result, there will be opened a new source of prosperity to trade, to agriculture, and to industry, by the construction of a canal between Bois-le.duc and Maestricht.

"Among the improvements on which the happiness of my subjects fixes my attion, I regard as most important the changes made in the direction of the waters of the Rhine for the purpose of preventing the disasters to which a considerable portion of the kingdom is exposed during the season of thawing or high tides. This object is at present subjected to a particular

examination.

"For a long time the discipline of the prisons has appeared to me susceptible of useful modifications, having caused the subject to be examined in its details. The report which I have received has confirmed me in the.opinion.

"Unforeseen calamities have afflicted some parts of our trans marine possessions, but it is easily seen that they will surmount their consequences; and we have reason to flatter ourselves that the importance of the relations of the mother country with

the East Indies will continue to increase.

"The produce of the revenue during the present announces results similar to those of the preceding year. If the produce of certain taxes is improved, others on the contrary have been less productive; and the experience of this year establishes anew how necessary is the revision of our financial system, if we wish to put an end to an annual deficit, which would in time destroy the best constituted state.

PORTUGAL.

The same fine spirit which animates the patriots of Spain, directs those of the neighbouring kingdom. A constitution, founded on law and liberty, seems likely to be adopted in both countries, in accordance with the best models and principles. The degraded Spanish and Portuguese names have, MONTHLY MAG. No. 360.

If the accounts from the fine isthmus of Mexico are to be relied upon, that Spanish province seems likely to kecome an independent state. A struggle has commenced, and as rights must always triumph over usurpations, there can be no doubt of the ultimate issue. The adjoining republic of Venezuela appears now to be established beyond the possibility of further disturbance. By the latest accounts the city of Carthagena, then besieged, was the only remaining possession of the bigotted priests and infatuated royalists. In Peru, the cause of liberty is in a similar train of success. The army of San Martin had defeated a division of the royalists, and the Viceroy was constrained to enter into an armistice, of which the following are the conditions:

Armistice concluded between the Commissioners of their Excellencies Senor D. Jose de Lacerna and Senor D. Jose de San Martin.

The Commissioners assembled in Punchanea to treat concerning the mode of putting an end to the evils of the war in Peru, convinced of the necessity of a temporary suspension of hostilities, for the purpose of fixing the bases of a negociation, and of concluding an armistice, during which an attempt may be made to remove the existing differences between the Spanish Government and the Independents of this part of South America; after having interchanged and ac

knowledged their respective powers, the Commissioners have agreed upon the following articles :

1. Hostilities are suspended between the contracting parties during the term of twenty

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days, reckoning from that in which the present armistice shall be ratified. The divisions of both armies shall preserve the positions which they shall occupy at the time that the ratification of the armistice shall be notified to them, and their parties shall not advance beyond the lines to which they at present extend.

2. If the above-named term of 20 days shall not be found sufficient for the fulfilment of the proposed object, it may be extended as far as shall be necessary to that effect.

3. As soon as this armistice shall be ratified, their Excellencies Senor D. Jose de Lacerna, and Senor D. Jose de San Martin, accompanied by two of the members of the Junta of Pacification, and other persons to be agreed on, shall hold an interview on some day and at some place to be named, in order that the difficulties that exist with each of the contracting parties being overcome, both commissions may proceed immediately to arrange a definitive armistice.

4. If by any unforeseen fatality the two contracting parties shall be unable to arrive at a mutual good understanding, hostilities shall not be renewed by either of them without two days' notice that the present armistice is at an end.

5. Their Excellencies Senor D. Jose de Lacerna, and Senor D. Jose de San Martin, on making the ratification, shall respectively give orders that each of the foregoing articles shall be faithfully and scrupulously observed. 6. The present armistice shall be ratified by each of the contracting parties within eight hours.

Given in Punchanea, at 5 in the evening of the 23d of May, 1821.

WEST INDIES.

Jamaica is suffering under a remarkable drought, there having been no considerable rain for 15 months, and scarcely a shower for several months previous to the last advices.

Same day the King arrived at Brussells. Oct. 4. A public subscription commenced for the families of Honey and Francis, the unfortunate victims of the military outrage at the Queen's funeral. Its progress indicates the want of due sympathy in the public.

5. A meeting of the electors of Southwark, held at the town hall, for the purpose of commencing a public subscription to indemnify Sir Robert Wilson. After a series of spirited resolutions, the chairman announced the receipt of £1326; £1250 having been subscribed by four individuals. It already amounts to £7,000.

16. Public funeral of Mr. Rennie, the celebrated engineer, in St. Paul's cathedral. The procession formed a line of nearly a mile in length. He was interred between Sir Christopher Wren, and Mr. Milne, the architect of Blackfriars bridge.

19. A fire broke out in Waterloo-row, Surrey Road, by which 3 houses were entirely consumed.

Continued accounts have been received within the month, from Barcelona and its neighbourhood, of the afflicting ravages of the yellow fever, which appears to have carried off from 1 to 200 per day, and to have destroyed great part of the population of Barcelona, Barcelonetta, Tortosa, and other places.

News has also arrived of a tremendous hurricane in New Hampshire, by which houses and trees were blown down, and great damage suffered.

MARRIED.

J. H. Markland, esq. of the Inner Temple, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Francis Freeling, esq. of the General Postoffice.

W. H. Cotterell, esq. to Miss H. Rebecca Lester.

Mr. N. Parker, of Tokenhouse Yard, to Eliza, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Euglish, of Woburn.

Mr. H. R. Alwright, of Coleman-street, to Miss M. Row, of Reading.

Maximilian J. Wolf, esq. of Jamaica, to Maria, daughter of Hymen Cohen, esq. of London.

T. Maling, esq. to Frances Sophia, daughter of the late W. Hunter, esq.

J. H. Turing, esq. to Antoinette, second daughter of A. J. Ferria, esq.

Mr. John Parkinson, of Hoxton-square, to Miss Tompson, of Leicester.

C. Whiting, esq. of Brixton, to Miss Louisa Swaine, of Leverington, Cambridge.

J. Hewitson, esq. of Mile-end, to Rebecca, youngest daughter of Capt. Pinkney.

E. Hawkins, esq. to Emma, only child of J. H. Gell, esq. of Chelsea.

J. Brissett, esq. to Mary, youngest daughter of the late Dr. Scarlett.

Mr. C. K. Gardom, of Epsom, to Miss S. Paley, of Reigate.

Thomas Dalton, esq. of Dorking, to Miss Sheppard, of Horsham.

Mr. George Gottlieb Schneider, to Sylvia, second daughter of Thomas Lamb, M.D.

Joseph Bishop, esq. of Bedford-square, to the youngest daughter of the late Dr. Berkley, of Writtle, Essex.

Charles Lean, esq. of Fenchurch-street, to Miss Emma Cleghorn Proctor.

Mr. Thomas Steed, of Kensington, to Miss Harriet Battin.

John Fuller, esq. R.N. to Mary, fourth daughter of Solomon Davis, esq. of Ep

som.

Thomas Ausell, esq. to Miss Munro. The Rev. E. James, perpetual curate of Mortlake, to Sarah, eldest daughter of F. Reeves, esq. of East Sheen.

Mr. James Helps, of London, to Ann, youngest daughter of the late Rev. James Plucknett, of Wincanton.

Henry Charles Hoare, esq. of Barnes Elms, to Mrs. Price, youngest daughter of the late General Ainslie.

B. R. Haydon, esq. historical painter, to Mrs. Hymon, of Stonehouse, Devon. Mr. Charles Hart, of Farnham, to Miss Smith, of Bentley Green.

Mr. Henry Dede, of Altona, Denmark, to Sarah, widow of Mr. T. Hearn, jun. At Barnes, Charles Stewart, esq. of Rothsay, to Miss Leake, of Barnes.

Capt. James Kay, to Miss Mary Dixon, of Durham.

Charles James Beverley, esq. to Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr. G. Payne, of Harley-street.

W. Davison, esq. of Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, to Miss Sarah Waring, of Panton-square.

John Hurles, esq. of Canterbury-square, Southwark, to Miss M. A. Stapleton, of Greenwich.

Mr. Jones, architect and miniaturepainter, to Miss Susan Butler.

At Croydon, Mr. Walton, solicitor, to Miss Frances Farmer, of that place. DIED.

In South Audley-street, Col. E. Ander

On Clapham Common, E. S. Wright, esq. of Hull.

In Chancery-lane, 28, Mrs. Sarah Rebecca Crosier.

At Upper Holloway, 54, Mr. William Oaks, sen. of Houndsditch.

At West Hill, Wandsworth, Mrs. Charlotte Howard.

At Lisson Grove, Mary, relict of Barnard Gregory, esq.

At Hampstead, Catherine, wife of Charles Barton, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, highly esteemed by all who knew her.

48, Mr. W. Arch, late of Cullum-street. At Little Chelsea, 32, Frances, wife of Thomas Stoneham, esq.

At Islington, 69, Mrs. Emma Priscilla Carpenter.

At Tooting-lodge, 63, Rees Goring Thomas, esq.

In the Stable Yard, St. James's, 65, H. F Grabecker, esq.

In Long Acre, 73, Mr. F. Le Grix.
At Dulwich, W. Smith, esq.

In Gower-street, J. Franklin, esq.
At East Acton, 76, the widow of B.
Hemming, esq. sincerely lamented.

T. H. Lamb, esq. of Golden-square and Tittenhanger Green, by whose death without issue, large estates in Leicestershire, Sussex, &c. descend to Sir J. B. Burgess, bart.

In Chandos-street, 64, C. Munro, esq. At the Paragon, 72, Hannah, relict of the late G. Gwilt, esq. of Southwark.

In the Regent's Park, 74, R. Bath, M.D. formerly an apothecary at the corner of Dean-street, Oxford-street.

At Walworth, 58, G. Bayly, esq. T. Calvert, esq. of Grafton-street. At Islington, 22, Maria, youngest daughter of Richard Oakley, esq.

In Portland-place, 58, Michael Atkinson, esq.

In Theobald's Row, 82, Mrs. Ann Gosley.

At Kensington, 35, Mr. George Serjeant. In Hanover-street, 69, Lorenzo Stables, esq.

In Rathbone-place, Mr. G. Crane.

At Peckham, 67, the Rev. George Gibson, A.M. of Carlisle House, Lambeth. In Fleet Market, 70, Mr. W. Bedford. On Ludgate Hill, Mrs. Mortimer. In the Strand, 40, Mrs. Ponten. At Highbury Park, 71, Benjamin Hopkinson, esq.

At Lambeth, Mr. Sheen, proprietor of the Three Stags, universally regretted by a numerous circle of friends.

Af Ashtead Rectory, 64, Rev. W. Carter. At Roehampton, the Hon. Emily Ann Agar, sister of Viscount Clifden.. At Sunbury, 64, Mrs. Andree. At Bramley, Mr. W. Rudge, jun.