Letters from Madrid of th...
Letters from MlladridI of the 10stli inst. state, that SANTA CRUZ, the ex-Minister of El'ar, and the officers arreste(d with hinm, remained closely imprisoned. 'I'hc ex-Minister, who is in ill health, had sent an adflress to the KING, accompanie(d by certificates from his physicians, begging to be remnoved either to an hospital, or to his own house. His rcquest had been forwar(led to the Kia, wliho was then at St. Ildefoinso, from wvhence the C'ourt was expected to remeve to the Escurial on the 2-2d. FERDINAND was labouring under an attack of the gout, but still transactedl public business, which was chiefly confined to the distributioIn of or(ders an(d crosses, amiong the foreign Ambassadors. rhe Duke of VILLA HERMIOSA, Spanish Minister at Lisbon, has been honoured with the Grand Cross of the Order of' CHARL.ES I '1., for his late con(luct in that city. These letters communicate littlc on the state of Spain gene- rally, whlich is well knownl- to ba in the most (dc- plorable state possible, especially in those pla:'es which are without French troops. It grows more evidenit (aily, that nothing short of distribuitioni of soldicrs over the whole kingdomn, for whici the cntire Frenlch arnmis scarcely a(le- quate, can secure the tranquillity of that wrettched( couni- try. Deputies ha(l arrivcd at Madrid from (ordova and otlher citics of the first order, to solicit the presenec of Frcinelh garrisons for the preservation of the public peace, the beneficial effcets of which they ha(l witnessed in cther plac s, and werc anxious to enjoy similar protection.