The Cortes will probably remove their sittings in a short time to Cadiz, where they will assemble in the church of St. Phelipe Neri, the place in Cadiz best adapted for the purpose. As it is not a parish church it will be ceded without difficulty by the confraternity to which it belongs. Your Lordship may remember that it is a handsome _rotundo_ of modern architecture, with capacious galleries. Above the altar of the principal chapel there is a celebrated ‘Conception’ of _Murillo_; I mention this circumstance to assist your memory in recollecting the place. I enclose a very well written address to the deputies of the Cortes which was published here three days before they met; the author, tho’ the initials of the name were not subjoined, your Lordship would readily know to be Quintana. He has not been elected for the Cortes. Capmany is one of the deputies for Catalonia. The last decree of the _Junta Central_ which you had the goodness to send me was not suppressed by their successors; it was circulated here in manuscript. I read it a few days after it was passed: it was not printed and published, but its not being so did not, in my opinion, arise from any improper motive. The truth is that the _Junta Central_ were and still are held in such universal abhorrence that anything coming from them, were it ever so good in itself, would have been ill received by the public. The only member of that body to whom no public odium has attached is your friend Jovellanos. He has retired to some corner in Asturias; it was reported some weeks ago that he had been named deputy to the Cortes from some parts of that province, and the intelligence gave great and general satisfaction. Garay and a few others are still here, but seldom appear in public. Valdes is in Gibraltar. Tilly and Calvo close prisoners in the Castle of St. Sebastian. Villel in Catalonia, and the rest I know not where. Riquelme, who, to avoid the effects of the popular indignation, had taken refuge on board a Spanish frigate commanded by Dn. Raphael Lobo, was the only person killed by the fire of the French batteries on the Trocadero when the frigate, having been driven from her anchors during a violent storm, grounded within reach of the French batteries and was at last set on fire by red hot shot. I enclose a number of the _Conciso_ (a new paper published here) which has just come from the press; the account which it gives of the proceedings in the Cortes differs very little from what I have written above. The assembly of the Cortes, tho’ late, is a most fortunate circumstance; it affords the only hope of saving the nation. The single circumstance of the Regency having been appointed by the _Junta Central_, would for ever have prevented them from obtaining the confidence of the public.