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 at noon had cleared the land and lost sight of it, scudding fast before a prosperous gale.

"I reached Cadiz, after a passage, the shortest perhaps ever known, and walking up the principal street leading to and from the harbor, had the mortification to see the following advice or hand-bill stuck up, at some of its corners:

"PROCLAMATION.

"Cadiz, March 23, 1796.

"WHEREAS a most shocking, inhuman and barbarous murder has been committed some time in the course of this instant month on the road between this city and Medina Sidonia, on the body of Don Carlos de Grangez, a Marquis and Grandee of this kingdom, lately resident at Alcantara, in the province of Estramadura, and on taking due judicial inquisition on the said body, it has been discovered with its hands and feet cut off, and so much disfigured with wounds, gashes, bruises and blood, as hardly to be cogniza-