The Sun. — London, England, 1823-07-22 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS. .jßrom the Moniteur of Saturday.] • ARMY 'OF THE PYRF,NkES.—BULLETIN. " Conformably to the orders of his Royal High" •ness, the troops of the 2d corps have continued :their movement against the army of Ballasteros. That army, which still consisted of 8 or 10,000 men, had its principal forces assembled at Murcia, occupied Orihuela and Albaterras, its right bear in z upon Alienist and Cartliagena, and its flanks covered by_various corps of partisans, all bearing the •aripititr4acti of an intention_. , to sje.foti,d t hat. important poSition. Count Molitor hesitated not to attack it, having then with him only the division of I.overdo ; his advanced guard hav lug at MOE., the enemy retired pre i.:ipitately upon Lebrilla, and at the same mo. 'meat the regiment of Lorca infantry, With its . : "officers and colours, passed over, to our sideto the cries of Long live Ferdinand!' `Phis' ex ample was followed by the regiment—of the ..Queen (cavalry),- and these 'two corps,• at •their owsi request, marched the next day 'with our troop, partaking of their lively desire to en- : counter the enemy. Count MolitOr arrived on the 7th at:Murcia, where lie w tik received with the greatest enthusiasm ; it had been the same in the fine and rich country lie had passed.— The same day his troops took the route of Car thagena, in 'the 'direction of Lorca, when the enemy retired., having lost more than 2,000, men by defection. The 2d corps continues, its Move- Ments in Gienada. " General Foissac-Latour, who left Madrid with some troops composed of cavalry and in fantry, is now at Carolina,marching towards An dujar and * Jaen, to cover the entrances (de bouches) of the Sierra Morena, and to serve as a reserve to the force in Andalusia. " COunt BOrdesoulle, having formed the blockade of Cadiz, by guarding the coast from Rota to Conn, occupies himself incessantly with prganizing a: - flotilla, both in -Seville and the ports, in Order to complete the blockade by sea. ably seconded by the Count de Bourmont, who for that purpose is established at Seville, as the by Rear-Admiral Hamelin, commanding the fleet, and already many light vessels cruize before t4e place. Fifty boats, intending to in -traduce grain, have been taken. or I.ispersed, and our marine has captured a colonel and a dozen ptficers of artillery, who were proceeding from -Cadiz to Ceuta, for the defence of that place ; it has also delivere4 150 Royalist prisoners, who 'were "sent there to the works. " The inhabitants of the mountains of Ronda having announced to General Bordesoulle than thk town was occupied by a battalion of revolu tionary infantry under the command of Colonel rd Assuejo, who appeared well disposed, a ling of truce was sent to him, and immediately the officers and soldiers declared for the service `of the King. " The inhabitants of Andalusia continue to . give proofs of the excellent spirit which animates thena th'ey frequently arrest the emissaries of the enemy, who have not been able to organize any corps. the greatest disorder appears to reign - at Cadiz. " Count Bourck has entered Galicia ; he was on the 7th at Villaftanca, and will arrive on the 10th at Lugo with all his troops. 11;very thing leads to the belief that General Morillo is-en tirely seNrated from quiroga, and is now , united with General Bourck. General Longa has re established order and quiet in the Asturias. " The troops charged with the blockades Con', truce to shew their constancy and devotion. The garrison of Parnpeluna having endeavoured to snake two sorties on the sth, they were vigo -rously repulsed by the 2d light regiment and by the troops of the Count d'Espagne, who have -produced a considerable loss to the enemy in killed and wounded. 4"PIVO brigades of .the 2d corps of reserve have already entered Spain ; the one is for Cata lonia, the other to be employed in the blockade .. qf St. bast*. Marshal Lautlston has esta blished his head-quarters at Ernani. A. Spanish vessel of war which sailed lately from Corunna, to transport 160 Royalist pri soners to Cadiz, has entered Wilma, having been - ceptured by the same prisoners who revolted, and adopted for their leader a French drummer, who partook of their .captivity. They overpowered their guards, to the number of qti, as also the captain and pilot of the vessel. • By order of his Royal Highnehs, ".The Major.Oeneral, Count GUILI I ENIINOT. "lead-quarters, Madrid, 12th July, 11323." [From the POlle.] ROYAL ORDINANCE.-4401/IS, &e. On the report of our Mipister Secretary of State for the department of the Interior. Having haci under our consideration of the letter addressed qn the Ath inst. by our cousin the Duke of itoc.hefoncault, to the Prefect of Polite, we have ordained and ordain as follows " Art. I. The functions of fuspector 7 General of the 'lnstitu tion for the promotion of Arts and Xrade, of 111 ember of the council-General of prisont ) ,of the Council-General of Manufac tures, of the Council of Agriculture, of the Council-General of Iltzpltula of Varis, and of the Council-General of the De.: p!trtment ofl'Oise are hereby revoked. " Art. 2. Our Alinieter Secretary of State for the department afthn Interior is charged with the execution -of the present Ordinance. " At our Cams.% of the Tuileries', July 14, of the year of Orace 11323, and of our reign the 29t11. (Sigrc►ll " LOUIS. (Cou►.tersignedj " CORBIERE. " The Minister Secretary of State for the department • • of the Interior." The following is 4 copy of the letter of the Duke de la Ruehefoucault which has provoked the rigorous decision ( but just and worthy of a firm and Royal Government) which has been adopted towards him : LIANCOUUT, 4. me " air—f have received the letter which you have done honour to address me, enclosing the Ordinance of ,his - Majesty relative to the Special Council of the prisons of Paris. i have long expected the suppression of this Council, whose activity and vigilance- may possibly. thwart the secret views and arbitrary acts of the Government, and which its creation imposed upon it the duty, of opposing by all the means in its power. Impressed with the evident inutility of the phantom of the n•oposod new Couficil, I have deternuned to solicit your ac.. ceptance of my resignation, and that I may act henceforth be ranked amongst its members. " Receive, Sir, the assurance of my high consideration. (Signed) " Tbe Duke 'de LA ROCIIEFOUCAULT.I? " To Monsieur the Prefect of Police." The Journal des 'Mats contains, under dote of Frankfort, July 11; a long extract from the Protocol of the Sitting of the German Diet of July 3, which contains an account of the re port made by the Minister of Wurtemberg, of the execution of the Decree fulminated against the German Observer. It will appear from the following concluding passage of the answer of the President of the Diet (Minister. from Austria), that it is trtn'the'suppreasiOn'il 'ode Paper that the measures of the Diet are to be limited : • " The Emperor and King, my master, has done justice to the conduct Of his representative, and to the resolution of this illustrious A ssembly, founded on the federal law of Sept. 20, .1819 ; and his Imperial Majesty has tliought fit for the present todiSpepse with the execution of the order he had previously .given, to direct, at the same time, the attention of the Diet to other Journals, edited in a manner not less dangerous and per turbative such as the Gazette qf the Neckar, Annals of Mar chard, and National Chronicle of the Germans, because his 'Majesty supposes that a sentence pronounced according to the laws of the Confederation, against the German Observer, will make Journalists more circumspect, and censors more vigilant. " The Minister President has consequently heard witlk plea sure the declaration that the 'Government of Wurtemberg, highly disapproving of some periodical papers which appear in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, proposes to stop the abuses of the press by severe censorship regulations; which prevents for the future, in a manner conformable to' the objects of the Con federation, the degeneracy of the press." [From the Pilule of Slunday,l PARIS, JULY 20.—The Journal de Perpignan, under date of the 12th, states that Mina has died . by vomiting blood.— Letters of the same date contradict the news, and other letters dated Barcelona, the 13th, say nothing . of uu event whazh, if real, would have occupied all men's mtnds. Military men of experience wonder that there were not pri- Sobers taken in the first affair of Barcelona. From Pont du Rol to Barcelona is four leagues. The enemy was, according to-the bulletins of Marshal Moncey, in an entire rout over all that space of grourtd. ft is surprising that a great number of prisoners were ndt left in our hands. Among theguerillas between Madrid and Seville is one corn. posed of 3 or 400 national militiamen of Madrid, commanded by the former Political Chief of Huelva.. This corps occupies the country of Niebla, and when pressed retires into the Sierra.. Morena, with which its Chief is well acquainted. (From the Constitationnel.) • PARIS, .11/L1'19. 7 -The career of arbitrary power islierilous. A first step draWtt those who precipitate themselves into it much further. ISI. Itrawalon was condemned to a correctional pu nishment for an offence of opinion ; he was fastened to a criminal suffering dreadfully under a contagious disorder. He was thrown into a prison containing criminals whom society repels,anti jus tice brands. A thousand generous voices were raised, tut it was answered, that'equality exacted the same humiliations and the same dungeons, as it it were to be believed that there was no distinction haween faults of the imagination, or errors of judgment, and baseness of soul, or depraved sentiment. A member of the Council. General of Prisons, a highly philanthropic institution, destined by power itself to watch over the errors into which it is too much inclined to fall, has corrected the inhumanity untertuaately so familiar to the agents of its rigours ; he caused the dungeons to be opened; he published what he witnessed, he made the generous accents of incent de Paulo be heard, and however infallible authority may believe itself to he—whatever repugnance from a false pride it may have to acknowledge a fault, the public voice has been so powerful, it has spoken so loud, that the man of letters, confounded with criminals, has been conveyed buck to the first prison from which lie was forcibly taken in a way so little con formable to our manners. Soon, however, as it 'were an indemnity for the constraint of a homage rendered to opinion, a nee/ Ministerial Or dinance appeared, proclaiming as an abuse the attributes of this Council of Prisons, which had, through the instrumentality of one of its members, made an appeal to the generosity of power and to the public sensibility. This Ordinance having been communicated by the Magis trate charged with the police, to the Duke de la Itochefoucault Liancourt, the latter thought that his interference would be thenceforth illutiorY. and that a paralysed Council could nb longer be useful to misfortune ; he therefore sent in his resig nation ; lie received the next day a letter from the Minister of the Interior. to which he sent an answer that will for ever re main a model of dignity anti true BASLE, JULY 11.—The Swiss Diet opened at Berne on July the 7th. The Avoyer de Watteliwyrpronounced a very temperate discourse on this occasion, which is to be printed,-;- The Foreign Relations of Switzerland were mentioned in gene ral terms only. Several important communications from the. Ministers of Foreign Powers have, however, been made, and communicated by the Avoyer to the Deputies. PERPIGNAN, .ItILY 10.—Mina is still unwell at Barcelona. There u js a considerable degree of sickness mong - the French troops in Catalonia, and the more than ordinary number of sick at present is said to be caused by pursuing i\Lina over the Mountains. BAYONNE, JULY lg.—A courier, who left Madrid on the 7th, has hiought intelligence Wet a serious engagement has taken place near the Isle of Leon, between the Constitutional troops and the french. Two companies of artillery were im mediately dispatched from Seville. Monsieur de Stances, Aid-de-Camp of the Duke of Angou leine, was killed in the engagement. HAMBURG!! AND BRUSSELS PAPERS. - - TAT.T9TERS, APRIL 25.—At the 'beginning of this year a new rebellion had nearly broken out at Fez, which was pre vented only by the energetic measures of the present Emperor, Muley Abderaman Ben His Chane. One of the ringleaders was strangled, and his body nailed to the city wall ; s.ven others were - beheaded, their bodies cut in pieces, and thrown upon a Six thousand negroes, who had to guard, in the city of Mo rocco, a treasure of ten millions of piastre belonging to the late Emperor, have taken possession of the money, anti refuse to give it up to the present Emperor, who has not yet employed force, but has entered into a negociation with the negroes. An English physician, sent by Lord Chatham; the Governor of Gibraltar, is gone to Fez to perform an operation on the left eye of the Emperor, which is affected by a cataract. lie is ac companied by M. Belzoni, who purposes to visit Tombuctoo. ,IlEttus, JULY 12.—Lord Clanwilliam has had his first Audience of his Majesty. ST. PUTERSBUITGIT, JULY I.—The Conservateur contains a Note from Prince Galitzin, in which he invites the friends of humanity to contribute to the relief of the inhabitants of White Russia, who have been afiiicted with scarcity for some years, in consequence of the failure of successive crops. His Majesty has assigned large sums for their relief, and the contributions of individuals have been considerable ; but the state of these provinces is such as to require t'urther N u REblnUltG,Jurx 9-•.-A note is said to have been deliver ed by the Government of Hesse Cassel, in which it is declared that the Elector is firmly resolved not to make any concession with respect to the claims of the holders of domains in the king dom of Westphalia. ilnusfswicic, JUT,Y 6.—One of the most remarkable pe. nods in the history of Brunswick is approaching to its conclu sion—We Government of his Majesty George IV., as guardian of the young Duke Charles Frederick A.ugustus who will assume the Government on the 30th of October next, when he enters into his 20th year. What has passed since the 10th,of July, .1815, to the present time, will be recorded with honour in did history of the country, and is now most gratefully acknowietiged. The very heavy debts contracted during the war are paid. The public academies have had additionoi professore appointed, the salaries of the elder public (Accra, and in fact of nearly all, much improved; the build ings on the Crown estates, and those of the convents which were dilapidated during the occupation, have been mostly repaired at an annual expence of several hundred thousand dollars; the pub lic causewaysputin good order ; the env irons of Brunswick and the city itself so much improved, that it is nov one of thehandsomest in Germany. The first wish of the country, viz, the establish rnent of the Assembly of the States, has been fulfilled, and they have been organised in a manner suitable to the present times. The administration of justice has been' greatly ameliorated, the taxes consequently. reduced, and yet there has been a surplus of revenue to begin the payment of the public debt, and a fund provided for the farther annual reduction. This has had such an effect on public credit that the 4 per Cent. Bonds are at 103, and can hardly be had at that price. The inhabitants; therefore, look with gratitude on the Government of George IV. who on his side has at "all times heen satisfied with them, as he has been pleased to express in the most gracious terms in a Ileseript, dated Carlton Rouse, linh June, 1023, in which he accedes to the reqmst of the States to honour them with his portrait.— The people wait with jtetful expectation the government of the the young Duke,, confidently hoping that he will continue and complete what his Royal Guardian hips so ,ulaiir,d4 begun and in part fittisl :d. SPAIN. REPORTEP:p:FEpTioN OF A gPANISII CORPS. itepoitT or bt:STERAL VILL,ACASPA TO TUE MINI., STFII. OF WAR, AT CADIZ. " MosT Excut.LENT Slit—l have uniformly stated to you, in all the reports made by me since the departure of the Government from Seville, that that event had-produced a very mischievous effect on the country ; and the scantiolous , tion which has taken place from the small body of troops that proceeded to these head-quarters evidently proved that it shared the same spirit. " Nevertheless, I find, by your Excellency's answers, that Government pay no regard to so great an evil, and that no measure is adopted likely to soothe this anxiety, and arrest the terrible calamities with which we are threatened. The evil in creases, and hope dirninishr.: ; and as every honourable man invested with authority ought to express his sentiments with frankness, so I deem it to be my duty never to cease impress ing on the Government the necessity of convincing the Cortes that events chew every day more and, more that the conduct they pursue is in direct opposition to the manifest opinions of the country. " I begin with this declaration, being solicitous to induce your Excellency to take into your most serious consideration the circumstances which I am going to state to you, and which prove, in the most positive and evident manner possible, the truth of the assertions contained in my preceding dispatches. To-day, when we were about to begin our march for Bornos, it being broad daylight, two and twenty privates and a trum peter of the regiment of horse of Almanza overthrew the sen tinel posted at the door of the inn where they had been quar tered, and proceeded, sword in hand, towards •the road of Co ronil. When clear of the town they halted, and got ready their combines, and thus assuming a hostile attitude, they waited till they could be joined by those who had not in the first instance been able to accompany them. This sufficiently shewed that they entertained no apprehension of being attacked by the picquets of Aleantara, Bourbon, and the remains of the com pany of Santiago, which form my escort, even though I, with my Staff, had placed myself at their ‘head. Being aware of this circumstance, I was unwilling to put to the test the suspi., cious fidelity of those who - as yet follow me. It was to no pur pose that the officers endeavoured to dissuade them from so great a crime; for, so far from heeding the officers, they even threatened to tire on them. This defection, Most Excellent Sir, cannot be charged upon their being ill provisioned, for they are supplied in advance with an abundant day's ration; nor on excessive fatigue, for they have not had any ; nor on too rigorous a discipline. Neither could it proceed from a persuasion of their going to be shut.up in the Isla, for they had seen that the column which was proceeding thither had previously marched for Xeres. '"rheir motives, then, Most Excellent Sir, could be no other than this, that they saw at, one and the same time war waged against the foreigners and against their own countrymen ; for several towns treated them in a hostile manner on their march, and, doubtless, they will hear from the peasantry no 'other lan , guage than that of seduction, as since the appointment of a Regency, and the removal of the Government to Cadiz, the public opinion can no longer be pronounced. A laryie portion of the people are convinced that it is the cause of a facti:tn which we defend, rather than the cause of the liberal principhe on which the Constitution is founded ; the more so, as it' is now openly observed, that those who were most tenacious. In their refusal of coming to terms, and who, having been Inv vented from forming a conspiracy, hastened the tempest which is sinking the vessel of the State, have been the first to place themselves individually in security against it, " Considering all this, Most Excellent Sir, having only such means, and being rsduceed to such critical circumstances, I am so far from being able to answer for the success of the opera tions confided to me, that, in my estimation, the moment is not very far distant when I and my whole Staff may become vie. tiros to the resentment of troops who think they are about to be engaged in an anti-national war. " I hope your Excellency will submit the above to his Ma jesty, and favour me, by the bearer of this statement, with his Rbyal resolution. Clod preserve your Excellency many years. (Signed) " PEDRO. VILLACAMPA. " Arcos, June 19." REPLY TO DON PEDRO VILLACAMPA. " MOST EXCgt.I.ENT SlR—The King, in pursuance of what your Excellency states in the letter dated the 19th inst. respecting the state of the army under your orders, and' of the country in which it ix operating, has thought proper to relieve your Excellency from that command, directing it to be given to Lieutcnant.General Don Joseph de Zayas, named Com. wander of the Second Army of Operations' I communicate this to your Excellency, by order, for your government and coniplianee. Clod preserve your E x cell ency many years. • (Signed) FR4NCISCO MORIO. fe Cadiz, June 21, 1823. ' . . P9KTUGAL. L!SIION", JULY _ Gaz•elle contains a Decree of. his Majesty to the following effect feee " besiring to give a public testimony to the officers and the other individuals of the corps of the division of the Count Ama- Tante, who first raised the cry of fidelity to my Royal Person in the province of Tras-oseMontes, as well as to all others who, • animated Lly the same loyal sentiments, afterwards joined the same division to save the country from the terrors of anarchy, into which it was hurried, as it were, by a disorganizing fee. tion, I think fit to give t o the said off icers, of every degree of rank in the annexed list. signed by M. lg. hl. Pamplona Cote Real, my Minister of War, a gold medal, havirer on on e s id e the legend, " Heroica Fidelidada Troomontana," and on the other my royal effigy. The subaltern officers, cadets, and privates, to have a smiihir medal of silver. J uLY 2.—A vessel in nine days from Madeira, has brought Brigadier Antonio Ribello Palhares, who states, that news having been received in that Wend on the 16th uit. of the hue happy events in Portugal, the Governor, in concert with the Bishop, took the necessary means to proclaim the same solid principles, which was done on the 18 th, with every demonstra tion of public joY. JULY 3.—To -day being the true anniversary of the arrival of the King and Royal Family in the capital, it was celebrated with the greatest satisfaction. In the morning there was a grand review of the troop, and in the evening a general illu- The Gazette of the 4th contains a long list of appointments to foreign legations. Article taken from the Spanish Gazette of Cadiz, of June 26, 1823 . l u t l i s a t i r t n a n g l l e v b r e e o s f s t o ' e r l o e s u t r o C. v cruiz ra se f n o t tc a es fl , a s g t a of ti that T o l n l e he I F e i e r we2noocut ld rt sail from the port of Cadiz, merely on the understanding tha t the y a pp roach the h ship Colossus, for the purpose of ascertaining that the y have no passengers on board.' elierraaUll The Count de Pahuella has addressed a circular note to his Majesty's Ministers at foreign Courts, to the following effect : " I transmit to by order of his Majesty, the mani festo which he addressed to the Portuguese nation, that you may be informed by this most important document of the great and happy change affixted in dais nation, by the unanimous and spontaneous movement of all classes in the nation, restoring die King to the free exercise of those powers, without which there cannot be either stability for the Monarchy, dignity in the throne, or tranquillity fertile people. " It seems advisable to accompany this happy news with .a succinct narrative of the principle events which produced it. The people of Portugal, convinced of the fallacy of the promises which had been made them, by the promoters of the Revolution of 1820. had long since shown evident symptoms of -discontent ; but his Majesty, scrup u l ous ly o b ser ving the promises which he had made, when he resolved to swear to the Constitution dictated by the Ccirtes, thought it proper to defer to the very last extremity, any resolution which might give an impulse to the change which the majority o f t h e nation desired. Fearing on one hand the effusion of bl oo d, which such a resolution if premature might occasion, and on the other perceiving in his wisdom that prudently tempo r i s i ng was the most safe means of proving that the King did not wish to violate his sacred word, and that he did not recall it till he was solicited by the whole nation, which was already convinced by experience of the fatal re sults of the anarchical form of government which it had adopted. What his Majesty and all prudent persons in his kingdom had foreseen came to pass, the people were convinced alit all the promises which had been announced to them in the begin ning of the r evo l ut i on were b e li e d by . facte, and diametrically opposite to th e resu l ts. A ser i es of misfortunes, the precursors ogreater evil s , were accumulated on the Portuguese w ith the most frightful rapidity. Brazil separated front the mother country, the publi c debt tinconimonly increased, commerce de clining, Property wantonly violated, the Portuguese territory covered with exiled and oppressed individuals—religion scorn ed—the throne insulted in the person of his most august con sort—our random with the greatest part of foreign govern ments interrupted ; and lastly, no t uselessly to lengthen the interminable list of evils, civil war kind le d in the king . dom, the imminentdour, danger of a foreign war , ra shl y u nder . taken by th e bli n d fact i on w hi c h governed, finally opcmd the eyes even of the most incredulous, and produced a general fermentation. [Here follows a summary of what passed from the Prelz . We 'have given in our preceding columns copi ous extracts from the Paris, Lisbon, and Ham burgh and Brussels Papers, received since our last.—The Moniteur contains another Bulletin from Major-General Count GUILLEMINOT, from which it appears, that the two Spanish regiments, whose defection we announced yesterday on the authority of private letters, formed part of the army of BALLAtereeos, and not of that of ZAYAS, as was at first stated. General BALLASTEROS had been obliged to retire before Mourott.— The Bulletin contains some other vaunting state ments ; but, as we have before fiequently ob served, it is only necessary to instance the mani fold proofs of the falsehood and exaggeration which have distinguished the former French Bulletins, in order to make the present accounts be viewed with distrust. The letter attributed to VILLA CAMPA is dated so far back as the lgth June ; and as he is known to have still retained Hs command after his alleged dismissal, the documents re. specting him are probably nothing more than forgeries. We do not mean to say that there has not been extensive treachery amongst the Constitutionalists, and particularly amongst the Military Commanders. It is now pretty evi dent, if these traitors had done their duty, that the Frond: would either have been unable . to pe netrate so far as they have done into the country, or that peril and discomfiture would have been the rewards of their rashness. It seems to be but too probable that the French Government had even made terms with many of the Spanish Generals before the French Army passed the Bi dassoa ; and this accounts for the seeming insanity of their attack upon the Peninsula,—an attack from which the most sagacious and experienced Statesmen in Europe anticipated nothing less than the downfal of the Bourbon dynasty in France. It is very well known, that, previous to the in vasion, the French had corrupted the majority of the Commanders of the Spanish fortresses ; but, just before the commencement of hos tilities, the-''Constitutional Government took the salutary precaution of removing all those men from their posts, and of appointing offi cers of tried fidelity in their stead ; and by this simple proceeding one part of the French plan of the campaign was effectually foiled. It can only now be regretted that the same prudent vigilance and provident sagacity were not exerted as respects the Generals unfortunately entrusted with• commands in the field. However, if the full extent of the treason has at length been developed, disastrous and lamentable as have been the consequences to the cause of independ ence which have already taken place, we are confident that Spain still retains sufficient energy and patriotism to effect her deliverance from a foreign yoke. The news from Lisbon is to the 10th instant. The counter-revolution is quietly advancing to its cQmpletion, if indeed it he not more proper to say that it was entirely effected on the day the KING returned to the capital ; for the new institutions which are still promised to Purtugal,•are of course to proceed entirely from the will of the KING. W e do not think that the explanation given, of hit Mi."YEATV'S conduct, duliog he reign of the Constitution, and of the motives in which that conduct originated, is remarkably honourable to his Royal character for sincerity. The Guardianship of his Britannic Majesty over the person and the dominions of the young Duke of BRUNSWICK, will terminate on the 30th of October next, when the Duke will assume the reins of Government. The Brunswick article, in our preceding columns, speaks in terms of wa rm eulogium, of the advan tages which the State has derived during the wise and liberal administration' of its affairs by his Most Gracious Majesty., We have been favoured by a respectable friend with a Guernsey Paper, from which we extract the subjoined interesting article:— " If we have hitherto been, compelled to publish the conflict ing accounts of the recent events in the Peninsula, from French. and English Journals, from which it has often been difficult, and sometimes utterly impossible, to elicit the truth, we now have the pleasure to lay before our readers a document of a very different description. The following letter, received by the ' last packet, was written by an intelligent youth of the most re spectable connexions in this town, who was an eye-witness of the scenes which he describes : .. " " MY DEAR FATHER—I have justC a d s i e z e , n 2 A o i t h r . Jr . i . , * 18 . 23. * . who is this moment arrived from Seville ; he is appointed Se cretary to the Commission for Spanish Claims. He tells me that he sends dispatches by an English gun-brig, which sails to-morrow at day-light ; I MUst therefore write as fast as I can scrawl, to tell you what has lately happened in Spain, or, I should say, at Seville—to the whole of which I have been a spectator. ' I shall pass over in silence my journey to this city, and defer it to another opportunity, as the circumstances of the day will be more Interesting, particularly from an eye-witness to every thing that has passed. " On NV ednesday the 11th, the Cortes sent a message to the King, to tell him he was on the morrow to proceed to Cadiz he refused to go, at a King ; but, as a private man, he had no objection. They then appointed a Regency, and the town was in a complete state of alarm I the palace guard was reinforced. and sentries placed round the palace. I must mention that my lodgings were next door to ,the palace, therefore, what -2 ever passed I saw. Next day, Thursday the 12th; at P. M. the militia cavalry left Seville tar Cadiz ; but I must not fail to mention, that on the preceding evening, Wed nesday, a most shameful conspiracy was discovered in the palace, at the head of which was Sir John Doynie, a Scotchman, who was Ferdinand's right-hand man ; Ins ne phew, and sixteen other Men were concerned in the plot. Their intention was to have murdered the• Cortes, and all the volun teers ; they had bribed a number of men -in Triana, a village close to Seville, on the other side of the river, and commu nicating therewith by means of a wooden bridge, so that it plight almost be said to belong to Seville. In the course of the day, the officer on. guard observed a number of peo in the evening, he saw an officer en terin g , whom lie fol lowed;spulespeeiclerthDatowsnoniel'ets h a in p a art w m a c s nts go , i w ng hic o h n ; of a c n o d u he heard him ask, as he entere d the room, where the , ne ab m ou ad t e se b v i e nl I " and desired them to lay down their arms. The y we r e door open, anti said .--" If you are re ad y , so am , _ so panic-struck, that e co v e n r s y p im thingt ors i s w r e ea re d ? y ..," I T i l : e a voeffitelei e r d r r ock e w e i t l it i , s " s w siti o rd d , h burste , '' and placed a guard i 4 soon made Downie was found in a small room, an : etl " Por Cadiz , and prisoner. Next morning they were all shit . p .. ntiotitsesoncaepem,anasdhisae bad d ned 17 of them ; but ii ii t t th a e ie y knew door. th e y could • unconcerned,but the gene rality did not pot on a good face on ( I I u w art as er fo .o r tfuanna hour;t een enough g s o h m t e o the occpion. " This day, Thursday, at ll'r. M. the Kin le I set out for Cadiz. ok a . t them for 'near a then the Madrid infantry, and, at some distance from them, appeared llavea " dl° King followed in a plain yellow carriage, drawn by six mules : in the following manner :--first, went a detac imentofCaval t r l y i ; be was dressed in black, the collar of . - los shirt was down, and positively he looked us if he had not been washed for six months. He wait escorted by sonic cavalry, and also his body-guard mounted on Doule,ies, as that was tile only means of conveyance • they could obtain ; then followed the rest of the Royal Family, servants, &c. in large clumsy carriages draWn by six mules ; the anus of Spain were gilt on the doors, and the bodies were of different colours, but truly old faahioned. " Friday the 13th, at 6 A M. the Cortes anti Regency left Seville for Cadiz, in a Steam , Bout. I had agreed to go to Cadiz in a boat, and consequently was preparing to pack up, when, at noon, I found the whole town was in complete re bellion. Th e mob attacked winhviehto w a te l those a l ndt izg.:l tligi f es a y n o t ; i ,f l u i e ice s cgu w rre h sac o t e w rset e ce r e viivl on leadl tl nn i st e banks of the river, embarking their furniture, &c. and, as they mercy. Every boat in the river was loading with theca people's tr lv u ere nk i s j , i & ber e. a o lel n board ese . who robbed them of every thing they had ; they threw the women and children in the river, and in fact committed the greatest cruelties. Those unfortunate people who bad not gone on board altered the same fate, their trunks were taken from them, and they were in great danger of their lives; but, what was most extraordinary; 600 soldiers were in Seville, and yet nothing was clone till they had . robbed for an hour and a halt', when a company of Infantry tired upon the mob, and killed two. However, they dispersed, and then went to the Con stitution square, took down .the stone, arid broke it into a thousand pieces, as well as all the articles of the Constitution which were stuck up on the Churches, and nothing was to be heard but " Long live the absolute King"--" the Inquisition," &c.—on every person's hat was a white riband, with these words as mottoes. " I went out to walk with the American Ambassador and his brother; with whom lam well acquainted. We found the banks of the river covered with papers ; I picked up a great many, but found them only private letters, and nothingni them either amus ing or of any coasequence. Nothing was said to us ; but, of • ca cctopb:o7,r, u ieleileald r its se we were obliged to cry out what the mob did. They ransacked three coffee-houses; the Theatre; the Hall of the Cortes and also two private houses, because they belonged to. Libera i les. People were going about dressed in the clothes. they had taken from the Theatre ; an immense number also Went to the Inquisition, which had been converted into a barrack, crying out, ' that they were going to prepare it for the Liberates ;' little thinking that Divine vengeance was so soon to fall upon them. There happened to have been h ft, in a passage, a few barrels of gunpowder, which they expet.tAl was some great tt - 4i - ,;,itrt-, anti ~v:-Ty one crowded to open Limn :. while this was doing, a spark happened to fall Imo is sega , ,,, and of course the whole place was in a moment blown ur. No leas than 200 men lost their lives by this explosion. I saw the place the day after, and you may suppose it did not present a very pleasant sight ; an arm was lying in one di rection, a leg in another, a head here, half a body stliere; in fact, it was more than disgusting :' at night there was a general illumination, the town-house was lighted up with glass chap- ~, deliers ; and, on the gallery which overlooks the square, wil! placed Ferdinand's likeness at full length, and on each side of the picture stood one of his body-guard. ingi:saattusrdeviteyn,and the Sunday alarm-bells were be a g l a i n ttl r e in m ai o n re g tranquil, but still the mob was committing a number of excesses. .11ontlay morn arm themselves, and to defend the city from the Constitution alists : 3,600 men, who were coming down upon them under l which bridge hcnysoinismt imagine,nil aling i eat n yr sharply... n aonnifo 0 yi brought,l 1 . h:_na. . ar:fid:ea n i t ' jol4t ht, p.lweit;:fepnai found . B e rni z itaa reiell.eisastrilnneotgo(ortnlfrysleec, only acitglab.e t aina h ,sriltnto e racisnge, F lo,thfs a ttowint e lffi cedolhet blackro si latter withwee which s ill tt cry: iiis o tl ptiuie l if li Seville, ayaue e sorit o sre l ps ) aplaced dli axes, uponxtetesil es. ) at the entrance of the bridge, and they kept up the fire h soo att n le i fou n n i d ine t d he i i a r t % e v l a y y ins the Sev action,walked illel but dead ; on the side of the Faecio s o s , I should think there were from 20 to 110 ; and on th a t of the Constitutionalists , I know there were o n ly t wo woun d e d. D ur i ng t h e ac tion, I watt on the terrace of ou r house.—Three French ships are off this port, and will not a ll ow a s i ng l e vesse l o f any nat i on to enter; diodvenrotthe see fie rn ld an of f they are going to prepare to make every resistance here, but I am afraid it will not __ __succeed. P. S. The King is re-established in power, and things go an as usual." motion of Don Miguel ;_ the rapidity with which all classes throughout the kingdom declared in his favour, the departure of the King, the last efforts of the Cortes, and the dissolution of that assembly.] " Three years of the reign of demagogues, " says the Count, " convinced the loyal Portuguese nation th at the government which called itself liberal was but an intolerant, ambitious, and greedy faction, which pretended to substitute-abstract doctrines from experience, to deceive by words, and, to exercise, in fact, the mtbst insupportable tyranny. " His Majesty is restsiyed," adds the circulta, " to reward the fidelity of the Portuguese by the recompense %Icon bestow, by giving them a Consittution which, combining in the highest degree possible the empire of law and the happiness of the people with the dignity and stability of the throne, shall be equally remote from' the extremes of absolute power and revo lutionary anarchy. • " I!is Majesty also orders that his Ministers declare to the Courts where they reside, his sincere wish to renew the ami cable relations which existed between this Crown and the other powers of Europe, before the extraordinary circumstances which interrupted them for a time, and which happily have now terminated. __ (Signed) " CONDE DE PA LM E LLA. " Lisbon, }oreign Office, June 9, 1823." PRICE O. THIS DAY AT F — STOCKS ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock ...... India Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities Ex. Bills 29 32 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons. for Account o3i# Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 83ii 3 per Cent. Cons. B3A 3A per Cent 4 per Cent. Old IONA New lOl A 3 3 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long nn. 21 1-16t1h A Imp. 3 per Cents. . 555. 565. PRICE or FOREIGN STOCKS ix LONDON, JULY 22,- AT ONE O'CLOCK. ,f Five per Cents, 911. I Scrip, 2k pr. Six per Cents. 00. Russian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. ( Ditto New 851. Five per Cent. Bonds, 76.1. Five per Cents. (31eutic) 00. Five per Cent. Bonds, 1820, 00. Spanish Ditto 1821, 32g. Ditto 1822, 00. Prussian I Five per Cent. Bonds, 00. 1. • Ditto New, 851. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 88. Chili - . 68. Colombian Six per Cont. Bonds, GI. Peruvian New Loan, 00. _ _ Frenelx Neapolitan Austrian - - - . • (Bank Shares £2l ss. 'Seven per Cent. 94. American Six per Cent. 92-99. Five per Cent. 96-97. Three per Cent. 68. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 23 minutes after 2. (Evening, 43 minutes after 2. HE SUN. SOLEM (WU DICEIZE F4LSUM AUDEAT :I LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1893.