The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-17 00:00:00

COARE3PONDENCE FROM SPAIN.

BILBOA, JAN. 3.-1 have the satisfaction of in-
forming von, that the banditti who hovered about
this town, and who hoped to have an opportunity
for plundering it on Christmas-day, are entirely
tlispersed. It was in vain that they took a po-
sition on a hill, from which they made signals
and fired musketry, either for the purpose of se-
docing or alarming the inhabitants of this place;
for during the whole time every thing remained
tranquil. The following circumstance mainly
contributed to their dispersion :—The curate
Guazala had engaged a person named 'Lenda,
who had obtained the temporary command of
the Reglementary Militia, in a criminal corres-
:pondence. The curate dispatched an emissary to
....his correspondent with a. letter, but in conse-
quence of this mesSenger.being in a state of in-
toxication when he reached the city, the whole
plot. was discovered. The emissary and the
commandant were immediately arrested. The
letter contained a request that the commandant
would hold himself ready with all the men at
his disposal, and that he would post at the gates
of the city men in whom he could place con&
dence, in-order to facilitate the entrance of the
banditti into the city. The immoral conduct of the
curate Guazala, who •carries about with him a
number of prostitutes, has, lost him the favour of
some of the. Serviles, who might otherwise have
been disposed to encourage his proceedings. Two
days ago he robbed . an agent belonging to a
neighbouring village, and took from him 3,000
reels, with which he had been intrusted to make
Oilferent purchases.
FRONTI Efts OF SPAIN, JAN. 4.—Since the night
of the 26th ultimo, the troops of the line have
seen nothing of the insurgents, except at Arta-
jona, where a few musket shots were exchanged
on the evening of the 27th ; but the banditti
speedily fled. They are completely discouraged
in consequence of the flight to France of some of
their leaders, who, it is said, are to be tried be-
fore the Court of Assize at Pau, for having
violated the French sanitary laws. About 30
men belonging to Pampeluna, who had been se-
duced by the banditti, have taken advantage of
the amnesty,and returned home. A company of
Catalonians, and a detachment of cavalry, ar-
rived within these few days at Pampeltina to re-
inforce the garrison. They entered crying " Live
Riecro:" which being replied to by cries of
" Death to Riego," the exasperated troops would
have attacked the people, had not a magistrate,
at. the head of a strong patrol, interfered. How-
ever, shots were afterwards fired in the streets,
end several persons were wounded. There is no
doubt that the number of troops in this province,
which are also daily augmenting, are sufficient
to keep the factious in order; but it is, notwith-
standing, necessary that the Government should
adopt other measures, in order to avoid civil war.
There has been for some time in Madrid a ru-
mour of a plan for the formation of an Upper
Chamber in the Cortes,in imitation of the French
and English legislatures. One of the Journals
of that city speaks of this plan in the follow-
ing terms :
"To what are we indebted for liberty in •Spain ? To the
people. To that people who triumphed at Aranjuez and at
Madrid on the '2d of May ; at Saragossa, at Valencia, at Se-
ville, and thrOughout all Spain. The people, in fine, were
their own Arlivnrers : and to them it is solely owing that Spain
did not bend to the French yoke, and that Ferdinand recovered
his crown.

" What mean then these reports of the esohlishment of an
Upper Chanibtr, 'winch spread alarm among the lovers of the
Constitution, and give pleasure to the friends of despotism ?
The Spanish nation is fairly represented, and what nwre can
wanted ?"

The Journalist then enters into an examina-
tion of the composition of Chambers of Peers,
and demonstrates that such an institution in
Spain would annihilate Liberty and the Con-
stitution.—lt is asserted that the Marquis of
Campo Verde is appointed Commandant General
of Seville, with the understanding that as soon
as he is installed he shall give tip the command to
Don Salvador Sebastian. These schemes are
however useless, for it is certain that the people
of Seville ill not part with General Velasco,
and the Political Chief Escovedo.

'BA RC ELONA. DEC. 19.—Upon entering the city
ten days ago, immediately after the cordon was
raised, it was most affecting to see those few who
were entering at the same time, embraced by
their friends and acquaintance who had not seen
them'for four months, as if they had come from
a far distant country, after an absence of many
years. The streets lonely, the public walks co-
vered With mourners, the ringing of bells, the
passing of religious processions, and numerous
other indications, all pressed upon the mind the
recollection of the recent sufferings of this fine
city. The number of the dead is given in by
the Junta at between nine and ten thousand; but
it •is the general opinion that this report is
ill founded, and that the mortality, especially
at the commencement of the epidemic, was re-
presented by the municipal authorities as much
Lower than its actual amount, which it is believed
approached in all to very nearly 9_0,000 souls.—
Amongst the distress to which such successive
scenes of horror reduced the inhabitants, they
were occasionally amused or enlivened by the
ridiculous disputes amongst the faculty—not how
they should cure the disease, but whether it was
a native of the Havannah, and imported, or
generated in the harbour of Barcelona, or in the
town of Barcelonetta. The Medical Com-
missioners of the French Government, before
they Were here three days, pronounced it to
to contagio,us, and attributed it to the air, and
did more mischief id that short space of time
than their cures could have compensated in a
century. In fact, they cured none, and every
1,000 returned in despair from the field. The
people here are confounded to hear that their

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Government is bespattering them with honours.
As strangers, the people• abstained from laying
Violent hands upon then, and the well-informed
part of the community only laughed at their
vain-glorious proceedings; but the case was dif-
ferent with respect to a cuntagionist enrage,

settled in the town as a botanical professor, of
the name of Bahi. The enraged people, who

found themselves separated, unnecessarily as
they thought, from their nearest and dearest
friends, sought him out, in order to overturn his