The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-26 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED CORDOVAN SEPT. 6.

" The deje6tion is general, my friend after so
many sacrifices required from our provinces in par-
ticular for above a year. Distrust alone prevents
the people from loudly proclaiming what they think;
but finding themselves deceived, they are highly ex-
asperated. It is chiefly in the country, and in the
villages, crushed by the pressure of the war, that
they give vent to all the bitterness of their resent-.
meat against the leaders of Seville.
" And do you.suppose that the latter can conceal
from us-the scandal of their debates ? The Junta,.
is split into parties; he who can collect round him a
number of puffers, who . can- get the lowest of the
rabble on his side, is sure to 'triumph, infamous
deeds are perpetrated. More than one vietitn has
already been sacrificed by informers, who will fall in
their turn-. 'How, indeed, is it possible to find a me-
diator among the fa Lions.
The military leaders share in all the passions of
the Junta.; and each party in the Jtinta alOrnat.ely
protects its faithful adherents. It bz:stows much
less 'attention on the establishment, of discipline, and
the revival of the'conrage of troops, than. on the
support or removal of this or that Geneial. Hence
you may kriovV.What -has been the end of all those';
magnificent .promises, which it thought to spreads
abroad, at the opening of the campaign in July.
" BLit what you cannot represent to yourself, my
friend, is the confusion and terror of those who fled
back from La Mancha to
‘their retreat at Seville,
which they only left, as they repOrted, to return, in
1411 security, to, their hOuses in the capital.' Amidst
such disorder, it would be difficult to find pure hands,
to which to entrust the management, of the public
Money,
" C. and T. * are generally supposed not to have
forgotten themselves; they are said to have trans-
ferred their booty. for security to the Canaries, and
they are not the only ones. So much is certain, that
nobody knows what has . become of prodigious
sums. But our faithful allies have not more de-
voted' partizans, or the French more inveterate
enemies. ou should witness their important air,
their imperious tone, in the assemblies of the Junta :
though the members of 'the opPosite faEtion are not
a whit less arrogant. In their behaviour towards
the people, 'they neither want suppleness nor
dexterity ; they know how 'to agitate, to calm, and
to mike themselves feared. _

! my friend, I would not believe you ; and
yet all that you predicted_ has . happened. You were
not the only prophet. • But, without experience,
without a knowledge of mankind, could I imagine .
that the name 'of patriot could be usurped by those
very persons who hurry their country to the brink
of a precipice, reckless.ot every thing but to gratify
their avidity ? lam perfeeily cured of my blind-
ness ; but how I deplore that of so many of my ac-
quaintance! The French, I see have only to leave us
alone, in order to triumph.
" I have complied with your request, and-de-
pitted, though in very feeble colours, our melancholy '
situation'. Compelled to embrace your opinions, be-,
heve,-rne 'I shall willingly share your hopes, that we
may soon be released from so many calamities."

A-fellow of genteel appearance has committed se,
veral villainous depredations on unprotected womell
in :Mary-le-bone, within the last few days, by re,;
presenting himself 'as a Sheriff's Officer, and at
other times 'a PoliCe Officer. ' A female of the;
name of Mills, in Norfolk-street, was presented
with a writ by this impostor on Thursday night last,
and the fellow. obtained three guinea-s to take her
word for her-appearance the next day ;'but she never
saw him again. Another unprotected woman of the
name of Souk hcot, in Mayes-building, Mary-le-bone,
was alarmed by the sight of a warrant for forgery,
and passing Luton notes, by the same impostor.—
This also happened late at night, arid the poor girl
deposited apparel. to the amount of 101. and two
guineas in money to the villain, to avoid being taken
to a watch-house. The impostor has committed se-
veral other depredations'of this description. - -
A traveller from Yorkshire lately waited upon a
Scotchman at Aberdeen for " money and orders;
the latter he got, but Sawney informed him he.
should have the former remitted him to Berwick on
Tweed, if he would inform him what inn he would
put up at, ~which the traveller told him, was the
fen-and-Chickens. The Scotchman was as good
as his word, for on the traveller arriving there, he
found a letter for him with the needful, bearing the
following. superscription To Georgie Wil-on, a
Yorkshire codger cheildin, rides a grey rat-tailed
beastie, wl' a pair o muckle walies; puts tip at the
Ben-and-Birdies, Berwick upon • Tweed.—An' its
he's-not there,- he's awa South."

Prblished by WILLIAM A RMIG E R SCRIPT'S, outh 14. hc:kn.street, G trvenc Aquare.
[Or the Paper Leiters for the tditor, &c. (jtost-paia), must be addressed. •