The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-17 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Royal order relative to the forced loan of 200
millions was published this morning, with the decree regu-
lating the sum to be paid by each intendency or financial
district. The decree expressly states that the sum to be
raised is not a contribution or tax to be paid by each
Spaniard according to his means, but a loan to be hereafter
repaid. According to the Royal order, the provincial deputa-
tions are to be charged with making out the lists of the per-
sons who are to be called upon, and it is very well under-
stood that the Clergy, and all who are suspected of being
suspicious, will have to bear the • burden. The whole
200,000,000 rials are to be paid up by different instalments
by the last day of the year.

The following is the list of the Intendencies, with the
sums they are required to furnish :

Intendencies. Reals.
Mancha. . 4,300,000
Murchia y Carta-
gena 6,400,000
Navarra
Palencia
Salamanca
Santander 3,100,000
Segovia 4,100,000
Sevilla
Soria 3,000,000
Toledo
Valencia
Valladolid 4,200,000
Biscayan Provin-
ces 2,000,000
Zamora

Intendencies. Reals.
Arragon ' 8,000,000
Asturias ...... 2,600,000
Avila 2,200,000
Burgos 5,400,000
Cadiz % 8,000,000
Catalonia
Cordova ......
Cuenca 5,100,000
Canarias
Estremadura 9,000,000
Galicia 14,500,000
Granada
Guadalajara 2,600,000
Balearic Isles
Jaen
Leon 4,300,000
Malaga ~ 8,000,000
Madrid
REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES OF THE FRENCH PRESS,

(From the Madrid Gazette of the 7th inst.)
We are authorized to deny, in the face of Europe and
of the'world, the extraordinary falsehoods which the French
journals,' including the Monitettr of the 29th of August,
have published relative to Spain—falsehoods which excite
et Once the contempt and indignation of the inhabitants of
Madrid, from the lowest to the highest degree. The French
journals describe the Queen-Regent and her august
daughter as being prisoners in their Palace, and according
to their account every person in Madrid is threatened with
the knife of the assassin. The Royal residence is every
moment menaced by the soldiers ; and, in a word, our
enemies indulge in all sorts of suppositions, which they
would wish to see realized, in order that the cause of the
Usurper might be ,thereby promoted. The true state of
the case is very different from this description, as is known
by every inhabitant of Madrid. Since the moment when
the Constitution was sworn to, there has not been the
slightest disorder, excepting a dispute which occurred on the
18th of August among some of the soldiers, and which was the
consequence of a misunderstanding. That was, however, im-
mediately suppressed. The Loyal palace has been respect ed,
as much as at any period of the monarchy. Neither the sol-
diers nor the emissaries of any party have trampled under foot
the veneration due to the sacred residence of the Spanish
inionarelts, notwithstanding the stattments of the Moniteur
to the contrary. There has been no sedition ; a simple re-
monstrance only 'has been addressed to General Seoane re-
specting the bad quality of their; bread. The General in
consequence examined the bread, and, throwing a bit to a
dog, the animal, though hungry, refused to touch it. The
Victualling Department is undoubtedly to blame for this.
A new regulation has been consequently made, and until it
comes into force, the soldiers are allowed white bread. The
Moniteur describes this affair as symptomatic of insubordi-
nation ; but is it not the duty of ..a Government at all times,
and under all circumstances, to furnish the troops with
wholesome and-sufficient food ?• The people of Spain have
desired and have obtained new gu'arantees for their fran-
chises ; they have unfurled .before their enemy the
blessedbanner
of the Constitution, which formerly,,recognised and
by the whole country, preserved the independence of So. Pain
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exhibited towards their Sovereigns, or in that veneration
which is due to the Queen Regent and her august (laughter.
We advise the French journals not to fill their columns
with calumnies as barefaced as they are easy of refutation,
or they must expect to see them characteiiseil, in plain but
appropriate language, as lies?'

- The Madrid' Gazette announces, that the Government
have complied with General Alaix's demand, and sent him
700 pairs of shoes, 400 shirts, 400 cloth trousers, and 1,500
military caps for the use of his troops ; 20,000 reels have
also been sent to that General.
It is said that the Government has directed a Council of
War to assemble, to investigate the conduct of Gen. Manso
(Castellan).
The following account of affairs in Spain is from the
French papers of Thursday :—The intelligence received
to-day from Spain represents the national party as fully de_
termined on taking themselves the necessary means of ob-
viating the want of decision and incapacity of the Govern
ment, and perhaps of preventing treason. The example of
Barcelona has been followed by Cordova, Malaga, and
Granada. The juntas of those cities maintain their power,
and have adopted, in their respective provinces, the revolu-
tionary measures required by circumstances. At Cadiz,
where the junta had been dissolved, contrary to the wishes
of the patriots, and to the injury of the Constitu4ional cause,
the receipt of this intelligence had occasioned considerable
fermentation, and, although a junta had not vet been
named, there was every probability that another would be
forthwith re-established, composed of men possessed of
more firmness and activity, and less disposed than the
former to abdicate their insurrectionary power, at a mo-
ment when the country was in imminent danger.
The members of the new junta of Cordova, elected by a
numerous assembly of citizens and National Guards, was
incessant in its labours to promote the triumph of liberty.
It had resolved on governing the province until the Cortes
had met, and the Queen taken the oath to the Constitution
in presence of that assembly. The National Militia was
about to be re-organised in battalions, and the proceeds of
the tithes had been applied to purchase regimentals for the
men. Arms, however, were wanting. The plan respecting
the clergy, adopted in Granada, was likewise to be enforced
in Cordova. The former civil governor, Pastor, was to re-
sume the functions of political chief. All the public func-
tionaries hostile to the Constitution had been dismissed from
office. A corps of volunteers was in progress of organiza-
tion, for the purpose of being sent to the army of the North.
The column of Malaga, commanded by Escalante, which
forms the advanced guard of the Andalusian forces, still re-
mained at Carolina. A detachment of Lancers from Malaga
had reached Cordova on the 28th ult.

Letters from Malaga of the Ist inst. state, the junta of
the province had sent to Madrid three conarniss;oncrs,
Messrs. Gregorio Condom, Jose Blake, and Antonio
Bresca, commander of the National Guard, to acquaint
the Government with its determination to continue in
power until the cause of the revolution had completely
triumphed. On the 30th of August the junta had farmed
out for two years to Don Jaime Alguier Cases the mines
of lapis-plomo of Marbella, on condition that he should
pay ten reels per quintal of ore. The Ecclesiastical Board
having apprised the junta of its inability to pay the forced
loan of 200,000 reals (2,0001.) the latter replied that if, in
the course of four days that sum was not vested in'the
Treasury, it would be under the necessity of taking the
most vigorous measures against. its members.
Don Antonio Castaneda, Vice-President of the Junta of
Granada, announced to the people, in a proclamation dated
the 31st ult, that the junta of the province, which had been
dissolved, on the 26th, by an act of violence and rebellion,
had been re-established, at the desire of the inhabitants
and National Militia.

The Eco del Commercio of the 6th, invites the Minister
of War to place himself at the head of the army of the
north as soon as possible, and calls on the Government, if
it cannot procure by legal means tlae pecuniary resources it
stands in need of, to use the power placed in their hands to
realize the sums of money necessary for the public service.
In another article, respecting the sale of national property,
the same journal recommends its division into small lots,
in order that its sale may be more easily effected, and that
a greater number of citizens without fortune may partici-
pate in it, and thus be interested in the success of the revo-

lutionary cause.
The first accounts of the affair of Jadraque received in
Madrid had announced that Brigadier Lopez had been
killed. It is now known that this general officer is a pri-
soner of Gomez, with a considerable number of officers and
soldiers of his column. It had also been stated, that Guada-
laxara was occupied by Gomez, but it appears he did not
enter the city. On the mere report of his advance, the
commander, the authorities, and the garrison, were seized
with a panic, and evacuated the place in the utmost dis-
order, abandoning 600 muskets, 100 arrobas of gunpowder,
and all the materiel of the corps of engineers. Even the
standard of the regiment was forgotten in the commander's
house. A student, named Medrana, and four soldiers vo-

unteered to go and fetch it after the evacuation of the

place.
A report of Captain-General Manso, dated Alcolea del
Pinar, September 1, contains an account of the move-
ments of the forces under his orders. He states, that
having been obliged to wait for two columns he had de-
tached in pursuit of Basilic), it was impossible for him to

follow Gomez with rapidity, but he adds that he then occu-
pied the high road to Arragon and Molina, and was in a
tondition to cut off his retreat in that direction, whilst the
division of Espartero and the Madrid columns would
march in pursuit of him in the other.
Since Basilio has re-crossed the Ebro, all the columns
of Old and New Castile have been marching after Gomez,
who will find it impossible at present to return to Navarre.
This accounts for his movement on Cuenca. It is proba-
ble that, after drawing the Christino columns to that quar-
ter, he will again suddenly proceed towards the north, and
elude their pursuit, as he has done during the last two
months, with such wonderful success.