The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-14 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PAnts, AUGUST 10.—An attempt has been
made to explain the recent events which took
Place at Madrid, and to tear off the remainder of
the veil which still in part covers-them. A letter,
not from our usual correspondent, has given us
on this subject some-interesting details, which at
least merit theAttentibn of those who endeavour
to make tillsmselves acsinainted with the actual
silasstiph of Europe, and particularly . with that,
Of Spain. it is said that two
.projects Were
scarrtemplated by the persons to whom the
di'reition Of the plot which failed at Madrid on
the 7th of July is attributed. Some of them, at
t.'We instigation of an ecclesiastic fining a high
station, AiSlied to re-establish every thing in the.
same state as it existed before the Itevolution,
esvhfch. began in the .Isle of Leon,—the others,
while they wished to abolish the Constitution of
the :Cortes, were willing to allow *Spain to retain
the Semblance of a Representntive Government.
They. proposed .to create two Legislative Chain-
ite,,r94 but to give the King sufficient power to
hreik *through every 'barrier when it was neces-
tary,lt is added that a third, and hidden party, 1
atrioagst whose ranks are numbered some eminent
pers.ens, were the chief directors of both schemes;
and 'that they reserved the_power of deciding de-
in favour of that one which seemed
most likely to succeed.-41ithis state of things,
when the guards were in open rebellion, the
council of State met several times ; and some of
the 'Ministers, it is said,, were the persons whe
-Pleaded most powerfully to,preserve the Consti;
tution of the. Cortes. Proposals were made to
the.eCouncil, to r lodify the Constitutional Act,
tnit:the patriotic dis Position of Sorne -of the Mem-
bets determined the Council to reject every pro-
;o4l_ which aimed at altering -the fundamental
law..--This energetic determination was soon cir-
culated in the interior of the Palace, where there
were two battalions- of Royal Guards ; and from
thit time the Ministers were. detained by force
in their. respective offices, as if 'to wait for
tie.:proper moment of being delivered up to
the fury of the anti-revolutionists. [At Madrid
,!very Minister inhabits .a separate house, but
all.the offices of the different Ministers are in the
Kirig's.Palace]—Thus .pasSed the 6th and 7th
oCioly. General Morillo, who. knew that the
NinAters were detained in the Palace by vio-
lence, refused several times to go there ; and it
iakriown that his,. presence and the energy of
-Oen. Ballasteros Were the causes to which the li-
b.erty of Spain is indebted for the triumph it gained.
This is not an official account, but it is more cre-
dited at •Madrid than any other. In fact, it is
.pnerally.. believed by all the persons in a situa-
tion toknowthe facts and to judge of the events.
,
VAR's, Au 0.11.-.-T lie Political Journal of the
Upper Garonne contains the following intelli-
gence ss--" In Andalusia, at Murcia, Carthagena,
aud-Valencii, the enthusiasm of the .Royalists
awl the despair of the Constitutionalists. are at
their height.; Spain is on .the eve of a great crisis,
dal the rumours...industriously spread of a foreign
itivasion will .haiteri- the explosion. 'l' he most
authentic accounts from-Arragon state,' that this
province,, though contiguous to Catalonia, is suffi-
.c,iently tranquil ; at Saragessa there are reckoned
1,%00 militia, infantry, and
.150 -cavalry.; two
bands, only have appeared in this country, one in
'the neightrourhood of Tortosa, and the-other in
:the
,districts of: De Castra and Huesca, No
gieat,, efforts . will be necessary to induce the
.A rragonese to take arms, to say nothing of Sara-
go,ssa, where the party of Cornmuneros has a
great ascendancy. A band of 200 men, corn-
. mended by the old Partisan Cubillas, has ap-
peared in the province. of Burgos. It is said that
.Merino has again' appeared on the scene, but
41e-is is not. certain. If the Counter-Revolution
luss siot..made so much progress in the provinces
-of the interior, it is for want of arms and ammu-
'll Qnolidienhe.)
(iris:, JULY 17.—At length we hive re-
ceived hews from Constaritineple of the' 11th of
, The, catastrophe of the. Turkish fleet has
~.leeett felt in that capital like an electric shock.
Ft „reached even the Sultan himself, and the
iiva.n ; and Lord Straugford, who declared some
issse ago that he did not dare to propose to the
Porte to send a Commissioner to meet M. de
Tstitscheff, has profited by the terror of the
-rhoMent to obtain concessions. If there ever was
favourable time for forcing the Porte to give
.
serne.of its pretenSions, the present is the time,
arid, we hope by the, valour of the Greeks to ob-
. taio the result we'desife.
The eS:'peddreur.'o7'ii-tital, which' has changed its
Awe, 'expresSes itself as follows in the article
. • . .
", Nothing can equal the sensation produced in
~".the minds. of the
~Turks by the catastrophe
;44.1whiCh has taken place at Scio ; nothing can
.."-,..dissipate their astonishment ; and we avow
--"*.that this catastrophe is calculated to give a new
44: turn to their ideas, and perhaps even to events."
sin another:passage it is eaid—" The conduct of
•',..Leonidas did More among the ancient Greeks
"4 Putt!
~the most brilliant victory, could have
", effected, for he re-inspired them with confi-
-'4 deuce, and elevated their minds to a height
";.never before reached."
".ertainly such language could hardly be ex-
;pe;cted from a Turkish writer, but this time the
„misfortune is too great to be concealed. Ac-
cording' to the report of the Turks themselves,
their heet consisted of 55 sail before the disaster
At-Scio, and after it had been joined by the expe-
-dition which left 'Constantinople on the 4th,of
dune. 'On the 7th of July there were only 35
• :vessels, consequently 20 were missing. It may
• be hoped that the terror which has seized the
'.',Turks will continue, and that 'Greece will be
iesetted.,
TIyIESTE, Sur.st 26.--/setters from Smyrna of
6ith July inform us, that the inhabitants of
villages near Mastic," in the island of Scio,
);trice met. with a terriblefate. The Turks Over-
- ram' The villages, and drowned, burnt, or led into
r'stiave'v, nearly 30,000 people, men, women and
ci~ildaen. "On July sth, the:Asiatics COnducted
"7'Bo young women, between' the agessof thirteen
and veyenteen, to Tilesrne, and, after having