The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-16 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The following is from the Madrid Extraordinary Gazette
of the sth :

General Alaix writes from Villanueva de Alcoron on the
2d of September to the War Minister.
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" Before yesterday I informed your Excellency from
Cifuentes of my marches of the 30th and 31st, and that I
should continue to pursue Gomez as long as the state of
my troops permitted it. The enemy marching all the night
of the 31st to the Ist, rested at Espligares. I found many
dispersed and small parties in the villages and the moun-
tains, and made many prisoners ; whilst many of those
captured with Lopez were able to make their escape.
From Espligares the enemy took the bridge of Tabuenca,
spending the night of the Ist at Zaorejas. To shorten the
way and the fatigues of my troops, I marched to Centejo,
and this morning, passing the Tagus, came to Armallones,
two leagues from the rebels. They went first in the di-
rection of Molina, but soon turning to the right, they took
the direction of the bridge of Poralejo, and by the last ac-
counts, must have passed the night at Beteta. I presume
that his aim is to get to Cuenca, whither they have di-
rected some flying parties. For this reason I have stopped
here, intending to continue my march to-morrow. But
should the weather come on to rain as it did last night, I
shall be unable to follow the enemy by forced marches, for
want of shoes and necessaries. A peasant just demands
pardon for an officer and ten men of the enemy who surrender.
(Signed) " ALAIX."
Extract of a letter of the 4th inst. from Madrid :—" The
reconciliation of the Queen Regent with her sister, the In-
fanta Donna Luisa Carlotta, of which much talk had been
made while the Court still resided at La Granja, was far from
being sincere. These two Princesses detest each other as
cordially as ever. The partisans of Christina, whether
rigidly or wrongly, accuse the Infanta of having excited the
military revolt of Ildefonso, by means of money distributed
among her agents. They say that this Princess is of un-
bounded ambition, and they attribute to her the project of
raising the fortunes of her husband, Don Francisco de
Paula, on the ruins of the Queen's authority. Whether
this is true or not, it is certain that the two sisters endea-
vour to injure each other in public opinion. The Infanta
entirely rules her husband, who is of a weak character, aid
who is only patriotic according to circumstances. The
Spaniards might possibly be caught in the trap. Munoz is
still at Madrid, and since the events of La Granja has not
quitted, in the day, the asylums afforded him by the diplo-
matic body by turns. It is only at night that he goes in
disguise to visit the Queen at the palace ; and even then he
must hear the cry, Death to Munoz.' The Treasury is
without funds and resources, and, in the greater part of its
high functions, is disorganized. Everybody is longing for
the meeting of the Cortes. A new loan from England is
talked of."

Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated the sth inst.:--
" We are at length relieved from the embarrassment of the
too near neighbourhood of Don Bazilio Garcia and Gomcz.
who for upwards of twenty days have stopped up the road
from Arragon. The first has gone across the Ebro with
an immense booty. On the 26th, he surprised the small
town of Aldea, at the moment when the people were as-
sembled at a boll fight. He shot the principal inhabitants,
and completely pillaged the town. He has under his com-
mand upwards of three thousand men, and made at Si-
guenza more than a thousand voluntary recruits. Gomez,
having a more powerful and a better disciplined force, is
not afraid of meeting the Queen's best troops. He has
proved this in the affair at Villarcayo, against Tello's divi-
sion, which was completely beaten ; and more recently
against General Lopez, who was taken prisoner near Ja-
draque, after a most sanguinary battle, sustained with equal
courage on both sides, but Lopez, with his brave men, were
obliged to yield to superior numbers. It is feared that the
Carlist General will order Lopez to be shot, in revenge for
the death of Torres, who, with two of his officers, suffered
the same fate in Upper Arragon. Lopez is the first
General Officer taken by the Carlists since the com-
mencement of the war. It is difficult to say what has
become of Gomez's division ; for since his entrance
into the Asturias it has run over several provinces
with incredible velocity. It is said that be has marched
towards Cuenca, but it is very possible he is at this moment
near Valencia, or some other more distant point. We had
good reasons for saying that the entrance of the Carlist
troops into the provinces of the Asturias and Gallicia was a
most serious event. We knew that in these provinces the
rebels would find favour from the clergy, and the people who
are under their influence. Hence it has arisen that Gomez
has obtained his immense booty, and which Villareal has
come to the confines of Navarre to receive. It is most un-
accountable that the 100 waggons pursued by Espartero, '
who was so-near to them that he might touch them with
the point of his sword, and the capture of which he had in
a measure announced, should have vanished, as it were, from
before the eyes of the Queen's soldiers. How can we ex-
plain the conduct of this general, and his pompous bulletin,
announcing the entire dispersion of the rebels, whose scat-
tered remnants were flying in all directions ? Ought not
the Government to call Espastero to account for this dis-
appointment of the hopes raised by his boasted success. I
have this moment learned that 1,000 men, detached by
Gomez, arc at Villa Rejas, a village near Aranda, only seven
leagues from Madrid. Never before have the rebels ap-
proached so near the capital."
Extractinst.:_of a letter from St. Sebastian of the Bth and
9th
Col. Kinloch of the Ist Lancers, is appointed Brigadier.
General by general order ; but as the strength of the ea-
valry is reduced to little more than three squadrons, the
services of the Brigadier-General are, by the samo order,
dispensed with.
By general order of the above date, Colonel Fitzgerald,
commanding the' 2nd Brigade, is appointed a Brigadier-
General.

I need hardly say that no money has been received ;

hopes are, however, held out, that a reAso: able supply will
shortly be obtained.
From person who very lately escaped from Renturia, and
who is deserving of credit, I have ascertained that the Car-
list officers and soldiers only want a pretext to lay down
their arms. A system of terror had been established,
whereby alone the wretched deluded people are kept under
control. All who are discovered in, or are even suspected
of, speaking against the Pretender, are unmercifully casti-
gated, women, as well as men. An old man of seventy,
whose son had managed to escape from the despot's grasp,
was immersed up to his neck in a river, and kept there for
three-quarters of an hour on three successive days ! Hun-
dreds of instances of this description occasionally occur.
On the 31st of July, which was thefite day of Saint Ig-
natius de Loyola, founder of the order of the Jesuits, and
patron of Guipuzcoa, there were eighteen hundred monks
and priests assembled at the grand ceremonial in the splen-
did chapel dedicated to that saint, and which is situated
near the house where Loyola was born, between Azpeitia
and Ascoitia. The Pretender and his friends were present.
What is to become of all these worthies when the triumph
of the liberal cause shall be complete, which in a very
short time it must be ?

During the late gale the Royalist brig-of-war lost two
anchors ; the Comet steamer had also one of her anchors
broken in two. The Salamander man-of-war steamer went
out the day before yesterday, at the height of the gale, in
order to proceed to Santander, to take the Bth regiment on
board, but was obliged to return after being a few hours at
sea, having had her rudder broken.
Ituralde is, it would appear, a prisoner in the Castle of
Guevara, near Vittoria, and is about to be brought to a
Carlist court-martial. By a letter from Logrono, it ap-
pears that the prisoners taken by Irribarren, amounting to
1,016, have been safely deposited in that city.
I am happy to say that General Evans is quite well.
The Comet is going to Bayonne presently. Brigadier-
General Kinlock, late of the Lancers, will go in her.
The Diligent transport will sail this afternoon for Eng-
land. Colonel Considine, late Military Secretary to Ge-
neral Evans, will take his passage in her. That officer will
be a very great loss to the Legion, both in his public and
private capacity. The reason of his leaving is, I believe,
as follows :—He bad been offered the appointment of Mi-
litary Secretary to Sir Whittingham, or Whittington,
Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, who is about to
proceed to that station ; but Colonel Considine declined
quitting the Legion, where his services were invaluable.
Upon stating his intentions to the Lieutenant-General,
however, the latter declared that he could not allow Colonel
Considine to forego so advantageous an appointment in the
British army, in order to remain attached to a merely tem-
porary service ; and after some conversation, in which both
parties displayed the most praiseworthy feelings, Colonel
Considine yielded. In insisting upon Colonel Considine's
acceptance of this appointment, General Evans has made a
great personal sacrifice.
The appearance of the Legion is so much improved, and
the men are under such gocd discipline, that the meta-
morphosis from their late deplorable state is perfectly as-
tonishing.
Lieutenant Langley, of the Royal Marine Artillery; who
was wounded two months ago, when gallantly heading the
party which drove a strong body of Carlists fmm a picket-
house near Passages, which they were hotly attacking, goes
to England in the Diligent. He is still very lame from the
effect of his wound.