The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-22 00:00:00

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L'JNDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1836.

The French .J
ournals received this morning announce
the death of Mr. VILLIERS, our excellent Ambas-
sador at thq Court of Spain. We most sincerely hope
that enere is no truth in this report. Mr. VILLIERS
has been for some weeks labouring under slight
indisposition, but up to the arrival of the Journals be-
fore us, not a shadow of fear was entertained of his
perfect recovery. It would appear from the following
extract, that were the report unfortunately to prove
correct, some of our Gallic Contemporaries would not
hesitate to ascribe his death to the direct agency of
certain persons in the Spanish capital
PARIS, OCT. 20.—The Indicateur of Bordeaux, of the
17th, has the following :
" If we may credit a report which was in circulation yes-
terday at the Theatre, M. Villiers, the English Ambassador
at Madrid, had just sunk under the disorder by which he
was attacked. This death, so quickly following that of
M. de Rayneval, will not fail to astonish the political world ;
let us hope that it is not true, and that the story will turn
out to be a stock-jobbing trick."

The whole of the Paris Papers of Thursday have
• been received. In the Moniteur of that date we find
the following telegraphic communication :
" Bayonne, Oct. 18th, Half-past Six o'clock, P.M.
" The French Ambassador arrived '.t Madrid at noon on
the 14th. They write from Seville on the sth, that Captain-
General Espinosa has fallen back on that place, to unite
himself with the Cadiz division that arrived at Lebreja on
the 4th. He has divided the town into quarters to promote
its defence. Quiroga also has fallen back upon Grenada,
where similar arrangements have been made, as well as at
Almeira and INlalaa." (Interrupted by nightfall.)
The IVlinisterial and Opposition Journals are at
loggerheads on the Spanish question. Abuse is
bandied about on all sides, too often without reference
to the subject of contest. The La Paix, a Ministerial
Print, professes itself of opinion that the successes of
GOMEZ will shortly put an end to the controversy
respecting the interpretation which certain public
writers have given of the quadruple treaty—a contro-
versy which the gravity of occurrences in the Penin-
sula is daily rendering more and more ridiculous. The
same journal contends, that the observance of the treaty
by France in the way pointed out by the liberal press
of England and France, would avail the Queen of
SPA IN nothing. "It was not for the mere purpose
of establishing a Constitutional Government in Spain,"
observes this organ of M. MoLE's Cabinet, " that
France and England concluded an alliance." This is re-
ally something new, and we request for it the best
attention of our readers. " That union," continues
our Gallic Contemporary, " had deeper roots and a
more important object." How the groundlings will
stare at this grave and authoritative announcement !
Well; for the denouement—." The peace of Europe
has found in it its most solid guarantees !" Was this
dictated from the back of a rocking-horse? We defy
Paris to supply us with another specimen of such ex-
quisite nonsense. The crutch of old TALLEYR AND
would be worth a thousand such writers as a support
to any Ministry. The Courrier Francais, an able
Opposition journal, dashes the whole fabric raised by
La Paix to pieces ; and exposes to universal ridicule
the conduct of the present Administration. " The
Ministry," writes the journal above-named, " is strain-
ing every nerve to prove that it alone has understood
the real meaning of the treaty of quadruple alliance ;
that, notwithstanding the new interpretation it has
given to it, France still remains faithful to British
alliance; that the protection promised to Spain must
be confined to a rigid surveillance on the part of her
Custom-house officers, and to the loan of the Foreign
Legion, a corps in the pay of France, although not
ranking in her army, and to recruit which legion little
trouble will in all probability be taken."—" Oh ! how
imposing is the attitude of France at this moment !
She strikes terror into the souls of all commercial tra-
vellers and Swiss pedlars who attempt to penetrate
into her territory. She obliges ladies who present