The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-19 00:00:00

[MORNING POsT.]

The accounts received yesterday from Spa'

by the way of Bayonne are of a satisfactory na-
ture; Notwithstanding the financial difficulties
in which that country is involved, and the compa-
ratively small numbers of the regular army, the
military operations of the Constitutionalists are
conducted with a degree of skill, energy, and
ensemble, which does honour to the genius of
Mina, and has already produced partial ad-
vantages which seem to be the harbingers
of more important and decisive successes.
The Royalists, who had spread their Gueril-
over a vast expanse of country, in order
to, create an impression that they were in
possession of several Provinces, althongh, with
the exception of two or three inconsider-
able forts and towns, they really possessed no-
thing more than the ground on which they
trod or encamped, are now obliged to recal
their parties and concentrate their forces. They
lose thus at once the appearance Of power which
they derived from the extent of their operations,
and when collected on one single point, will ex-
pose both to foes and friends their exact numbers
and Teal weakness. This exposure must in itself
prove a calamity to the cause ; for whilst it will
raise the spirits and increase the exertions of
their antagonists, it will proportionably depress
the hopes and courage of their partisans, not only
in the Peninsula, but in the Cabinets who took
their part, and perhaps even in the Congress of
Sovereigns. But it is time that the efforts made
to overthrow the Constitutional System in Spain
—a system -established in 1812 by the aid and
vviththe sanction of Great Brittain—should cease.

[NEW TIMES.]
We yesterday animadverted on the lamentable
state of the Spanish revenues, as displayed in' the
Report of Eguia, the Republican Finance Mi-
nister : this day we have to examine the equally
appalling statement of Lopez Banos, the Minister
at War. The substance of that statement is as
follows :—The Republican army " is notut pre-
sent much above 52,009 strong." 6C All the
corps of active militia are embodied, but this re-
source is: far from being sufficient." " The
clothing, mounting,; and equipment of. the army
and militia are in, a bad state, and are every
day becOming worse." " The materiel bf the
Artillery and Engineers is not. in a more- satis-
factory condition,' The 'magazines were all
44 destroyed in theswar .of. 1808," ands" few of
them have:iben re-established." " Two principal
fortreSies,[l.,a Seo de Urgel and Mequinenza,
are still in_the hands" of the• Royalists, and: thil
" have. fortified several other positions." " Their
example- must lie followed" by"the Republicans ;
'hot," the want of money and the increase of
expences have hitherto prevented the military
administration from making any-ptogreSs in the
system of order and economy." .Great.fears are
entertained by the Republicans "as to the hostile

" views" of the Allied Sovereigns ; and they are
particularly alarmed at the large Army of Obser-
vation maintained on the frontier by France,
while in Portugal (from which they might other-
wise hope for support) " the military establish-
ment is reduced to its mimimum."