The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-16 00:00:00

Lion would probably be to break these Generals and Brigadiers,
or the Government might send them to quarters in the Philli-
pines.—( El Espectador.)

SEPTEMBER 6.
The French mail, which should have arrived yesterday
morning, has not yet come in. We have learnt that it re-
mained some time at Burgos, in order to provide the necessary
arrangements to enable it to arrive in safety at this capital.
The Government, aware of the importance under the present
circumstances of a free communication between the capital and
the provinces and foreign countries, will not neglect to give the
necessary directions for clearing the roads of the robbers who
impede the passage of peaceful travellers.
By the courier which arrived yesterday evening from Va-
lencia, we received the following document :
" By the officer charged with the duty of the commandant of
the eighth military district,
" Soldiers !—The ordinary Council of War, assembled on
the 27th ult. to try Lieut.-General D. Xavier Elio, for the
scandalous conspiracy which he formed on the 30th of May
last, in the citadel of this capital, has condemned' him to the
punishment of the garrote, after having suffered degradation.
The result of the process having been communicated to me, 1
forwarded, it to the Auditor of War, ad interim, in order that
he might furnish his opinion with regard to the conformability
of the sentence.

," That Learned Advocate gave it as his opinion, that it was
not only conformable to law, but that it should be carried into
effect with all-the promptitude which the law of the 17th' of
April, 1821, by which the said General was judged, the public
convenience, and the executive orders expedited by his Ma-
jesty, required. In this state of affairs it became every mo-
ment more absolutely necessa.; that the Brigadier D. Juan
Espino, who was appointed by the ordinance in the succession
of .command to the general command of this district, should
make his appearance here, and to that effect I undertook to dis-
patch to him another extraordinary courier, informing him of
the necessity of accelerating his march, on account of the pro-
bable interruption of the public tranquillity.
" Peace, however, was in the meantime preserved in spite of
the delay which accompanied the approval or disapproval of the
sentence ;_ but yesterday the constitutional Ayuntamiento com-
municated to me that the public tranquillity was threatened by
the exasperation which was observable in almost all classes of
the people, who were anxious to see the affair brought to a con-
clusion, and urged me to be careful that it should suffer no
delay which might be productive of a terrible popular com-
motion.

" On receiving this information from a corporation charged
with watching over the public tranquillity—finding, on the other
hand, that the said Brigadier had not arrived, nor been heard
of, and being well aware that in the before-mentioned law of
the 17th bf April, it is ordained that the sentences should be
immediately executed, I resolved to examine the sentence pro-
nounced by the Council, and having found it, as well as the
opinion which I have already mentioned of the Auditor of War,
conformable to.the most rigorous justice, I felt it to be my
duty to approve it, and to conform to it, and I gave orders that
the punishment of death should be executed in the form pre-
scribed by the Judges and President who composed the tri-
bunal; in consequence of which General Elio was this morn.
ing placed in Capilla (the chapel of the prison in which a con-
demned prisoner waits until the time of executing the sentence
be notified), in order that he may undergo the punishment due
to his horrible crime. " VICENTE 'VALLTERRA.
" Valencia, Sept. 3."
We understand that notice has been already received at
Madrid of this sentence having been executed the day before.
yesterday.
The correspondence from Catalonia also arrived by the courier
from Valencia.

The convocation of Extraordinary Cortes is at present the
principal object of public expectation, and has already been made
of deliberation in the Council of State. It is said the Council,
on the application of the Government, has recognised the neces-
sity of convoking the Cortes in an extraordinary Session, al-
though there has been some difference of opinion among the
members. Fourteen were of opinion that the report present.
ed by Government did not offer all the data necessary to en-
able the Council to come to a resolution, because it did not ap-
pear to them that Government had employed all the extraordi-
nary resources which were granted by the Cortes of last ses-
sion; but, though they desired that intbrmation on these
points should be presented to the Council, they did not on that
account oppose the convocation of the Ccirtes. The remaining
12 councillors were of opinion that it was not only desirable but
most urgent that the extraordinary Cortes should be convoked,
considering the serious aspect which the affairs of the nation
present, and the notorious want of power in the executive de-
partment: . . .

Thus the subject which has occupied the Council may be re-
duced to these simple questions:—ls Spain now situated in
any of those serious and delicate 'circumstances of which the
constitution speaks in treating of the convocation :of Extraor-
dinary Cortes ? Does Government possess the necessary means
of raising troops, and furnishing money, in order to meet the
necessities of the times ? We do not think there is a Spa-
niard who cannot answer these questions, and who does not
wish that, under the present circumstances, all the public au-
thorities may concur, each in its own way, to preserve the State
from the dangers which threaten it.
The Constitution has anticipated the possible existence of
cases like the present, and has pointed out the means which
should be adopted for the salvation of liberty.—(El Uni-
vcrsal.)
BAYONNE, SEPT. 7.—The Defenders of the Faith continue
to intercept the mails, for to-day we have hardly received any
letters from Spain beyond Tolosa, because the mails from. Ma-
drid and Vittoria, with all the correspondence, have been inter-
cepted ; the two last mails sent from Bayonne have had the
same fate, so that unless the Spanish Government adopt some
rigorous measures to secure the passage of the couriers in the
defiles of Salina and Escarga our communication with Spain
will be broken off. The mail from Saragosa coming-through
Navarre, and that from Pampeluna, experience the same fate.
The merchants of this city are great sufferers by the interrup-
tion, and are filled with indignation when they consider that it
is by order of the Secret Committee of the Defenders of the
Faith established at Bayonne, that all these vexatious measures
are taken. In consequence of this state of things, we do not
even know what is passing in Navarre and the three provinces.
There are reports of fresh advantages obtained by the Constitu-
tional troops, but as we hate no accounts of any kind from
either party, we must wait for the next mail; that is, if it
should arrive. The defensive preparations in this city con-
tinue.