The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-06 00:00:00

Regency.

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sey, i Brazils, t Dublin, 4 Waterford.

PRICE OF STOCKS.
THIS DAY AT TWlELYt.o'cLoctc.
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The people, who view in this election the pros.
perity or ruin of the Spanish Monarchy, the tri-
umph of the Usurper, or the independence of
the Peninsula, shew the greatest interest and impa-

tience to know the important result of this session.
May it soon be announced to us that the new Re-
gents are worthy to govern the Spaniards by their
knowledge, their decided patriotism, their love for
the new Constitution, energy, and rectitude, with-
out which gwalifications they cannot obtain the pub-
lic confidence.

At half after eleven at night, the session still
continued with the most impenetrable secresy ;
not only had no deputy come out, but not one
of the attendants, whose business it was to wait on
them,

CADIZ, JAN. 19.—We are assured it is a point
already settled, that the Regency shall consist of
five members. It is said, that on the return of the
troops to Chiclana from the expedition to Tarifa,
there was a meeting among the Polish soldiers, who
refued to march, without resting, to Seville, as they
were ordered, which order could not be enforced
till some of them were put to death.

J. 14.—1 t is said that General BALLESTEROS
will not yet leave the camp at Gibraltar ; it is also
said, that he will make a movement on the enemy's
lints before Cadiz.

SAN EiTEVAN DE PALACE, DEC. 4.—The head-
quarters of the Ist Army are now here. The ene-
my have at length passed their grand convoy from
Gerona to Barcelona, but not with impunity.- In
the operation they have employed 14,000 infantry,
700 hotse, and eight pieces of artillery.

HEAD-QUARTERS ON THE HEIGHTS OF LA GARRIGA,

nEc. 6.

Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, 4000 infan-
ry and 400 horse, with four pieces of artillery, at-
acked these head-quarters of the Ist army ; they
were however completely repulsed and pursued in
their retreat to Granolla, which they reached at
three in the afternoon, with no small loss ; our's
63 was nct considerable.

Intelligence arrived yesterday from Spain, which
though not of a military.,nature, tends very much to
console us for the disastrous accounts which we have
recently received from that .kingdom. A change has
ken place in the Spanish Government—a Govern-
ment which has hitherto checked and frustrated,
rather than guided, the exertions of the gallant Spa-
niards. Colonel TEXADA art ivied yesterday with
Dispatches announcing a complete change in' the
Council of Regency. The new Members are the
Duke Of INFANTADO, General (YDONNEL, Admiral
VILLAVICENZA, Governor of Cadiz, M. RIBAS,
and M. MOSnUERA. There is reason to believe that
this new arrangement will prove as satisfaeory to
the Spanish Colonies as it will to ttie Mother Coun-
try.
It would be absurd to attempt to underrate the
reverses which the Spaniards have sustained; they
have been most calamitous; and if we were not
convinced that the whole population of Spain is ir-
ritated almost to madness by the unprecedented
cruelty and treachery of the French, and if we did
not know that inflexible perseverance forms the dis-
tinguishing trait of the Spanish charaEter, our hopes
of ultimate success would be very faint indeed. But
if the exertions of the Spanish people are guided, as
we trust they will be, by an aElive and energetic
Government, there is strong ground to hope that, ,
powerfully assisted as they will be by Great Britain,
they will ultimately triumph overtheir unprincipled
invaders.

We have received some French Papers, from
which we have extracted some interesting particu-
lars respecting the siege of Valencia.

We call the attention of our Readers to the re-
newed Report which we this day give of Mr. PER-
CEVACS Speech,_ on Tuesday last, respecting the
Claims of the Irish Catholics; and though we pre-
tend not to give more than an outline of that
Speech, which was distinguished for solid argument
and the dictates of enlightened policy ; yet as our
Report conveys a clear and decisive stxerneni of the
sentiments and views of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, it will afford much satisfaction to every real
friend to our Establishments in Church and State,
which have so long rendered us the envy of all sur-
rounding nations, and secured to us freedom and
happiness at home.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at ihe -Foreign Office, which sat till past
five. Sir SIDNEY SMITH and Mr. 1-1. ADDINGTON
were in the Office during the sitting of the Council.
Yesterday Sir SIDNEY SMITH transaaed business
with Mr. tt►e Under Secretary of State in
the War Department.

Yesterthy IVljor GORDON, who brought the dis-
patches from Lord \V ELLIN GroN, was iottoduced to
the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House, by the Earl
of LIVERPOOE.

His Excellency Sir EVAN NEPEAN, Bart. will
embark for his Government of Bombay early in the
next month.
The dispatches which were received by the Hor-
net for the American Charge d'Affaires, have been
forwarded to Liverpool for America. The Hornet,
we understand, returns to Cherburgh immediately.
Colonel DAVIES has been appointed Lieutenant
Governor of Van Dieman's Land, and will take his
passage oe board one of the transports fitting out in
the River for New South Wales. It is reported,
that he takes out a company of Marines with him.
Letters received yesterday from Paris to the 3oth
ult. state, that BUONAPARTE had ordered the seizure
of eleven American ships, lately arrived in the
French ports, as a reprisal for the seizure of a
French vessel at Philadelphia, under the following
circumstances :—The vessel in question had been
captured by a French privateer hom an American
Citizen, and Carried into France ; after which she
was soli. as is averred, to a French Merchant, fitted
out anew-, and sent on a voyage to America, where
the citizen recognising the vessel, obtained an order
for her seizure from the American Government.—
The case came on to be heard before Judge Wash-
ington, who decided in favour of his countryman,
on the ground that the vessel in dispute had never
been regularly condemned as a lawful prize in the
French Courts. The whole proceedings were laid
before the French Government, by which they were
strongly reprobated; and the seizure of the Ameri-
can ships is said to have been the consequence.

A letter from Cassel, dated Jan. 8, says, " It is
found to have been Le Sage, a blacksmith, who was
discharged from the Royal Stables, that murdered
Count Moaco."

Lord DUDLEY and WARD has resumed his an-
nual custom of distributing, at this time of the year,
more than two tons weight of the best bread an.!
meat to the poor in his neighbourhood, at Kimley
Hall. But the benevolence of this amiable Noble-
man is not confined to a particular period of the
year, but is always prompt and active on every
occasion in which he can render service to man-
kind.

Mr. KEMBL.E has received the most flattering
overtures to enter into an engagement to perform in
America. The offer, indeed, is of so very liberal a
nature, that, it is said, he is likely to accept it. In
that case the Americans will have a genuine spe-
cimen of the classical excellence of thie English
stage.

BANNISTER is now performing at Edinburgh, and
Mrs. C. KEMBLE has been induced to renew her en-
gagement for a few nights in that City, in order to
gratify the public with their united talents.

It is somewhat Curious, that among the Officers
who are mentioned with high and merited praiie in
the last dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, there
is a Major STURGEON, but one who in every respect
is a ut)blv. reverse of FOOTE'S dramatic caricature.