The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-13 00:00:00

(FROM TIIE JOVIISAL PE$ DEBAT; )

ZANTE, Ess. 14.—After the victory which the
inhabitants of Missolongo gained on the 6th of this month,
when they repulsed six assaults of the Torks, Omar Brioni,
Dacha of Janina, retreated) leaving 1500 men on the field of
battle. During two days it was unknown what route he had
taken, and strong reconnoitering► parties were sent out in dif-
ferent directions, and beyond Zygos. At the same time advice
was received that a corps of 1800 Greeks from the Morea had
disembarked opposite to Trisonta, and were advancing by the
defiles of Mount Caracas, towards Tidaris, while Marc Botza-
ris, at the head of 'l5OO men, was moving on by.Levenon to
Vrachnri. The movement from Missolongo having been cal-
culated on this base of operations, its first object was the camp
of Omar Brionis, which was found abandoned ; 16 pieces of
cannon and ammunitions, and provision were found left be-
hind; and even the magnificent tent of Chourschid Paha. All
the articles became the booty of the Christians, who soon learnt
that Omar Paella had retreated to Vrachori. Our latest news
from the Continent, which is up to the 10th of this month, says,
that this proud Arnautis surrounded in his position, and we
expect daily to hear of his complete ruin.
The Electoral Colleges of Greece are summoned for the 15th
of this month, at Napoli di Itornania, in order to renew the De-
puties who compose the Amphictionie Congress. It is asserted
that Athens will be henceforth the chief place of the confedera-
tion of the states of all the provinces, and of the President of
the Diets of Terra Firma, and of the islands. - •
The Castle of Patras, as well as the Little Dardanelles and
Lepantuni, have lately made some proposals which whuld lead
to the belief that these places will ere long surrender.
The 11ydriots.are blockading by sea the fortresses of Coron
and or Modon, which do not merit the honour of
It can no longer be doubted but that the Peloponnesus will, be-
fore the month of April next, be entirely free. Thus a hand-
ful of men, at first armed with sticks and implements of hue.
bandry, and with a few fowling pieces, will have conquered al-
tars, laws, a country, arsenals and arms ; for the Greeks at
present possess 150 pieces of field artillery, 700 mounted can.
non, 80,000 muskets ; and their navy consists of 400 vessels,
between 110 and COO tons.
The Mereure de Sonabe says, that, according to authentic
news from Greece, ,Count Norman died at Miaaolunghi of a
malignant Ayer. .

SPAIN.
~
MAnnin, FEB. 23.—We enjoy perfect trim-
quillity here, though still a prey to the division
of parties. A change in the Ministry is still
'spoken of ; some are for choosing a new Ministry
from the party of Cevallos, Custanos, Palafox ;
and others from that of Gauge, Salvat, and Re-
trier° A Ipuente. However it be, under the cit.-.
cumstances in which the nation is now placed, it
will be difficult to find a Ministry able to, con.
ciliate all parties, and to take the Measures that
are requisite to save the country from the disso-
lution with which it is threatened, for various
very alarming reports are in circulatiOn It is
said that, there will immediately be formed in
Andalusia, Valencia, Catalonia, and Galicia,,
separate governments, which shall provide for the
defence of their respective territories, detaching
themselves from the capital, which is at present
only a focus of intrigue and discord. Such at
least is the real plan of the Communeros, and the
execution of it Is more than probable, especially
in case of foreign invasion. There never was
such a mass of inflammatory publications as now
inundate the capital. Each party labours at its
own ends, but none attend to the principal object.
The Spanish corvette La Cittelda was launched
at Carthugena on the 16th.

[Extract of a_private Letter.]
" BAYONNE, MARCH 4.—We are without news by theor
dinary Madrid courier since the 114th of February. The mai
which was due on the Ist inst. has not yet arrived. We are on
the eve of having all communication interrupted by the Royalist
guerillas, .who will soon have possession of the roads from Ma-
drid to iron. The troops of Merino anti Cubellas are at Loam-
Sorra. it is affirmed that Bessieres, on returning from New
Castile, detached scarps of 1,500 men to join the troops of these
two Chiefs.
" The Chief, (lorerli, was, with from 4 to 500 men, at .Er-
nany ; he has forced the constitutional Colonel, Gaureguy, to
take refuge in lit. Sebastian. - •
" Some Members of the Comntroieroe party of the Cortes,
alarmed at the events which are preparing, have already joined
the Moderates. Amongst others,- is cited M. Bertrand de Lis,
who, in a letter which he lust published, flatters himself upon
having bad the honour of an interview with his Majesty. This
ardent patriot thinks that ,the present Ministers have not suf-
ficient capacity to be at the helm of affairs. •Ile foresees the
urgent necessity of admitting the propositions of the Foreign
Powers, sod,. amongst others, those of the French Govern-
went ;• this, according to him, is the only means of uniting
all parties, of causing civil qvar to cease, and of avoiding a
foreign one. , This letter has excited intense sensatios."—(6e-
lette de Prow.)
Extract of annother Letter from Bayonne, of the same date
as the preceeding t— •
" The news which we communicate to you to-day has not
reached us by the ordinary courier, who is not yet arrived,
having, it appears been stopped -by the band of the .Curate
(iorostidy, who has suddenly proceeded-on the route towards
Madrid ;he intercepts all communications this he will be
enabled to do for a long period, as, since the announcement
of the movement of the French troops, his band is daily rein-
forced by numerous devoted iloyabsts.
" We have received our adviees by an extraordinary courier.
They contain three RepOrts from -the Count d'Abisbal to the
Government, which are so insignificant that we should not no-
tice them, if they were not otherwise of a nature to form your
opinion, and to demonstrate the-true-state of things. The fol-
lowing is un abstract of these documents .
" The Arse. which merely relates to the marching of the
troops under his orders, is dated from Molina on the 15th of
February. The second is tinted from Anguita on thalfith,
and announces that a part of the division of Bessieres, amount-
ing to 1,604 men, was marching upon Sigiienza, whilst Ul-
man with 1,000, took the route to Soria, being pursued by Gen.
Bessieres, it is stated, is closely pressed by Brigadier
Tortes. The third dispatch was dated from Medusa Celi on
the 10th, and states that, Bessieres, haring evacuated Si.
guenza, has taken the road to Datienza, whence he will doubt.
less press forward, to gain Navarre, where he will think hint-
self more safe. General O`Daly, it is added, was pursuing
him, having abandoned Ultnan's corps, which is completely
divided. Brigadier Torres has routed a column of 240 infan-
eryand 30 cavalry at Poso-Undo, and made 114 prisoners.'
, These three reports contain only one- true fact; which
is the arrival of Bessieres at Lienza, but with the entire of his
corps d'armee. No conflict whatever had taken place between
him and the Constitutional Generals, consequently he could not
have sustained the losses which have been announced, for it hail
been admitted by his enemy that his army amounted to 7000
men-when at Hue, and now that it has been reinforced, how
can it be.diminished two-thirds ? _ _

" It 'continues to be said that the siege of Arequinenza will be
carried on, but the fact is, that they have not the means of doing
so. This fortress, consequently, will he apoint d'appei to new
operations which are about to be undertaken in that country ;
it will be of great utility."

• THE ARMY OF THE FAITH.
Extract ofo Letter from Perpignan, dated March 1.
Count Verges:, first Aide-de-Camp to the War Minister, ar.
rived here the day ;,-lefore yesterday. He has taken a lodgsng,
and means to make mine stay here. It is stated that he is
charged with the impa,rtant mission of embodying the bands of
,the Faith in'regiments.‘ The Officers who -can neither read nor,

write will be obliged, it Is said,ito serve as privates, and their
rank will not be restored hi/hem until they shall have acquired
the necessary instruetiois:,.. It is even announced that this mea-
sure was determined on at Patis, and that the Baron d'Eroles
is to deliver to each regiment the books:purchased in the capi-
tal,:and destined for the education.of those gentlemen. It is
said that the uniform worn by. Count de Verges i 6 the model
of that destined for the new corps which are about to be or-
ganised.
'We regard with pleasure all the new measures of Govern-
ment. It is hoped that when the officers of the bands of the
Faith shall have acquired the education which is proposed to
be given to them, that war will no longer be a work of pillage ;
and that when Misas shall know how to read and write, and
shall have studied our ;military regulations as well as the me-
niolres of our I;eneral ofileers„ he will no longer commit, in his
expeditiona, thase.ferockus acts-Weft have spread despair and
desolation amongst .coatiltlatable nil tuber.: of families. :of : Cata-
lonia- Spain is, however, organizing. The political Chiefs in
Catalonia are delivering Commissions for'Captains of mique-
lets to the most intrepid Cataloniana ; every Captain is charged
with forming his company. They will be.all free companies,
fighting on their own account, and will receive all the men of
the Faith whom the French system will not suit. The Baron
d'Eroles arrived yesterday, and has to-day been visited by the.
Members of the Regency and all the officers of the different
bands of the Faith. It is said that he issued' orders for all the
bands to enter France, and that yesterday he dispatched officers
to the different Chiefs on the frontier.
Yesterday evening a post-chaise arrived as the gate'of Notre
Dame was about to be closed. The traveller announced him-
self to the sentinel es a Government courier. Ile afterwards
stated that he was the Marquis de la Maisonfort, and the gate
was opened.' The keys had not been delivered to the King's
Lieutenant. Orders have been given in the different communes
of the arrondissement of Prades to prepare quarters for corps
which are to arrive in the month of April.--4(Conatilutionnel.)
The Marquis de Fraguier, member of the Chamber of Dc.
puties, and commanding the Gth legion, and M. Polissaid-
Quatrethere, Colonel of the 4th regiment, have published
orders of the dity,pointing out the'conduct• of M. Mercier as
a breach of discipline which must excite indignation, and
which ought to be the more severely punished as it compro-
mises the honour of the'National Guanl. We confess that we
find it impossible to leconcile the publication of these docu.
ments with the Ministerial article of the Journal de Debats, in
which it is distinctly stated that it is not the duty of a serjeant
commanding a post of honour to execute an' arrest.—(Con-
stitutionnel.)

!MEOW, FEU. 19.-413x/rad of a private Letter.l—Thel
Mario do Govern° of yesterday contains the following procla,
motion :—" Brigadier-General John Carlos tie Saldanha tie
Oliviera Daun having been appointed Commander-in-Chief of
the Forces, both military and naval; now, in, or hereafter to be,
stationed at Bahia, and not havingcomplied with the orders issued
to him to accompany the expeditionary troops that have just
sailed for that destination, the King commands that the 31i11:.
utry Governor of the Province of Estretnathira shall cause the
immediate arrest of the said Brigadiei-General Saldanha, and
that he be tried by a court-martial for disobeying the said
orders, the result of which has been the sailing of the expedi-
tion without their Commander-in-Chief. The requisite docu,
ments, in proof, with the names of the President and Members
of the Court, shall be transmitted forthwith.

" MANUEL GONSALVES DE MIRANDA-,
" Secretary for the War Department.
" Palace of Ilemposta, Feb. 15, 1223."

,CIT 't% .:11q)NESE) Y EVENING.

Console opettall this mottling at 74L'and ad-
vanced to 74i I, in consequence of an erronebu a quotation o
the French Rentes in Paris, on Monday evening, having been
exhibited at the Stock Exchange. , The advices received by the
Private expresses, however, speedily remedied the mistake, for
to place of an advance of 2 per cent, they announced a decline
of per cent. in the operations of that day, the Routes having
opened at 110, and, after some immaterial alterations, closing at
79f. 50c. The Consols here consequently declined to 734, and
744 was the closing price, varying little front the value of yes-
terday.
These advisees have nearly destroyed the hopes 'entertained
yesterday in the City that a more wise line of policy than an
unpopular war would have actuated the French Ministry, for
they arc in every respect warlike, and the iittempt to impose
chains on the gallant inhabitants of the Peninsula, .187 it
seems, to be persevered in. Preparations are even rucking
to resist the hostility of England, for on the 13th current
orders were received at llavre to mount the cannons on the bat.
teries, along the whole coast, and to raise a body of sailors for
the service of the State. Similar orders were transmitted to
Rochfort and to Cherbourg; and considerable agitation had in
consequence arisen amongst the mercantile classes, for in
their opinion a rupture with England alone could occasion
the adoption of so many naval measures. Thus is the vain..
able commerce and the happiness of the French nation about
to be sacrificed to that hateful word Bourbon, and Europe
is again to be involved in the miseries of war, because
Continental Legitimacy is inconsistent with the freedom
of mankind. That a strict neutrality would be the best policy
which England could adopt under present circumstances,
few could deny, were. the characters of the three Gentle-
men of Verona less notoriously known, but there are not
a few merchants who view the present league as a conspiracy
against the freedom and mental improvement of mankind ;
for it is recollected that these three Gentlemen when licking,
the paws of the Emperor Napoleon, most cordially combined
with Mtn, and sanctioned his ;Milan and Berlin Decrees against
the commercial glory of the British empire; and if France
should unfortunately succeed iu trampling on the freedom of
Spain, in garrisoning all the naval stations in the Peninsula, then
where is the security that Europe, combined under three or tour
tyripts, may not think British laws inconsistent with their system
of divine right ? Here this day it is confidently asserted that a
change had actually taken place at Madrid on the 4th inst., and
that M. Florin Estrada, who tied front Spain on the return of the
beloved Ferdinand, and remained for some time in exile in this
country, is included in the new arrangement. The distinguished
talents of this Gentleman, and his merits as a polititat writer,
are well known in this country. Ile has, we believe, lived lat-
terly in retirement, working his mines and improving his
estates.—lt is farther reported that Mr. JACKSOK, who left
London yesterday for Madrid, is charged with dispatches again
offering the mediation of England to the new Ministers. 'rite
Speeds of the Beloved Ex 11.1n1WAX I) to the Ordinary Cortes On
the Ist current has not this day been received in the City.—
Morning Matilde.)

The proposition to equalize the duty on sugar
imported from the East and West Indies cannok,
fail to appear to the enemies of the House of
Commons to lie within very narrow
,cornpass.—
Alf sugar from the %Vest Indies now pays u
duty of 275. per cwt., a duty which, at the pre-
sent
prices, is much more than sugar can bear,
winch sells at 55*. to 088., and consequently
the Planters in' all the West India Colonies
are reduce 4 to a degree of distress bordering
on ruin. Bat the finances, of the Government
cannot admit cif the duty being lowered.—
What do the ',genii, Merehants, and Speclatort
to India in their proposition of equalizing the
duty, 891, but this ? Take off the protecting
duty of 101. per cwt. On all the Sugar that we can
purchase from the waives of India, and import it
into this city, we. 940 be by so much the
gainersland thedevbrnrnetst only will be the loser.
Would this boon of Govermneut (if they were in
a situation to, give up
10s. per cwt, on all the
sugar imported from India) be of the least relief
to the natives of that country, the 100 millions ?
Not one shilling ! The adventurers would not
give the natives one farthing per cwt., more than
they now give ; but they would pocket 10s.
per cwt. more than they now do*, and the
Government would be minus to that amount.—
Let them continue to pay the 10s. protecting
duty,- if they bring , their sugar here ; or, let
them try another market. The East India Coin.
any have little to do with the question ; it rests
with a few spectators, who wish to enrich them-
selves at, the expence of the Government and
the West Indies.

A private letter from Paris, says The
English have taken the alarm—hundreds of post horses are
daily ordered for the Calais road; houses are given up, lodg-
ings abandoned, furniture sold for little or nothing, equipage
after equipage driVitig in from the South."

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MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.
lINGLAND.

Nos. 1, 8,14, 15, 22, 284,
293, 308.
COUNTIIY. Nos. 29, 72, 102, 219, 311,
368, 423, 509, 510, 521,
583.
- 18, Lownow. Nos. 33, 42, 266.
COUNTII,I% Nos. 137, /01;-167„ 170,
184, 199, 385, 532, 544,

Monday, ;tar& 17,
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