The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-14 00:00:00

THE-REGENCY OF THE KINGDOM.

" Amongst the numerous difficulties which the Regency of
She Eingdoin had necessarily to experience in their great en-
' terprise to re-establish the legitimate Government of Spain
during the absence,of her ill-fated King, it was not the least
to COtitemplate the Jarful of the moment when it would be
deprived of the great talents with which your Excellency
has aided them from the first moment of the creation of the
Regency.
" It is only the profound respect with which the Regency
iverns the wise determination of his Most Christian Ma)esty,
which enables them to support the pain of seeing your thrcel-
lency depart to fill, in another land, the important functions to
wench his Majesty has deigned to call you.
" Your,.Excellency may depart with the certainty that you
bear with you the good-will of his Catholic Majesty, the grail-
tude of the 'Members of the Regency, and the love of the entire
Nation, which has witnessed your efforts to re-establish the
of her future felicity. Henceforth no good Spaniard will
near 'the name of Maitignac without feeling his heart moved
with the recollection that this name was the first, after that of
the Serene Prince tieneralissimo, which rang in the cats of so
Many thousands of subjects who ardently longed for the urrival
or their august liberator.
" It was the desire of the Regency to recompense worthily
the great services which your Excellency has rendered to Spain
during your stay, but they flatter themselves with the idea that
nothing can be more agreeable to you than to receive from their
hands the portrait of his Catholic Illajesty, and the Grand Cross
at" to Royal and distinguished Order of Charles 111. by which
inviwiture .they feel pleasure to see you, in some measure, in-
, eon:mated with the nation.
" May your Excellency continue to be one of the firmest
supporters of, and contribute to augment, if it be possible, the
glory of .the immortal Sovereign who knows so well how to
t.noose his Ministers and Councillors.
-" God grant your Excellency length of years.
(Signed) " The Duke de PIN FANTA DO.
et The Duke do AIONTEMAR.
-" JUAN, Bislkop of Osnia.
'" ANTONIO GOMEZ CALDERON.
" At the *yid Palace, July 3, 1823."

Alapitto, JULY 6.—Yuaterday inerr4ng, took place, the
soltinan presentation of the Marquess de Talent, Ambassador
of hie roost Christian Majesty. lie was; presented to the Re-
encby the Count de Certifies, Introducteur des Ambassadeu rt.
lisExceilleucy was aceampanied by live Secretaries of Esti-
basAy. All the persons composing the Embassy have not yet
' arrived. The customary military honours were paid to the
. Nuble Reprolentative of his Meet Christian illajesty. tie ad-
dressed the Regency in a speech, to which the President replied
in the most affectionate and honourable terms.

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PRINCIPAL_ EA 1.) QUARTERS.
''The °overtime:ft has,reeeived advice a froist,Cadir, dated the
.21tit anti 2lldi ult. Their Majesties and Royal Highnesses are,
thsnk heaven, in good health.
Violent differences have broken nut among the revolutionary
Chiets,,atitl principally between Riego anti the Cortes.
On the' 30th ult., about a hundred men, who .were working
at the fortifications of the Isle de Leon, effected their mope..—
. They state, that discouragement reigns among the .Constitu.
. titansl troops, and that there is not a soldier who three not seek
waioecuslen to desert, and give' up his arms to the Royalist
_ _

1.7 i); French troops continue to arrive before Cadiz s they
. have constructed a battery on the Trocadero, which command:
the two batteries' which have been erected by the Itevolu-
tloatiait>t in a position which demonstrates their inconceivable
tgaerence.
. rilte dispatches received from Valencia make mention of the
entliusiesat which reigns in that town and throughout theking-
for the esustrof the. King and the Regency which governs
-in hie name. The horror inspired fry the gaolers of our unfor-
,tunate Monarch is common to all classes.
I'lle:French army is marching upon Alicant. Lien.. Molitor
waft to arrive in Murcia before the 4th instant,,and thence con-
- t4tme his march upon Grenada.
The liberating army entered Oviedo on the 26th, amidst the
joyful acclamations of the-faithful Asturiens.
Che dwiaion or General Murillo has caused the revolution-
aryqulroga to take another. filtis,inatt Ilea fled to Corunna,
attar having soil upon a few hundred -real*, which he has
put,tostceourit'or do pay,' and which he *will need fOr as longer
journey.. • •
.•dTha Alnunt de Nugri writtat to 016 Captain-General of Ohl
Ctattalfe, from the,Gamp under Ciudad Rodrigo, dated.the2fitn
June' that he had that very Morning summoned that fortreas,
Walt that taPott roceiving a negative answer from the fieviernor,'
he had attacked all the advanced- poets:, and forced them to to.
tire .within *bewails. •
A. hand, or rade who hail penetrated into salttmanea, on-the
234.01 t. precipitately evacuated that town on the mere report of
tbe approach of the Royal troops.
[From tii'd-Miuilhilionoel of Thursday.]

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'Don Madge San Miguel;late rair'ister for 116 reign Affairs
at Madrid, whose arnval at llarcelona in an English brig we
recently Announced, has been appointed Chief of the Staft of
tlic. army commanded by General 'Espos.y.:Mina, In the &we
of General Zonaquim, who is dead ,in consequence of his
,wotlntis.
Alletter from Nantes, dated July 3, says—`,‘ We, this mo..
meat learn the capture of the ship Argonaiate coming from
Bourbon, by a Spanish privateer. This vessel, which belongs
to our port; Nth been talon into Cantina. Fortunately, it has
teat entirely insured, by the English trade."
Letters from Zinte, dated June GO, say, that the Egyptisn
squadron is a prey to a dreadful plague, and that the mortality
is so great that it is unlikely it can sail this summer to join the
Turkish fleet.' Pestilence also shewsitselfin most of the places
where the Turkish troops sare • stationed, on account of their
Valium and *ray.'
triton Oita ra,iyATE onnEavomnExcv.i
PSVPin All JuLy 2.—The The
of Sett d'Urgamatle
-a sortie on the night otthefiGth. The next day we attacked the
fort, but without nieces& • On the 29th the tiring was still
liegkrki from Puycerda. TtikSpanish COnstitutionalists pretend'
*hat-they gaiuod sa admit,* in this apitir• TheY even say

that the French troops and those of the Baron d'Eroles ex-
chap_
ged firelor a considerable time, not knowing each other.
What must appear extraordinary is, that our troops are now
made to light against the Sea d'Urgel, when .it Is known Mina
is no;longer there. Could not Baron "roles have attacked
him more advantageously in the plain of Cerdagne, where he
bivouacked with 201)0 and some hundred men within three.
quarters of a league awl army of more than 7000. men ? • At
least, he should have occupied the heights when he saw the
enemy take the direction of .the Plateau-d'Enveig. . •
His troops were fatigued, it is true,. but. those of Mina were
not less so. According to reports of eye-witnesses, they were
so harrassed that the sentinels on theadvaneed posts—Could not
resist sleep. Mina was obliged to be on foot all the five hours
that he let his troops repose in the vale of Livia, visited the
posts himself---shook thelientine4—spoke to the soldiers, and
thus kept them constantly awake to guard against a surprise.
(.111nni.teur qf Friday.,),.
(OFFICIAL PART.)
ARMY OF TEE PYRENEES. •
BU L LETIN. •

"Major-Gen. Huber, in informing his "loyal Highness of his
arrival at Oviedo on the 27th of June, gives him an account of
a new affair which his troops had on the 25th beyond Aviles.—
Major Bealimetz, of the 4th Hussars, having advanced towards
that town, immediately on the arrival of General Huber at
Gijon, and having with him 80 horse of his own regiment, of
the 17th Chasseurs, and two companies of infantry, arrived at
Aviles just as the rear-guard of Campillo had quitted it to
retreat towards Mures. He overtook it near Fort St. John.—
' The enemy formed in a square and endeavoured to manoeuvre
so as to
.put himself under die protection of that fort, but
being intskly attacked, his ranks were broken, and fled in all
directions. M. de Beainnetz immediately sent,part of his
cavalry towards Fort St: John ; it entered with the enemy, and
the garrison of 50 men threw themselves into a boat and en-
deavoured to escape, but Lieutenant Duez having caused the
boat to be fired at, it • ran aground, and only the men were
saved. The results of this affair, which was conducted with
vigour and skill, were Ili prisoners„ many killed, four pieces
of cannon, a large quantity of muskets and baggage, and the
completion of the dispersion of Campillo's troop, who had
hardly 209 men left when he arrived behind Nalon. Major
Beiiumet% was admirably seconded by Lieutenant Dues, of the
' 17th Chasseurs; he mentions as having distinguished them-
selves, Lieut. Korsoley, and Brigadierit Chandler and Constant,
of the 4th Hussars, and Quarter-Master Poreet, of the 17th
Chasseurs. -

" The Spanish General Longa, arriving at Infiesto, attacked
at the same time, on the 25th, two revolutionary bands, one on
the side of Campo Caro, the other towards Oviedo; both were
destroyed, and Bernard Alvarez, the chief of one of them, sur-
rendered.
" Part of Gen. Huber's iron's; were at OViedo on the 26th.
He himself passed that duy at Gijon, in order .to have the men
pursued Who had tied to the mountains, and to collect the sol-
diers of Canapillo, who presented themselves in great num-
bers. He has:also taken several vessels laden with arms, which.
were in the porta of the Asturias, and were destined for the'
places occupied by. the enemy. He was received at Oviedo on
the 27th, with the acclamations of all the population who came
out to meet him. Count Molitor has announced to his Royal
'Highness that the head of the 24 corps was on the 30th at
Montane, before Alicante, as well as at Elche, a march and a
half from Murcia, whither the General is advancing in pursuit
of the troops of Ballasteros.
" By order of his Royal Highness,
: " The Major-General Count. GUILLENINOT.
" Head-quarters, Madrid, July 5."
[From the Pilots of Friday.]
PARIS, Jt!LY,ll.:—Yesterday, after Mass, the King received
his Excellency the Portuguese ambassador, who had the honour
to present his letters of credit.
The Moniker and the Ministerial Papers have given us news
from Madrid of the 4th, but nothing, however, relative to the
affair of General Morillo.—lt should be recollected that the first
news of this pretended defection was dated Madrid, the 2d.
The communications between the different corps of the tinny
are daily, especially when they are necessitated by events, of a
high importance. The public must therefore be surprised that
there was not on the 4th any positive information as to an event
which was known on the 2d. The Drapcau Blanc (it violent
Ultra-Royalist paper) with which we rarely agree, concurs with
us In raising some doubts as to the authenticity of the news
given on this subject in the Ministerial prints. The Drapeau
Blanc thinks that Morino is placed in a mixed party, which
wishei for reforms in the Constitution, as the :Ministers wished
on the 7th of July ; that the present conduct of the General is
a natural result of his conduct at that epoch ; that be was then
quite disposed to join those who would modify the Constitution,
but that bet thought it his duty to tight, sod did in effect tight,
against those who wished to overturn it. We do not entirely
concur with the Drapeau Mane, as nothing yet induces uS to
think that the Count of Carthagena has wished to establish
any other Government than he has Sworn to serve. We know
nothing poesitiva as to the demand and refusal of a suspension
of arms, or the motives of It. According to the Ministerial
Papers, tieneral Bourck had obtained advantages—according to
sonic private letters, the fate of war was less unfavourable
to General Morillo---according to others, he had been success-
ful. As to the defection of Ballasteros, the Drapeau Blanc, in
common with ourselves, does not doubt the entire falsity of the
report.

Frrim the Conititunpnel of Friday.)
[EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER.]
PERPIONANOU 3.—:A convoy which set out from Vich
for the troops which form the blockade of the Seo d'Urgul, was
attacked on the 25th ult. between Cabtianu and 'St. Triton, by
Llobera, with 800 troops of.the line, and 2,000' peattants.
convoy was either destroyed or taken. The rear-guard, con.
sisting of 200 men, made a noble resistance, and displayed a
valour worthy of French soldiers, but they were forced to yield
to numbers.

As soon as this event was known at the Sett d'Urgel, the Ba-
ron d'Eroles, with three battalions, end General St. Priest,
with his brigade, quitted the environs of that place, and march-
ed for Mich, passing by Salsona and Cardona. Ronutgasa re-
mains in the environs of la Sen with 12 or 1,3011 men.
( From the Courier Francais qf Friday.)
1? Atm, J It.Y 11.—The azzelte navel-sale do-Lyon gives
long details respecting a tumult which took place on the even.
ing of the 4th Instant, in a quarter of that city. We have no
room for the details. It appears that a patrol of Brigadiers
and Marechaux de Login, of the 21st Chasseura, having met a
soldier of their regiment in a state at' intoxication, endeavoured
to convey him away. The people opposed them, shouting, says
the Gazette, 64 A bas les (Masseurs aux Moue let Chuseeure
aux Pierres." The patrol, however, proceedeh, followed by
upwards of 500 persons, to the Rue di la Chariti, where a su-
perior officer ,of the regiment was present, who inquired the
Cause of the disorder. Ile was soon, adds the Gaulle, stir.
rounded, attacked, and pushed towards the Rhone, atnidst
about* of "'Au Rhone l'Offieler--ii Las la Chaaseurs—aux
ilerree." A t length the silliliers were joined by others, and
an infantry detachment of the.pictinet arriving, they succeded
in dispersing 'the crowd.
firerri•the Journal glee Debuts Friday.l
CONSTANTISOME, Juivx 14.—The public tranquillity
has not been disturbed, but the chicanery and depredation with
regard', to the navigation of the Europeans continue. All the
Christian vesitels are searched, and the crews are much ma.
treated. The European Ministers have again made represen-
tations. Two Austrian couriers were imprisoned, and received
the bastinado, notwithstanding the representations of the Baron
d'Ottenfels. There are, at this moment, 13 vessels, under
different flags, under sequestration in the arsenal.--(Gazette
Universelle.)
FnArricronT, June 8.

[Extrartfrom the Speetateur Orientall
SAIVIINA, Jura. I.—The Ottoman fleet, commanded by the
Capitan Pacha, and consisting of 47 vessels, large and small,
was seen the 23t1 of May, directing its course towards the channel
of Chio. The 24th ono division of the fleet entered Chio and
Cheame, and the other division was off the coast of Mitylene.
The Capitan Poch* sent orders to two Ayans of Chin, and to
another Turkish individual, to come to lum. They have not
-eine* made their appearance, which is not a good augury fur
them, when their ctinduct towards the.Oreekt after the capture
andssack Chit) is recollected; The 27th, the fleet was still in
sight .between Chin and 111 itylene.
Theptutsage of volunteers in our environs has tnuclk dimi-
nished, and n will' probably cease altogether /hen the ,Otto.
man fleet shall have finally left- our shores t i comma* its
operations. We know absolutely nothing as. to whither Uis
now going, nor is there any thing upon this itOject but vague
conjectures.
There are at Cliestne, .upwards of 10,000 troops assembled,
and every day corps of volunteers match upon that point to
wait the appearance of the Ottoman fleet, on board of which
they are to embark.
Letters from Samoa, of the 10th of May, state as follow
" Now thitt the decisive moment approaches, the zeal, activity
and 'enthusiasm here are redoubled. 'the moat obstinate re.
sistance is.deterinised upon;. and it is believed to be of a Wt.,
tare thin will defeat every enterprize on the part of the Turks.
Preparaticuis are. continually making with a view to this ob.
ject, and success is considered certain ; but when I consider the
nature of the localities, which are not so favourable for defence
as those of.lpsara and Hydra, I do not participate in the gene.
tel confidence."
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For some flute past the Greek fleets have not been seen in
our Gulf, rand there is no talk of any Greek fleet shewing itself
in this neighbourhood. The Greeks make a great distinction
between the present Capitan ?ache, and those who have pre-
ceded him in that eminent station.
• BAYONNE, JULY s.—There have just arrived in this port
a small brig in ballast, and two clulise mercer laden with tobacco,

which were taken at Gijon juat as they arrived from Seville and
Corunna, by the French who entered at the same time : these
prizes have been brought hither by new crews, chosen at the
place of departure, and guarded by 'two hussars and an aide- '
de-camp of General Bourck ; this seems singular enough, and
we cannot give any good reason for it. The prizes, however,
are of little importance, not amounting to 40,000 francs at the
'most ; it is even reported that orders -have already been given
to restore these barks as they were taken, because they belong
to private persons. The sailors whom we have-oestioned say,
that when the Frenchentered Gijon they did not l'Wd any,Con.
stitutional troops whatever, they having all retreated to Gal-
Vein ; that General Bourckmarelfin,g to Comma, and
that there was a regiment of cavalry at Oviedo. The arrests
of persons attached to the Constitutional party continue in
the provinces on .our frontiers, and ' probably in the rest of
the PeninsUla; and this cantles great alarm, and all that
are able seek refuge in France. it is affirmed, that two large
English vessels, laden with arms, have arrived almost at the
same time at Santona and Corunna. It i 4 also said that -a
French frigate coming from India, and which had no know-
ledge of the war, has put into Corunna, and been captured.
We learn that Aline has made" detailed reports of all the en-
gagements that he has had with our troops since the com-
mencement of the war, aid that he makes out our loss, in
killed, and wounded, and prisoners, to be 8,000 men. If this
were true, and if the loss in other parts were tube estimated
in proportion, there would be no reason to wonder at the for
of an army of reserve. The 19th regiment of Light
Infantry, which was to form part of our garrison, is to march
after taking some days rest : it will be succeededi by one of
those which are coming from the interior, and which will only
pass through. There is more talk than ever of the siege of St.
Sebastian and Pampeluna ; but no heavy artillery has yet ar-
rived.' The day before yesterday we again heard a pretty heavy
cannonade on the side of St. Sebastian, the garrison of which
has made continual sallies since the place was invested, and
fires on 'any thing that approaches the walls. Our letters front
Madrid, of the 30th, do not bring much information. No jour-
nal,' are now published in the capital, except the Madrid Gis-
=tic, and that only three times a week. Several addresses have
been received by the Regency, asking for the re-establishment
of the Jesuits and of the Inquisition. The army of Ballasteros
is still near Alicant and l.a 3lancha, where it has been joined
by various-bands. it is reported, that the French having
quitted Salamanca, the Empecinado entered the town, where
he levied aWO contribution, and tonic four superior Officers
•prisoners, among whom is General Ilassecourt. It seems that
the English Ambassador set out for Cadiz before the French
arrived at Seville.