The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-20 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

(Front the Elver Flying Post, Aug. 13.)
As far as the stories of our gasconading twig •
bourn are entitled to belief, we are suddenly to expeet—not
onlY-the destruction 'of the Constitutional system in Spain.,
but the delivery of Ferdinand to the French Generalin.
SIITIO. With this,the campaign it is pretended will be
at an end; and the good work accomplished. It may
be so : but we happen (nod so most men do). to differ
from this opinion ; treachery, it is true, has, in two or
three instances, disgraced the leaders ,of Spain, but un-
conditional surrender in a state of prosperous, or, more
properly 'speaking, successful war, is another matter. Nations
once engaged in hostilities (especially defensive. and in a right
cause) are not wont so tamely to surrender their rights : we
have ample proof of this, not only in ancient but in modern
history,-:-and to' suppose Spain to differ from the rest of nations,
is to deny her that place in the map of Europe, which, by for-
mer NMO and extended conquests, she is so justly entitled
to.—What purpose may be answered by the publication of
assertions like these, without proof, we will leave our readers
to judge;' in the 'meantime, it cannot fail to strike every
man, that the order of the Duke d'Angouleme, declaring
the military possessions of the kingdom,, is not likely to con-
ciliate its inhabitants. The Spaniards are a proud and haughty
people. They think themselves the greatest nation in Christen-
dom, and,arc, if not more jealous of-their soil, at least as much
so as any other nation around us, and, as the French have now
parcelled out the provinces after the Roman fashion, amongst
their Generals, it is not, in the least, unreasonable to calculate
upon a The
unanimity than has previously distinguished
them. The Bands of the Faith" have dwindled to nothing,
end the Madrid " Regency" are at daggers drawn
.with
the French.—Such is the posture of affairs in Spain, and
who calculates upon peace, calculates, to our Clinking,
erroneously. The Government may decide as it pleases
—it may make peace, and restore Ferdinand to absolute
power, (which we do not fur a moment believe it will) but the
inveterate hatred which exists between Spaniards and French-
men is so great that the former will never lay down their arms until
they are either fairly vanquished or themselves have destroyed
their invaders.—To calculate upon the probable duration at
the struggle were vain and futile.'" but if we are to judge of it
by the entical situation of the French in Andalusia, and their
unsuccessful efforts in Galicia and Catalonia, it is by no means
out of the way of impossibility, that, unless greatly reinforced,
they may speedily find themselves under the necessity of re.
tracing their steps.

The " Lammas flood" occurred on Thursday,
and the Clyde was larger than it has been seen
at this season for seven years. Between six and
seven o'clock at night it was within P. 2 inches of
the grating of a common sewer in the Bridgegate.
Quantities of hay and pieces of wood were float-
ing down the stream. During the day business was
suspended at the Broomielaw ; the mater was over
the quay, into the cellars, and the oldest residenters
in that quarter do not recollect of seeing the
Clyde larger at this season. The rains have been
equally heavy in every direction. Early in the
day the Cart and the Kelvin overflowed their
banks, and washed up several fields of potatoes,
a►id injured several fields of oats. A farmer,
whose ground lies on the side of the Kelvin, has
had 15 acres constantly under water during the
last fortnight. The Clyde was still very much
swollen this morning.--(Glasgow Courier).

SHOCKING ACCIDENT,---On-Monday afternoon, 1,
a poor milkwoman; carrying two heavy pails of
milk, was crossing from the cheesemonger's to the
pastry cook's at the top of Great Queen-street and
Drury-lane, when two hackney-coaches drove in
opposite directions, one out of Queen-street, and
the other from Long-acre into Queen-street ; in
attempting to avoid one, the pole of the other
struck her in the breast and knocked her:down,
when the coach and horses passed over her ; her
arms and ribs were broken, and her head and
body dreadfully cut and bruised. She was taken
up speechless amid insensible, covered with blood,
and carried on a shutter to Bartholomew's Hos-
pital, with faint expectation of recovery. The
coachman was detained a coniderable time, but
on his name and number being taken, he was
permitted to depart.