The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-20 00:00:00

A postcript of the Bayonne Sentinelle of the 14tt;
men-
tions that O'Donnell and his garrison were in want of
water. The Alcalde and the inhabitants of the Bastan
remained stanch to Espartero.
Barcelona was tranquil on the 11th. The formation
of " the Committee of Public Safety," proposed by the
Constitutional, never really existed but in the imagina-
tion of the Journal des Debats. Lerida, Tarragona,
and Gerona, had declared for Espartero. Valencia was
in a similar ferment. The Duchess de Ist Victoria was
at Malaga.
The French Government received the following tele-
graphic despatches in the course of Friday ;
" PERPIGNAN, OCT. 11 [arrived yesterday by the
Bordeaux courier].—The General Commanding the 31st
Military Division to the Minister of War.—General Van
Haien had dismissed the Commandants of Monjuig, Seu
d'U-rgel, and Cardona. The day before yesterday a
decree was issued that every military man who, by writ-
ing, or by word of mouth, should approve of the rebel-
lion, should be immediately tried and condemned to
death. A junta of superintendence was created the day
before yesterday at Barcelona by the municipality and
the provincial deputation. A battalion of the National
Guard- is picketted in the Square of the Constitution."
PERPIGNAN, OCT. 13 [arrived yesterday by the
Lyons courier].—The Prefect of the Eastern Pyrenees to
the Minister of the Interior.—On the 10th inst. there
was formed at Barcelona a junta, which the Constitu
tional calls the Junta of Public Safety. A loan has
been decreed, and, to insure its being paid, passports
are refused to all persons. The militia occupies the
forts, and nearly all the posts. Free corps are being or-
ganised in the districts. Fresh arrests hare been made,
but, no executions. Van Helen is going to take the com-
mand at Saragossa. Zabel& takes his place."
" BA VO.etes. Ogy. ,13 [not received till yesterday, op
'aceNth-ft of the state of the attraspere].--The Chief of
the Maritime Office to the Minister of the Marine.—They
wrote to me yesterday from Passages. The deputation
of Guipuseoa, assembled at Bergara, has issued its mani-
festo, calling the province to arms. There was fighting
to-day at Villafranca. At St. Sebastian it was believed
that General Alcala was beating a retreat. He had dis-
armed the militia of Toloso. St. Sebastian is very much
divided."
" BAYONNE, OCT. 13.—The Sub-Prefect to the Minis-
ter of the Interior.—No news from Madrid. Yesterday
at two o'clock the citadel of Pampeluna ceased firing. It
is reported that the town has capitulated. St. Sebastian
is making preparations for resistance, and it is thought
there that Gen. Aleala will arrive and shut himself up in
that place."
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees, of the 12th of October,
says

" A letter from Pampeluna, of the 11th, gives us de-
tails respecting the sufferings of that town.
"Yesterday, the 10th, was a fearful day for us. More
than a thousand projectiles, thrown from the citadel,
damaged the town and its public edifices. Neverthe-
less, the sang froid and the firmness of the population
was not for an instant shaken. The National Guard
had seventeen men killed. It did some harm to the
artillerymen of the Castle by means of two pieces of
artillery placed on the tower of San Lorenzo. The in-
surgents fire continually on the tower, and the balls
which do not hit it fall in the Calle Mayor and do much
damage. To-day, the 11th, the cannonade continues.
" Gneral Ayerbe, at the head of seven infantry bat-
talions, and General Zurbano, with three battalions and
three squadrons of cavalry, were expected at Pampeluna
in the afternoon of the 11th. Quantities of ammunition
have reached Pampeluna from all points, which proves
that the O'Donnellites are not masters of the surround-
ing country.
"Don Francisco de Paulo reached Canfranc, in Spain,
in the afternoon of the 11th."
A letter from Pan in the Debats says that orders have
been received to send to St. Jean Pied-de- Port the
greater part of the garrison, leaving only two companies
behind to do duty at the prison. Colonel Devaux, of the
sth of the line, has been invested with the command of
the troops on this part of the Pyrenean frontier.
We extract the following from the Phare of Bayonne
of the 13th inst. :
" We have accounts from the province of Alava to the
9th, at which period nothing new had occurred. The
Commandant, General Piquet-0, had sent forces as far as
Puebla d'Arganson, either to enforce the levies or ob-
serve the movements of lispartero's troops on the Cas-
tile side. At Miranda del Ebro the National Militia
was on duty, and covered the passage of the bridge.
The first battalion of Vittoria being organized and
armed, the Deputation has ordered a second to be formed
'of the young men of Alavese Riojia. This is designed to
guard the left bank of the Ebro. In Guipuzcoa
Colonel Paz, formerly O'Donnell's Adjutant-General,
has been arrested. On the 9th, Urbistondo was
in the occupation of Bergara, and Iturbe of Zumar-
ran.. On that day the on th* heights of
Descarga fed to no decisive result : there were only -
a few wounded. Urbistondo was expecting reinforce-
ments from Vittoria and Bilbao, and some young men
of the country, who are in arms, and who were to join
him, since, on the 10th,
.Iturbe had fallen back on Villa-
franca, and Urbistondo occupied the positions on the hills
of Bergara, which the enemy had abandoned. The most
important news from Guipuzcoa is that the deputation of
this province has positively followed the example of
Biscay and Alava. It appears that Iturbe, fearing that
the deputation would declare in favour of the insurrec-
tion, kept it in a measure confined in Ascoitia, but the
members contrived to make their escape, and put them-
selves under the protection of Urbistondo. The whole
of the country from Villafranca to Irun continued tran-
quil and submissive to the Government. All we know
of Biscay is that nothing has taken place worth mention.
A small body of troops has marched from Bilbao towards
Balma.seda and Carranza, with the purpose of exciting the
country to take up arms for the Deputation. An order
has been published at Bilbao authorising the port to
have its own flag. The General Juntas of Biscay are
convoked to assemble on the 12th, under the Tree
of Guernica. At the moment of going to press, we
receive the news which follows :—On the 11th, the citi-
del of Pampeluna continued its fire ; great destruction is
said to have been occasioned by it, particularly in the
place de Castillo, the buildings in the neighbourhood
being reduced to ruins. The news of the removal of the
deputation of Guipuzcoa to Bergara is confirmed.
Munagorri has come into the field again ; he was on the
10th at Aranaz, whence it is said he went on the 11th
to Leiza. He had only seventeen men with him, and
his want of credit in the country prevented his collecting.
partisans. The firing at Pampeluna commenced on
Sunday, at six in the morning, and was kept up till six
in the evening. At eleven at night it was renewed
again, and sustained till six on Monday morning. After
a suspension of two hours, it was once more opened, and
was still continuing at twelve. The women and children
had all been sent out of the place. During Sunday,
Ortigosa entered the citadel with two companies. Gen.
Ribeiro, not being able to satisfy the demands of the Ex-
altados, has resigned his command to Brigadier Bayona."
The Sentinelle of Bayonne, in commenting on the po-
sition of O'Donnell at Pampeluna, says—
" The gaining of the citadel was no brilliant action,
but the fruit of fraud and deception. In the night of the
let O'Donnell went to the quarters of the first battalion
of the Regiment of Estramadura, and making himself
known to the sergeant of the guard, told him that, by
coormdernr
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of that of Gerona, which had just proclaimedthe Re-
public. The sergeant replied that ;he individually was
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ready to follow him anywhere, but that the soldiers
would not stir a foot without the direct orders of their

officers. The General then addressed the men, but they
all reftiseil to obey him. O'Donnell consequently left
them, and went to the quarters of the Merced, where
there were two companies of the same battalion, and the
whole of the second. Here he succeeded better, because
seven or eight of the officers joined,hini, and he was ac-
companied by the Chief of the Staff,: Mir, an Aide-de-
Camp, of Ribeiro, and the commander of the battalion,
and other officers. -One sergeant, however, suspected
treason, and led his company to the Quarter del Carmen,
and there joined the troops that had remained faithful.
Money and fine promises did the rest at the citadel.
Ribid and Carriguin were the treasurers. The arrival
in the citadel of three companies of the regiment of Sara-
gossa alone prevented the soldiers of Estramadura from
returning to their duty, the sight of the other soldiers
having given them a degree of confidence in the
assu-
rances made of a general rising of the country."
(From the J'resse.)
Our letters from Bayonne state that the town of
peluna first commenced hostilities by firing with atntwO
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to the and
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asperation of the members of tho municipality. and the
National Guards. The E Ixa tados, being very inferior in
number at Pampeluna, are mare violent there than any
Where else.

General O'Donnell, glad of being ablo to say that he
vs as not the aggressor, and so throw upon others the
responsibility of the disasters of a bombardment, ordered
from that moment all the fire of his artillery to open.
A great number of cannon shots and sixty shells hav-
ing been in some hours thrown into the town, a council
of war was assembled by General Ribeiro ; the munici-
pality and the officers of the National Guard werein
attendance.

General Ribeiro tried to persuade the Council of the
necessity of evacuating the place—the laws of war not
authorising more than the laws of humanity— a defence
evidently hopeless of all success. The patriots drove
their daggers, cried out treachery, forced Ribeiro to give
up the command, and gave it to General Bayona. The
&in.. of the citadel continued. It is certain that it only
ceased on the I:2th, at two o'clock in the afternoon, as a
telegraphic despatch announced yesterday, because the.
town was evacuated, for the Espartcrian troops had no'
means of stopping the batteries of O'Donnell.
The Constitucional of the .10th, at Barcelona, gives
an account of an insurrection at Cadiz some days before
the events which' happened in the Basque provinces
were known there. The population broke the presses of
a Moderado Journal (El Globo) seized the furniture and
papers of all hinds, and burnt them in the principal
public square, Wand which they shouted pitriotio