The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-30 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.j

We have received the Paris Papers, of Wed-
nesday, which, however, add nothing to the in-
telligence which before had reached ns. Cadiz
is expected tosurrender. " What has passed at
Commit) ,",says the Quotidienne," when coupled
with the previous submission of BALLASTEROS,
authorises 0 to believe that the factious of Cadiz
are, seriously bent to break the fetters of king
Ferdinand. For the interest of humanity, we
hope. that those men who hive infringed on the
liberty of their Sovereign, convinced at length
of their situation, will shortly cease to display a
resistance which is no longer useful ; but if they
persevere in their infatuation, we have only to
wish that the operations of the siege may not be
delayed. The arrival of his Royal Highness at
Port St. Mary ought to hasten the capitulation,
or enforce the chastisement of the rebels. The
Prince Generalissimo has granted them twenty
four hours for deliberation, and it is probable
that, the xapitulation, has ,already taken place..lf
events have turned out otherlise, the reduction
of Cadiz, may, be awhile deferred, but' it is not
the less certain. The bravery of our soldiers, and
also, ofour.t»ariners, heightened by the presence
of a Son of France, must render such a result id-
evitable." _

• [MORNING HERALD.]
Wednesday's Paris Papers reached us last
night by express. They contain but little to
satisfy curiosity respecting the affairs in Spain.
There is no intelligence from Corunna. It could
hardly have been expected, indeed, as the sus•

pension of arms was agreed upon for five days, in
order to allow time for the return of the officers
dispatched to Morillo. The accounts from Cadiz,
or rather from the Gate St. Mary, are of the 17th
instant. The Duke d'Angouleme had already
been 24 hours arrived there, and had done nothing
but reviewed his troops, There is not a word of
arrangement or negociation proposed on either
side. The demi-official notice in the Journal
des iNbals, which usually precedes a dispatch in
due form in the Moniteur, states that immense
preparations were made, and the troops full of
ardour for the attack, unless the Cortes imme-
diately submitted.—This does not look like ne-
gociation. It is true that there is in the expres-
sion relative to the Cortes, an implication that a
proposal for their submission bad been made to

them by the French Generalissimo. But it might
have been nothing more than the ordinary summons
delivered to all besieged places by the French Ge-
nerals. The accounts from Madrid are of the 21st,
and state nothing of any interest ; perfect tranquil-
lity is said to prevail there; and the 2 Decrees of
the Duke d'Angouleme and the Regents, for
the release of Constitutional prisoners, are de-
scribed as being carried into effect with the most
edifying concert and moderation.—lt was, there-
fore, it appears, with reason that we discredited
the report of the Duke's being compelled, by a
threat of the Foreign Ambassador's, to withdraw
his Decree, and leave to the Regents once more
the power of indulging their own vengeance and
that of their partisans. They have, however,
gained a point. The Duke of Infantado, their
President, and another member, their Minister,
or mock Minister, of War, go to the Duke
of Angouleme's bead-quarters before Cadiz.—
There was still fighting and constant ma-
ncetivring in Catalonia. Eroles is even stated to
have been routed—a most probable thing, but to
have been saved by a reinforcement of French.
The one great point, however, of the Peninsula,
to which all eyes will now turn, is Cadiz. The
elements of resistance are almost all concentrated

there, and many days cannot pass beFore we
shall be enabled to determine in what manner
the catastrophe is likely to be brought about—
whether by negociation or by force.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
There has been no arrival at our office of any
Papers later than those of Wednesday, which we
anticipated yesterday. The Constitutional troops
in Catalonia seem to have again carried terror
and alarm to the frontiers of France. The mi-
quelets had penetrated to the mountains which
separate Andorre from the valley of Carrol ;
and a body of French troops had marched
from Ax to Merens and Hospitalet, and sent
reconnoitring parties forward to discover the
strength of the Spaniards. The National Guard
relieved the French troops, and performed their
duty. These movements proceeded from the
reports which were arriving from Cerdagne, and
thu alarm created by the advance of the Spa-
*dards. Letters from Perpignan to the 18th of
August state, that the renegade Manse had
brought very few followers over with him, the
faithful Millais having succeeded in retaining the
greater part under the Constitutional standard.
t appears that Angouleme's orders to set at
liberty the Spaniards detained for political
offeeces, had experienced the strongest opposition
at Madrid from the Regency,and three members
had retired ; but Oudinot was firm, and the vic-

tires of f►►naticism were released. The Russian
Ambassador is stated to have been the great
adviser of the Regency to these Acts, and
that all the rigorous measures executed by

them met his sanction. It is added, that
the Minister of Russia engaged to procure
a reinforcement of troops from the Northern
Powers 2 promising 50,000 men as the contingent

Russia. It 'is asserted that hostilities were in
fact suspended in the south of Spain, and that the
pending negotiations would be soon concluded.
The Cortes, it was further stated, had agreed to
►make important concessions, of which the prin.
cipal are the receiving a' Charter granted by the
King, and the formation of an Upper Cham-
ber.: The Faith fanatics were making every op.
position possible to conciliatory measures. The
French Commandant at Vittoria was obliged,
on the refusal of the Authorities of that city,
himself to set at liberty the prisoners confined
there for political offences. The Alcalde and a
Deputy of the Province were arrested. The
Trappist then quitted the place to raise the sur-
rounding peasantry, but the French Commander
Hohealohe had orders conveyed to him to return
to Logrono immediately. No intelligence of any
moment has been received front Cadiz. A few
days must decide the important question of con.
tinned war or peace.

[MORNING POST.]
The state of things in the Peninsula, the nego..
ciations at Corunna, and the more important ones
opened at Cadiz, have created an anxious wish
for information which the arrivals from France
yesterday are not calculated to gratify. They do
not embrace more than the Papers of Wed.
nesday, and though the intelligence from Madrid
comes down to the 22d instant, it is wholly
silent with respect to the surrender of Corunna,
and only states, what we • already knew,
that the Duke of Angouleme had reached
Port Saint Mary's on the morning of the
16th. According to these advices, however, and
contrary to all that had been reported, and
may probably still, be believed, notwithstanding
the contradiction, the greatest tranquility pre.
veiled in the Spanish capital, and " the two
Decrees issued by the Duke of Angouleme and
the Regency were executing in concert, with
a degree of moderation which satisfied all
parties." If this should be the case it would
show that parties had more sense in Madrid
than in the other towns of Spain ; hut it is hardly
to be credited that those who by their violence
and arbitrary arrests gave cause for the Decree
of Andujar, should be really satisfied at being
compelled to revoke all that they had done, and
to unbar the prison gates which they had closed.
It appears that notwithstanding the opposition
of the Duke of Angouleme, the Madrid Regency
are determined to interfere in the negociations
earried on with the Constitutionalists at Cadiz.

The Duke de• l'lnfantado and Mr. Zaes, Mi-
nister for
.. Foreign Affairs, whose departure
for Port St. Mary's had been several times
announced as likely to take place, and
as often contradicted (no doubt because pre-
vented), really quitted the capital on the 19th
instant, to follow the Duke of Angouleme to his
head-quarters. The Foreign Portfolio had been
entrusted, ad interim, to the Minister of Marine,
who is represented as a man of great moderation,
and of whom all parties spoke favourably. The
Quotidienne argues from the increased celerity of
the Duke of Angouleme's journey to Port St.
Mary's, after he had reached Cordova, that the
C 6 submission" of Cadiz would be more prompt
than it had been anticipated. It also says that
his Royal Highness had granted only twenty-
four hours to the Cortes to make " their
submission," and that the capitulation would
probably take place immediately. If this were
true it would be preposterous to call such
dictation an attempt to negociate. The gees.
tion, let it be remembered, is not whether Cadiz
or the isle of Leon shall capitulate, but whether
a legitimate Government had a free people
shall surrender their Constitution and their
Independence. Such considerations demand
time and reflection ; and it cannot decently
be asked, or if asked, be expected, that a
question of so important and so vital a nature
should be decided on a mere summons. Blind as
he may be to the iniquity of the cause for which
he lights, the Duke of Angouleme cannot have so
entirely lost sight of right and justice as to have
made such a demand. He would undoubtedly
be glad to bring the contest in Spain to a speedy
termination, that he might extricate himself
from the difficulties, and his army from the dan-
gers, by which they are surrounded ; but if he
wishes, as it is reported, to avail himself of a
friendly mediation, he must act in a manner con-
sistent with established usageS, and with the dig-
nity of all parties.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

( From the Liverpool Courier, August
.27.)

. _
SpAIN.--The rumours of the liberation of Fee-
dinand and the submission of the Cortes, which prevailed some
days ago, have proved to be the anticipations of desire on the
part of the French papers, and to have no foundation in any
Important fact or measure at Cadiz. If, indeed, the French
were able to give any sufficient guarantee that the Constitu-
tionalists should not, throughout Spain, be subjected to punish.
ment ; and if, on the other hand, Ferdinand would, according
to the notion of the French Court, emanate a charter which
would secure his just prerogative, and preserve the best parts
of the present constitution, we should think it the wisest mea-
sure which the Cortes, under present circumstances, could
adopt, to close the whole by negociating with the Duc d'An-
gouleme. They have done enough to show that they submit
to the principle of foreign dictation by-force; and, if the abstract
principle only were in question? we should think it no abate.
!nem of their claims to patriotism to give it up, rather than
tt.
prolong the miseries of their country, and attempt to gain
,the
end of their struggle by another route, by the course of a gi
however,
dual amelioration, rather than a sudden change, of the inatitu-
dons of Spain. The difficulty, lies in obtaining the
guarantee for their safety on the one hand, and any concession,
in good faith, In favour of an improved system, on the other,
from Ferdinand. With all the extravagance and errors of the
Cortes, their resolute conduct hitherto; appears to have been
tweed upon them by circumstance: a sanguinary faction on the
outside of the walls of Cadiz thirsting for their immolation
on the altars of a dark superstition ; and a Sovereign with.
in whom they cannot trust. Their great error was at the
commencement of the revolution the rest have followed by
necessity. We again repeat, that, after all these rumours
of pacification, anti should they prove better founded than
they appear, the termination of this wretched state of
things is still hopeless. Suppose Ferdinand liberated and
restored to power: will he be the pupil of France, and
act on the comparatively, moderate plan prescribed by the
French Cabinet ? Will he not, as before, fall, and naturally
fall, into the hands of the most bigoted and desperate faction,
who will, with him at their head, demand the removal of the
French armies, that nothing may obstruct their measures, or
prevent their taking their fill of revenge ? To what, then, does
this most obnoxious state of things lead ? To nothing, certainly,
but revived confusion and perplexity ; from which, we doubt
not, some substantial civil Ebert, and national advantage will
ultimately result, but by a terrible process, which, but for the
senseless interference of French intrigue first, andi then of a
French army, might have been avoided. If we view the case
in another yet possible result, and suppose that the Cortes and
Cadiz may continue to hold out, and that the Constitutionalists,
in different parts of Spain, may assume courage, by the evident
frustration of the plan and hopes of France, suddenly to bring
the matter to an issue ; or, in other words, it' we may yet sup-
pose that the Cortes should triumph, another result must follow,
it is true, to the radical faction in our own coon.
try, and efangdrattotulhe disaffected every where, but painful to the con.
templation of all wise and virtuous won r—the triumph of the
worst and moat desperate part of the Spanish Constitutionalists.,
the triumph of the jacobintsm which has mixed itself up with
the constitutionalism advocated by moderate and virtuous pa.
triots ; and from the violence of jecobinistn, as blind, as
bigoted, as headlong, as deeply sanguinary, as unprincipled
and intriguing and destructive as diet of the faction of the
Inquisition and arbitary power, nothing can be expected but
future reactions and continued tumults. We have, from these
views, no hope, therefore, from pacific rumours. They may
lead to temporary arrangements; but the elements of discord
which have been unloosened cannot yet be bound, and, though
lulled for a moment, must yet take destructive sweeps. A
spirited, decided, and sincerely patriotic conduct on the part of
erdinand, might even in this crisis, save Spain ; but ruck,
we fear, is the imbecility of that untimunate Monarch, that
this is not to be expected, though much to be desired.

EXECUTION.—UNEXPECTED RESPITF.--•-A t two
o'clock yesterday James Connell and John Dundon were hanged
in front of the county gaol, for attacking the house of Denis
Morrissy, a farmer, at Cappanahane when ltiorissy, after
making a spirited resistance, was murdered by. Daniel Connell,
their companion, and for hich he was executed a few weeks
ago.ir a
dre
The unfortunate
of firmness,
nfortunatecu
butlprits ascended the platform with ra-
tter with 'the most apparent peni-
tence. Whilst the ,ropes were adjusting, they emphatically said
that they were guilty of the crime for which they were so just-
ly to sower, forgave their prosecutors, and trusted, through the
mercy of Christ, for pardon. They were then launched into
eternity. Both the malefactors, who were in the prime of life,
uncommonly stout and well-looking, were for a length of time
much convulsed,
.Dundon in particular. After hanging the
usual time, their bodies were cut down and given to their
friends,
which was one of the last requests made by the unfor-
tunate culprits. A few moments before Connell and Dundon
ascended the platform, Daniel Nunan, their companion in
guilt, anti who was also to be hanged yesterday, received a re-
prieve, which was announced to him by Sheriff Cuthbert in the
condemned cell. This pleasing intelligence was quite
the execution,
unex-
pected, so much so, that his coffin was prepared to receive the
body, and the announcement of it made a deep impression on
the wretch, who wept bitterly, and said, that if it was only' a
thatrapri desasy,to stay
he was better pleased to suffer
ter. John Griffj;, who was sentenced to be hanged on Wed-
as he was perfectly_resigned to meet his Divine Mail.
nesittY lase, at e late assizes of Ennis, has been respited.—
(Limerick , Aug. 13„)
On Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, a
horse and chaise left for a .mornent in the yard
of Mr. Spurvy, Carpenter, Thomas-street Wa-
terloo-road, took fright at. some object, and,.
dashing through the yard, proceeded up the
street, a narrow ones with great velocity, upset-,
ting every thing that came in its way: Luckily
no lives were lost, though, in running against a
post, the chaise was shattered to pieces. Thus
liberated of its appendages, the horse quietly
walked into its own stable, and was secured with-
out further mischief. The street was strewed
with boxes, parcels) and the fragments of the
chaise.