The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-16 00:00:00

THE SUN.

SOtE.V QUIS DICERE, F.4LSUM AUDRAT

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1823.

The further arrivals of French Papers have • I
brought no news of importance from the Peuin-
soma. The Monileur continues to preserve
mysterious silence respecting the Proclamations
attributed to Monium, though their authenti-
city seems to have been acknowledged at Madrid,
where they appeared in the official Journal of
the Regency. it would seem, however, that
Nfottut.o has not given entire satisfaction either
to the French or to the Spanish Royalists, or
they 'would have found some means of commUni"
eating agreeable intelligence. The French con-
tinue to observe profound silence respecting the
destination of Sir WILLIAM A'Coutur after the
restoration of FZRDINANU to the Royal dignity.
Of Gen. DONNA DI ru, too, in Catalonia, we still
hear nothing. Indeed, the Frendh Government
and its Generals appear to have taken an
inflexible resolution never to say one word about
any thing that is not, favourable to their vieis,
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vantage.
The news from Greece anti Turkey continues
to indicate the approach of great events; and
the preparations oh both sides for military opera-
tions of increased vigour, and on an extensive
scale, being completed, we shall doubtless soon
hear of important results.

The Russian Manifesto, to which we yesterday
requested the attention of our Readers, not only
misrepresents the actual result of the oecupation
of 'Madrid by the French, and the actual con+
dition of France when she undertook the present
iniquitous War against the Peninsula, but, even l .
France had been in that state of internal disquiew
tude assumed at St. Petersburgh, and which ,the
French KING'S Speech so completely disproves,
the Russian Diplomatist would be equally mil"
taken in his assertion, that Spain was attacked
on the principle that it was right 44 to Insko
use of a nation not yet tranquillized (Spain),
to bring back another nation (France), und
with that all Europe, to a fully conso-
lidated repose." Whilst the St. Petersburgli
article alleges this pretence, not less atro-
cious than tlisttsy, for the aggression against
Spain, Louis XVIII.,
in the Speech already
alluded to, on the opening of the Session of the
Chambers itt January last, not on:lbaasted of the
internal tranquillity of France, and of alk "'Vie
which she gave to all Europe, of the prgr:-/.i-
obtained from a return to religioo; to legilim ary
to order, and to true liberW ; but he franol
avowed that the real ol;ject of the war which lie
ittirtifilat to u,.ldertr,lie was that of 44 prieSerVing
the throt,w of Spain to a descendant of fluNalr
IV.,—of saving that line kingdom from its rains

—and of reconciling it with Europe ;" and fur
enabling " Fun DIN AND VII. to be free to give to
his people institutions which they cannot hold bat
from him !"

The positions, therefore, assumed by the
St.
Petersburgb document, as respects the conditioo
of France previous to the war,—as respects the
motives and objects for which she war was LW
deitaken,---anci as respects the fruits whlcb it
has hitherto produced, are proved to be utterly
fallacious by the very best and most unottißstieu°
able evidence that can possibly be produced, viz'
that of the Sovereign Power in Frotitce, to whom
alone the internal condition of OW Monarch,'
could be accurately known, stud In whose solo
determination the war orig,iaated,--and that or
the parties by whom the elfects of thy sitcce4*.Qg

of the invaders have been personally observed.—
But there is still another assumption of the
Russian document, the falsity of which is proved
by facts of public notoriety, and by collateral
evidence, which, though less direct, perhaps,
is not less respectable and authoritative than that
which we have already adduced on the questions
of the state of France and of the motives for the
war. In several passages, it assumes that Spain
was in such a state of anarchy as to render
the armed interference of the Holy Alliance ne-
cessary for the salvation of the Spanish people
themselves. 64 Were not the civil wars in Spain
and Portugal sufficient to make us detest the re-
volutions which produced and supported them ?

—A. people cannot be called happy unless
every individual citizen, by his own fire-side,
can look without apprehension to the co►►►►ng
day. Did such a state of things exist in the
Peninsula before the French army entered it ?
Was not the blood of the Citizens shed by each
other's hands ?"—Now, in the first place, it is
notorious that the Civil War in Portugal, which
WAS confined to one corner of the Monarchy,

only broke out as an auxiliary to the war
of France agaiuht Spain, and that Portugal
possessed within herself the power, which was
indeed promptly and efficaciously exerted, of ex-
pelling rebellion from her territory. And it is
equally notorious, that previous to the passage of
the Pyrenees by the French army, the civil war
in Spain had been quelled by the triumphant
expulsion of the bands of the Faith from the
soil of their country, and the occupation of
their last strong hold, the Seo d'Urgel, by the
victorious NINA, who still holds that trophy of
his illustrious career, in spite of the re-organized
traitors whom he had vanquished and dispersed,
and in spite of that powerful army of Frenchmen
which has been united to their arms ! It is no-
torious that previous to the entrance of the
French army into the Peninsula, no rebel force
whatever, which was capable of making a stand
..against the national troops, existed in Spain !
It is notorious that under these circumstances
a few months must have suf►ced for placing
Spain in a condition of repose equally profound
with that enjoyed by any country in Europe !
And, it is notorious, that the presence of the
French army, so far from having prevented " the
blood of the citizens from being shed by each
other's hands," has lighted up the flames of
civil way throughout almost every province, and
has given such intensity to the malignant pas-
sions, and to the thirst of vengeance, that in

the capital itself it is necessary to employ
French guards for the protection of the lives of
private citizens from the deadly violence of their
eempatriots!! Even now, at tile very moment,
when, thanks to the criminal outrage Of France,
disorder and anarchy reign triumphantly through-
out unfortunate Spain, the French themselves
prove, by their own accounts, that acts of violence
and of vengeance are perpetrated only by those
Spaniards with whom France has disgraced
herself by making common cause ! Even now,
at this period of horror, when the Constitutional•
fists, proscribed by the servile Regency of Ma-
drid, and, wherever the French have taken mi-
litary possession, insulted, execrated, and plun-
dered by the base rabble whom the French
affect to recognize as the Spanish nation, we
hear of no bloody re-actions on the part of the
Constitutionalists,—of none of those butcheries,
and proscriptions, and scenes of vengeance and
desolation which the injuries inflicted upon them
have been calculated to provoke, and which they
have still the power, in many of the provinces,
to perpetrate !! !

( To be continued.)

An Express from Paris has brought the price
• .of the French Rentes 01f. 20c.—Spanish 371.

Baltimore and Philadelphia Papers arrived
this morning to the 2.oth June.
' •oas THE MAIN.—By the brig Hippomenes
.Pceived Curacoa Papers to the 31st ult.

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tve hate', .
-nut their contents it appears that
inclusive. I„
,u exists among the Officers of
some dissatisfactit,
iron. It is stated that
the Colombian squat.
of the Catabobo, had
Captain Maitland, late, b
The conse.
suspended Captain Matthe,w-'
Lieu-
quence was, that Captain Mittel,'" and.
their
rants Rogers, Cristale, and Bartlet thCaw uP
Commissions, and retired from the Ctb:lumbian
service ; the crews became disorderly, and be-
came necessary to send about 35 of them 0.1
board the Bolivar in irons. Accounts from Ma-
racaibo are to the 19th ult.; they state that the
Commandant, Padilla, having received informs-,
tion of the result of the action of the Ist of
May last, did not think it prudent to remain
any longer at Los Jaques, but resolved to force
the entrance to the Bar of Maracaibo, which he
effected on the Bth, with 12 sail, large and small.
One of brigs was sunk by, the guns of the Castle,

and two others were run aground, this discomfi-
ture forced Padilla to retire to Punto Palma.
Another account says, Morales had been obliged
to abandon Maracaibo on the 20th May ; the
Spanish troops, 900 in number, re-occupied Coro.

CONSPIRACY AT MANILL.I.—The ship Milton,
Smith, has arrived at Boston from Manilla, in-
forms that some papers which had accidentally
miscarried were intercepted there on the tt9th
of December, containing part of correspondence
relative to a horrid conspiracy to be carried into
execution on the night of the 31st, which was to
murder all the European Government Officers in
the island. On the night of the 30th, fifteen of
the principal inhabitants implicated in the con-
spiracy were seized in bed, and sent on board a
Spanish ship, and all their property seized by the
Government. This affair caused great alarm
among the European merchants, many of whom
sent their valuable property on board the vessels
for security. All was quiet when Captain
Smith sailed.

A Cabinet Council assembled this day at Carl
on Palace, at two o'Clock.

Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the 1
Foreign Office, at which the Eirl of Liverpool,
Mr. Secretary Canning, Mr. Secretary Peel, Earl
Bathurst, the Earl of Harrow by, Lord Sidmouth,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Mary-
borough, and Mr. Wynn were present.—The
subject of deliberation was the Royal speech
with which the present Session of Parliament is
to be closed, and which was to be submitted to
the King this day for his Majesty's approval.—
The House of Commons re-assemble this day,
and to-morrow, or next day at farthest, Parlia-
ment will be prorogued.
His MAJESTY will give a Grand Entertain-
ment to-morrow.
Yesterday the Princess Sornut visited the
KING.
On Monday evening the Duke and Duchess of,
CLARENCE gave au entertainment to their domes.
tics and their friends at Bushy Park, to comme-
morate their Royal Highnesses' birth-day.
New Juocc.—llis MAJESTY has heft% pleased,
by letters patent, passed under. the Great Seal of
Ireland, to appoint ROBEUT TORRENTS, Esq. to
be one of the Judges of his Majesty's Court of
Common Pleas, in the room of WILLIAM. FLET-
eIm, Esq. deceased.—Oublita Gazelle qf Thurs-

day ).
The Marquis of LkNSDOWN and Lord Jon 4
Rusunt. arc expected in Ireland shortly after
the recess. The Marquis of LANsDOWN will, we
hear, be accompanied by our distinguished coun-
tryman, Mr. T. MOO RE.—(Dublin Evening Post).