The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-18 00:00:00

SPANISH PAPERS.

Diaz
Brtracts.l
Don Antonio Diaz del Moral renounced, in the following
terms, the office of Minister of the Interior, which his Majesty
had confided to him. The letter is addressed to the 31intster
of the Interior

44 have the honour to address to your Excellency to
resignation of the office of Minister of the Interior, 02 Which

the Kinig was pleased to appoint me yesterday', by a decree
which I have this very instant, it being eleven o clock at Dien,
received. Mile I beg your Excellency to convey to his Ala. ,
jesty's hands my resignation, I have at the same time to entreat
that you will do me the favour of "endeavouring to moil upon
obey the dietatesinyoof"tuyinctsmuscrniceinecnce:i
his Majesty to excuse hue from undertaking the discharge of :
scunivii:rtorit.nt functions,_ and for which I cannot consider my.
self as possessing either the necessary information a knowledge.
sures that may be adopted with a view to compel me to de-
sist from tendering my resignation. •
- - ladrid; March 1, 1tt13." ' '
4, S:Signed) "D. ANTONIO DIAZAEL :11011AL.
( From the same to the King.)
its ..t
Sire,--I have this moment received the decree by 'hid!
your Majesty has nominated me Minister of the Interior, all
:try
00tlyrietelidirovaernitornate.::
I should ill reply to so high a distinction, if I did 11°t gPe'
which be.
to your Majesty with all that candour and veracity
long to an honest man. Sire; in ordinary times, ordinarf. tta;
ts may on some occasions sufficelen to guide the vessel of Hiv
State; but under the difficult circumstances in which we
no
find ourselv surrounded with dangers, and having to CO,11:
tend with alles, the elements that arelet loose against us, t'..l.
°IL; ' '
gifted genius and the most tried patriotism will be arirm_l
competent to conduct the bark to a port of safety. Other meis
of the most elevated mind, and the most extensive talents, have
intelligencen d n
felt th ~ ves bound, Sire, to abandon the helm of (oerP'
h but duelstle
shall I, destitute of genius, educated Wit
s,_ll
care' attention, and a stranger to business—how have
ed of.the inutility of their endeavours to
I aftftt so difficult an enterprise, in which they rd
yllqrui3diaatilesono,f PtheenNuaa
failed who have been so much my superiors in information 11.
ce of ti"
state of continual sutering, in consequen
the ...,
many troubles I have experienced during sus ?tars of '
. al
verest banishment, I transmitted on the 28th o last month,
~,
retirement from the office of General Commissioner for '6".
dtieodnaiofumebvt,waan-s want of i,:ifii:esetnytticalsepitiln.,
cetve by the subjoined copy ; and if I considered illf,g__,„t
capable of filling an employment in which zeal and. twfleic""-ef
assiduous application nught possibly compensate for .
_To.
information, how shall I load nly feeble shoulders with t0n,"?..t0
den so weighty as that whioth it has jilcased y0ur,'11..)..0w1-; to
iwnhipoictisel
loop:van
tomem?yselvs,hiott illdshboeuilvdanzinctei,:pitn the d latluc..r.n this
othraitneffil coffi in the duty I ,owe to the
office,nati,an --- -4
venture to implore
treaty, to accept my
of Spaniards ; and to which 1 do not believe myaelf Iwn, unfit.
Relying firmly on the conviction that I feel of O,IY °e and tut
nes*. and determined never to sacrifice my congientoune thoe
reputation to any considerations whstsoever—at the einseri
publicesto 0,
yourif Itthlaajtescatyn,•awviatihi the
venture to implore your MajestYi with tire m°s4 iota of sh°
erentutipischmyarligree,of which involves the fate of lintOnriaen .
Interior, to which 111 • by the decree of Yo""
your , nicety,has condescended to at •
appoint me.
(Signed
" Madrid, lit March."
_............
" ANTONIO DI AZ PEI, 14634 t. 14.
resignation of the office of 3lin
_.nur.

FOR THE SUN.

- - -- _
MR R. _ E orron—What IS now passing ill r ran .
seems indeed (as you, I think, have
Ted)) to be a ,struggle bet%veen the d;
(Ultras on either side of the question caunuto,
.much good) and the Liberals. As tog. )1."Ior:
hbeutinlay be a Jacobin for any thing ihat I 01.
e__
really do not see what Jacobininotp
mane
awas i rills saying, " that when a nation hal lusa,
certain progress towards revolution, 11)8,171-0.
sition of other nations forces it to go Oro it
had already
it was right in the lulgh'fit to
already made, is anotherI slit° ;w"
que alto
provoke men's passions is certainly oat li_a °Foch
their reason. The present conduct of luaivistura
not been countenanced by
Government seems to be influenced hi aid 01
of motives, of which national jealous); too 1
mean)_ may be one. lam glad te
of 'to !hasall
Tll5 Sox, that
the language held ; p
Airelyilia:
Evening Paper, hitherto deemed gold'
lam your's Sze. &C' N 601;*
Exeter, Match 16. 7 call3lo
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the Yinigli"P

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Arri,;--ti; __,anti Diana, Hig'gins, from Ilavanotiary; di,,,Adoic,
from ' anu sailed for tile River the Rawl tto 400etooth:
ward. w:s,,Afoirajßesotyu,ens
the Westward ; and ven 6, o'll4, free' the ii6rooo,
Smith, fro uNorih bluelds for ~olof,,
Came down from iver the ria.l, Ilarvf9:3l
te63.014114
and remains in the Downs with the Severn rlb '
el.laan 'Vanden Oer, iron') 13,11151, ByS,
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FALMOU a Cad Nl7 to S..
Haverton OTIIII MARCH
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and
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also Robinson,
theefnois
Benson,
:utter Quad?,FA,Oon:faaracarill'u'izZ43geottliolt:hee/11:
n.jiojiCciind 3110A7tnor..rN- :I le
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________„
, AuNITS'
WEST INDIA AIERG" o(
---vams...-- . , Merlin" IA
Yesterday a highly respectanio 0)16 h,
Gentlemen connected with the West India Tod: 18,„.„35tivillf,tiii%
_-....as of r t.eob
the City of London Tavern, for the Pati,, 01 3ie '
Report of the Committee appointed at the Gene the
the 13th inst. .
AND
. UEW COLVILLE, Esq hnving !ekeht,,thced to:ll'.':iir;,l. 0
routines a the last illeetiiiir wer.e read U,ILL 3PP. -V}A' ''''i the
_ A letter was then read from Joseph 31arryatt, ~,tion 0,1.
the worthy
Ic7lcieedin Chairman, expressive of his apP,Te iiltil st:.,
gs of tbe General Meeting, from wlitcit. 'of 0 ope Ats(
con unself only because he thought in the eve 1.;,,e1„b0r 01,iotr
t to the House of Common's, he should, S l'a:., bi), roil(
House, be entirely uncommitted, particalalYtios es r
n,interest as a West India shipowner, and hi,' 111.,,eted. 0 the
one__e of the West India Colonies, might be it ,ri eP ot the
Committee, and
then read a pettdon, al:6d of
,he
(Internment
and which prayed priVelpally the ge roc'
British Nest
to the free export and import of t . . op,
1 lndia
Colonies.
~._ t the ' iog
1 , evet °,, aryl'
~
n. T. The CIIAIRMAN here observed, that in tii.
re th- oil,-
ttiebyosfteundergoing the anticipated ch.ellitiiiatti in sil,
mese the British \Vest India ship-016'0° I, ri. The „f lii4
limn ,
~ fall into the hands of foreign ship-0:w ii, dist ;lootof
eountrvaniePhlg would undoubtedly coliiPet wet, ris t
100,0001,1_h culling theproduce to the Contineniroy
the that
trade .
and it
or British shipping wile "wt.! it 4 ''i rel, rr
it was a' fact that at least one' .1-00 Pc Torts -
India'produce
M w" shipped direct-to the 002tte fov rel otos
r. GEORGX ji • L 1 t ott r 6 ~,,„_s• or; Pe
IBBERT WlStiCi -0 ,re iitk," ,iOP V
the meeting, and should conclude withuloslo, ost t 00 i
of the gentlemen assembled to the petition J,„ be i ~set•
'mould be glad to learn what o pensation arstBr,"' dist ft; iiti'
the West India ship
thereownee fiinlr. the eance's'ttlecae $' .I'°
Pvlieted of them ; would Trench Onvorninertt; oy Ona.
.pt
.rn lieges in the Mauritius ? Ile did not mean to 05 ofidit
ma sugar might not be shipped at as low a V
end
rio to
it was contended, but he was sure that the tov'ii tbs,Po lib'
which would be necessanly charged, would cob° 00'0'
~,ost
a considerable extent. an the result/Iroom -iied pop,
that the British cOn;urntril would be distis As 001
Pit so furnished. ... stion• tile
itlr. !Jim trusaT shortly seconded We 11,1 , as 01 tot ~t
observation of the Gentleman who ,Poke 1"" bilojetrilbY v
pensstion to be received by the West India
...r0jc:..4,0,
would merely state, that he believed it to hol.":„ tit e:1 011)'
promoters of the tptestion now agitated, to 00,1).7 triisiaeh:ostrf
anion of the duties, by ' ' •the Brbst,i'll;i: to tliii ,a
givim.,
owners the monopoly of carrying the Pr'mu.- detll-1
and to the Continent. c the °SIOI4
a Toot 0. .it at or .
The petition 11T3 then agreed to, an ato 1,0 Ira toe
present having signeti it, it was Orderf:*mitarC4 be
and the Jamaica Coffee-houses, for the 'WI"- et/ lathe
earned, then "t
The unanimous thanks of the Meeting ore
Chairman, and the Meeting adiottinessaa wi l'il!
l
011111111.00".11111 be • Nov
'There are now living it I:47,asr C°°l/1 villl erctori
nv f 61' Ste, ,rco
the parish of Bishop's Lydeard, a fare",par dlc„...ber 06
MarY Learway, Eiged 105 Yearslooe, Vhf
filid
1-louse, 00—her grand-daughter, Beal I het Vac (
Vend-daughter, Issett Marshall, '22---„ermontlis.)e
Sind-daughter, Jenny Marshall, age"r.r7drAther,
has five grandmothers living, blit "° gri—

in addition to our former reasons for be-
lieving that the French Government has
placed itself in a most perilous position,
We have now to state, on the authority of
11 highly respectable and intelligent Gentle-
man (arrived in town yesterday), who has
travelled through all the South of France,
that the discontent is even greater than the most
gloomy have imagined,--and that the people,
chewing the portraits of BuoNApARTE, even go so
far as to say that his Son shall be their Emperor,
"that the Boyne°:is shall not be on the
Throne six months,---rand that they will take
care that none of their proscribed race shall
"" again pass the frontier. The same Gentle-
-4111 saw at Lyons a mock funeral of Com-
inerce ; and when at Paris a few days ago, he
ascertained that ten thousand francs bad
b ein collected, at the rate of three-halfpence
eke,
" contributor, for the National Guards who

refused to take M. MANVEL 'from *the Chamber

of Deputies.

The Paris Papers admit that attempts have
been made to shake the fidelity of the soldiers,
and allege that it had been annoenced by a tele-
graphic dispatch, that the arsenal and powder
magazine at Toulon had been set on fire in seve-
ral places by incendiaries. If the latter state-
ment be authentic, of which we have strong
doubts, it is gratifying to know that the
conflagration was extinguished before any
very destructive consequences had taken place.
That at Toulon, as well as (generally through-
out France, the proceedings of the Govern-
ment have produced a strong popular excite.
meat, and that the dispositions of the military
are ripe for the purposes of those who may
attempt to draw them into revolt, we can readily
believe; but that the popular feeling has already
been manifested in so desperate an enterprise as
that of attempting the destruction of the arsenal and
magazine at Toulon, we think is as improbable as
the statement by which it is endeavoured to she w

that the " attempts" to shake the fidelity of the
soldiers have been confined to the single instance
of the preposition said to have been made to a
Corporal of an advanced French post. We have
many reasons for believing that the dislike of the
army to the service on which it is about to be
employed, is scarcely inferior to the repugnance
felt by the, nation at large, to a contest into is hich
it has been precipitated by a Party whose ul-
terior views are more than suspected to in.
volve the destruction of ,that portion of liberty
which France herself enjoys. 'We are far from
being enemies of the House of Bouttacm.—
On the contrary, throughout the whole period,
from the restoration of the Monarchy to the de-
velopment of the present unprincipled and un-
provoked designs against the independence
of Spain, THE SUN has lost few opportu-
nities of. counteracting the attempts which
have been' incessantly made to excite hos-
tility to the French Government, and has
always been ready to applaud the wisdom and
moderation with which Louts X VIII. had
maintained the dignity of his Throne, amidst
the difficult circumstances under which he
was called to ascend it, and had tried to reconcile
the elements of discord that surrounded him.
It is impossible; therefore, that we can be sus-
pected of any wish to see France again become
the theatre 'of those convulsions, which have
already so fearfully deranged the political fabric
of all Europe, or that we should desire to see the
Bourlion Government subverted by an authority
which might find it necessary for its own secu-
rity to produce confusion in other States.--
On the contrary, we think that the continuance
of the BOURBON dynasty in France, if its power
be exercised under the influence of wise, en-
lightened, and really liberal Councils, is of great
importance to the repose and prosperity of
Europe. It is with these friendly sentiments
toward the BOURBON Family that we have
not hesitated to pronounce the conduct of
its Government towards Spain as iniquitous
as it is dangerous, and as likely to pro-
duce calamities for France herself, as it deserves
to receive the reprobation of the civilized world.
It is with the ideas of the value of the BOURBONS,
both to France and to Europe, which we have
frankly stated, that we again solemnly avow
our firm conviction, that they are entering
ou a career which may terminate in the
utter downfal of their authority, and in the
final extinction of their claims to the exer-
cise of Royalty.

The renlcs at Paris dosed on Saturday at 77 . 60.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

STooK tXCIIANGE, Tweivo o'Ctock,--.Con-
sols opened at' 73 and have maintained

their prices without variation. The rise of
since yesterday is attributed to a great bear
account. Considerable disappointment is felt
that no Ministerial disclosures were made
last night to Parliament respecting the fo-
reign policy of the country ; and many persons
think that the continued reserve of Ministers is
owing to an expectation that hostilities will
even yet be averted. The private letters from
Paris, however, of Sunday night are full of con-
fidence that the French armies will enter Spain
without delay.

FottEtorrMAnKET.--Very little business doing.
Spanish Bonds opened at 27i

Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, Downing-street,
which continued in deliberation till about half-
past four.

Yesterday the Countess BATUURST, SCCOM•
panied by Lady GEOIIGIANA, left town. for
Brighton in consequence of Lady GEORGIANA
being indisposed,