The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, JAN. 8.

'Yesterday morning, at B o'clock, the King
transacted business with, M. the Duke de Dou-
deauville, Peer of France, Director-General of

the Posts.
Last evening there was a grand reception at
the residence of the Duke d'Orleans. His Serene
Highness received the Ambassadors and Mini.
stern Plenipotentiary ,of the Foreign Powers,
the Archbishop of Paris, and numerous person-
ages of distinction.
The suit instituted by the Spanish Ambassador
against MM. Ouvrard and Rougemont de Low.
'enberg will positively not come on until Tuesday
next, the 14th inst., when it will be tried before
the sixth Correctional Chamber. M. Maugin
pleads for M. the Duke de San Lorenz); MM.
Bonnet and Gauthiers Menars are the counsel

for the accused.
The notes of Russia, Austria, and Prussia,
♦rill be published forthwith.—(L'Etoile.)
The public mind ,of Paris im exclusively occu-
pied respecting the answer of the Cortes, and
the determination which the French Govern-
ment will come to. This determination can now
be no more matter of doubt than the reply of the
SPaniards. The Ministers of the revolution have
their laugnage us direct as the Ministers of legit
thniscy. They are now in the presence of each
other.— ( /dem.)
ft is said that three Colonels of the army have
been allowed .to retire upon half-pay.—(ldem.)
The disrnisal of several colonels is. spoken of.
—(Quotidienne.)
Advices from Bayonne state, !that the colonel,
the lieutenant-colonel, and 16 officers, of the
38th regiment of the line, have been dismissed,.
us also the brigade-major of the 37th.—(lie.
Pilate.)
it is reported that. the Moniteur will forthwith
publish the list of the Council of State.
We (the Journal de. Paris) yesterday copied
from the Toulouse Journal a letter from St. Gl-
rons, dated the 30th ult., announcing the taking
of Balaguer, by a corps of 900 men of the Army
of,the Faith ; our correspondent at Perpignan,
however, whose correctness is well known to us,
and who, from his position, ought to be pretty
well informed of what is passing in Catalonia,
has transmitted to us, under date the 29th ult.,
the following details, in .which lie does not men-
tion the taking of Balaguer :
" Several couriers from Spain are in arrear ;
but, according to what is stated by a man who
has this instant arrived from Barcelona, all the
mails are at St. Felin, where they await an escort

to protect them to the frontiers." -
The same individual adds, that M. Butron, the
Political Chief of Barcelona, had left the town
to range the different communes, in order per-
sonally to inform himself of the public feeling,
and to punish some Alcal.des who are accused of,
-secretly favouring the Insurgents.
There is now only a corps of 200 Insurgents
in the province of Tarragona, commanded by
Billie, and who are ut Villamanesca and Navos.
General Llovoras left Figueras on the 27th,
With a column of troops of the line, to disperse
this corps.
Numerous soldiers of the Army of the Faith,
who, to avail themselves of the amnesty, had
taken passports here to return into Spain, have
aiready arrived at Jonquera.
general Mina has returned to Urger; it is
thought with the design of accelerating the opera-
lions there.
General Fleires and Colonel. Martinez have
left Perpignan this morning for Toulouse ; their
departure has much disheartened the officers of
the hrmy of the Faith who are here ; to revive
tteir hopes, they are told that MM. Fleires and
Martinez will return shortly.
to a recent number (says the Drapeau Blanc)
we announced the death of the, regicide Monnel.
W4t have just received a copy of the recantation
which he made before he expired. This docu-
ment, which it is gratifying to us to publish, bears
tfeery character of authenticity : the hitter re-
pentance which it manifests will. be a motive of
consolation for the friends of religion and legi-

I.llllltCy
C 4 The undersigned, S. E. Monnel, Priest, and
formerly Curate of ValdelanCourt, in the dincess
of Laugres, at present at Constance (Swift (1)
er an
•d Blares that he retracts all that he has com-
mitted by example or precept, either in a public
ar a private manner, contrary to the Catholic,
Apostolic, and Reinan religion, in the pale of
Which he desires to die ; praying his former'
parishioners, especially, to pardon' the scandalous
•aetions of which he may have been guilty ; he
further declares, that he is impressed with the
irost poignant 'sorrow and sincere tepentance,
,for having voted the death of hiS King, Louis
XVI.; that he hipnbly implores
,Gon, who is full
of goodness, to judgehim, not in justice, but in his
•Inerry, which is infinite, in which be places all
'confidence.---The present. recantation, penned,
"and delivered into the hands of M. Wiche, Pre.
,fect of the College of Constance, this g9th day
October, I.B2l."—The recantation is attested
by W. Wiche, and. M. de St. Genest, Prefect of
'the Department of the Marne.
M. le Comte Pacttiod, Lieutenant-General
'(retired), has been honourably acquitted by a
•Council of War of the Ist Military Division, on
.a charge of having, on the 23d of June last, its.
oinked and struck Adjutant-Lieutenant '.Goret
Desfoureles, in the Garden of Beajon.
General Pamphile Lacroix is appointed to the
,curnmand of the 10th Military • • Division, the
'head-quarters of which are at Toulouse. General
,tiger 13elair succeeds Gen. Lacroix at Strasburg.

(Prom the Constitutionnel.)
1? mos, .14to. B.—Who is pleased with the election of M. de
Pistesubriand ? Who Is displeased with it ? If the fanatics
may be believed, they are delighted, and, the Constitutionalists
Alas I the latter are became quite indifferent as to
nominations I After all which they have seen for several years,
nothing astorsisbes them, nothing terrifies them ; all the mischief
which can he done hat Leen done to them. There are no more
Axons to take from them, no more affronts to offer them. It
not possible to deprive thorn more completely of every gus..
hiatoo. Thus for them the change in men is only a sort of