The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-04 00:00:00

him—and Chat the tortes had lied front
in-the utmost haste and confusion—pressed by
Gimeral Bourmont. How does the fact prove
General Bourmont does not enter Sevilla at on—
General Lopes Banosf wbose troops had all de-
serted him, forces his entrance into Seville,
passes two days theref and evacthites it, bring-
ing away with Wm' the product of a heavy
cohtribution. These are gross contradictions,
which take away all credit from the French
'accouhts. The absurd statement of the en-
trance of Bullasteros into Catalonia is ab-
scilutely negatived by these Papers: He
still retreated before Molitor, into Murcia,
having dispatched three battalions to Ali Cant.
The Journal de Toulouse, an Ultra paper, rea
proaches Eroles with having, by his misconduct,
allowed the escape of Minn, in defiance of the
remonstrance of a French Colonel. \V hether,
from some misunderstanding, or. because he can
do nothing better, the Chief of the Faith has
given up the pursuit, and stood still at Belver.
Zabala, another Chief, who wished to change
sides from the Faith to the Constitution, with his
followers, has been arrested and imprisoned at
Segovia. Of Mina, it only appears tilt far from
seeking refuge in the Seo d'Urgel, he moved
with his accostomed activity and freedom.

ENE,,Y TOMS.]
The clear and perspicuous statement of the
Chancellor. of the Exchequer, on Wednesday
evening, gave general satisfaction yesterday in the
City. Consols for the Account opened at Sit,
and closed at .894.- By Express from Paris we
learn that the price of the Itentes still main-
tained itself; on Tuesday they were at 88f. 80c.
Sothe great English capitalists have already
reached' that capital, and otheri are about
to proceed thither, to,, be present at the
bidding 6r the new French Loan. By
re-
ferring to the map of Spain, it will be seen that
there is not a. shadow of hope remaining' for the
Jacobins' of that country. At to the impudent
attempts'of The Times to bolster up‘their cause;
they are now quite laughable from their utter in'
credibility. ft gives Morillo ten thousand men,
and Ballasteros twelve thousand. Now, an in.
.tercepted letter of Morillo to Sir Robert Wilsob
described his forces. as weak and wanting every
:thing ;..and as to Ballasteros, if he ran away from
Vttlencia with I,ooo' men that Were capable of
standing against the enemy, he must be,
what we ei ny. do not think himr, a
despicable coward. That he may have Had
somo,:thoWsands of half-armed Conscripts is
probable enough bat we tee' that he did :Cot
dere,to• face the French. with them. It must be
remembered,-that he had retreated all the' way
from Biicay to Valencia. In that large and po.
pulour city,- the capital of a rich province,, it was
to have beet supposed he would have made a
stand ; but no. Valencia stands on the Guada,
abandoned that river, and retired be.
hind'the Jucar, which falls into the sea twenty,
five miles' further to the South. Here he had
formed magazines at Alcira. 'Elie French
General no sooner reached Valencia,' than
lie sent on, a. detachment; which- attacked
Ballasteros it Akira, took all his magazines,
and pursued him twelve miles' to San Felipe.
—lfery the' road divides, the left branch
leading by A Very to A lieente, and tharigh t, branch
by Alirxente to the mountains w hick bound the
province of Valencia. These mountains the French
alcended. to their summit, still driving, Balleste.
ros, and weraleft, by the last accounts,,at Fuente
la Higueirat If we. look toward Cadiz, we find
that there is not a vestige of an army In the field to
oppose Generals Boutmout and Bordesoult ; the
former of whom had destroyed the army of Lo.
pez Banos, and the latter had captured. even the
baggage of the Cortes. There is a miscellaneous
assemblage of militia and other soldiers at Cadiz ;
but that place' is neither armed nor provisioned,.
and must soon fall' when once attacked.-

[stoarmto curaosticr.t.,l
The Government people express great alarm
respecting Ireland, and rumours of all kinds are
at present afloat, such as that the militia are to
be called out, &c.---In our extracts from the
Dutch Papers there is an article stating, that all
the English Officers-in the Netherlands have been
ordered to repair immediately to this country.
We presume this must alto have reference to tile
alleged apprehension for Ireland,— Whether
Ministers really feel what they express is a clues.
tion which we cannot pretend to solve. Indeed,
their whole policy vith respect to Ireland is too
mysterious for our comprehension. It is obvious
that the system followed in governing that country,
must necessarily keep nearly the whole of its itn-
tnense population in a state of wretchedness, which
ran only be partially relieved by disease or the
:,word'. From every thing beyond the palliative
Ministers' have always shrunk. The claims of
the people to' law and government, are as no-
thing with them in comparison with the claims of
a clergy without flocks, and existing merely for
the enjoyment of revenue: As the system, there-
fore, cannot be changed, and disease has not stept
in to extricate them from their embarrassment,
they are no dqubt prepared for the other conse-
quence. One would imagine, therefore, that that
which must have been long looked forward to as
inevitable, could not now create any real arum'
It was happily observed by Sir Philip Francis,
that we dislike nothing of tire Catholic Religion
but these who believe it in lretand. If this ob.
servation was just seven years ago, it' applies to
have tenfold force at present, when our Minis-
tars have been. exerting themselves so powerfully
to continue the Peninsula under the dominion of
Priestcraft and the Inquisition. If Ministers
really hated Catholicism,. they would strive
to enlighten the Irish people, and to render
the Protestant Clergy more efficient. The very
Catechism of the Church, for whose sake Ireland
is sacrificed; has never even been translated
into the language of the peopte; and is therefore
inaccessible to the great body, of them. But the
value of the domination would be less, were
the number of those who share it increased.
The Church would be less valuable It it had
more members. The most valuable of all Cures
is that in which there is no dirty to discharge, and
when the Church of Ireland' possesses livings