The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-15 00:00:00

THE.LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, August 14.

• [MORNING lqltALD.]
. :We yesterday received . the following letters
from Madrid :
31.—1 think therci is some chance of mat-
ters baying rsranged between the Duke d'Angouleme and the
people of Cadiz. I have reason to knol that there is a dispo-
sition to accommodation on
.both sidlf -
'on it kve already beard that the loan with this Regency
has been taken by a Mzuquis' or a Baron dela, Croisc, at 60'
Conmiission per cent.'; the payments to be monthly, and at
therate of 20 millions in cash and bills. The. Bonds contract-
cd for are about 380 ft does not, however, appear
that the Marquis has as }'et exhibited his securities. lie is
gime to Paris tor, the purpose of providing them ; but if he does
not return before the 15th of August. with adequate securities
and the amount of the first instalment, the contract is to be de-
dared Void. •
There has been seine talk here of» decree haVing been issued
by the Regency, declaring all the loans and other engagements
contracted by the Cortes,' to be of no effect. I can state to ybu
that such a decree has never been issued, although it was spoxen
of in the:lTnt confident manner. It would' seem that the re-
pert,of such a' measure being in agitation, and actually com—
pleted, originated with Erro, who conceived that by playing Off .
such a trick he might induce some of the Paris and London
houses to send hint proposals for his new loan. It is certain
that the Duke del Infantado has declared that this point could
be decided only by the Icing. The Marquis had introduced an
article into the contract, declaring all . former loans' null and
void; but it was objected to by the Regency, and crossed' over
by the Duke himself.
The documents necessary for opening the mixed commission
in London have been all sent from hereby a gentleman who
embarked at St. Lucar fur England, on the 24th, in the merchant
brig Swift. 31essrs, Machado, Colomb, Ugarte, and Mem
have been appointed, commissioners on the part of Spain. The
two latter are gone to Gibraltar, whence they will embark for
England. Blanco into act as Secretary; Mr. Ugarte is
the Director General of the Great Book, and I rather suspect
that the ncgaciation of a loan' ferias part of the object of his
missiim.
On' passing through here with dispatches, Mr. Ward re.
ported " that tile British frigate which entered Cadiz went for
the purpose Of conveying away all those of the Constitutional
party who might wish' it ; but the Ministers- declined the offer,
saying, that ti..y aII to a man would live or die with the CariSti.
tUtioll. The King was not suffered to be seen—he has been re-
niored from the Hospital ar;aili to the CUstom-house which is
bomb-proof. general_ ,Batiesoulle was extremely enraged at
the breaking-of the blockade, and the frigate's entrance, and
suit word to the Admiral that he ought to have sunk her
—it 'la not unlikely that the opportunity may be again offered

to him.
Provisions in Cadiz were not so elcessively dear as repre..
sented outside. Woodand charcoal were, however, extremely
Scarce:
Sir William A'Court had sailed from San Lticar in the
Neptune for Gibraltar.
The w rests here continue—a greater number were taken
Up 'last night than for many preceding days. I am credi-
bly informed that during the present month of July upwards
of 700 respectable persons have been imprisoned In the prisons
De la Corte and De Is Corona. No reason whatever is as-
signed—it would Seem the Superintendent-General of Police
fa new branch of Administration in 3ladrid introduced by the
Freneh), thinks he has no other duty to perform—probably the
extortion of money may be the secret object, as the new men
in office are extremely needy. The unfortunates deprived of
their liberty are all pasons of good circumstances, and many
very rich.
It is reported, but I don't know how exact, that the French
lost 700 men in their late attempts on Cartunid.

[TIIII TI !dm]
liallasteros has, it :WOWS, pledged his troops to
be, partners 11% his own ignominy—Abishal strove
to do the same. l'hat.equal success may attend
the treachery of Andalusia as that of Madrid ex-
hihited, is the prayer of every honest man in
Europe. We shall be more than- commonly
anxious to learn whether Zayas has also lost
himself, since Ballasteros has undertaken to
answer for him, as well lig for the fortresses
within the military command which he has so
basely abandoned.

Judging from some colonial paragraphs which
have reached us, the island of Tobago appears to
be in, what the late Lord Londonderry would
have called " an unsatisfactory state." The Go-
vernor and the House of Assembly have been
carrying on hostilities of sundry kinds against
each other—his Excellency proclaiming, and
their 46 Honours" protesting— while the subjects
of both look on, we doubt not, with feelings
which, were they duly Considered by the dis-
putants, would tvach theta to conceal at least, if
they could ,not moderate, their quarrels. It is
really a serious reflection for those who think
West India colonies of the slightest benefit to the
mother country, how often, or rather how con-
stantly, questions not much dissimilar to.those
which ended in the loss of North America, are
the subjects of angry discussion between the exe-
tutive tuithovities in most of our islands, and the
local bodies over which they are nominated to
preside.—( Mid).

The Kitty, of the Continent are making large
strides towardq the subversion, as it seems to us,
Of their own power. The exhibition more im-
mediately under our eye is that of his Majesty
the King of Sardinia, establishing bY a formal
decree the Society of Jesuits, as the privileged
teachers of youth within his dominions. Has
this Royal Person, then, forgotten the history
of Europe—or had be a Jesuit for his own pre.
ceptor, who suppressed the terrible but whole.
some lessons to be drawn from the machinations
of his brethren, and from their overthrow ? But
it is on the 'breast of a waking people that
Charles Fen% would fix this intolerable night-,
ware. Ile would bring back Italy to the 37th
century, ag some other Potentates, his neighbours
'Would make nil Viurope retire to the 10th. We
rntly wish the e'kperiment to be persevered in.--
We deprecate its tieing abandoned from timely
caution, before the people every-where open their
. eyeS to the tendency of the scheme, and to the
genius and den of the projectors. What a
spectacle does the European world now present
to 11,;) and what must be the feelings of those
state:;:mcn of a free country by whom it has been
pleFa red I. (

[NEW TIMES.]
'lire Courier's trepidations and alarms on the
f.uhject of a mediation seem to be shared by no-
body, The other Newspapers take the liberty
,to laugh at ur wort by cotemporary : and we
rant own we ourselves were betrayed into a
sinile, AS bich we are sorry so see has given him
serious offence, We hope in a day or two his
fears will blow over, and with them will vanish
the anger which e have very unintentionally
created. The prices of the French Funds on
Tuesday con vincinzty prove that in Paris, at least,
no apprehensions of evil are entertained. The,
Rentes on that day closed tit 93f. We. the Scrip
at 3 premium, and the Neapolitan Stock at 77.1

gpanish Bonds too flag assigned near 3 per'
cent. in the confidence of pending negociations,
which it was thought would provide that the Loan
up to 1822 should be annulled. When we speak
of negociations, we rust not be supposed to inti-
mate that the individuals who keep the King a
prisoner can be treated with as a Sovereign
power. They however- may, as individuals,
make such stipulations as they think necessary
for their personal security ; and whatever pro-
mises are ,mado to them will no doubt be reli-
giously performed. The complete confirmation
of the submission of Ballasteros leaves the Re-
volutionists not a chance of success.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It will be remembered that about a fortnight
ago the French Alinisterial Papers gave an ac-
count of a sortie which had been Made by the
'g,arrisOn of Cadiz on (Ike 16th ult. and. which they
represented to have been most disastrous to the
Assailants. The Constitutionalists, it was assert-
ed, left bihind them 1000 prisoners- on that day,
.and it was farther said that their loss in other re-
spects was equally severe. A letter has, how-
ever, been received from an Officer of high rank
'in the Spatitish army, who was himself in the
centre of the front column during • this action.
This letter is dated oh the 19th July, and says
that the sortie was made from the Island of
Leon by about four thousand men, and that its
object was as much to ascertain the real strength
of the enemy as to try the troops, one
half of whom had never been in fire.—
The attack was made with great steadiness,
and the first lines of the besiegers were car-
ried with the bayonet. The • French after=
wards appeared in greater force, and the
Spaniards withdrew in very good order, with
the loss of 146 men in killed; wounded,
and missing. • The Spaniards, (luring the whole
of this affair, are reported to have behaved with
courage and considerable coolness. Sir W.
A'Court had notified to the Constitutional Go-
vernment his:intention-to remove from Seville to
Gibraltar, had 'expressed his unaltered friendship
for the Spanish nation, and renewed the offer
of his services to reconcile. the existing
,differ-
'ences with France. No reply had been return-
ed or previeus tQ the,
,IDtlt July, to this' coat,
munication, and consequently if negociations
then existed
,between the Constitutional Go-
vernment of Spain, and the. Bourbons of France,
England had not been admitted into the discus-
sions.' From the North of Spain adviceS have
been received which are iMportant,sbecause they
afford convincing proofs of the activity and de-
termination of the people. In. Arragon three
powerful guerillas had - been, formed. The first
one consisted of nearly 2000 men under I3arrena,
the second amount-1 to 800 men under the Cu-
rate Teruel ; the third was less numerous, and
the Mot! of its Cotilmander is not mentioned.—
In Navarro two respktable parties bad Also
been collected under independent leaders. lit
New Castile the Empecinado extended his opera.
tions so Close, to Madrid, that, on the 2d of
August, he' carried off twenty Frenchmen
• and One Officer, who were entrusted with
' Ow.- night guard at the 'gate., of Toledo.—
' This enterprise of this distinguished Officer
' had caused much uneasiness to the garrison- of
the Spanish capital, which, including Faithmen
and Frenchmen, did not exceed two thousand
five hundred men. In St. Sebastian all the horses
had been slaughtered and salted,and the garrison
would have abundance. of prOvisions to last till
November, previous to: which the winter storms
will raise the. naval blockade. The more the.
present
_state of Spain and the characte.r"orits
inhabitants are reflected on, tine more obvious
'must it appear, that as' long as it is held in mili-
tary possession by a foreign enemy, tramoillity
can never be restored, and the expellee of its
.hostile occupation by the French (if they, can
occupy it), will far exceed any advantage which
the establishment of ignorance and oppres,ion
amongst its inhabitants ran ever confer on the
• Bourbons. . .

LiwouNING eosT.]
Haniburg,lt Pa'pers to the 9th inst. brought us
last night some interesting intelligence, the im-
portance of which is heightened by its being in
some measure opposed to what: is called by Con.
tinental Monarchs " the spirit:of.the age," but
would "be more correctly denominated the blirnt-
IWSS of Despots., After a lapse of ten -years, the
King of Prussia, has at length recollected the
promise which he made in 1813 to his subject...,
when it became-his interest to breik tiff the ties
contracted with Napoleon, and to rouse their
indignation against the man whonfhe had lately
served as an ally, and worshipped as a *demi-
god. lie has seized the opportunity of- his birth.
day to giie to his People, not a- Charter or a
Constitution, but something which is at once an
approach to, and an apology for one. 'This sub
stitute is to consist of Provincial Assernbliel,,
formed on the elective principle,landed property
being the basis of representation, but with very
limited powers. They are' excluded from the
consideration, of tive general concerns and intr.-
rests of the State, and are only to deliberate on
projects of law which of their respective pro-
vinces, without being able to originate eny pro-
position themselves, the initiative residing solely
with the Sovereign. Some intimatien is ~,,,Tiven
that there may be a Convocation of the General
States of the kingdom, but whet her so glea t a step
is to be taken towards the establishrm nt of a na.
timid Parliament " remains for his 7ilaj:.sty in his
paternal care, to determine." Considered as a
whole, the, system is complicated and not likely
to work harmoniously together. tut viewed as
the,creation of a period when Prussia had jeinod
the other Members of the lioly Alliance in their
audacious denunciations against every thing that
hears the shape and name of a Constitution, it is
a phenoinenon which would only dkplay ex-
traordinary degree of: political inconsistency,
if it might not also be regarded as a symptom of
an approaching return to sounder and more salts-
tary principles.

At a late hour last night we received Bayonne
Papers to the 6th inst. They contain advices
from Madrid, according to which the chief bh.

ject of the Duke of Atigouleme's removal to the
Bay of Cadiz was, 44 to nogociate with the Cortes
by the aid of Sir William A'Court, who was sup-
posed to have had some influence on the
Prince's journey:" In this opinion we are dis-
posed to coincide, notwithstanding the declara-.
tion lately put forth by the supposed organ of the
French Government in this metropolis, that it
would be below the dignity of France to accept
our mediation to draw her out of a situation
admitted by herself to be full of difficulty. It
would not be the first sime that the French Go-
vernment would be secretly doing the reverse of
what it openly professed ; and that declaration
may in fact have no other object than to enable
it to feel the public pulse before it takes or avows
the course which it has really taken.—abid.)