The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-14 00:00:00

prudent to await their confirmation by the arrival
of Madrid Papers, before giving them publicity.
Marshal OUDINOT and Marshal MONCEY (Duke
de CONEGLIANO) have set off for the army.—
From oqr private intelligence, as we stated
yesterday, we believe that they will be im-
mediately followed by the Duke d'ArwouLotc.
We yesterday exclusive :y announced the receipt
of Dispatches from Madrid. All the particulars
of the important information which we in con-
sequence laid before the Public are correct. ex-
cept that in the hurry of receiving the com-
munication at so late an hour, there was a
slight misunderstanding respecting the rein-
statement of the Spanish Ministry. That
intelligence had no reference to the attempt
which had been made by the KING to change his
Ministers on the 19th ult., but to their final re-
establishment in office, under the unanimous
sanction and applause of the Cortes and the
Public, after a new Ministry had actually been
nominated on the second instant, consisting of
FLORES ESTRADA, LORENZO CALYO DE ROSAS,
JOSE ZORAQUIN, ROMAI, JOSE M MIA. TOR-
Ruos, and DIES DEL MORAL. The old
Ministers, therefore, whose conduct has ob-
tained for them the confidence of the Cortes
and of the nation, are more firmly secured in
their seats than ever. The,Speech of the King
of SPAIN, at the opening of the Session of the
Ordinary Cortes, on the Ist instant, which we
his day publish, bears honourable testimony
o their Administration.• From that document,

of so much importance at -the present crisis,
it will be seen that Spain, as we exclu-
sively announced yesterday," is finally and irre-
vocably determined to abide the consequences
of the war." The KING, in his Speech, declares,
that Spain, in reply to the insidious intimations
of the. Continental Powers of the Holy Alliance,
has solemnly manifested to the world that her
fundamental laws can only be dictated by herself,
—that those who attack this principle by an
appeal to arms, give the most decisive proof of
the injustice of their cause,—that the Power
which has resolved on sending a hundred thou-
sand Frenchmen to settle the domestic affairs
of Spain, is unworthy of being replied to by the
Constitutional Meg of the SPAINS, and has cover-
ed itself with the mantle of the most detest-
able hypocrisy,—that the best reply to the Speech
of the French King, will be the energy, the firm-
ness, and the constancy of the Spanish Cortes,—
that to capitulate with an enemy whose bad
faith is notorious, would be to admit that the
nation is already subdued,—that rather than
submit to the ignominy of receiving laws im-
posed by force of arms, the magnanimous
Spanish nation. will again hasten to combat
for independence and civil liberty,—that the
KING himself, for his own part, once more,
offers to the National Congr'ess the co-opera-
tion of all his efforts to repel force by force,---
and, that the seasonable removal of the Royal
Person, and of the Corks, to a point less
subject to the influence of military operations
than Madrid, will paralyse the efforts of
the enemy I---1n short, every sentence of the
Speech breathes the firmest defiance of France, and
manifests a►► unalterable determination to sustain
the contest to the last extremity, and rather to
perish with the country than to dishonour it by
submission to foreign dictation. 'We have only
glanced at some of the features of the Royal
Address, which embraces several other topics
equally important. The contrast between
the sober dignity and consistent patriotism
of the Cortes, and the turbulent violence and
fanatic zeal of the Chamber of Deputies,
is not more striking, or more honourable to Spain,
than that which is now presented by a compa•
rison of the manly and spirited Address which
has been delivered to the Spanish Cortes in the
name of FERDINAND VII. with the frivolous
but insolent puerilities which were addressed
to the French Chamber by Louts X VIM!

Matters between France and Spain having
arrived at their present extremity, it is clear
that the best policy of Spain was to' de-
clare war, soon after the Speech of her KIN‘. to
the Cortes, without allowing France any further
time for the security of her commerce, and the
completion of her preparations. That a Decla•
ration of War had actually been issued, we
yesterday stated on respectable authority.—

Should it be received by the next dispatches
from Spain, which may from various circum-
stances be expected, it will be nothing more
thnn the natural consequence of the deter-
mined spirit already evinced by the Spanish
Government and Legislature. Come when it

may, it will abundantly establish the accu-
racy of the line which this Paper has pursued
in treating of foreign affairs.—lf the Spanish
Goverpment has really resolved on striking the