The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-21 00:00:00

[MORNING lIERA_M]

A paragraph in the Court Circular informs us
that a courier arrived at the Foreign Office, at a
late hour on Wednesday night, with dispatches
from the Regency of Spain. Without knowing
any thing of the contents of these communica.
Lions, it is sufficient to understand that they have
been transmitted to our Government, in order
to come to the important question—Will our
Government recognize the. Regency ? It is
not necessary that a formal demand for such
a recognition should be made. The mere an.
nouncement of their existence opens the discus-
sion at once, and the very manner of receiving it
will decide the line of conduct which his Mat
jesty's Ministers mean to pursue. . It appears to
us that there can hardly be any doubt how they
will act. At the Congress of Verona the Duke
of Wellington refused to offer any opinion upon
the grounds of complaint which France had
against Spain, because his Government was igno.
rant of them. It is in a slate of similar ignorance
as to the Constitution of this Regency. Mr.Can-
ping may indeed have read in the French Jour-
nals that the Duke of Angouleme appointed
such a presiding body at Madrid, but how is he
informed that his Royal Ifighttess had Ferdi-
nand's authority to do so ? Five or six Noble.
men and Et clesiastics write over here to
Say that they are a Regency. They may be
very respectable individuals, or otherwise, but
their assumption of such a title, upon the dictate
of a Foreign Prince, is not of itself sufficient to
legalize their authority.—Again, the necessity
for the establishment, in Madrid of a supreme
body to perform acts of Government in the name
of Ferdinand Vtl., is grounded upon the sup.
position that his Catholic Majesty is a captive
in the hands of a portion of his subjects. Now,
this is a supposition to which the British Governs
ment cannot accede so long us they continue
their Minister at the Court of the ling of
Spain. Every hpur of the residence of that
Minister in Seville, or wherever the King
may be, is a fresh acknowledgement that be
is in the legal exercise of his authority,
Sir Wm. A'Court is in daily communication with
the Ministers of his Catholic Majesty, transacts
business with them, and therefore they form the
only Government which Great Britain tern*
nitances in Spain. Again, it is said, the Finance
.Minister appointed by,the Regency has declared
that the new Government will not pay any of the
debts contracted by the. Cortes. Among these
debts is one of no inconsiderable amount, which
,the Cortes incurred when, they pledged them-

selves to indemnify those Aritish merchants whose
proPerty was plundered in the South American
Seas: It can hardly be supposed that our Go-
vernment would afford any encouragement, not
to speak of> authority, to a Junta which begins
its proceedings with such an act as this.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers of Wednesday reached us
yesterday by private express : they contain
nothing of importance, or worth recapitulation.
Angouleme is now in full possession of Madrid,
and to the boasted vivas which greeted his army
on' 'its entrance, general discontent is already
beginning ;to succeed. Bourmont and Bourde-
soult are in full march on. Badajos and
Seville. The former will defy attack, the latter
may be taken possession 'of ; but though the nest
may be found, the birds will be flown. Feidinand
and the Government will be safe from a .much
larger force, 'within the walls of Cadiz. But
now that the French have proceeded so far, at
incalculable expence, and with repeated annunci-
ations of victory, the question is, what permanent
effects have they achieved ? Has Spain risen al-
together against the Constitution, as they de-
clared it would ? Have the pure Royalists, the
liands of the" Faith, been received as delivers ? or
has this execrable party been annihilated, morally
and physically, by the atrocious attack on Spain?
Do the Spaniards wish for the return of the days
of the Inquisition and absolute power ? If so, why
heve the authorities of the different towns the
French occupied stipulated for protection against
the bands of the Faith ? Why were Bessieres
reperrted attempts repulsed in Madrid, and his
last endeavour' to gain possession of it defeated
with slaughter? Why did the very Councils of
Castile and the Indies, summoned by Angou-
!erne, refuse to name a Regency ? Why was the
traitor Abisbal arrested by a Spanish Royalist,
and on the point of being sacrificed, though
known to be protected by Angouleme, when a
French regiment arrived and saved him ? The
truth is'plain, that:despotism is not palatable to
the people, and, that a French army is less so.—
The bands of the Faith and the Royalist party
have as yet done nothing for the French arms ;
but if the .war is prolbneed, they will do much
against them. Before the close of the summer,
the French will find the very Royalist bands
in arms against them, in every part of Spain
and their worst and most implacable enemies
among those they clothed, subsidized, and
armed. The French assert that the Constitu-
tional party has now no organization in Spain,
and the Government of Seville no support ; but
is it really so ? Are the Cortes and the Consti-
tutional Government so abandoned? If so, why
have Pampeluna, St. Sebastian, Santorga, Fl'
guieras, Barcelona, and other places capable of
defence, held out ? Why has Abisbal, instead
of seducing his army with him, fallen single and
powerless ? Does the arming and organizing of
troops by Morino, in Galicia and the Asturias,
mean nothing ? Why was pessieres repulsed at the
gates of Madrid ? Why did not Zayay surrender
w ith his troops in place of retreating on the province
Andalusia ? Royalists' principles prevail—Ballas-
tyros is still in arms, and entered Valencia, after
, routing Ulman's banditti, who surrounded its
!calks. He obliged Molitor to march on this
province, when his presence, and the aid of
his troops, were most necessary to Moncey in
Catalonia. Let us then lastly look to Cate-
' lonia, to the combats at Castersol, of Mataro, and
Vich. Mina suddenly appearing everywere, but
found now here; last spewing himself within the
very dominions of France with his troops. All
these are proofs that, the power of the Corks is
not extinct, and that the Constitution has yet the
support of the great majority of the Spanish na-
tion, who are attached to liberty. The French
or hold it if they were
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The feelings of the people
are inseparably opposed to foreign thraldom.
Nor can ancient tyranny or superstition ever be
revived in Spain again. The French Funds on
Wednesday opened, at 88f., rose during the day
to 88f. 30c., and closed at 881.20 c.