The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-26 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]

We are well aware how little the Ministerial
French Journals are to be relied on. But they
have of Into so frequently mentioned the co-
operation of the Portuguese Government with
the French in Spain, that this, joined with other
ciiturnstances, renders the thing not improbable.
Indeed, we observed on the establishment of the
counter-revolution in Portugal, that most likely
the next step would be to send a corps of auxili-
aries to the Duke' of Angouleme. It is stated
that the auxiliary troops would be under the
command of the Prince Don Michael. It has
been the general opinion, and seemingly a just'
ore, that the whole Peninsula will have the same
fate. Whilst the Portuguese Government was
Constitutional,it made common cause, at least in
feeling, as it had common interests, with the
Cortes. Now that the Government is framed on
French interests,- it will naturally tend to pro..
mote the establishment of a similar system in
Portugal. What then becomes of the old and
faithful alliance between Portugal and England,
under which each' was hound to regard the other
as .a favoured nation, and which certainly had its
advantages for this country auwell as'for Partu;.
gal ? The Cortes of Lisbon are said to have
been hostile to the favour shown to England, and'
they undoubtedly abolished regulations of long
standing with regard to trade,;' njuribuSly and
unwisely to both countries: But how moth more
anti-British must be the spirit of the Portuguese
Government when' exercised by a' close Junta
under French influence ? The great criterion is
the verification: or non-verification of what the'
French Journal's announce respecting ce-operation
with the Freneh. If the Portuguese Government
sends military aitflothe French,. can there be a
doubt that English intUence is as completely exs
tinct at Lisbon as! it is at Madrid.' A powerful
co-operation frottrPortugal"would' most probably
destroy whatever, of hope remains for the Spa-
niards, and as the provinces in 'which the war was
most active when'the last accounts came away,
are contiguous, it is probable:" that the Duke of
Angouleme will no longer be- so fastidious as
when he refused to receive Amararite. With re-
spect to theiSpaniards, it would apPearlhat their
chief want is that of an enefgetic directing mind,
honestly committed with the Constitutional
cause. There is every reason to believe 'that if
Morino had been faithful, and thought and acted
In concert with Sir Robert 'Wilson, the French
would have been repulsed from the provinces•of
Astoria and Galicia. In the course of yesterday,
up to the time at which we write,, no further ac-'
counts had been received, but it is most likely
that the next will confirm the impression made
by those already received--that whatever resist-
ance has been made in that quarter of Spain was
inspired and organized by Sir Robert Wilson. It
is impossible not to ask, with surprise, and even
reproach, why Spain has not, in the ferment of
the late war, produced some' men—nay, even a
single man—of a leading capacity in war.—
Not ono great Captain has been produced.
Crest Generals grow in Clusters upon the French
Revolution, at and'after'tha invasion of the Duke
of Brunswick; but the Spanish Generals, what-
ow may be their latent capability, have none
of them risen above a certain respectable level.
There have brim brave, indefatigable,-and skil-
ful partizan leaders—possessing, in perhaps the
highest degree, the genius, of irregular warfare,
bat no great master in the art of war. Perhaps
it' is attributable to the particular state of Spain,
which a writer, in ifslet, has described by 'say.
hig, it The whole kingdom' was one large castle
of intitience." The situation of. Spain, at pre.
sea, is' well calculated to awake and emancipate
the genius of a State. The reveill,e is sounded,
m
at the same time, by the seattent of nationality
and that of -freedom—but not as.- yet with the
ell'ect that might be-oxpected:-

CTUE TIMES.]

The state of -suspense in which affairs were
Wt at Ccaruntia, and the interest felt by all in
the issue of the contest, produced yesterday the
most atticious inquiries after arrivals tending to
throw any new light on the subject. No vessels

were noted on the books at Lloyd's as having
entered any of our ports from Corunna; there is,
however, reason for suspecting that arrivals have
actually taken place, but under circumstances
which have rendered it prudent to conceal the
place of departure, and of later date than those
which were reported on Thnr§clay. These ar-
rivals are understood to be vessels captured by
the_Spanish privateers from the French, and car-
ried into the harbour of Corunna, where they re-
mained at the date of the latest adcounts. They
are supposed, on entering English ports; to have
assumed new names, and given a false place of
departure. Unfortunately for the gratifiCation
of public curiosity, the same motives which urged
this concealment, have prevented the sending
on any letters, by which the situation of Co-.
runna at their departure, which appears to have
been as late as. the 18th or 10th, could be as-
certained. The fact of such arrival's; howeVeri
having transpired, caused a very general appre-
hension to exist that by the 10th the French
were in possession of Corunna. Not that any
k direct information of such an event has been
obtained, but because it is concluded' that no-'1
thing short of the occupation of the city, or;
the certainty of its immediately happening, could
indute the persons in charge of the prizes to
take them to any port not Spanish. We trust
our inference is nott the correct one, but must
confess that our fears are stronger than our hopes.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
. -

South Americ-an and Colombian Papers,•t&the

11th of last month, reached our office yesterday.
We may now give assurance of the Colombian
Loan being in the fairest way to be settled :

indeed, there can be now do doubt whatever of
a stitisfactory arrangthrient immediately taking
place between the Republic and its creditors.—
We give, with great pleasure, an extract from the
Message of the President of Colombia to the
Legislative Body, which alludes in the most
marked and favourable manner to the loan
64 I ought, however, to- observe (the Message
says) that our national honour should supersede
every other consideration or interest, sacri-
ficing to it that precision and economy, which it
becomes us to exact rigorously in other cases.—
We are debtors, and must pay under any sacrifice.
The Executive hopes that the Congress will frame
a law for the immediate payment of the interest of
this debt, and the gradual liquidation of the prin.
pal." Nothing can be more satisfactory than
This ; we congratulate the' holders of Colombian
bonds and the respectable contractors both sin-
cerely, on this most satisfactory result to all
their anxieties. We own we think Mr. Re-
venge's conduct has not been what it ought; the
holders of these securities owe him nothing. In
coming to a decision of this sort, the Colombian
Republic has acted in a manner worthy of its
national character ; anti at the same time only
consistent with justice to those who committed

their property, and assisted the struggling Re-
public in its hour of difficulty and trial.

[MORNING POST.]
It will be found on perusing Bourck's bulletin,
that the brilliant victory said to have been gained'
by General Huber in Galicia, was one, of those
feats of amyl fit to have had. ikoncey for its. re-
corder. The Constitutionalists amounting to two
hundred, we are told, were attacked and defeated
by thirty French Ilussatitithe fact is not impos-
sible,but the imPortance,of the victory's entirely?
destroyed ;'. for what' consequence can" be at-
tached to."a' Skirmish' in whiCh Wit more than
260 men. oh both sides' were engaged The
wonderful part of the action,' however; is
what folthwa. Ohe hundred` of the Spaniards
having entrenChed themselves in• a closeovere
attacked by.five French heroes who after per-
forming "'prodigies of valour, "• and. prodigies
were really necessary, put the whole hundred to
flight,..k-illed elevertir and with the assistance of
'the other twenty-iiVe huSsars who cattle up, took
eighty prisoners, laving had themselves all the
while but one man slightly wounded'!- If Aloe-
'bhautten be not dead he has certainly tlkett ser-
vice its the French army.

[HORNING CHRONICLE.]
• Tie Consols opened this morning at 10'for the
settlement on the 28t1) August next,-although
little inclination was exhibited to speculate on
their maintaining this value. Real capitalists can
perceive no chance of profit from investments in
them at such high prices, and the. Bulls of a dif-
ferent description are too deeply interested in
the last French Loan to possess the. ability of
supporting the present value of the English
funded•debt. ' The interest of the Sinking Fund,
and 'the interest of capitalists who wish to ob-
tain
an income from their money, are equally!'
concerned in the reduction of the present unpro.:
fitable prices of the Consols, vviiiCii benefit only
thole, who without the' intention of •any perma-
nent invelfMent'in theM, reap their profits not
from the half-yearly dividends, but from the gra-
dually inereasing,priCe of the Funds themselves.
The hitherto unresisted progress of the iniqui-
tous `principles' of the Bourbons in Spain .has.
given great confidence to this' class olspecula-
tors, and their operations consequently were
unlimited, so long as tyrnni►y appeared to be
all-powerful. The important news received
from Corunna, however, was as 'unexpected by
those whose well-being depended on the de-
struction of a nation's independence, as it was
hailed with infinite delight by every disinterested
friend to the civilization and freedom of man,
kind. The French Papers received yesterday
announced the surrender of Ferrol, on the 14th,
and of Corunna on the 113th inst. because treason
,was the Ally of the Bourbons, and they depended
on its efficacy. No intelligence has arrived in
„England direct from Ferrol later than the 14th,
and consequently the French speculation on its
Surrender that day by treason, cannot be con-
tradicted, but it IS, proved beyond the contra-

diction even of the-subscriber's to the French

Loan, that in announcing the surrender of
Corunna on the lath, the Bourborts sailed before
their anchor. It has universally been the custom
of the French to describe a battle before it was
fought, when money hadTreviousiy decided the
contest, gild no doubt on this occasion the de•
graded Morino assured them that Ferrol would

,
submit to them on the 14th, and Corunna on the
16th July. In the latter place, however, the
Spaniards, fortunately for their fame, found
leaders worthy of the great cause in which they
are - engaged, and Morillo's treason did not
obtain for the French that easy victory for
which he had received the wages. Corunna not
only defended itself on the 16th against the
most efforts of French soldiera, who braVely fell
in the execution of the orders of their scandalous
Government, but it even maintained the Contest
'luring the whole of the suceeding day. . On the
19th it is also certain that it hadnot surrendered,
for there is an arrival from it which proves the
fact, though circumstances, prevent for the pre-
sent any further explanation of this event. It may
however, be fairly calculated that Corunna had
not Submitted to the French on the evening of
the 21st, or even on the morning of the 22d, be-
Cense at the present moment its capture is of the
higheit importance to the continuance of the
Ultra GoiernMent of barbarism and absurdity Iri.l
France itself, and` its surrender would have been',
eagerly communicated at Paris.' FroM Co-'
runna to Bayonne,- the' passage with a fair
wind is not 24 hours, and the telegraph to Paris
would speedily have communicated news so import-
ant`. Two days by land would be, sufficient . for
the same journey. P'rom'Cape Ortega! to Cape
Finisterre,'therun.is not longer than from' '22 to
25 houri. Vie Auguste, having run to' Ply-
Mouth in five days proves the State of the.
and the presnmption coniequ-entlY is that Corunna
submitted to the French previously tothe morning`
of the 22d, it must, hfiVe been known in Paris yes-
terday
morning. These calCulationi operated this,
morning on the funds, and caused the Coniors to
decline to g2i +, making them to under the
highest price of yesterdaY. The arrival of the
vessel which quitted Cortnmit on the morning of
the 19th, induces some to think that the defence
of the place was considered desperate, but no. such'
inference ought in justice to. be drawn from
the circumstance. The French army before Co-
runna is not sufficiently powerful to carry it in
honourable warfare, and neither General Qui-
roga nor Sir Robert Wilson are likely to betray
the sacred charge with which the treason of Mo-
rillo has invested them.