The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-07 00:00:00

GENERAL BALLASTEROS.

LETTER FROM GENERAL I3ALLASTEROS TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF ANGOU?
LEME.
46 MOST SERENE LORD—When 1, induced by
my ardent patriotism, and my desire to co.-operate
with the grand and benevolent views of your
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Royal Highness, signed a convention with Ge-
neral MOLITOR, which was to put an end to the
frightful evils which afflicted my country, I was
far from believing that the blackest ingratitude
would be the recompence of my devotedness—
that those whose interests I then defended would
be the first to calumniate my intentions and
punish my zeal. Your Royal Highness is in-
formed of the recompence I have received for. so
important a service, and your Royal Highness,
who may know so well the purity of my conduct,
will not be less scandalised than I am, myself, by
the fate which is preparing for me.
46 We must not 'deceive ourselves. Absolute
power is 'going to rule over Spain with a rod of
iron ; and this power is as little calculated for
the government of Spain, as that democratic Con-
stitution which your Royal Highness came to de-
stroy, because it waS opposed to the knowledge
of the age, to the interest of the thrones of Europe,
and to the tranquillity of nations.
.“
Thus has the essential basis of my armistice
been destroyed by an imprudent hand—thus has
the fruit of my, sacrifice been lost—thus those loyal
intentions have been 'frustrated which dictated
to tne.an act that will be more correctly judged
of when I can place before the eyes of Europe
the motives of my conduct.
" Under these circumstances, it is, my duty as
ri,Spaniard, and having been honoured by the
particular confidence of your Royal Highness, to
protest before your Royal Highness, and I do
protest in the most. solemn manner, against the
'Decree of his MAJESTY of the Ist of this month ;
and against all the acts which bear the same cha.
racter of intolerance, and which have the same
tendency to absolute power.
" Your Royal Highness and General MOLITOR
know Very well that ray resolution was taken
after long discussions, after serious meditation,
and after having received guarantees of an august
and sacred nature. Far from me the audacious
notion of reproaching either your Royal High-
ness or the worthy General MoLtToit with the
noo-observance of my Treaty. .1 dare to assert,
that the Monk who governs Spain is stronger
than your.R9yal Highness, and stronger than the
G French ,overemetit. Your Royal Highness
will be perfectly convinced of this, when your
Royal Highness sees all: the fruits of your exer-
tions destroyed, and the result of your vast and
,prudent combinations annihilated.
" For my own part, my time of life, my health,
and my inclination, keep me, and have long kept
me at a distance from the public career into
which only entered from the force of irresisti-
ble circumstances. I desire to retire into a cm--
livr of the world; there to deplore the innumer-
able evils to which my behaved country is about
to hecome is prey.
66 Deign to take me under the powerful pro-
tection of your Hovel 'Ugliness, and to grant me
an asylum um that Prance which exists under the
best of Kings, and' wilt never cease to be
ee tir.4 nation of the world.
" May your Royal highness accept, &c.
" FItANCISCUS BALLASTEROS.
" Port St. 3lary's, Oct. 7, len"

INUNDATIO,NS IN ITALY.

ErvitTngn PARTICL'LARS•j

INSPRUCK, OCT. `13.--tiro receive the mosi
melancholy accounts from the Pustherthal, and the circles o
Adige, and Trent, of extensive devastations caused by long
continued rains, and the destructive rising of several mountain
swam, and of the river Adige, Eisack, Drove, and Ftientz.
.According to all the accounts, . the valley of the Adige,
from Bolzano to beyond Trent, presented the most melan-
choly appearance, the whole valley forming almost, without
interruption, an entire lake. The rising of the Adige, hum•
dating the whole valley near Trent, united with the impetu-
ous torrent of the Fessina, has had no parallel for many
years. The city of Trent has been several times in danger of
being partly destroyed by this raging stream,: and fears were
still entertained on the 18th, us the rain continued to fall in
torrents. It was every moment expected 'that the bridge of
St. Lorenzo would be carried away by the .Adige. The accu-
mulated waters of the' Adige flowed to Verona, after over-
throwing four bottaes in Castel Nuovu., A third part of that
great city is under water, and, in many parts, up to the first
stories of the houses. The communication is kept up, partly
over the roofs, and partly by breaking through the walls be-
tween the houses. The Adige has , likewise risen to a great
height above its banls in two places below Legnago. It is said
that similar calamities have taken place on the Po. Almost
all the roads are impassable and the communication inter-
rupted, so that the extent of the devastation cannot yet he
known.
CLAGENr t/ItT, OcT.l9.—During the nights of the Vith and
14th, a violent and warm south wind set in, accompanied by
lightning and thunder, and: followed by heavy rains which con-
tinued two days without intermission. The consequence has
been, a very sudden melting of the snow on the mountains of
the Tyrol and of Carinthia, and a considerable overflowing of
the rivers (Jail and Drave. ',The waters of the latter rose
nearly four feet above the extraordinary height which they
attained about two years ago. The mischief occasioned by this
inundation is incalculable. The bridges of Rossegg, Glittim-
burg, Stain, and Vokermarkt, on the Drive, have all been
either wholly or in part destroyed. A great many houses were
carried away by the waters, as well as several mills and nu-
merous trees. A considerable number of lives have been lost,
in spite of all the efforts which were made to give them as-
sistance. AU kind of communication is suspended. Since the
14th at noon, when the water reached its greatest height, it has
sunk as rapidly as it rose. Similar calamities have occurred at
Pontabel and Pontobal.

Letters, dated the 11th of July, were re-
ceived ye►terday from Lima, by way of Rio de
Janeiro, which state that the Royalist troops
under Cuntarac had determined on abandoning
that city and retiring to the southward; fearful
that their retreat would be cut off by the expe-
dition which left Callao in the. latter end of June
for the intertnedios.