The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-08 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A courier has arrived from Madrid, bringing
accounts from Port St. Mary to the 26th ult.
• From the letters received by this messenger we
collect the following important facts, for which,
bowever, we only vouch so far as to declare that
they come from the most respectable autho-
, rity

When the Duke of Angoulea►e, with some
able officers ire his suite, arrived -at Port St.
Mary on. the 16th ult., he (mind tho.state of the
Ffench army stbefore Cadiz, and the state of the
• punish defence, very different from A hat.he had
anticipated. Bordisoult, who had been newly
two mouths on what might be called the field of
notion, had been nearly inactive. lie had neither
forwarded the works which will be -n►recessary in
the future progress of the siege, nor had he pre-
vented the Spaniards from executing measures of

protection and defence which mug ronder any

Attack on the part. of the French extremely dan-i
getout; to themselvei, if not abortive DO ts result.
It is tin; opinion of the most Able French officers
Who attend the Duke's bead-quarters, that cm the

•
•.arrival of Bordesoult, the Trocadero might travel
-teen taken by a sudden assault. It was not then
fortified to any extent, nor were , the Spanish
,troops,prepared to.ilefend It. For the last two
,thenths•Valdez, who is regarded in the whole of
the French army as a very able man, and who is
;now completely master of. all ,the, operations of
defence, has bent the whole of his attention to
-fortify this point, lie has separated it from the
neighbouring land by a trench 30 or .10 fathoms
,in-breadth, into which the sea enters, and he has
iilled this immense chasm with a great numbgr of
gon-boats, placing a ship of war at the entrance.
It is the opinion of the persons who have seen the
work, that it will render an attack on the Truce-
-ler°, if not impracticable, at least prodnctive of
an immense loss of life. Valdez enjoys the utti-
versa! confidence which his unceasing'. activity,
his great talents, and his-well.tried patriotism are
so well fitted to secure, and finds all his c0m....
..mantis executed with a zeal and promptitude
which the Spaniards exhibited at no period of the
-last war. Being too much
,comproinised to expect
:forgiveness for his patriotism from his Sovereign,
he is above suspicion.among his countrymen, and
'above all attempts to corrupt him on the part of
the enemy. it was he that made the King write
:the autograph letter in answer to the Duke of
,Angoulenle's overtures; and hisAlajesty of Spain,
under this able muster,, never to have ex-
hibited a more :.beautiful specimen of penmanship
flitter, Wrote to Napoleon, demanding •for a
wife a Princess of the august. linonuparteSautily.
If this state of defence and this character of the
(aovernor' can still inspire hope for the cause
Qf Spanhat independence, that hope is strength-
-coed by occurrences 'near Madrid, and the dis-
position of the people in other parts of Spain.
.1111 the world •remembers what gesticulations
of joy were • exhibited, and what clamorous
boasting wusindulged in, by the Ultras, on the
,defection of Ballasteros. They have now given
'lip that Chief it second time to.his constitutional
;friends. lie is more dreaded by then), and more
.an object of hatred than even Mina himself.--
Since his capitulation 'he has done nothing to
answer their purposes, and every thing to thwart
their views. Jie has ordered that the stones of
the Constitution shall not be overturned in the
)neighbourhood of his head-quarters, and within
,-the command of his troops. He still corresponds
with Cadiz, and keeps Molitor's corps constantly
employed 'watching his movements, and guarding
against what they call his treachery. Obliged '
• .to find a: cause for, so perverse a disposition, they
say lie has been so deeply compromised by his
`,.formor-uontluct, that he can entertain no hope, of
'Mercy frOm the King if restored to freedom.,-
necessity of finding the excuse- shows the
little confidence that is placed in a capitulation
rwhich he entered into in is moment of danger and
clillicalty. Another cause of uneasiness with the
' French besieging army of. Cadiz, and 'copse-
.trovittly with the French Ministry ut home, is the
state., of the squadron before that place. It 'is
-.absolutely doing nothing that Might have been
expected front it, and the blame is of course
• thl'own on the Commodore, Admiral
* This Commander having either bed a quarrel
with the Duke of Aogouleme, or hearing the dis.
suJisfaction expressed at his conduct, has thrown
up his. command without leave, and is on his way
home. lie would even be tried for disobedience
iif his friends had.not got a certificate of a physi-
•..oiatt, That for several hours of the day he some.
limes suffers under nn access of
,passion that hits
weakenett,his judgment, or deranged his heath--
On Thursday last !-Lear-Admiral Baron Du
Perro set out from Paris to take the command of
the squadron from which Hamelin has been re.
411 oovd. , •

JO the .meantime the Regency of Madrid and
their partisans are proceeding with their wonted
atrocity and, by placing the hopes of a concilia-
tido at an immeasurable distance, are every day
endangering the safety of the French troops. The
previsions of the decree of Andujar are almost in
every case despised, and its execution evaded,
-
An act of barbarous end perfidious atrocity Wall
Jately committed, which is universally attributed
to the Regency, and which must snake it an ob-
ject of abhorrence and abomination wher?ver it is
known. ft will he remembered that a body of
Constitutionalists submitted to Mondragon, on a
capitulation which pretended to secure them
from molestation, and allowed them to return
borne) on the condition of not serving during the
war. The greatest portion of the corps, relying
on the faith of the convention made with them
by the Royalists, took up their night's lodging in
a tillage near the place where they had surrun-
(bled, and were almost to a man inhumanly
murdered by the wretches whom the Regency
emplay.—(Times).