The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-13 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

• Yesterday the French Papers of TUesday,witli
the Pilote of Wednesday and the Cour. Authen.
tique, reached us by private express. Angon,
lecne's detachments, if they continue their ward
On Andalusia and Seville, will find they have ar
rived too late. Ferdinand with his family, the
'cOrtes,. 'and. their good friend the English Ain.
bassador,•quitted Seville on the 27th May for Ca.
111 z. They were escorted by 0000 volunteer
tikand .5000 troops of the line. In Cadiz, properly
defended, both the Spanish King and the Govern.
went will be perfectly safe. It is most important
to keep Ferdinand out of Angouleme's hands
his disposition is too well known to trust him fur
a moment. His presence with the Royalists
would now be the signal for general, proscription
and persecution throughout Spain, and the cause
of liberty would suffer deeply. The Spaniards
are at length gradually arming throughout the
entire country, and guerilla bands every where
starting up. The French couriers have been
stopped; several convoys of money have been
taken iii the defiles of Salinas and elsewhere.
Ouvrard's family, among the rest, were stopped
by the guerillas of Pelo, who took from them
100,000 francs. While the French army was
united, and marched in columns, the guerillas did
not appear; but now that the invaders are dis-
persing, and the bands of the Faith left behind
at garrisons, the majority of the inhabitants tit to
bear arms have universally assembled, and are
acting on all , points. Spanish privateers also
swarm on all the coasts and in the Straits of
Gibraltar, and
,several French vessels have al-
ready been captured by them. ThuS it appears
that all the advantages of the war do not rest
with the French; the Spaniards have contrived
to come in for a share too. The intentions of the
faction in France against Portugal are at length
beginning to be openly declared and apparent.—
The Eloile, the organ of the Ultras, has in its
paper of the 9th a paragraph of no ordinary
character and meaning, couched under the con.
venient head of 46 a letter from Bayonne."—
This article states that the Cardinal Patriarch
of Lisbon, who had resided in Bayonne for more
than a year, had set out to go and preside over
the Regency of Portugal, during the captivity
of John VI., the Portuguese Monarch ! The
Prelate was to go first to Valladolid, and then
to Zamora, A inarante's head-quarters. The
Courier Frangais remarks on this intelligence,
that if it be true, the friendly relations of France
with Portugal will not long subsist. The depar.
tare of the Patriadh of Lisbon from Bayonne,
to preside over a non-existing Portuguese Re.
gency, would resemble Mata-Floridas' expe-
dition from the French frontiers to preside over
the Regency of Urgel. Every thing, the French
parer adds, shows that war is about to break out
between France and Portugal, if hostilities have
not already commenced. So then the mur.
der at last is out, and the views of the
French Cabinet remain no longer doubtful.
There is now no mystery as to the source
.whence A marante's rebellion sprung up. England
is bound to protect Portugal, by solemn treaty,
if France has attacked her, or will do so, of
which (here now appears but little doubt. What
becomes of our boasted neutrality ? Or will we,
in the face' of •a sacred compact, see our ancient
and faithful ally crushed, and look coldly on?--
The perfidy of the French faction in all these
transaction is unexampled in the annals of infamy
and fraud. A maratite never would have attempted
a revolt in Traz-os.Montes, but for .French pro-
mises and support. Driven oil, of Portugal by
the constitutional General Rego, he has since

1)601 maintained by the gold of the Ultra faction
alone. He is now at Zamora, hi Leon, recruiting
his shattered forces, under Angouleine's patron-
age, with the intention of carrying insurrection
and bloodshed into Portugal again.