The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-30 00:00:00

THE LATE GREAT FIGHT.

NEATE'S Statement and hit Oftr to fight again.
At the close of the Sparring matches, at the Tennis Court;
on Tuesday, Neate came forward and addressed the company' :
—The issue of the late battle had been most unfortunate to him
as the loser—but neither that nor the loss of his money, gave
him half so much uneasiness as the loss of his friends who
backed him. The doubts which had been thrown out, about
his having sustained the accident which lost him the battle,
were both cruel and unjust. He defied any man to accuse him
of a mean action ; he was never guilty of one In the course of
his life ; and, in order to convince his friends of the real state
of the case, he had been to Mr. Cline, one of the most famous
surgeons in London : that Gentleman, after examining his arm,
declared that it was broken, and had kindly given him a certi.
ficate; .under Iris hand, which lie would read. He then read
the following
" I have 'examined Neate's arm, and find that the bone
called the ", radius,' is broken.
. " May 27, '1823. " HENRY CLINE."
'l.lO certificate was then handed round to several Gentlemen,
who.expressed theinselves satisfied of its authenticity. •
.2Vgrite then continued—lt was in the third round that the ac.
cident happened, not by a fall, but in consequence of his arm
going against one of the stakes,.when.he was striking. From
the swelling !that Instantly followed, he found it was seriously
injured, and told Belcher he thought it was broke, which Tom
',•nmediately communicated to Mr. Jackson, and also to a Gen-
tleman front Oxford, of the name of Sadler. He found on
afterwards attempting to strike out, that his arm dropped, and
every blow All short. Ile struck Spring-over the right eye in
the next round,hut the blow was nothing. In closing in the
following rounds his right arm was useless, and lie had no
chance of exerting big strength. In the last round, he felt the
ends of the bone grinding together when he fell, which then
convinced him that the arm was broken, and he was sure no
man would say that in that condition he ought not to have re.;
signed ete contest. All he now had to say was, that so satin.
fied did he feel of being able to beat Spring, that he was ready
to light him again the moment his arm was well;' and he would
back himself by putting down 2001. of his own money.

FIVES COURT.
'MATE CHALLENGED BY 11171380 N.
At the conclusion of the Sparring at this place, Hudson
offered to fight Nat* for 1001. or 2001.= and if that did not
fit, he should like
..to have a slap at the Pope, although he
meant no offence to the Clergy 1---(Laughter.)—.Spring as.
cended the stag►e amidst thunders of applause, and informed
the audience if his hand. had not received an injury in his recent
battle with Neale he would have set to. Every one considered
that Neate stood no chance with him from the ImgiNn:ng of the
fight.

We have received the Paris Papers of Wee.
nesduy, and have given copious extracts from
them in our preceding columns. In THE SUN of

the 16th inst. we slated that the French were
" positively to be in Madrid on or before the 23d."
The Telegraphic Dispatches have accordingly
announced, that the vanguard of the French
Army entered Madrid on that day, and that on

the day following the Duke IPANGOULEME Psta -
Wished his head-quarters in the Spanish capital.

An Express from Paris has brought the price
of the French Funds at 89, and of Spanish
at 44}.
Whether the conduct of Count A arson., is

attributable to corrupt or to patriotic motives—
to the influence of French gold, or to a cons ic-
tion having been forced upon him that the exist-
ing Spanish Government is unable to contend'
against its foreign and domestic enemies, nothing
appears upon the face of his letter to Count
MONTIJO that is dishonourable to him as a
Spaniard, or that proves him either to have de-
serted the cause of his country, or to have vio-
lated his fidelity to the Government. On the
contrary, the sentiments expressed in that im-
portant document are known to be 'entertained
by a great number of tho leading characters in
Spain, and perhaps even by a majority of the
Members of the Cartes:

We trust that we shall not be so greatly mis-
understood as to be thought capable of endea-
vouring to justify, under any circumstances.,
any officer, whether civil or military, whatever
may be his rank, for the perfidious violation of

those oaths and obligations Which bind him to the
service of hk country. Although extraordinary
public emergencies might sometimes seem to
authorise' extraordinary principles of action, on

the part of public functionaries, yet it can never
for one moment be conceded to those who are
entrusted with the exercise of any portion of
executive power, that they can be allowed to
obey any dictates except such as directly pro-
ceed from the authority which they serve, or
that their own ideas of expediency can warrant

them in otherwise employing their delegated au-
thority, than in the strict course prescribed to them
by their duty. If the Commander of an Army
could ever have,been justified• for deserting the
defence of his country, merely because the
struggle which it had to sustain, was in his opi-
nion, at some period of its progress, hopeless,
perhaps no nation whatever could have long
maintained its independence. It would be
absurd, however, to deny to llitu the right of ex.-
ercising his judgment as to the probability'of the
success or failure of his military operations, or
to preclude him from making such representa-
tions as he might think conducive to the great
end of all authority, the safety and well-being of
the State.

The Count DEL ABISBAL, es far as is yet known,
has done nothing more than this. As a Spanish
Citizen, he declares his opinion that his Govern-
ment, under the unhappy circumstances of inter-
nal disunion and of foreign violence in which it
is placed, is incapable of preserving his country
from foreign subjugation ; but, as a Spanish