The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-23 00:00:00

THE MARKET.

CORN EXCI-TANOE, Juan 23.
The arrivals► of Corn dust came in last wore again large.
This morning the quantities fresh up are not considerable, but
plenty remains over from former sales. Wheat continues us
►cell very heavily, and
.prices have declined Is. per quarter tYont
last Monday's quotations. Barley dells very heaVily, and in
also rather lower. Beans find so few buyers at present, that
last week's prices cannot be obtained. Peas of both kinds re-
main unaltered. The trade for Oats continues very heavy;
English Oats are again rather cheaper, and Irish Oats have
declined ls. per quarter. The Flour trade continues exceed-
inßly dull.
Wheat, Ited 40s llls Pease, White ..... ..32s
--- White 4tls 65s - Grey .... ll. fs 40*
Rye Sus 38s Beans 2% 354
Barley 28s, 36s Oats °Els 2"; a
Malt

AItitIVALS LAST WEEK.
English Wheat, 11,87{1—Barley 842 Male, 2.869—0at5,
15,849--Beans, 597—Peas, 204—Irish Oats, 6,175—E1181141,
Flour, 7.1146.

AVERAGE PRICE of CORN IN P:NOLAND AND WALEf,

IN THE WEEK Evin,w JUNE 1
Wheat, 82s. 3d. ; Barley, 335. 9,1. ; Oats, 28s. 10d. ; Rye,
38s. 6d.; Beane, 358.54. ; Pea*, 37*. 2d.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, rotiapa ted
(ruin the Returns made in . the Week ending the 18th day of
June, 1823, is 30i. Bjd. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, .7 uvz 20.
There IVAN a good supply this morning of ail descriptions at
Cattle, particularly in Oxen, a great number of which were of
the inferior kind; Mutton may be quoted at last Monday's
price, but Beef rather lower ;' there was a good sale owing to
the coolness of the weather.
To sink the Offal, per stone of alb.
Beef 3s Oil to 4s Od Veld ......,...s Od to: 3s ea
Mutton 311 Od to 4s 44 Pork Os Od to .is ltd
Lamb 4s to 53 Oa.

NAY Alf D STRAW, TER LOAD.
10s to .13 41 Clover 4,3 10, to 4.4 10,1
ris to .L 44 10a.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 23

[MORNING HERALD.]
If a private letter from Paris, dated Friday
last, may be relied upon, the King of Spain left
Seville for Cadii on the 12th. It was reported
at Gibraltar that Colonel San Miguel, the late
Minister for Foreign Affairs, was about to pro-
ceed from that place, where he had been several
days, for Ceuta, in order to put it into a good
. state of defenee, and that it was. intended to con-
vey the King thither. It would appear that the
Cortes are determined to hold out as long as
they can, though we fear it is but too probable
that they confided too much in their removal to
Seville, as a security against the invader. Ac...
cordin!, to the latest French accounts, it would
seem that there is_ no army whatever to op-
pose their march over the mountains of the
Sierra Morena. The first ascent of these
mountains is by a singularly difficult pass, in
which three or four guerillas, properly sta-
tioned and commanded, would have seriously
annoyed, if. not repulsed, a numerous army.—
After the' affair at Santa Cruz, Placentia, who
seems to have beenlittrusted-with the defence of
this pass, abandoned that object, crossed ,the
mountains, and proceeded towards La Carolina,
at the Seville side of the Sierra Morena. A
column of_ eight hundred men remained in the ,

pass but from the flight of Phicencia they were

left -without a Commander, - and after a trivial
resistance were dispersed, captured,- or killed.
Placentia is a Brigadier Officer, who was never
heard of until the movements or mutiny (events
will soon decide which) of the Royal Guards on
the 7th of July. He was taken prisoner by
Bessieres in the action, of Briltuegjt in January
last, and escaped by the negligence of a sentinel.
He
.never evinced the least degree of military
talent) and yet to this Brigadier the Govern-
ment intrusted the defence of the Sierra Morena,
the most important post in which they could risk
the fortunes of the Constitution:. At Vilches,
indeedotear carolina, Plicencia made some show
of resistance;- and evenfrom their adversary's ac-
count, it would appear that the Spanish. soldiers
fought with obstinacy.. But they were ultimately
defeated, and the hair of them taken ,prisoners.
FrOm Carolina to Seville there are no im-
portant. military positions; and' we may soon ex-
pect to hear that the late seat of 'Government is
in. possession of the French. We relate these
facts with any feeling but that of pleasure: It
can afford us no' cause of rejoicing to see the
French in military possession of Spain; but it is
necessary to look at facts as they really are, and
suffer neither ourselves nor our readers to he de-
luded with representations of spirit where it does
riot. appear, end of brave armies whiCh never ex-
isted.

[stourtuvo rosT.]
The existing state of the relations between the
Court of •Wurternberg and the Germanic Body,
and 'of those likewise between Wurteniberg and
the Great Northern Courts, has been for some
time an object of attention, and circumstances
have recently occurred to impart a more lively
and immediate interest to the subject. Of a
principle so disorganizing and atrocious as that of
foreign interference with the. internal affairs of
an independent nation, we shell not be deemed
the apologists, merely because 'we express our
opinion that from the imperfeet information we
yet possess upon the matter in 'dispute,
,the in-
terest of national independence has been much too
hastily assumed to be involved in them. To assimi-
late any attempted encroachment upon the So
-
•
vereignty of Wurteniberg, for instance, with the
insolent and criminal project of France to sub-
vert the independence of the Spanish nation, be-
trays, we think, a singular confusion of intellect,
end an unbeCorning alacrity to takeoffence. Each
of the German States within its proper bounda-
ries can claim only such a degree of independence
ars may consist with the federal union of Ger-
many. This union, and its necessary con-
sequence, the abridgement of independence
in the several States, is the ancient, per-
petual, and fundamental constitution of Ger-
many ; a constitution not only essential to
her safety, but naturally emanating from,
and upheld by the absolute identity in lan-
guage, habits, character, and feelings of her
vast population. The general authority of the
confederation may, upon any particular occasion,
invade ,the special province which the German
Constitution has asSigned to the unrestrained
dominion of each distinct member. Foreign
Pewers even may so far interfere as to manifest
their approbation of the 'invasion ; and yet the
great principle of national independence may
remain untouched. The injustice, the tyranny,
ulay' he most flagrant and detestable, although,
in the present instance, our information is scarcely
to warrant so severe a ,censure ; but still it would
partake more of the character of municipal than
of international oppression.

[tna Tisms.")
The ne%‘s from Spain received through Paris
begins 'untie respects to assume authenticity
And importance. Our readers must recollect
what assurances were not, many days since held
ferth to us that serious tumults existed at Sevlllo
-7that first one corps, then another, then that
the People at large had resolved against the re-
moval of the King and his Family to Cadiz'; in
short, that. the Members of the Cortes were to
disperse—that the noble-minded Ferdinand was
to be set at, large, and speedily to enjoy, within
his Palace at 'Madrid, that unlimited power
which he had, from 1814 to 1820, exer-
cised so much to 'his own glory, to the ad-
miration of •Europe, and' to the happiness of
Spain. Now these predictions have not been veri-
fied ; and the 'reported facts which gave encou-
ragement to the authors of them, turn out, if we
can belitve the French Papers themselves, to be ,
utterly void .of foundation. " The 'King of

" Spain (sap -the Journal des &bats of 'flnts;
" day) was ronve'yed on the, 12th of June 'frOnt,
" Seville ' to.. Cadiz." Whether the day thus
named was meant to designate the departure or

the arrival, is left a little ambiguous 6y the Paris
Journalist. That Ferdinand's actual arrival at
Cadiz was known some days ago to the French
Ministry, there may perhaps be ground for sus-
pecting, from a paragraph in the Journal de
Paris of Wednesday last,r which asserts that
one of the Cabinet had stated it at his
evening party the evening before. This real
journey of the King of Spain to a fortress
which will " laugh a siege to scorn," is by far
the most important fact communicated by the
way of Paris. Much boldness of assertion, but
an extreme want of authenticity also, appear
in all the Ultra accounts concerning Portugal.
The Etoile (a notorious fabricatml tells us,
under date of the Bth instant from Madrid, that
a counter-revolution was completed at Lisbon
on the 3d, and that a new (servile) Ministry,
headed by Pampluna, Palmela, and Los Arcos,-
had been appointed. This is repeated as Madrid
news of the 14th, but on the authority of
intercepted letters" only. We reserve our
own opinion until intelligence shall have been
received through a more direct channel from
Lisbon. If the reports of military proceedings,
transmitted by the French officers under the im-
mediate orders of the, Generalissimo, b.e of equal
value with those which have come from Cata.
lonia, we may well be pardoned for withholding
the details of them from our readers. Mina still
" escapes destruction," marches with " the
44 greatest rapidity in sight of the French forces,"
44 refreshes his men," " resumes his march,"
" reposes" a second time—is, (nevertheless)
" actively pursued !"--and if he can but be
" cut off from the road to Urgel," will no doubt
once more 44 escape destruction." This precious
humbug of the public, which deceives nobody is,
after all, a poor retaliation for the far more seri-
ous and effectual humbugs practised by Mina on
his adversaries. The rebel Mosen Anton is said
in a letter from Gerona, to have been wounded
in the most dangerous manner by the bursting ofa
shell before Hostalrich, the garrison of which made
four sallies on the same day. It is plain, how-
ever, from the dispatches of Rottembourg, that
Mina hangs upon the French boundary line, en.
ters at will upon the territory of the'invader, and
leaves it at his own time with impunity. How,
and to what purposes, he has employed his in-
tercouse with the people of France during these
incursions, or what he may have done with the
10,000 tricoloured cockades, furnished at his
own request from Barcelona on the eve of this
last expedition, a little time will show. No com-
plaint-is made in any quarter of exactions on the
part of Mina, or of irregularity in his troops
while beyond the Spanish frontier.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Our readers will see from the Frankfort
articles, in our extracts from Flanders Papers,
that the German Observer Continues to be pub-
ljshed in spite of the Decree pronounced by the
,Diet at the instigation of the Holy Alliance. It
'would appear, therefore, that the King of NV ur..
Lemberg does not feel himself authorised by, the
compact between himself and his subjects to yield
obedience to the Decree. The circulation of the ob-

noxious Journal will of course te stopt in many of
the German States, but the Decree extends to all
Germany. and therefore to the dominions of the
King of Wurtemberg. More than one question
arises out of this. The first that naturally sug-
gests itself is—Does the jurisdiction of the Diet
extend to the regulation of the Press within the
different States of the Union ? Another question
occurs—ln what manner can the Diet give
effect to its Decree ? If the German Diet have
the controul of the Press within each State of

•
the Union—can suppress Journals, and prohibit
the conductors of them from writing on political
subjects for ever or for a time,—a Constitution
securing to the people of a particular State the
freedom of the Press, subject to the controul
im-
posed by the laws of that State, becomes a mere
nullity, as far as regards the Press. The subjects
of each State are entirely at the discretion of the
Diet:—What security then have they that
this discretion will nut be abused? The Act of
Federation stipulated that Representative Con-
stitutions silent(' be introduced into every
State of the Union. If this stipulation had been
executed, and if bona fide Representative Con-
stitutions existed in each state, the different Go-
vernments would be kept in check by their respec-
tive Legislatures. It so happens, however, that
except in the States along the Rhine, Representa-
tive Constitutions have no where been introduced.
The States, then, which have 'not executed the
stipulation, and by their own wrong are exempt
from the check of a popular Legislature, may
not only tyrannise over their own subjects,
but, if the Diet have the controul of the Press
in each State, forming as they do a great ma-
jority of that body,—may tyrannise over the
subjects of the Constitutional States. The giving
effect to the decree of, the Diet, is also a
ticklish point. Shortly after the first meeting of
the Diet, a complaint was brought by the pur-
chasers of the national property of the Kingdom
of Westphalia against the Blector of Hesse, who
had ousted them from their estates. The Diet
proneunced in favour of the purchasers, but the
Elector only laughed at the decision, which he
told that body he would pay nu attention to,
and he was as good as his word. To this day
the Decree has remained a dead letter, in spite
of the incessant Memorials and Petitious of the

numerous sutrerers calling on the Diet to give
effect to it. The ridiculous figure which the Diet
cut in this warfare u ith the Elector was the sub.
ject of many a sarcastic epigram. It re-
mains to he seen whether it will be more
efficient to destroy the liberty of the press
than to afford a remedy against injustice.—
We had written thus far when we received
Dutch Papers of the 21st, containing an article
dated Stutgard, June 14, stating that the German
Observer of the 13th had announced its Own dis-
solution. The authority of the Diet over the.
Press is thus acknowledged in Wurternherg.

[NEW TIMES.]
'The intelligence
7 lie intelliffence by the Paris Papers of Thurs-
day
t, .
and Friday is of high importance, both as relates to Spain
and Portugal. Iris stated, apparently on good grounds„ that
the Constitution established by military insurrection at Lisbon
in September 1820 has been completely overthrown; and it

appears that the same fate very Am* awaits the Constitution
established by military insurrection at Madrid in March 1820 ;
for the adherents of the latter, after having fled from Madrid to
Seville, have now fled from Seville to Cadiz, dragging with
them their Royal Prisoner. It was not till after the total
annihilation of their "Covering Army," (the fifteen hun-
dred miserable Conscripts under General Palencia,) at the
entrance of the Sierra Morena, that the poor remains of the
Cortes (reduced, it is saicT, by desertions to sixty members)
could resolve to try their last hope—a flight to Cadiz. The
Times, speaking of the subscription for these distressed fugi-
tives, very opportunely says, " We earnestly recommend all
those who Intend to gave, to give quickly"—that indeed they
must do, unless they intend to administer cordials to a defunct
body. The notion that the Descamisados, driven into Cadiz,
can thence continue for any length of time to govern Spain, is
so monstrous an absurdity, that unless we had read it in those
oracles of an-enlightened public, the Radical Newspapers, we
could not have believed human stupidity to be so gross. Cadiz,
to be sure, with a strong garrison and a unanimous population,
might hold out for an indefinite time (being strongly fortified
on the land side), if the sea were, open, and supplies of arms
and provisions continually poured into it by a munificent and
powerful ally ; but now there is no strong garrison, there is
no unanimous population, there is no ally, there are no great
supplies of arms or provisions, and the place' already
blockaded by sea, will soon be closely surrounded by land—
that is to say—if the whole delusion does not explode at
once by the flight or surrender. of- the original mutineers._
As to Mina, he, also, after basing in his desperation attempted
to make an incursion into some French villages, has been re-
duced to the verge of destruction.- We have always said he is
an active, persevering, and bold Guerilla Leader ; and several
such Leaders there are on both sides ; but a Guerilla war-
fare, unless universal throughout a country like Spain, can
never alone succeed against regular Armies. The Royalist
Leader Merino has beaten 'the E;mpecinado ; and the Royalist
Locho flanks and accompanies the Army of. General for-
desoult, who, by this time, must have reached Seville. The
statement that the Regency had declared all the Loans raised
since the Mutiny of March 1020 to be void, appears"un-
founded. The Regency will confine itself to adnunistrative
functions; and it will be for the King, on his restoration, to
recognise or to disown these Loans. Our own impression is,
that the earlier Loans will be established. Those raised since
the attack of the 7th of last July on the Royal Palace,/and the
subsequent confinement of the Royal Person, stand on a dif-
ferent footing ; and poor Mr. Bernales's operation disowned by
all parties, is in the worst situation of all.

• [BRITISH PRESS.]
All as yet is uncertainty .with respect to 'the
state of things in Lisbon. Though the Courier, the unwearied
enemy of all liberty and human improvement, the Venal Hire-
ling of the despotic,.superstitious Bourbons, and the Faction that
now abuse power in France—though this paper, echoing the
wretched Etoile, put forth on Saturday, exultingly, a second edi-
tion, announcing that all was over in Lisbon, the Portuguese
Monarch restored by force to absolute power, and a new Ministry
of Serviles formed,at the head of which it stated Palmella to he,
as Ilfiiiister of State, the real fact is, that the statemen ts both of the
.toile and its worthy coatlujutor the Courier, rest on no re-
spectable authority whatever. If the French' Ministers had
any thing credible,i spy thing at all worthy of belief, or on
which they could rely for a moment, it would have been in.
atandy announced by telegraphiC communication, posted up in
the capital,. and proclaimed on the ..Bourse of Paris. But
there was and is nothing of the. sort, therefore the Moultor was
silent; and the Etoik, the organ of the Ultras, which pos-
sesses no character whatever, was chosen to spread the assertion,
that at Angouleme's head-quarters at Madrid, where intel-
ligence of every sort is now manufactured and dispersed
abroad by their new journal the Royalist, or communicated
by Guilleminot by telegraph to Bayonne; advicet had been
received from Lisbon of the 4tl of -June, announcing' that the
counter-revolution had entirely succeeded; that John, the
Portuguese Monarch, had recovered all his prerogatives as an
absolute tyrant; and that a new Ministry, unfavourable to the
Constitution, had been forthed, of which .Pamplona was named
Minister of War, Palmella Minister of State, and Os:trees
of Finance. To this is attached, on the alleged authority
of of an cer of the French staff, said to have returned
'from a mission to Salamanca, the further report, that
Amarante's division bad set out on the 11th, on its- return to
Portugal ; and the whole is wound -tip by the simple assertion,
that the want of direct-communication was the only reason that
no Envoy from the new Government bad yet reached the Duke
of Angouleme. This flimsy excuse of the Etoite cannot go down.
If the attempts of the counterrrevolutfbrlists had triumphed in
Lisbon, an official courier would. have been dispatched to An.
gouleme at once, and Amarante would have been apprised of
it also. M ethic? is only 96 miles from Lisbon, scarce more
than four days' journey ; it is only 178 miles from Seville,
where the news must have been known in three days ; and
Salamanca, where Amarante's quarters were, is not even so
distant. No communication, it appears, has been made to any
of these -places from Lisbon. We are, as yet, unfortunately in
the dark as to the result of the attempts made to overturn the
Constitution, and can therefore say that nothing is positife.—
Twormails are dne, and daily expected. But we have every
hope that the foul treason has failed, and that Portugal has
been preserved from ail the horrors of the dreadful re-action
which would ensue, and the appalling scenes that must follow,
in the train of absolute power, revived superstition, and the
cruel Inquisition hoisting its dark banners predominant again.

FutE.—Yesterday evening, about eight o'clock,
the back part of the premises of Mr. Croker,
baker, Kent-street, Borough, were discovered to
heonfir
in e,
theand‘vhichwas supposed to have ori-
ginated bakehouse. Unfortunately for the
preserving of the property, the, whole of the fa-
frilly were gone out, and before the neighbours
could get in, the greater part was consumed :
the parish engine was speedily brought to the
spot, but without materially checking the fire,
which, owing to the oldness of the house and the
great quantity of timber about it, raged with
great fury, and rapidly communicated to the ad-
joining house, which was also speedily burnt to
the ground. By this time the engines had ar-
rived, and by great exertions the firemen sue-
,ceeded in arresting the progress of the flames,
which by ten o'clock were completely got under.
Both houses were insured, and, we are happy to
add, no person was injured.

Mr. WEBB, the philanthropist, who has at.
tanned such notoriety at Brighton, was, on Sa-
turday last, in pursunnce of a Commission of
Lunacy issued by the. Loin CHANCELLOR, ex,
amined before an Inquisition -at Blackheath ;
when, after a patient investigation and hearing
of evidence, the Jury, Which, was most re-
spectable, decided by -their••verdict that Mr.
Wizen was lunatic, and incapable of taking care
of his person and estates.—(Brighton Gazette.)