The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The following advices have been received by
way of I,:ayonne:
m Armin, DEC. 17.—Our situation does not improve, though
we are now in the third month of the deliverance of the King.
People's minds are very anxious and impatient about the result
of the mission of M. Pozzi di Borgo, and of the note of several
other foreign Ambassadors in this Capital. The general am-
nesty so long expected is still a disputed point,—a majority of
the Council of Castile oppose it, and the fanatics do their ut-
most to excite discontent in the minds of the people both here
and in the provinces, with respect to this conciliatory measure,
which to the moderate seems indispensable. Addresses and
remonstrances to the King succeed each other ; several are
written in such violent language, and hold up to the Sovereign
the prospect of so many evils and disasters if lie pardons
and unites round his throne so many thousands of misled
subjects, that his Majesty, naturally inclined to listen to the
Serviles, will very likely follow their advice, in spite of all
the objections and efforts of the Foreign Ministers, and the
counsel of some wise Spaniards, who feel that reconciliation
is necessary. Mean time the prisons are full—the trials of
the unhappy persons confined in them are prosecuted without
any relaxation of severity ; and though the war has been ter-
minated these two months, twelve thousand prisoners of war
endure in the depots in France a very different fate from that
which was promised them, before the King left Cadiz to join the
French Prince. The property of the absent is confiscated,—
especially if they have gone without passports; so that many,
fearing to be reduced to poverty in a foreign land, have returned
horns; but no sooner have they joined their families, than they
are arrested and imprisoned, insulted, or basely assassinated ;
so that no person who is marked as a Liberal dare be out of
his house after dark. The Council of Castile, by fulfilling
the real object of its institution, might put an end to this state
of things under any other Prince ; but it can do nothing under
a Sovereign like the present King. Since the restoration, and
on account of the scarcity of money, the Bureaux of the Trea-
sury have been almost always shut. The day before yesterday,
there arrived four waggons loaded with money, from Andalu-
sia, for the Royal Treasury. A great show was u►ade with the
convoy, which was well guarded, and brought about three
millions of reels, a sum which is not sufficient to pay an eighth
part of the debts which the Royal Household and the new Mi-
nisters have contracted since their return to Madrid. The re-
mittances of M. Carnesse are very insignificant hitherto. It is
believed he will not make any more if the King persists in not

recognising. the Loans.
The Asia and the remains of the Spanish navy are to sail
between the 11th and 15th from Lima.
The Authorities of Ferdinand had not yet been able to enter
Barcelona on the 16th of this month. The minds of the people
in that province are still in an unsettled state. Two French re.
giments which were to return to France have been retained
there ; the armed bands are not yet wholly dispersed.