The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-04 00:00:00

d'Angauleme, as well ag a division of French

troops.

MADRID, OCT.2s.—General Castanos has been
exiled; he retires to Miranda. G rand Head-
quarters will arrive here on the 2d or 3d of next
month, and after a short stay it will proceed
to Burgos, where it will remain until fresh
orders. General Guilleminot will accompany
t IteDuke d'A ngou lone to Paris.—Marshal Molitor
will be Commander-in-Chief of 40,000 men, who
are to remain in Spain, of which 12,000 will be in
garrison at Madrid.

'LEIPZIC, OCT. 20.—A Charge-d'Affaires has
passed here as a Cabinet Courier to St. Peters-
burgh. The negociations between England and
several other Cabinets are very active.

Our Readers probably recollect, when it was
alleged by the late Constitutional Spanish Go-
vernment, a short time before the surrender of
Cadiz, that it had been unable to obtain the me-
diation of Great Britain, that we then stated that
the failure to obtain the mediation of this coun-
try must have been owing to the refusal of
France to accept of its intervention, and. not
to any indisposition on the part of the English
Cabinet to exert its good offices for termi-
Slating the contest in a way favourable to
the independence of Spain, and to its retaining
the blessing of 4 free form of Government.
It is now in our power to convince our Readers
that this statement Was correct. On the 19th of
August, when the defection of BALLAsirsatos,and
other disasters to the Constitutional causes had im-
pressed the GOverninent with the apprehension
that the unjust violence and aggression of which it
was the object would be too successful, a Note-was
addressed to SirW. A'Cou la at Gibraltar,forrnally
soliciting the mediation of this country between
Spain ;ANL France. In his reply, Which was re- ,
ceived 10Cadiz on the 27th of August, Sir Wir--
Y"I" A'CounT unhesitatingly and frankly an-
'Jounced " that he should be extremely happy to
make the proposal (to France), as solicited of
t •
"un, Provided France would consent to admit of
fattish interference, for which purpose he would
open a communication with his Royal Highness
the. Duke of ANGOULEME, and should the result
prove favourable, he would immediately proceed to
the harbour of Cadiz, in order to commence the

'teJociations.'', This prompt compliance on the
Plrt of the British Ambassador was of course all
Ghat could have been expected from him by the
SP/mishConstitutionalists,the leading men amongst
whom t,i,d tho..tmelves frequently acknowledged,
that England could not be considered as called
upon to take up nrrn in their behalf. Indeed,
as a participation in the war on the part of
Great Britain would probably
have arrayed the
Whole strength of the Holy Alliance on the side
9.1 France, it is doubtful whether our neutrality
4114 not afford the Constitutional Spaniards as good
chance of successful resistance, as, in the dis-
united condition of Spain, they could have ob-
tained from our armed support. In a subsequent
°,e, of the 31st of August,: Sir WILLIAM
informe.d the Government at Cadiz, of
4‘
Navint,
g already written to his Royal High-
nPa3 the Duke of ANGOLLEM g, offering to be the
„,„
"annel ofan yreasonable and decorouspropositions
t4ii"4 his Royal Highness to the Spanish Govern-
ccment,and requesting him,at the same time,to point
" t any other more favourable means effectually
cc to e
-mPeo,y British intetference, so as to re-
f4tablish good harmony between France and
PHin, on such terms as might be in unison with
the just hopes conceived by the Spanish nation,".
; a'
---c"cludin; with a fresh offer to "remove to the
zitrbo, ,
dv
, °,l Ca: on board a British man of war,
order to s facilitate the negociations."
tvt, communication to the Constitutional Go-
meta, Sir W ILLIAM added that he had re-
eived au answer from the Duke of ANGOULEME,
Willett Ills Royale
ighnew cc 1
Sin-
tleSS exresses
4re wishes for th re
al of peacebetween
tt,:radnecte and
ermine Spain'
but alleges his want of powers
any thing respecting a mediation on
of Great Briton,
tht par,
klititi • without previously coti-
g his Royal Uncle." Sir \VILLIAn conclud-
e by a\
Ve-
rn •to know clearly from the Spanish Go-
de"rlituent the conditions which they would consi-
of that Admissible on their part, as a frank declaration
Itit kind would, most probably, remove many
()hoicks
Spa . and facilitate the mediation. The
"Ish Goy . her,
tha Government replied on the 7th Septem-
tone: °wing' to the answer given by his Royal
s j'tAl4 the Duke d'ANoouLtmE to Sir WIL-
A
said uotirti. as well as the silence of
*Was
'uke since the last letter of the KING
stillstilloZiWardPd to him, and dated the 17th Aug.
c also to the taking of the Trocadero,
a fresh co
Arnot
444( MAJESTY had opened in-
s lication
with the Prince Generalissimo (vide
yesterda
t'to it y), and from the answers given
, -
of tile vr evident that the true and only aim
"ch was to
,obtain possession of the