The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-17 00:00:00

Emturisu pREsq

The tyrant now let loose, by Preach bayonets,
in Spain, is pursuing his ancient career with the
ferocity of the staunch bloodhound : vengeance
and proscription are in his track.---and Ile will

enter Madrid amid the yells of fanaticism, and
surrounded by the, bands of terror. The perfi-
dious despot has hurled another decree against
the Cortes in a body, beside the Ministers, Cpun-
sellers of State, Members of the Tribunals
of Supreme Justice, General Commanders, Po-
litical Chiefs—down to those employed in the
office of the Secretary of State. Chiefs and
Officers of the Militia and National Volunteers,
the Cortes and Its Members, the tyrant forbids
to appear within five leagues of his road to the
capital ; to the others he /shuts for ever the en-
trance to Madrid, and his Royal residence,
which they must not approach within fifteen
leagues. Let Turkish despotism be mentioned
after this ! Was the Lord of the Bowstring,
with his livid mutes at his back, ever more abso-
lute ? And if such decrees as these have been
issued on his very parting the Cortes, and in the
French camp, what may we not expect to follow
when he is lustalled in his palace, with inqui-
sitors and serviles all round him ? Spain is-
now doubly blessed with an unrestricted and
cruel tyrant, and a fanatic and ferocious rabble.
This is the Government old Louis and Angouleme
have entailed 'on that unfortunate country. The
most dreadful excesses, it appears, followed the
liberation of the " Idolized Ferdinand." The
houses of the Constitutionalists were sacked
and plundered, and their property destroyed
or burned in the streets, amid yells and viva.
" My cousin ,the Duke of Angouleme," and
his mercenaries, looked on and saw the storm
grow wild and loud, without an attempt to
allay its fury. We are sorry to see the names
of British officers among the number of those
who knelt at the footstool of the tyrant, to render
him homage in his day of iniquitous power :
General Downie, Colonel Browne, and others,
who entered as Janissaries into his service, had
their prison doors burst on his restoration, and
afterwards knelt at his feet ; we wish they had
been spurned with the contempt they deserved,
when they mingled amid his slaves. Our Am-
bassador, Sir William A'Court, it appears, was
also expected to swell the tyrant's train, and re-
ceive as his compensation for meritorious service,
the ribaud of the Order of Charles III.; the inves-
titure from such hands would be a national disgrace.
But it is well that the cruel Ferdinand has ap-
peared so soon in his true character. The COMO.
tutional party will not be deceived, and can take
early measures for their own safety.. It is yet to be
seen whether Mina and his brave coadjutors will
submit at discretion : they hold five of, the
strongest fortresses in the province, and have yet
a considerable force: will they yield their necks
to the royal butcher, and fall without even an
effort I—we do not think they will.

[stortmrso CHIIONICLIN
The attempts at negociation 'which preceded
the surrender of Cadiz produced disclosures
which, we are sorry to say, prove but too (Ilse
tinctly the participation of our own Government
in the plot against Spain. We are in possession of
information on which we know that we can rely
with perfect confidence, that we are sorry to say
leave us no room to entertain a doubt on the sub-
ject of this participation. The French obsti-
nately rejectedos has been stated by themselves,
all offers of compromise between themselves and
the Constitutional Government, insisting always
as a preliminary on the cession of La Isla and the
Cortadura, and the removal of the King into the
Islas thus making themselves masters of the
changes which might be made in the Constitution,
by being first masters of the person of Ferdi-
sjand. Those who were not aware of the
secret understanding between England and
France, felt naturally astonished that the Duke
should uniformly refuse the intervention of Eng-
land, declaring that France would allow no
nation to interfere in her differences with Spain.
When General Mara went to the French, he
carried with him au autograph letter from
Ferdinand, offering to meet him out board a
neutral ship in a certain position which was I
named ; the letter was not answered by the
Duke, but a memorandum was given to Ge-
neral Alava, containing the propoiltiotts of
the French, and signed by two French Ge-
nerals, the Duke stating at the same time that
the surrender of the King previous to any nego-
ciation, was an unalterable condition of the de-
termination of the Congress. Here we are at once
let into the secret of the deep deplicity 'of our
Ministers. If this was a determination of the Coot.
gross, it must have been known to the Duke of Wel-
lington, our Ambassador at Congress, and conse-
quently to Ministers. But if such a determina-
tion was taken, how could they, when the French
were proceeding to act on it, continue from time
to time to endeavour to persuade the Cortes that
if certain roodificutions in the Constitution were
consented to, the danger might yet be warded
off? If the English Government had given even
a hint at the outset that such a determination
was taken, as that Ferdinand must be surren-
dered to the French previous to all treaty,
the Constitutionalists would 'have been less
divided, and the traitors among them would
have been deprived of a pretext for their vile
desertion, and of a means of poisoning the
winds of many of those who looked up to them.
We confess we were nut altogether prepared for
many of the facts that now transpire, when the
they is Supposed to be won. We were startled,
we own, at the circumstance of Lord Holland
having in the House of Lords convicted Lord Li-
verpool of having denied the clause, in the Treaty
with France having reference to the Partition
Treaty, which afterwards came out in the Papers
laid before Parliament last Session. We were
startled too at the contradiction between the pre-
tended ignorance on the part of Mr. Canning, that
the affairs of Spain were to be discussed at Ve.
rona, and the circumstances which afterwards
transpirede—When we saw men thus stand con-
victed of that to which we shall not give the
odious name it receives in common Parlance, we
ought to have conceived them capable of %hat we
since find they are chargeable with.—lt is but
Justice to the defenders of Cadiz, whom it is now
the fashion to ridicule, to say that their mean,
were really very inadequate to the performance
of the task assigned to them. We know that
when our gallant countryman, Sir It. Wilson,

took the command of the' exterior lines on the
14th, he found that every arrangement had been
made of which the means of General O'Daly
admitted ; and he confessed that he never saw
a line of posts more vigilantly watched ; but
the force was most inadequate, and defers.
sive means were wanted to a degree which
was hardly credible. The' spirit of the troops,
under every privation, and under the severest
fatigues, remained excellent to the last. The
people of England are but too apt to forget the
excessive poverty of Spain, and that the most
gallant mess < without resources can in modern
warfare do little indeed. Posterity will do jus-
tice to the many well disposed people of Spain,
as well as to the English Government.