The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-01 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

lFrom the Mane of Monday Evening.]
Niro have received by express the following in-
itelligence of the 23d from Madrid
This city is perfectly tranquil ; flames still
- issue from where the late conflagration took
place, but they are concentrated and cut off from
surrounding objects. The Empecinado, who was
„preparing to march towards Madrid, hoping, no
doubt, to profit by the catastrophe, has taken a
• contrary direction, on hearing that the attempt
had failed.

".1 saw yesterday M. Duponey, Aid-de-Camp
to General BeLhisy, who brought the account of
the battle at Cadiz. On his departure from
thence, it was.expected that the dissentions ex-
isting between the chief men at Cadiz would
acquire still greater vigour since the unfortunate
result of the affair of the 16th.

" At Seville and in Andalusia the speedy de-
liverance of the King is expected, and it is sin-
gular enough for these two days past thole has
been a report at Madrid, no one knows on what
grounds, that the King is free at this present mo-
►nent. I should not have mentioned this ,report
had it not been remarked that the :paniards
here know all that passes in Andalusia before
the French.

" Ferrol capitulated Cu the 14th to Genera)
_Huber.

" Ballasteros has disbanded a part of his army.
—The men, without arms, infest the road from
Madrid to Cordova, in detachments of 30 or 40
Mien; they are bearers of papers on which is
written' A permission to return home.'--(Signed)
tLLASTEIIOS.

4g Generals Zayas, Villa Campa, &c., held a
Council on the 18th, at Grenada, and appeared
to give up all idea of resistance. Gen. Molitor,
after having traversed the greater part of Spain,
is expected here this duy (23d) ; in short, from
all that is said and heard, think it is impossibie
but that the King must be free before two weeks.

46 Manitin, Jvz 24.—As soon as the Regency
was informed of the horrible attempt which has
given to the flumes the church and convent of
the Holy Ghost, it took the most effective meg,
sures for the discovery of the. authors. The
Corregidor of Madrid, in him quality of Superin.
tendant.General of the Police, showed all the
activity which might have been expected from
his zeal. The arrest of about 32 tudividuals,
who hnve made important disclosures has been
the result; their examination has already tale!'

" The Ministers are accustomed to meet three
times a.week at the Secretary of State's house,
to propose to the Regency measures likely to
bring about the liberty of the King. They had
an extraordinary meeting yesterday to deliberate
upon those measures which the importance of
recent circumstances exacts.

" The members of the Regency waited yester.
day upon his Royal Highness the Duke of
Angouleme, to express to him their grief for the
odious crime of the 20th. The Ministers fulfilled
likewise this morning the same duty.
" As a first measure of security, the Regency
have given orders that all volunteers of militia,
and all secularized monks, who might have
taken refuge in Madrid, should leave that city
forthwith.

" PARIS, JULY 28.—Count Chaste lux arrived
at Bordeaux on the 2ed, with ids .first Aid-de.
Camp, Count Durat. lie left .it the '23d for
Bayonne, to take the command of the first Uri..
gade of the 2d corps de reserve.

POSTSCRIPT.

" PORT ST. MARY, JULY' send you
here some new details to add to those which I
have given you concerning yesterday. Two
Constitutional battalions having waited for the
charge of our men were literally crushed to
pieces. The artillery of the ltoyal Guard did
wonders; the infantry of the same Guard formed
the reserve.

" Doting the battle our fleet took possesion of
a Spanish ship from America, bearer to the Cortes
of 000,000 francs.
46 A. letter from Madrid, of the 23d, announces
-that Manilla has got possession of Santiago, and is
en las march to Vigo.
" Ott the I sth General Bourck marched to.
wards Corunna and 'the heily,hts which command
tile place were carried at the point of the bay-
onet by the 7th light infantry, beaded by Gen.
Jim Itneheintittelin.
it After the taking of terra, General Molitor
took the direction of Bosa, *here lie must be at
this time.

‘,s Six hundred men, in a sortie from St. Sobas.'
tiara, were repulsed." '
(Prom the Contalutionnel.)
{EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER:I
44 MADRID, jULY o.—From the moment of
•the dstablishment of a Regency here---'war, With
the cry of victory or death!' was declared at
Cadiz. The more the Regency was counter-re,
molutionary, the more the Cortes held to the Con-
stitution. They were placed between victory
:and the scaffold, and it is always dangerous to
:place parties in that terrible alternative. Many
wise men think that of would have present-
ed much less difficulty if the 14'rench Generalis-
simo had provisionally invested himself with 100.
!ideal power. lie could have tranquillized
passions, which have become more and more in-
flamed ; and he could have reconciled parties,
coming, as he professed for some months, not to
invade Spain, as a conqueror merely, but to se-
cure repose and stability for the future.
44 We have here the re-action which took
place at. Paris. The fanatical party and the pO.

'Weal party tate_ passed the Pyrenees, and have
recommenced the combat its the Peninsula.—
Let any Charter whatever be given to Spain, and
,
it would be a defeat to the former, which has
commenced by establishing the Regency—a eel*.
• lain means of administering to its passions.
44 hatred proceeds here as it proceeded in
France. The A/mobs/131os execrate Mori4lo us
much as:Valdes, and perhaps more, because it is
known that the latter, in case of certain events,
would be nothing, whilst the other would endea-
vour to be something. The Conduct of. Morillo,
however, cannot be explaine4 unless upon the
ground of his wishing to enjoy, at a distance from
his country, a fortune which is said to be, int-
mense ; for absolute power would not replace
him who caused the Guards to be fired, upon
.on
the 7th July, nor would the Cortes pardon him
if it is possible that they should triumph; and,
in the case of certain events, he would find hint.
self borne down by both parties, who would
equally reject him.
4"f he diplomacy of the Holy Alliance plays a
great part in our affairs, and it is stated
that the Minister of a Great Power has assumed
a . marked ascendancy over the Regency ; the
Envoy of that Court, who, under the Govern-
ment which preceded the Revolution of 1820,
'exercise, d a very active influence over the Coma.
rilla of melancholy memory. It is not, you ob-
serve, the French Ambassador of whom 1 speak.
It is singular that the Power which sheds the
blood of its soldiers, and is prodigal of its nioney,
should thus let slip all the political preponder-
ance into the hands of certain Governments who
wished for war, but have not made it, and who
turn to (heir advantage the expenses and the sa-
srifices of the Power who supports it.
'44 This picture is sombre, but it is not exagge-
rated. 1. need not inform you that Madrid is in
profound grief. A number of families, in easy
circumstances, engaged in commerce, and even of
the. Nobility, have quitted it ; the Theatres are
closed and Assemblies at an end. The French
Officers live by themselves.
" I cannot conclude without rendering homage
to them. The discipline of their troops is per.
feet ; and we owe it to their presence that we
have been preserved from greater disasters. How
will our misfortunes terminate? What is the
future reserved for us ? Such are the questions
which true citizens . ask without ceasing, Wit
.which, unfortunately, no one can resolve," •
PARIS, JULY 9.9.—The Illoniteur for some
time appears to have fallen into disgrace ; it can
no longer be considered but us the third or fourth
of the offiCial Journals. The Journal des Va.
bah gives, on the same day as the Monitem., the
'bulletins of the, Army of Spain ; and the Nuni-
tear copies the next day.the reports given by
ptderence to the Quolidienne. . • .

[From the Courier Fronenie.l
PARIS, Ju Lir 29.—For some, time the Quoti-
dienne has occupied itself respecting the No.
tional Guards with very particular solicitude. It
began by attributing to the Ministry a projeci or
law of its corn position, in which the denomination
of Gordy de la Couranne do France was substi-
tuted,for that of National Guards, and the.most
imposing attributes were given to the command
,of these new Guards. Yesterday the Quoti-
dienne no longer proposed a formal project, but
contented itself with advancing principles. Ac-
cording to it., the National Guards do not le-
gally exist, they having been organised by an
Imporial Decree of 1814, which was abrogated
by the Charter. The Quotidienne* in this re-
spect, commits a:trilling error; it forgets that the
National Guards exist by virtue of the law of
Mil, which has not been abrogated either by the
Charter or any subsequent law.
• [Front the Journal des Daiats.l
MADIITD, JULY 9.3.—The accounts from our
army- of Spain are to-day extremely remarkable.
Two feats of arms, the one before Corunna, and
the other the taking of Lorca, recal to remem-
brance all that has been most brilliant in the ml-
litary annals of French valour.
The war has done in a few months what 30
years of peace could scarcely have effected ; 'it
has assembled under the white flag the soldiers
of Waterloo and of La Vendee. Molitor and
La Rochejnquelin are rivals in glory, and the
honour of camps effaces from remembrance these
political divisions, the source of so many mis-
fortunes.

An English Journal asks what we shall do
with Sir Robert ‘Vi!son, if he falls into our
hands, whether we shall treat him as an English
subject, or as a revolutionary soldier ? The
question is a curious one.

- England is At pence with France ; moreover,
an Act of Parliament prohibits the subjects of
his Britannic Majesty from entering into the ser-
vice of belligerent powers. Thus Sir Robert, if
taken in arm; cannot be claimed by the English
Government, whilst, if he returns to his country,
he is liable to the penalties of the Act, unless
Acts of Parliament are of no elfect.
What will Sir Robert be to 'France if taken?
A Spaniard. But supposing he has letters of
naturalization, can they be. recognized ? Sir
Robert is notoriously English, being a Member
of Parliament? Can it he admitted that he is a
citizen of the republic of the Cortes, and a sub-
ject of the Monarchy of George IV.
The truth is, that Sir Robert, taken in arms
against us, in; contravention of the laws of
his country, would be .neither a Spaniard nor an
Englishman ; be would be au unknown adven-
turer without country, violating the laws of na-
tions, with no toiler right than that given by force
to an armed man. At sea these people are call-
ed pirates. A council of war, according to all
military laws, would do justice to Sir Robert
Wi }eon.

But we may be assured that French generosity
would not disgrace itself. Sir Robert would pro.
bably become our prisoner. The best army sur-
geon would be sent to h►m if he were wounded)
and money given to him if he needed it, and he
would be conveyed to his country, where he
might write and speak as ill of France as he
pleased.
We do not fear his arms, we do not read his
pamphlets, nor do we take lessons from his
speeches.