The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-20 00:00:00

answer, in which he stated ' that it was necessary to understand
what the Dnke d'Angoulerne meant by the liberation of his Royal
Fermin, calling upon him specially to declare bow, when, and
where he would bylim be considered as being in a state of free-
dom, according to his own -acceptation of the term.' With
this simple request of an explanation was Gen. Alai's sent
back' to the French Head-quarters, when the Prince Ge-
neralissimo answered, by letter entrusted to the Duke de
()niche, in which he declared that he would not consider King
I Ferdinand VII. as free, until he saw him in the midst of the
French army—" Au milieu de l'armie Francaire ;" adding,
" that then his Royal Highness engageroit So llfajesti d donne'',
au au mains d prometre a son peuple,• lei Institutions que dans
sa sqgesse, elle jugeroit plus convenable ! ! !"' that is, the
he then would induce his Majesty to give, or at least to pre-
mise, to his people those institutions which in his wisdom he
should deem most suitable. .
"'This insulting answer, in which the French tore off the
mask, and :hewed that the,words of Kings are no other than
empty sounds, produced another letter from the King, also con-
fided to General Alava, in which he simply proposed that an
interview between him and the Duke.should take place in
whichever of the two following modes might be preferred:--
1. The two alone, without attendants, at an equal distance
from the French and Spanish lines ; 2. On board of a British
man of war in the bay of Cadiz, and with or 'without the gua-
rantee of Great Britain, as the Duke d'.4ngouleme should
himself agree ; that is, by Bngland becoming a party to what•
' ever negotiations might take place on board, or by merely offer-
ing the mutual benefit of neutral ground; at the same time
adding, that whatever negotiations might be the result, the same
should rest on the grant of a Constitution, which would secure
a true representative system and rational freedom tiiibe Spanish

nation.
"To this letter the Duke d'Angouleme gave a fiat denial, st
the same time announcing that he would enter into no further
" pour parlors" until the King was in the midst of his own
army; and moreover that if a definitive answer was not re-
turned to his last proposition within fire hours, the operations
of attack would be carried on with the utmost activity, rigour
would be enforced ; further intimating, that in case things
were pushed to extremities, and the means of assault were re-
sorted to, the usual consequences, inseparable from such a
state of things, might be expected.
" Finding matters in this state, General Alava returned the
same day, the 9th, announcing that the negotiations were again
' broken off. In the mean while, a Note had boon addressed to
Sir William A'Court, soliciting him to offer the same terms,
in the name of his Government, to the French Generalissimo,
and requesting' him at the 'same time to send a vessel of
war to the Bay of Cadiz, in order to facilitate an interview
above alluded to. Sir William A'Court, we understand,
readily acceded to the proposal, and wrote to the Duke D'An-
gouleme, but without obtaining a satisfactory answer, the
French still persisting on unconditional submission ; for the
terms proposed by them, as they appear in the above narrative,
can be taken in no other light. _ _ _

" We hare thus traced the progress of these singular nego.
ciations, which not only led to the downfall of the Constitutional
Government in Spain--a Government which, at two distinct
periods, had been acknowledged by all the powers of Europe—
but also ended in the total abrogation of every public act which
,took place during the periodof its existence. We do not renounce
the hope of some day or otherbeing able to lay before our readers
the entire correspondence, in its original terms, which took
place on this momentous occasion; but in the meantime we
can pledge ourselves for the authenticity and fidelity of such
portions of it, and statements from it as we have given above."

A dreadful accident happened on Monday
night last at one of the coal pits near White•
haven. By a sudden explosion in the mine,
upwards of thirty poor men were instantaneously
killed, besides several horses. The town of
Whitehaven, in consequence) presents at present
a vary distressing scene.

POIITSMOUTN," OCT. 18.—On Thursday, his Majesty's
sloop Sappho, Captain Jim SIN JONES, arrived at the Mother-
bank (the quarantine station), from Gibraltar, in 12 days.,
bringing Mr. Bailey, the King's Messenger, with dispatches
from Sir William A'Court, with which he was permitted to
land, and he set off' for the Foreign Office. The dispatches re-
late to the surrender of Cadiz, and all the recent events in that
quarter up to the dth inst. Sir William A'Court intended to
embark on the 6th. inst, in the Tribune, Capt. Onion, for St. Lu-
car,on his way to Seville, to resume his diplomatic fun ctions atthe
Court of Ferdinand. We understand Capt. Jones had an interview
with General O'Donnell, commanding at Algesiras, on the Ist
inst. when the General read a letter to him from aperson of high
rank at' Cadiz, announcing that a majority of 68, to 24,
of the Cones, at Cadiz, had voted to restore the King to ab-
solute power. It was understood that Blew) was to be tried
by the ordinary tribunals (not by a special commission) for
the murder of eight people at Malaga ; andwas firmly
believed at Gibraltar, by all parties, that no person will suf-
fer for political offences ; not that Ferdinand has any kindly
feelings towards the Constitutionalists, but that the French
insist on the policy of such conduct. 'When intelligence of
the surrender of Cadiz reached Gibraltar, the French squadron
at Algesiras, consisting, of three frigates and a brig, fired a
royal salute on the occasion. The Sappho left this.squadron at
anchor off Algesiras on the 4th inst. When the Sappho passed Ta.
riffa (on their passage home), the batteries at Tarlifa fired several
shots at her, which, had it beendaric, would probably have
struck her, and done considerable damage. She experienced
very bad weather when crossing the bay, tremendous squalls and
gusts of wind, which nearly disnmsted her. The Sappho
was. seven days and six hours from Portland Roads to
Gibraltari and twelve days from Gibraltar to the Mother-
bank. Since the Ist of September she has made the passage
from Gibraltar to England, back to Gibraltar to England again,
besides being, thirteen 'clays out of that time in port. She Is
under quarantine. • We understand that Sir William A'Court
has sent home a cop to m
y of the King's proclamation issued at Cadiz
( see Tut: SUN of Saturday) 101Overnent, as an official
document, and to be relied upon ; and that he knew nothing,
' when the Sappho sailed, of the proclamation of a directly opposite
import, which has been published in the French ultra-royalist
paper 7'ekgraph.)

WlNnson, OCT. 19.—This morning his MA.
JESTY, with his suite,attended Divine Service in the
Private Chapel. On Saturday the King,attended by
the usual persons of his suite, took an airing in
his phseton, in 'the beautiful rides in Windsor
Great Park.—Her Royal Highness Princess
Augusta, accompanied by Lady Mary Taylor,
attended Divine Service in the New Parish
Church, where an excellent sermon was preached
by the Rev. Mr. Thompson, from the '23d chap.
of Numbers, and the first part of the 10th verse,
" Let me die the death of the righteous, and let
my last end be like his."—On Friday morning
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
paid a visit to the Princess Augusta at Frog;
more ; her Royal Highness returned in the
afternoon to Bagshot Park to dinner.

The Duke of YORK arrived on Saturday on a
visit to the Duke of ItA,TON, at his seat,
Euston Hail, Thetford, from the Duke of RUT.
LtkED'S CheveleY Park, Cambridgeshire.