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

'lll4 LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts Irani the Morning Papers, August 8:

[MORNING eon.]
French Papers to the 7th inst. reached us last
night by express. Though again barren of offi-
cial intelligence, they contain communications of
considerable importance and interest, and of a
nature calculated to gratify the friends of retri-
butive justice 'and of Spanish independence.—
The traitor Morillo, it appears, has begun to
receive the reward due to his infamy. The
Journal des Mbats briefly informs us, on the
authority of the Madrid Extraordinary Ga.
zelle, that he " had been beaten by the aevo-
imtionary troops near Vigo." This avowal, though
unaccompanied by any details, is of itself suf-
ficient. Coming from such a source as the Ga-
zette of the Spurious Regency, and re-echoed by
the French Ministerial Journals, no doubt can be
entertained of its being correct. For they would
not have mentioned the subject if they had eon-
eeived the least hope of its being unfounded, or,
as in the case of the repulse at Corunna,‘of their
being able long,to conceal the fact. Had the
account reached us from any other quarter, we
might have waited for confirmation of its truth
before we ventured to express,and almost to feel,
the satisfaction that we do at seeing the offence
so speedily followed by condign punishment.
What must he the mortification of the defeated
Betrayer ?—he who told the Galicinns that he
joined the enemy because they were incompetent
to their own defence, and there was no other
means of saving them from invasion ! Notwith-
standing the defection by which lee has deprived
them of half their former strength, they have
now shown him, that even with reduced means they
are-equal to the defeat of foreign invaders and
native traitors.. If he were sincere in the mo-
lives which he assigned for his betrayal, now that
he has found them to be groundless, let him cast
off his n!le7iance to foreigners and to their agents;
let him by a speedy return to patriotism and to
duty redeem, before it be too late, a once glo-
rious name, and hasten to• share the triumph of
his country, which his strongest endeavours have
not been able to turn into mourning.

PRESS.]
tuesday's French Papers were anticipated,
and given exclusively in our columns of yester-
day.. Since then we have nothing further from
the Continent of any rent importance. Angou-
!erne, In now has probably reached. Seville
with his numerous escort, and the progress of
future events must disclose the real views of the
French Cabinet in the transfer of his head-

quaFters to the south of Spain. Angoulerne's-
order, previous to quitting Madrid, has, how-
ever, given a. new feature to the war. 'The
French army no longer appear as allies of
the Royalist Spaniards : they artr now prin-
cipals in the contest. Angouleme, as far as his
General Order can go, has taken absolute
rni-
)Nary possession of Spain ; he has allotted and
pottioned out its kingdoms and provinces to his
Lieutenants.and Subalterns with, full and uncon.
trouled power. Ills assumption is as general,
though not as efficient, as was the ambitious
Napoleon's, of !hat unhappy kingdom. Six Mar-
shals and Generals are placed supreme over her
provinces and cities, conquered and unconquered
as they now are; and Reggio, Ilohenlohe, Lau.
Tifton, Molitor, Foissac Latour, and Bourdesoulle,
are invested' by" the fygitive Angouleme, with
powers as absolute as if Spain were a dependent
province of France, and every fortress on her
soil in full possession of her armies. By this
last ordinance of Angouleme's, the Regency
he three months since set, up is annihilated ;
it is thrown utterly by, and disregarded as
completely as if that circle of traitors never
existed. The fact is, that, like Milton's
Sin 'and Death, this foul offspring of Angon-
leme's creation beetling odious and disgusting
even to its author. The fell proceedings of
this revolting body, and their accursed satel-
lites through, Spain, have filled every mouth with
detestation, and every heart with hatred and the
hope of vengeance. Angouletne,bigot as he is,
long saw that they were his worst enemies. lie
saw that they bad no ,support beyond the bayo-
nets of his soldiers, save what Quesada's naked
cut-threats and the Manalos of Madrid could
give them. His parting farewell to taunted°,
Montemar, and their colleagues, has been, in
consequence, that of utter contempt. But this
apportioning of Spaip, on the part of the Bourbon,
is just as bombastic and ridiculous as the grants
of kingdoms in former days, by the ambitious
Pontiffs of Rome.

• [tilE 'rungs.;
The excesses . and. cruelties of the Franco.
Spanish party on different points of the Pepin.
sula, present_ to the humane mind one topic of
consolation in the ruinous effects which they must
produce .tti the cause for whose sake, or rather,
in thu.unmo of which, they are .committed. All
the decent inhabitants of Saragossa are said to
have left it, or to have been imprisoned ;. and the
priests hold a divided reign with. the meanest
and most wretched of the mob.. Three thousand
of the best families of Valencia are also stated to
be wandering through the country, expelled by the
fury of the peace'-makersand regenerators of Spain.
From officers holding high commands in Molitor's
c'ozps d'armee, intelligence has been received. at
Paris, through the medium of private letters to
their friends. Molitor does not entertain the
hope of being able to reach Cadiz without a re,
inforcement. Ballasteros (whose forces . the
French Papers have so often annihilated by de-
sertion) squally threatens at one and the same
time the besieging army before Cadiz, and -the
communications with Madrid. In Catalonia, an
attack had been meditated on the Constitutionals
before Barcelona ; but that the design had been
dropped, or the execution failed, is inferred
from the profound silence maintained by the Go.
vernment upon the subject.—it Was through an
error of the press that the Journal des Damdt of
Tuesday last Mentioned Et:defeat of Morino, in
Galicia. That the traitor may have been de-