The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-09 00:00:00

and its President, the cameleon Incanted°, term a " hor-
rible and sanguinary crime." Desiring, as they say, "to give
the heroic citizens a proof of the sentiments of grief which
this excites in it," it decrees, Ist, " That the regiment of
infantry of the line, (Guadalaxara,) and that of light ca-
valry, (Lusitania,) shall be erased for ever from the roll of
the Spanish army." 2d, " That the individuals who have
taken part in this horrible deed shall be punished according to
law." This is a most weak and impotent conclusion of Infantado
and his compeers : the two Spanish regiments defy their autho-
rity, and are beyond their power, and the Regency are much
more likely to be ultimately brought to punishment themselves
'than the constitutional soldiers who repulsed the assassin Bes-
sieres and his band of plunderers and traitors., The Moniteur of
Tursday states that the troops which were in Madrid and the
neighbourhood,under Abisbal and Zayas, had retired to Talavera
la Reyna, and towards Estremadura, leaving the road to Seville
open. A private letter states that two corps of the French
army were to leave Madrid on the Ist of June, under the corn-
mand of Generals Bordeselle and Bounnont, to proceed towards
Seville and Badajos: We do not think Angouleme will be so
ill advised as to weaken his army to such an extent. The corps
he would detach would not be safficient for any decisive opera-
tions in the south, and with hostility thickening all around him,
with the Pastor and Campanili() about to form a junction, and
seize the defiles of Sallinali—Morillo's army in Gallicia, and
threatening to attack him in front, and not more than .15,000'
men under his command, it is not likely Angouleme will venture
to detach any portion of his forces, to undertake operations
against Badajos, more than 170 miles from Madrid, lying on
the frontiers of Portugal too; where the slightest collision might
light the spark of conflagration; or against Seville, two hun-
tired and twelve miles distant, with a dangerous and consum-
ing march through the defiles of the Sierra Morena and the
burning plains of Castile and Andalusia, where, to any but an
overpowering force, certain destruction almost must follow,
This is an expedition Angouleme will not, for his safety's sake,
we should think, attempt, at Nast until he is strongly reinforced.
In fact, his present situation in Madrid is not by any means
the bed of roses the French Papers would represent. More
than two months have been taken by this great warrior to
march on the Spanish capital, with precaution and vigilance all
around him, though he declares the dispositions of the people
of Spain to be completely in his favour, and the armies of the
Oortes to exist but in name. Moncey has been near six weeks in
Catalonia; and three Generals, the Marshal himself, Curial, and
Donnadieu, with the Spaniards Romagosa and d'Eroles, have
been employed in pursuing, marching and countermarching
after—one. Mina has out-manoeuvred and out-fought them all,
and the result of their united endeavours has been successive
disappointment and defeat. Yet no effects have followed the
march of the French armies in Spain, but re-action and yen.
geance. The bigots and banditti of the faith have been let
loose on Saragossa, Burgos, on Bilboa and Vittoria, under
them Madrid has become a scene of contest and blood. The de-
tested junta who followed the march of Angouleme did not wait
for the assembling of the two councils, or the meeting of the
Regetfcy. They long since exercised' acts of sovereign power.—
They granted a pension to the widow of Elio, who was execute
ed at Valencia for treason to the constitution. They decreed an
anniversary to commemorate the individuals who fell on the
memorable 6th of July, in the attempt on Madrid. They sent
couriers to all the cabinets of Europe, and annulled the decree of
the Cortes against the 69 Mputies, known by the name of Per-
sians, who drew up the address to Ferdinand on his return, and
urged the bigot to the assumption of absolute power,