The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-03 00:00:00

[NEW TI➢IES.]

The Bank and- Stock Exchange were yester-
day closed, and consequently very little business
done. Consols remained nominally at 82i 83 ;
but we believe no private transactions of any
extent took place in the British Funds. As
little, or perhaps less, was done in any other
Stock except Spanish and Colombian : The
former was somewhat depressed in price, hav-
ing closed at 351 i ; the latter remained nearly
as the day before ; it was done at 44, but closed
at 4t3. It is scarcely worth while to notice
Poyais Bonds ; they were nominally at 11, but
we do not believe that a single real purchaser
could be found at any price. No express arrived
from Paris during the day ; it was therefore con-
cluded that nothing had transpired in that capital
of sufficient importance to affect the Rentes.

At a 'late hour last night we received the Etoile
of Sunday evening. It gives intelligence from
Port St. wary to the Vd of August. That day
a Flag of Truce had arrived from Cadiz, and
much intercourse had for some time before been
going on ; but the particulars, of course, were
not suffered to transpire ; and it is probable that
what was related in The Times of Monday, as
the terms offered by the Duke d'Angouleme, is
mere fabrication. An immediately pacific result
did not seem to be expected at Port St--Mary's ;
on the contrary, the idea there prevalent
was, that on the 25th of August, St. Louis's
Day, a grand attack would be made, by gun-
boats and troops, on the Isle of Leon ; and, if
that were successful, Cadiz would lie almost at
the mercy of the besiegers, who might bombard
it with destructive effect. Most probably the
near approach of such a danger would cause the
inhabitants to open their gates. The Aloniteur
of Sunday contains the official account of the en-
trance of General Bourck into Corunna on the
21st ultimo. Accounts from Barcelona represent
the SWiss Revolutionists ,us exercising a tyran-
nical sway there; but the sallies which the garri-
son has attempted have been uniformly unsuc-
cess fu I. (Ibid).

[MORNINGHERALD.]
Sunday's Paris Papers reached us last night by
express. There is not in them the slightest no-

Lice or indication of any pacific arrangement
pending between the French and the Cortes. On
the contrary, it would seem that an attack, with
all their force, was about to be made on the Isle
of Leon and on Cadiz by the enemy. The works
were in train before the Isle with the utmost ex-
ertion. On the 21st the French were within
pistol shot of the battery of Trocadero. The pos-
session of this post is regarded by the besiegers
as facilitating, almost decisively, the capture
of the Isle of Leon. This, however, is a
gross exaggeration of its value. 'When the Isle
of Leon was besieged by the French in the for.
mer war with double the number of troops, and
an artillery which is very likely to have been
much superior to the present, the post of Troca-
dero was possessed by the besiegers, and yet they
failed against the Isle. The taking of the Tro-
ceder°, therefore, which is not impossible, as it
will be the first point attacked, and no doubt
with all the force and skill which the French
can command, is not to be regarded as deciding
or compromising the fate of this chief refuge of
the Constitutionalists. Some surprise has been felt

lat no attempt at negociation on a moderate

basis was made after the pacific and semi liberal
articles in some or the French Ministerial
Journals. The rumours afloat at Paris on the sub-
ject are the following :—Upon the arrival, it is
said, of the Duke of Angoulemo at the gate of
St. Mary, his first step was to call a Council of
War, to which he submitted the practicability
of taking the Isle of Leon and Cadiz. The re-
sult of this deliberation was, that a simultaneous
attack should be made by sea and land. It is a
strong proof of the extraordinary strength and
difficulty of the place, that this resolution was
not formed alone from the confidence of the
besiegers in their own strength. The calcula-
tion of the Members of the Council was, that
the echo of the attack upon the Isle of Leon by
land, and the discharges from the blockading
squadron at the same time, would excite eon.
sternation in Cadiz, and give the partisans of
the Faith an opportunity of rising against the
Constitutionalists. It seems almost certain that

this attack will soon be made ; and it is easy to
perceive how important must be the result.—
From Barcelona, the accounts are to the 20th.—.
The Governor, Rotten, is described by the
French as exercising there the most harsh and ab-
solute authority, and as resolved to defend it to
the last. The population is great, and consider
ed eminently Constitutional. For strength and
importance it stands next to Cadiz. Three sue.
cessive sallies were made on the night of the 19th,
with cries of " Live Liberty !" 44 Live the Con.

stitution !" which, however, were, according to
the French Ultra Papers, repulsed. At ten
o'clock, on theeoth,, the besieged made demon-
strations on the glacis with a large force, and
maintained for some time a constant fire from
various kinds of artillery, but did not
make a sally.—The French say, that under
this heavy and continued fire, they lost but
one man ! There is evidently some mystery
in the affair of Ballasteros. His utter inaction,
and that of the 4000 men who are said to adhere
to him, displeases and probably disquiets the
French.. Some doubts are even expressed of the
ratification of the convention with him. Sars-
field, another renegade General, who made his
submission, as it is termed, to Aloncey, was on
his way to France, to enjoy retirement, like
Abishal. Accounts from Algesiras state, that
the " Green Island" (Isle Verte), which was
was not taken in the first instance, had subse-
quently fallen into the hands of the French.