The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-28 00:00:00

ROYAL. NAVY, &c.

Port.restourn, Ana. 27.—From letters received by the .
last Jamaica mail we lean that the Speedy and Lion, cutters,
two vessels laden with specie, from the contractors of the Co.
lombien loan in London, are expected to sail for earthmen
on the 15th July, under the convoy of his Mejesty's ship Isie.
On Monday his Majesty's sloop Calliope willed to westwardi
the Arrow cutter arrived from a cruise on Tuesday, and sailed:
again the day following.
The German Prince Hesse Homburg, who has bees lately .
on a visit to his Majesty, inspected his Majesty's ship Viert)l7 •
on Tuesday, where he was received with all the honours :401r •
to his rank.
The Seringapatatn is now nearly ready for sea, and bps-
pected to go to ;pithead in the course of a few days; !tert.
ultimate destination is understood to be the Mediterreaneart.
Lieut. Rooky' who was the bearer of dispatches from Vite..
Admiral Sir Harry Neale, relative to the transactions off Al.
giers, will proceed in her to rejoin the Revenge.
The Britomart has been ordered to fit for foreign sertice,
it is supposed she will be ordered to the West Indies, and re-
lieve either the Buster:l or Helicon, both of which vessels hays
been in commission more than three years.
Appointments.—Lieut. H. E. Coffin, to the Athol; Mr.
Trivickonaster of the Britomart, to the Drink, at Clutthant ;
Sir. W. C. Purver, master of the Arrow, to the Britomast,
vice Trivick, end Mr. itaitt to the Arrow, vice Purvey; .Lleat.
A. Calicr, to the Athol ; Mr. Brodie to be Purser of the same
ship.
Ships st:Spithead.—Jaxper. In Harbour—Victoty,
Wellesley,. Albion, Royal George, Asia, Cambrian,
ringatam, Niemen, Athol, Champion, Otago" Britomatt,
land (wail. •

Thursday night, AlsTst,lrditillr6 Sundryingth
eperformTancili T
atnthite.—°l4
eittrrey '.
Theatre, an .aceicaleutaltrtlneock,
apnidacwe,hiwchhkwha,
itsikcititedtothhav:tenseatoite . :
alarm among the ie
ed :fatally in its consequences. At the conclusion of the. •
tirst Piece, Tla Burning Bridge, a Spectre Iperformed'by ,
1 kir lists;,)):), , has to make its :Appearance' So Aleseet, 7
(61r. AOW BOTTOM ), surrounded' by cloratts„. White meted
a 41T, In kseendiug„ by tiOnie accident, thwtrappit within&
he waif. 'surroundolk MIMI in contact, with soar .t the theoht.:
herr. ',owl the hitraing materials.commurtleisted Way clouded
car; and is p- Tonrosns‘ the unfortunate yOung gentleman was
~,ehipod m don*. Be was evidently aware of ,the danger
to which ,he was csposed, but could by no Meens'estritate hint.
icy except by hoping fonn the car, which was at. a. considerable .'
height from the stage when it caught lire. The audience on
viewing hie perillits situation ex prOked aiettling.of,horrort and ; '
tieveral ladies fainted; and the fiamestatle h Warns° power.
nil that he was obliged to Jeep from the eat' 4 height of eighteen
or twenty feet. Ile came doWn with great vilenceland broke one
of his legs, and otherwise injured humeir leedinglY• He Wart
immediately carried to the 0111°046°40% 'wnere a tergeoh *Air
procured, and an Announcement was matt to tne audience that
Inc wait not, so rnlich hurt as was expected as 'the surgeon bsid
pronounced him not dangerously injured, This seemed so
appease the audience considerably, and the perform:met* wa,,...
continued. lie was but slightly hurt by the lire. jje w.a-„,,
ing very well yesterday.
•

A respite, till the 22d of September, for Harris
and Davis, was foniarded on Thursday evening
to Hertford Gaol, from the Home Department.
Suict vv.—Yesterday morning Mr.JA,4XS
TON, a furrier, of most respectable connexions,
hung himself in the cellar of his residence, in
Adam-street, Wet, where the body tounduog
undiscovered a considerablo time, nod until IN?
lark of life was extinct. This day an fate"
was held at the Mason's Arms, Uppor Onte'LY'
street, Portman-square, when Om .1011, "'ere
hearing the evidence ow" ", returned * v
" Temporary Insanity."

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Ertl' acts from the ili;;;i;tg ropers, Aug. 28

[THE TIMES.]
The capture of Tarifa ..from .the Spanish Ser.
Yiles is a fact unquestionable ; but we are tout.
•!...pOled to say, that as to any general result or
'Movement bearing upon the cause of the Consti-
futionulists or their enemies, that event seems to
us Of
.little more consequence than would be. the
sailieg.of a gun-vessel across the bay of Algesi-
ras. On inquiring from the best authorities, we
find the predominant impression to be, that the
attack on Tarifa was an act of desperation, un-
' dertaken by a patty of Constitutional refugees,
who had been shut out from an asylum in Gib-,
raltar, and were actually starving when they sum-
,moried the paltry garrison of Tarifa. To the sto-
ries of a rising in Galicia, and of an engagement
in Andalusia, when 200 Royalist soldiers were'
said to have been carried away wounded into
Cadiz, there is no sort of credit attached by well-
informed Spaniards ; nor are there any proofs or
well•authenticated symptoms of a concert between
the captors of Tarifa and the partisans of the
Cortes in any other part of Spain. So that no
!tope of immediate or definite good can be raised
upon u circumstance thus isolated both in place
,and plieciple. If, again, it should be asked
whether there exists no hope of future escape
from the horrible humiliation in which the Pen-
insula is now held under the complex yoke of a
fanatical Goverment and a foreign army, we
nns‘fer only—wait a little. That the sun will
rise to-morrow is scarcely more certain than that
Spain will ultimately be free. The force that
presses on her, must, from lack of sustenance, be
compelled at last to prey upon its own vitals.—
Spain, as now governed, produces nothing
She pays nothing. All the civil servants and
functionaries are starving,from the absolute men-
dicancy of the State. What is more important
still, there cannot be a military power created
to keep down the public discontents, for there:
is not a sous to pay them. Commerce is extinct
4—an the taxes are superseded by, contraband
even the rudiments of a revenue are to
be, found in SPain. The Church and the. smug-
glers devour every thing. In the ,'mean time,
what has France effected, and what.prospect is
before. her ? The Ultra-Royalist Cabinet of the
Tuileries reproached the Constitution and the
Cortes with the anarchy which they caused or
tolerated=--anarchy, the epitome of all earthly
evils, (and, in truth, it is so), was the burden of
the cry against the Constitutional:Government.
Ail the pretences, all the excuses, ell the state-
casuistry and oratory of the time, by which
France attempted to palliate her iniquitous in-
Vasion, were swallowed up in this one master
charge—that the disarders which, prevailed
throughout every province of Spain madeithe.
perative upon the. 13ourbotts , to restore
the internal peace and order of the Peninsula, by
the absence of which, the safety of France her-
self Watt endangered. Mark, then, the consist-
ency, and the succe-ss of these invaders. They
scattered incendiaries and dollars over Spain, to
excite' the disorders which they afterwards plead-
ed astheirjuittilication. They restored the K ing--
they remounted the. church ; for what they called
legitirnacy—for what they nicknamed religion
—they did whatever triumphant violence could
secnittlilish. The grand elements of their much-
loved sovial order—King, priest, and execu-
tioner, were speedily re-enthroned ; and what
follows? Has, any, thing. like internal peace—
that peace so indispensable to the security of
France herself—been established ? Is there any
,effective law obeyed throughout any single pre-
Otte.? nave any two factions been taught to
appreximate, or to feel towards each other the
least;-qualm of Christian charity ? Is there any
onri "cetitral undisputed authority to be found in
the .centre or. at either extreme frontier of the
kingdom ? No: it. is Servile still, against Con-
stit'n'iional—one shade of servility against ano.

then, priest. against layman, and all against the
Fi•ench. Thu pacificatort, verily, are not yet
called upon 10 keep the peace; they must first
make the peace, foe never did animosity,
never did anarchy, or destitution, or desola-
tion, rage more frightfully among tho most sa-
vage• hordes than they have done since, and
by means of, Ilii, very pacifying, legitima-
tizing expeditioe of the untaught, and, 'we
fear, Onteachable, House ,of Bourbon, against
the.:Aglits of independent nations, and
liberties of the human race. How this is to end
with the French Government, he must he hold
who.pronounces. Leave Spain to herself, away
goes legitimacy.; up again with the. Cortese the
finances, the national power, and conscious free
agency of the Spaniards. Continue the military
occupation of Spain, and who it to pay the price
of it.? The French Treasury, to, the last sous.

But France May have differences—she has
ready, if we mistake not—with Foreign Powers
then the diierSion uf her fOrce to Spain paralyzes
her id every ether quarter of the world : and if
a foreign army, not. French, should but show
itself Oil the Peninsula, are the Bourbons pre-
pared to.chouse again that fatal field of combat ?
One. more remark, and we have done. What-
ever may be the. enormities of the prevent Ad-
ministration of Goverment in Spain, the power
which rules the Court of Spain is Itself respon-
kJih4e for them, Ferdinand nor Ids priests would
dare to budge.; if the French Commander-in-
Chief were to forbid them. 'Every act of mon-
strous. despotism, every exeess of hateful vett•
aeauce,• must of cpurse be sanctioned by him,
who pleased, prevent. them. Must
we take, then, the practice of the Spanish Go-
vernment touNr
the military dictatorship of Louis
as
the measure of what a legitimate
Gotretp.mmit be in France, did an equal
Pi"irtlxlst of enforcing it upon the French peo.
PIP; 'as there Is unfotttioatel manifested it' the
cuse of the breken-down Spaniards ?

[aumsit eitEss.l
A 'Woting Paper has gravely published a
wild and extravagant scheme, which, on the au
t, w `J -
ofa, Buenos Ayres ..tournah it agcribetto
i"agerila) Spanish Constitutional Viceroy in

Peru. Our contemporary confesses that it is " a
very extraordinary plan ;" but he nevertheless
deems it worthy of his particular notice. It is
said, that the Spanish Consul at Rio de. Janeiro,
who was appointed during the constitutional
system, has hospitably received the Spanish
exiles, and fOrwarded them to Peru. Senor
Pando, one of the Ministers under the Cortes, is
stated to have headed a detachment of these un-"
fortunate persons, and to have taken with him a
plan for establishing an asylum for themselves
and the Constitution, and " for so overawing Fer-
dinand from Peru as to check him in his infa-
tuated career in the Peninsula." This, it must
be confessed, is' u " very extraordinary plan ;"
.but glad as we should be to hear of any
additional causes of dissension between the..
Spaniards in Peru, we are afraid we must forego
all hope from this pretended plot of the Spanish
Consul at Rio. That the servile General Olaneta
had declared for the absolute system we knew
already; and as the Viceroy had received his
appointment under the Cortes, there can be no
doubt that he must look with dread and appre-
hension to his return to Europe. ‘Ve are pre-
pared to expect, therefore, that some attempt will
be made by La Serna to fix himself in Peru ;
but, that he will there endeavour to re-establish
the Spanish Constitution of 1820, seems to us a
speculation far too unreasonable to be seriously
contemplated. Still less could We have suppos-
ed that it would have been introduced to the
public with all the solemnity of an important
cotnmunication from the other hemiphere.

[NEW TIMES.]
Yesterday there was little beyond the ordi-
nary business transacted in the Money Market,
and that little went off heavily. The Fete of
St. Louis having rendered Wednesday a close
holiday in Paris, no price of the French Funds
for that day could be quoted ; and this circum-
stance, of course, operated against speculation in.
London. 'Consols, from this cause. probably,
were rather lower than on Thursday ; they com-
menced- at 931 i , ,for the October Account,
and closed at 9311. The Foreign Market
was rather more lively. The rumours of
the day with relation to South America were
of a favourable cast. Bolivar, it was assert-
ed, had received the reinforcement for which
he had been, so long waiting at Truxillo, and
upon their arrival he had immediately marched
against Lirna in
.the full confidence of success.---
This statement Is said to have been made in letters
froM Valparaiso of a date only one -day later
than those previously received. it will however
be remembered that much depends, at the pre-
sent moment,'apon these alleged occurrences.—
Lare stock engagements are depending, chimer for
profit or loss, upon the news from South America;
and a proportionate degree of caution is neces-
sary in giving credence to accounts which may
be deriied from an interested source. The pro-
bability undoubtedly. is, that an engagement has
ere this 'taken place, which must decide the fate
of Peru ; but some time may yet elapse before we
can be put in accurate possession olthe' details.
Meanwhile the prices of South American Secu-
rities have in a trilling degree advanced.—
Mexican Bonds closed yesterday at 49k. Co..
lornbian Scrip 7 discount. Brazilian and Buenas
Ayres Scrip are stationary at a discount; and
that •of Peen at '2U discount ; Spanish Bonds

[MORNING ITER .11.D.]
Wednesday's Paris papers arrived last night.
For domestic intelligence there Is in them little
else than some hollow sycophancy respecting the
approaching fete of St. Louis. There are accounts
from Spain, but of no material interest. It would
appear tirat the French arc taking exclusive pos.
session of Madrid and whir strong places in
Spain, especially the maritime places. The Spa-
nish soldiers, hitherto forming part of the garri.
sons in Madrid and several other large towns, have
been literally turned out. There are no accounts
of the affair of tl►e Sierra Ronda—no allusion to
it even. It has been thought adviseable to
strengthen the French garrisons in Catalonia find
Andalusia. Had the movement, as it is called,
been wholly suppressed, the suppression would,
of course, be officially announced. There are in
these Journals several flourishes respecting the
success of the Greeks, which, however, are by no
means entitled to unqualified credit.

[MORNING P05T..1
It tippers by the recent accounts which have
been received from Buenos Ayres, that the last
Anniversary of the, Independence of that State
was celebrated by a Public Dinner, to which the
Envoy of the United States, and the British Con-
sul, Mr. Parish, accepted special invitations. The
healths of these two Gentlemen, with some flat-
tering allusions to.their respective countries and
governments, were proposed by the President,
and drank with great enthusiasm in the course of
the evening ; and they in turn made, each an ap-
propriety speech, acknowledging the honour. The
United States Envoy said little which nautili inte-
rest the people of this country ; but Mr. Parish,
though he spoke less, expressed himself in terms
perfectly judicious, we think, ns regarded his own
situation, and highly important as regards the
people of Buenos Ayres and the people of
England. lie, for instance, frankly declared
that a part of his official duty was to re-
port to this Government the state in which
he found the new Institutions of the country, in
which he then resided, and further volun-
-1 teered an assurance that the report he should
make would be of the most satisfactory descrip-
tion. New, it is well known here that Mr. Se-
cretary Cunning has almost pledged himself to
the recognition of the Independence of those Pro-
vinces of South America in which the Consuls
and Commissioners of this kingdom should find
systems of regular fixed Government well esta-
blished. It may likewise be presumed that at
the period of the Public Festival in question the
Buenos Ayreans were equally acquainted Kith
this fact. Mr. Parish's declaration, therefore,
we conceive those lie addressed must have taken
as an explicit guarantee of their speedy ad-
mission by England into the great family of
independent nations; and we are sure it

' will receive the same construction throughout
the British Empire.. And yet a sage con-
temporary threatens, because Mr. Parish did
not undertake to promulgate every thing which
his Majesty's Ministers intend or may intend to
do respecting South America, to call upon
Mr. Canning for an explanation ! This sort of
goose-quilL valour in a Newspaper, under any
circumstances, is exceedingly absurd, but on an
occasion like the one adverted to appears an effort
of sheer idiotcy. What, however, renders it still
more palbably symptomatic of delirium is—that
in the next breath we are informed a treaty is ac-
tually negociating at this moment between the Go.
vermnent of Buenos Ayres and the British Cabinet,
as the basis of an acknowledgment of the inde-
pendence of the former ! And nevertheless, for-
sooth, Mr. Canning is menaced with a demand
for explanation I Such stuff is too sickening to
proceed with further. Were the case ambiguous,
the country would justly confide, as it has hther-
to done, in the wisdom and zeal of Mr. Secretary
Cahning ; but where no shadow of doubt exists,
the public have the more pleasing duty of ex-
pressing to the Right lion. Gentleman the grati-
tude which his conduct on the South American
question, as well as every other involving the
honour and welfare of Great Britain, so pre-
eminetly merits.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
There is, we have been assured, a letter from
Cadiz in town, of a later date than the one we
published yesterday, which states, that a consi-
derable number of wounded had reached La
Isla ; but it was not in our power to obtain a
sight of the priginal. If this proves to be true,
Governor O'Donnell will not find the men who
have landed at Tarifa and other places, of so
despicable a character as that under which he
seeks to deecribe them in his official report,
published in our Paper of yesterday. Gen. Jose
O'Donnell, the Governor of the Lines of St. Roch,
is the third brotherof that ominous name in the Spa-
nish service. In SPain, he is called the Hero ofCas-
fella, from the noted defeat he experienced in that
place, when in command of a force three times as
large as that of the French who attacked him.—
He was afterwards tried by a Court Martial, of
which we do not remember the result ; but the
fact is, he was not entrusted with any other com-
mand, till Ferdinand placed him at Algesiras.—
There he has had an opportunity of knowing
what was going on, and also of ascertaining the
state of public opinion in the surrounding dis-
tricts. He has teased the poor Governor of
Gibraltar to death with his complaints and dentin-
ciationi sent over to him every day. He has had
his spies in every direction, and so well aware
was he that an attack, antra formidable one too,
was expected, that he has generally been in the
habit of sleeping at La Isla, and has never been
without a fast-sailing boat in the bay, to escape,
if he should be hard pressed. To O'Don-
nell, therefore, the disembarkation alluded
to was not unexpected ; for he was fully aware
of the preparations making ; arid, also, of the
principal persons engaged in them. As to the
nature and object of the attempt, we conceive
that we have not been mistaken in those facts
and surmises we have already laid before our
readers, and in order to make the subject better,
understood, we shall further remark, that the.
Spanish Constitutionalists who took
shelter in
Gibraltar, had exhausted the whole of the means'
they were able to scrape together,'and starvation
stared them full in the face. Constantly ha-
rassed and persecuted by tile police of the' town=--;
they were daily exposed to the 'severest hard-
ships. Such was the state of things when re.•
peated advices reached then) from the
l mountains
and other parts, describing to then the
fa-
vourable state of public opinion, and urging
them to, return and join the patriota ready to
take up arms. These communications terminated
in the formation of a plan, conformable
to Aist-
mg circumstances. At first the Constitutiunulists
hesitated ; they were desirous
that no more blood
should be spilt, at least uselessly. The appeals
to their honour and patriotism were, however,
SO urgent, and so strongly repeated, that as
loon as they were made sensible:of tile real
state of things on the coetiguous coast, they
resolved to make a last effort, to second the
wishes of their' countrymen. They resolved to
make a lodgment on the coast, and obtain pos-
session of a district that might serve 'as the
basis of future operations, trusting to. those assur-
ances of support they had previously received.—
They attempted a reconnoissance, and, this, ope-
ration, we daily expect to hear, has had a lati-
tude infinitely grelHer than .that part of it exe-
cuted in the vicinity of Gibraltar, of which the
French have not hitherto furnished us with any
other than the most imperfect details. All the
little means they had were ready, and Spanish
vessels were not ..wanting, part of those which.
had been driven away from Majorca and Cata-
lonia through the brutal intolerance of the friars,
to serve as transports--the very same vessels
which before had given shelter to the numbers
who had been driven oat of the town. A movement
of soduring and hazardous a nature, naturally must
have. been accompanied by particular combine.
lions. The attention of A lgesiras, thellead.quar-
tars of the force intended to protect the lines in
frpnt of Gibraltar, was consequently called by a
demonstration In dint quarter, ill order that the
disembarkation at Tarifa might be rendered
more secure. Tarifa. is a military point of seine
importance, and the nearest to Gibraltar. At
the same tune,ndvices were sent on, to the Sierra
of 'tends, that the operation might be supported.
Proviiions having been laid in for several days,
the transports left the bay for their several des-
tieations. The weather was favourable, and
one-half, I:
-ye know, arrived at the respective
places allotted to them, in safety. The man,
:ler. in which. they' landed was this a small
division directed their course to the centre of the
bay, towards -Algesiras, at the 'same time that
a small party
,came. down from St. Roc!' to cover,
the bridge of Palmones and the ferry-boai
at Las ItiaS. Another .Party entered the Medi-
terranean to take the port of Matahina and the
banks of the Guadiaro, in the neighbourhood of
Estapona,:. at the very moment that the latter
place was threatened by a party of smugglers

who had come down from the mountains.---
The Royalists occupying the lines in front
of Gibraltar, confused and confounded, did not
know to which, point their. attention was to be
turned, and in the mean while Tarifa was attack,
ed and carried.. An officer, and some of his fol-
lowers,. who sought to defend themselves,were
cut down. Immediately a detachment was sent
forward to secure the communications with the
mountains find Seville. The division *that ascend-
ed the Mediterranean has, we have some reason
to think, a. more 'important duty to perform.