The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-12 00:00:00

[NEW TIMIS.]

The Trench Papers of Saturday fully confirm
the private letters. The good understanding
between the Royalists at Mudrid and a large
party in Cadiz is every day more manifest.—
Even the Municipality and Consulate of the
latter city have boldly stood forward to present
an Address to the Cortes, exhorting them to set
the King at. liberty. One member of the mo-
derate party has been nominated Governor of
Cadiz, and another Minister at War ; and
it is understood that au Aide-de-Camp of
his Royal Highness the Duke D'Angouleme
proceeds from Madrid to Cadiz direct. In.
deed every Ohm tends to pacification. It will
have been observed, that Sir Robert Wilson
wished to be sent to Cadiz with proposals of
peace : and in his letter of July 30th to General
Morino he says, " according to the last news
from Cadiz the Government has the same
wishes; as for this purpose they have already
placed themselves in communication with the
British Minister." The Times, making a
mockery, as usual, of public credulity, had the
impudence to assert, that the British Cabinet
at its late sitting resolved to decline all inter-
ference as Mediators or otherwise between the
belligerent parties in the Peninsula. People who
will believe a word that such a Paper says are
without excuse. Mr. Canning, in his dispatch
of March 31, 18123, to Sir Charles Stuart, dis-
tinctly says—" I am commanded to direct your

Ixcellency► to declare to the Preach Minister, that
his Majesty will be at all times ready to renew
the interposition of his good offices, for the pur-
pose. of terminating those hostilities which his
Majesty has so anxiously, although ineffectually,
endeavonred to avert."

[MOTtNING POST.]
We have received French Papers to the lOth
ult. They say but little respecting military
affairs ; their attention seems to be turned to-
wards a different object, and that object, it can
no longer be doubted, is negociation. The
tear does not yet avow it openly ; bup'when it
says that the Duke of Angoulerne's Aide-de.
Camp will not stop at Port St. Mary's, but will
proceeed immediately to Cadiz, it means that the
fact should be inferred. For what else can
follow from such direct communications but an
aivroximation of views, and an' attempt tci put
an end to the difficulties in which all parties
now find themselves involved ? France, who
senselessly took upon herself to untie the
Gordian loot, feels that her efforts have only
served to draw it tighter, and that she wants
power to cut it with the sword. Disappointed in
the expectations with which she entered Spain;
she has seen no general rising of the people to
join her banners and fight the battles of absolute
despotism. She still finds the gates of every
fortress of the' least importance closed against
her, and though two or three Chiefs of armies
have ceased to obey the Cortes, even they have
affixed terms to their desertion, and have stipu-
lated that the Constitution shall be improved,
but not destroyed. Her troops, it is true,
have marched to the extremities of the Penin-
sula ; but she well knows that their progress is
due to the superiority of their numbers, and
not to the popularity of the cause which they
support. She has witnessed the gallant and in-
domitable resistance made in Catalonia, where
the forces were more equally balanced ; and she
perceives that the rapid extension of the Guerilla
system must in a short time render her mili-
tary occupation
.of the other provinces ex-
tremely insecure. Under these circumstances
her Government seems at last disposed to ad-
mit the truths pressed upon it by the British
Minister at the Congress, and to own that it had
formed a wrong estimate of the state and wishes
of the great mass of the Spanish people, when it
supposed it anxious for the restoration of pure,.
unmitigated Despotism. It sees besides that its
impolitic and unjust interference has increased
the evils which it professed' a desire to remove ;
and that to persevere in its present course would
.only be toincur ruinous expellees and endless
perils insupport of a Minority hostile to the real
interests of both countries, exceeding in violence
and injustice' all that was charged on the leaders
of the Spanish Revolution,- and incapable of
standing up for a single moment without the aid
of a foreign army and a foreign Exchequer.

EBRITI3II PRESS.I
The last accounts from Corfu, given in our
Paper yesterday, are most favourable to the
Greeks. A body of the ferocious rabble of the
Turks, amounting to 8,000 European and 7,000
Asiatic infantry, besides 3,000 cavalry, at-
tempted to penetrate, under Mehemet Paella,
through the pass of Thermopylae: into Greece :
that celebrated pass was defended by the brave
Odysseus, with only 2,000 gallant Christians,
with unconquerable resolution.: 700 of its
defenders fell beneath the sabres of the Infidels;
but after four hours constant fighting, nume-
rous reinforcements arrived to the Greeks,
and the Turks experienced a total defeat ; a
part of their routed forces threw themselves into
the castle of Zeitouny, which the Christians took
by storm, and another part of their scattered
remnant capitulated at Demagn. The Paella of
Scutari, with his Albanians, is now the only re-
maining enemy the Greeks have to combat ; and
as that Paella hesitated long before he joined the
Turkish standard, and the Albanians only fight
for the Crescent for pay and plunder, and are
already more than disposed as a people to the
Greek cause, it is probable their Palikars will not
be very anxious to press unsupported to the combat
against a victorious enemy. The Turkish fleet
which arrived at Patna still remained there, it
is said, on the 2d of July. There are accounts
which say it was attacked and dispersed by the
Greek Are-ships with great loss, and had fled
in dismay to the African coast. This last expe-
dition of the 64 Brother of the Sun and Moon,"
announced with so much pomp as terrible to the
enemies of the Prophet, will close in disas-
ter and defeat, like all the rest. The sceptre
of the Barbarian Turk over resuscitated Greece
is broken for ever. The light of the gloomy
Crescent is waning fast pressed by the menaces
of Russia, and the march of her ravenous hordes
on one side, and by millions of her emancipated
subjects on the other, the power and stability of
the Ottoman is shaken to its foundations, and
the falling fabric of savage superstition totters
to its very centre►* Greece, there is now no
doubt, must and will be free : she has purchased
her indepedendence with her " red right arm,"
and by the glorious efforts of her people. What
recollections must n►ot 'Thermopylae, whence her
sons have been borne on their bloody biers, from a
field of victory immortal in theannals of their coun-
try, have created in every survivor's breast! The
perfidiousßussian may now talk his by pocritical ac-
cents of revolutionary movements in Greece; but
she is beyond his power—she has trodden down
the tyranny of the brutal Moslem—she has burst,
by a glorious effort, the iron chain of centuries—
and she will value her liberties too strongly not
to arm her population to the last man, to defend
and preserve what her sons have so nobly pur•
chased and redeemed in battle against their op-
pressors.

[THE. TIMES.]

A Corresponde-nce has been published and
talyed about as having taken place between Sir
Robert Wilson and Morino, commencing on the
25th ult., and closing on the Ist inst. To the
question whether the Correspondence he authen.
tic, we are unable to answer aye or no; and, in-
deed, there are two further questions, which we
must plead equally unfit to satisfy—namely,
under what character our well-diiposed coun.