The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-06 00:00:00

HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH..

The Drawing-Room is postponed sine die.
The answer given this morning at Carlton-Palace
was the following :
" The Kixo continues indisposed, but is better than he was
yesterday, the gout having entirely disappeared."

A new version given by the Journal des Data: i
of the last Dispatch from the French Army, says
that it was to the Spanish Royalists that Jaca
surrendered. There is still, however, an unin-
telligible confusion in the statement respecting
the capture of the Garrison and its Commander.
We are now told that when the Revolutionary
Chief was arrested, he immediately sent his
submission,. with that of the troops under his
command ! How could he be arrested, ex-
cept by the treachery of his own soldiers,
before the place was captured ; and what is
meant by a man sending his submission, AFTER
his arrest .2 The only way to solve the difficulty
is to suppose that the garrison revolted against
their Constitutional Commander, and that, after
placing him under arrest, they compelled him to
submit, with themselves, to the Royalists. We
are unwilling to believe that this was the case;
and shall be sorry to find it confirmed. We
are convinced that if the Spanish National
Army and Militia are true to their colours, their
eventual triumph over the invaders of thou'
country is certain. We knew that Government
is in possession of information which warrants
the belief that there is considerable apathy
on the part of the great body of the population
of Spain, with respect to those questions which
have subjected their country to the united
horrors of civil war and foreign invasion. The
present apathy of the however,
cannot be of long continuance. It is sufficient
that it has been ascertained that there is no
enthusiasm in favour of the old system of
the Government, and that there is no gene-
ral desire, therefore, for the success of the
French. The latter, after having confidently
predicted that the whole nation would rise in
their support, as soon as their army should
pass the frontier, already find that a large
additional force must be employed for the
subjugation of the Peninsula. it is for the
cause of France, not for that of the Spanish Con-
stitution, that the apathy of the Spanish nation
is a fatal symptom. AI l the rank, intelligence,
and property, of Spain, as was said by Lord
LivEaPoor, is already in active hostility to

France ; and it is impossible for a French
army to continue long in occupation of any part
of Spain, without rousing the feelings of the

whole nation, and converting the apathy of
the lower classes of the people into implaca-
ble hatred of the invaders, and into a
fierce and unquenchable zeal for their expulsion
from the soil of their country ! We trust, there.
fore, that the Spanish Ministry and Cortes will
be firm, and that they will reject all overtures

for peace so long as an enemy's soldier is
within their territory. Spain contains within
herself the certain means of purging oft' the
calamity which afflicts her. Time alone is re-
quisite for the excitement of that resistless action
which must terminate in the destruction or ex•
pulsion of the French. Time, also, will bring
to Spain external aid, if external aid should be

necessary for her success. We can give the
most positive assurances that a protracted
struggle will constrain England to abandon
her neutral position, and that she is deter-
mined to interfere by force to prevent France
from continuing for a,, length qf time in military
possession of any part of Spain.

We have inserted some further extracts from

the Speech of M. de CHATEAUDRIAND, and are
only restrained by our limits from offering some
observations upon the language of that Mini-
ster, which, however, shall appear to-morrow.—
It becomes every day more and more evident
that not only England, but all Europe, is most
deeply interested in the failure of the " experi-
ment" which French ambition is now making in