The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-22 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
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A letter received by express from-Paris states,
that the French Government were perfectly pre-
pared to evacuate the Peninsula in July next, in
conformity with the understanding when the oc-
cupation was effected, if the British Ministers
thought their doing so would add to the general
tranquillity of nations. It is but reasonable to.
suppose that the French would gladly withdraw
from the calamities which they have occasioned.
Letters received by the regular mail from every
quarter of that oppressed and much-injured na-
tion, give a dismal description of the blessings
which the invasion has conferred on the Spanish
people. Starvations, executions, imprisonment,
robbery, and the most lawless enormities, are the
fruits of the French interference to restore Fer-
dinand. It was not understood in Paris that any
successor to the Viscount Chateaubriand would
be immediately appointed. The news from Lis-
bon has created some activity in the British
Funds. The Consols opened yesterday at 95H,
and advanced to 95, with an appearance of a fur-
ther improvement. It is understood that the
amount of the old Fours, to be paid off next Oct.
is so small that it will not be necessary to di-
vert the Sinking Fund from its legitimate opera-
tions on the Consols, by applying the whole of it
to the redemption of the Exchequer Bills, out of
the proceeds of which the Dissentients are to be
paid off. It is also understood that the Quar-
terly Revenue, on the sth proximo, will be found
more than usually prosperous, occasioned entirely
by the melioration of the condition of the artisans
and manufacturers, the effect of the increased
consumption for British labour in the new Ame-
rican Republics. Money is also now so plentiful
that the 1-ird. Exchequer Bills bear a premium of
2.55. per cent., and it will soon be considerably
increased by the issue of the forthcoming divi-
dends. Every ship of war which arrives from
South America is loaded with specie, in re-
turn for manufactured goods. A letter from
New Orleans, dated on the 2d of May, com-
municates • favourable intelligence respecting
Mexico. Medina, formerly the Minister of the
Emperor Iturhide, had been elected Finance
Minister in the room of Mr. Alaman, and hence
it may naturally be inferred that the arrival of
the General is expected by the Government.—
Spanish Bonds are one per cent. dearer. This
improvement is occasioned by the convocation of
the Portuguese Cortes, for it is probably vainly
expected, that the absolute Ferdinand will imi-
tate time conduct of King John, and by his abso-
lute will destroy Ws power to be absolute in fu-
ture. Portuguese Bonds are one per cent. higher,
and few of them are on sale. Neapolitan Bonds
are one per cent. higher also.

On Saturday last, Donna Maria Theresa del
Riego y Riego, widow of General Don Rafael del. Riego y
Riego, died at her residence, No. 13, Seymour-place, Little
Chelsea. This lady, whose fortunes have so 'deeply interested
public sympathy, was the daughter of Don Joaquim del Riego
y Bustillo, and Donna Josefa del Riego Florez. She was
born on the 15th May, 1800, in the town of Tineo, capital
of the district of the same name, in the province of Asturias,
and was the eldest of seven children, having, at the time of
her death; three brothers and three sisters living, all of whom
were separated from her by the fatalities of civil war, except
one sister, Donna Lucie, whom neither peril nor privation
could distract from the exercise of that regard and attention
which she was able to Manifest under every trial. Within three
months after her arrival in London the sanguinary act was per-
petrated
.which extinguished every present consolation and
future hope. The accountof his death reached her on the 15t1:
of November. Her poor frame could no longer rally or resist;
she wasted and withered daily under the corroding influence of
a tedious decline, and at length closed her unhappy course in
the embraces of her sister, attended by her devoted protector,
the estimable Canon, and several distinguished and faithful
EN ENV TIMES.i Spaniards, who had, to the latest moment, enjoyed the confidence
'We have 'elsewhere iven the Sierra Leone
and adhered to the fortunes of her husband, and never failed in
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proofs of respect, attention, and regard towards the widow. Some
Gazette Extraordinary (see another column of few days
previous to her dissoluuon, she intimated to those
THE SUN), announcing the lamented death of Sir around her an anxious desire to execute a testamentary docu-
ment, and on the
,12th instant she duly made her last will. In
Charles Macarthy, who it is now too certain lost this 'instrument she not only arranges her private affairs, but
liis life' 'bravely fighting against a large horde of furnishes additional proofs of unabated attachment to her na-
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savage Ashantees. Never was Governor more tlye land, and solicitude for its happiness. She does ample jus-
tice to Great Britain, and directs her executor the Canon to
Sir(le ell_ly and sincerely regretted by a Colony than assure the British people of the gratitude which she felt towards
Charles is regretted by the Colony of Sierra them at her dying moments, for the sympathy and support
_ which they extended, to her in the hours of her bitter adversity:
Leone, which, in losing his fostering care,
- . , but what makes the will Jocularly affecting is her solemn and
feels as if suddenly de rived of a father. I he' impressive, though. superfluous attestation to the purity and
Council,, in announcing the fatal event, which sincerity of the political life of General Riego; for she states
which was done in a Gazette ExtraordinarN broadly that she esteems it to be her last act of justice and duty to the
vvit'l flack, •
edged 1 directed that the Civil Officers awful
lory of her beloved husband solemnly to declare, in the
presence of her God, before whose Judgment-seat she i'
of the Colony should put 011 deep Mourning for feels she must soon , appear, that all his private feelings and
six weeks, as a. mark of dutiful respect to their dispositions respecting his countr_ys,7seponded with his public
lamented Chief.„ acts and professions in defence of its I lutftes•---Thus perished,
iWe need hardly sa v, that the in her youth, this amiable and accompttsvetl lady, the story of
wishes of the colony fora '''
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urgent prompt and of - '
All
ficieni support from England
.are such as Govern- whose 'le abounds with incidents/of melaacholy interest.
those whose feelings or opinions are worthy of consideration
meat cannot 'be expected to disregard,
will readily, extend to her' memory, the tribute of respectful
There is sympathy.