The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-04 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jugust 4.

[IIIE
We have been hitherto in doubt whether the
•pretended Regency 'at 'Madrid were knaVes or
madmen ; but we incline now to the latter opi
niun. They were appointed,' be it remembered,
to govern in the name of King'Ferdinand, and to.
prove with how much liberality he would be dis-
posed to measure back again •to, generous
those rights and enjoyments which the
Head of the House of Bourbon announced to•
them that they never should nor could possess,
but as, donations' from the: hand: of their Sove,
reign. They were to bring back.the affection's of
the constitutional party to Ferdinand, and to de-,
tech the ar'my from the Cates and from the Con-
stitution. See how they have done all this. We
described on Saturday what a piece of swindling
they had just played off against public credit, by:
threatening to discharge the. national . securities
Iron-) the debt contracted by the nation, and,
diverting those securities to their own selfish
ends. \ire now find, in the French Papers,
of Thursday, a decree of this Regency,'
which, as an encouragement to the Spanish
'army and authorities to desert the. Cortes,
hat ?—multiply the promotions ? increase
,the pay ?' past a, general amnesty'? confirm the
existing appointments ? No: Heaien be praised,
it takes aolueh methods of undermining the pa—
triotimn of the Spaniards. Instead of augment-
ing the Military pay, or confirming the Aug!.
mentation long since granted-by the Cortes,- it
rescinds that increase,ead'reduces the pay ! So
far from passing amnesties, or'retaining the pub.:
lie ftnictionaries in office, this insane docuinent
strips all official Spaniards or' foreigners,. who
have at any time served the Constitutional go-.
vernment, of their several' trusts ,and nomina-
tions ; those who have acted in the militia, or
have belonged to secret societies, of their
pay, as well as of all' their decorations and
honours ; and this without prejudice to what
additional penalties they may have incurred
from other parts of their conduct! AS the
crowning prdviCat of this Manifesto, the creditors
of the army' are not to •be paid ; and whatever
sums have been disbursed fel—military equip-.
Mews., the mock-treaturt %yin insist on being
refunded to it' by the Parties ! Truly;,•it was
time for the .Generalissimo to beat a retreat from
among the sage's whom he had invested with
power, and 'to run away from Madrid in any di-
rection-to which his better genius might conduct
him. This decree is worth a whole campaign of
sictorks. Bad it been framed expressly by the
most zealoui friend' of the Cortes, for the de-
sruction of the common enemy, it Could, not have
been more happily imagined: It at once betrays
tbe.desperation of the Ultras, and rivets every
Constitutional Spaniard to that eauSe with which
his own civil existence must' be henceforward
identified. •

• ' istottsoNo cuaosicr..t.l
Several. private Expresses were received, on.
Saturday from Paris, from which they were dis-
patched on Thursday evening'. the doting
printed' price of the ftentes on that day was
901. 50c., being three-quarters per cent. below
the prices of Wednesday. The New Loan had
also'fallen to a premium on the same evening.—
Intelligence has been received by one of these
expresses', which is Very important, and its source
is so.goodobat the greatest confidence may he
placed in its aufhenticity. The Duke d'Angou'
!erne has proceeded from Madrid, attended by as
many of the garrison as could be spared, and his
first object is to re-open the communication.he-
twixt General. l3otirck's division; and the Spanish
Capital, Which is, by the latest advices, com-
pletely inter.i.upted by numerous bands of Gue-
rillas. The highly unmilitary conduct of the
Bourbon Generalissiene in' the distribution of his
army in all parts of thePeniusula,w ithout possessing'
fortifications on which its different divisions could
have rested in, the event of reverses, is already,
completely exem-plified by the dangerous situa-
tion in which General BourCk finds himself
placed; in consequence of his defeat at Commis',
and from which he cannot be extricated without
a.strong body of soldiers to clear for him a pas-
sage to the point on which the general concentra-
tion of the army is to be effected. After covering
the retreat of General Bourck's division froth' Ga.,
liia, and'opening for him a passage to Madrid, the
next object of the Royal Commander is to libe-
rate the three divisions in Andalusia, under the
orders of Bourdesoult, Bourmont, and Molitor,
lose positions are equally unmilitary and dan-
gerous with that of General 13oiirck, for being on
every side hemmed in by a warlike population,
affil pressed by a numerous army of regular
troops and militia, a passage must be opened for'
them,,throngb "which they may he enabled to, retire
oh the appointed: place of cencentration.The Prince
Generalissitno, after making the arrangements
which are absolutely necessary for the retreal'of
thp army, does not remain to superintend their
execution; hut secures iiiisLwn safety by returning
to Paris, v 4 11P1:1. be
,is exilroed to arrive on or be-
fore the t of this month. The ()emend made
by the French Government on the Members of
the Holy Alliance for the assistance stipulated
by trea.ty, is again repeated in these advices, and
the immediate review of a Russian Army of
160,000 men in Poland gives additional force
to the' prevailing idea that a united effort will
soon be made by the European Tyrants to im-
pose deSpotism and ignorance on the inhabitants
of the At Paris it was known that
small bodies of foreign troops were daily passing
through France towards the Pyrenean mountaius„
and* it i'vas 'generally considered that this was
defy the prelude to the concentration in the
South of Europe 'of hordes of Barbarians, who
will gladly issue from the North at the nod of
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triagnarnmay.

[NEW TIMES.]
The ?tfoniteur of Friday last contains a bulle-
tin of the 26th ult. stating the occupation of
Ferrol, the garrison of which place, two thou-
sand strong, recognised the authority of the Re-
gency, and continued to do the duty of the