The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-14 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]

With the most vigilant distrust of the accounts
transmitted through French channels from Spaini
and the best disposition to find reasonable grounds
to hope that the Spaniards may succeed, it is ire•
possible not to view the present appearances very
despoil d ing y 'The
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stance, several days since, has been placed beyond
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have
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merely re-
signed the command. But this is an equally unfa.
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cause could induce him to retire.—llls• safety
must have been in remaining at his post if the
game were not desperately against him.—lt may
be said that lie was bought over, and the unprin-
cipled conduct of the other Generals who have
deserted or fled, renders this supposition not
unreasonable ; but still, it requires something
more than two or three signal examples of base.
ness in a nation, to adopt the presumption
that any great General has proved a traitor
when put to the test. Foreigners and 'Spaniards
have given Ballasteros a high character for manly
and military virtues. Ile has hitherto been un-
stained and unsuspected. lias he all at once re.
signed himself to the last degree of turpitude ?
Abishal was already known as an intriguing, un-
principled, but clever adventurer. The attach-
ment of Morillo to the Cortes and the Constitu-
tion was suspected. Sarsfield was a mere nullity.
Time examples of these men, therefore, nre not ap-
plicable to Ballasteros, and we repeat our appre-
!tension that his abandonment of the cause of Spa-
nish freedom is to be ascribed to hopelessness of
success. It is true, on the other side, thnt the
Cortes at Cadiz hold out with a degree of un-
compromising obstinacy which would imply a
confidence in their means of resistance, and the
disposition of the Duke of Angouleme to nego-
tiate is repeated from so many sources that it can
hardly be doubted. It is even said that he is dis-
posed to treat on more moderate and liberal
terms—liberal in every sense of that word— n tha
the imbecile fury of the Madrid Regency, or
even the general spirit of the French Ultras
would induce one to suppose. Some recent ac-
counts from Spain represent the puppets first
mentioned as having got into the hands of another
prompter and manceuvrer than the Duke of Angou-
!erne, viz. time Russian Minister at Madrid. 'This
was stated in substance in a letter from M ad rid,
which appeared in the herald some days since.
In fact, it would appear as if the continuance of
the war in Spain was attmihutable only to the
evil influence of Russia. Their Highnesses the
Regents, however, though ready to be played
u:umoatrit,erasnd prompted by the Russian Minister,
thought they might be more safe at the head-
for their
this they sought a double object—security
of the' Duke of Angouleme. By
Persons, and a real or seeming share
in the Councils of the
abreech,tch g and
the
per-
haps also the opportunity
pro-
ceedings of the Duke of Angouleme more closely.
But they were disappointed. lie refused them per-
mission to accompany him, and left them to devour
of watching
their spleen at Madrid under the protection of
rather a slender force. It would appear from the
rench Papers that• he had little or no COMMitIll•
ration with them—and• even the State Papers of
the Regency no longer figure so frequently and
conspicuously in the Paris journals. The same feud

which seems to divide the French and their friends
of the Faith in Spain, appears also to divide the
French Ministry at Paris. There is a schism among
the Ultra, or, as they call themselves, the Mo-
narchical Journals. One party—that of Viltele
and Chateaubriand, affects moderation—whilst
the fanatical or highflying Royalists will have
nothing short of death to every thing revolutionary.
But how is this to be effected ? For the fanatics
confess that extraordinary means must be em-
ployed to make their cause triumph. By call-
ing in foreign aid to France and Spain. The
principle upon which the French and the Re-
gents in Spain, and the Royalists in Paris
seem to split, is this calling in of the Rus-
sians—most , likely it is the secret under-
standing that the Emperor Alexander is " no-
thing loath" to interfere, that makes his friends
in Paris and Madrid more confident and dar-
ing, than their weakness would otherwise jus-
tify. Finally, it is said, as we observed above,
that the Duke of Angouleme is really disposed
to negociate. But if it be true that the French
Government rejects the mediation of England,
whilst the Cortes insist upon her guarantee,
negociation can turn to no useful purpose.—
France, it is said,• rejects the mediation of
England, in pursuance of a Note of M. de
Montmorency at Verona.—But this Minister
has long since retired from office, because
his pledges to Russia had not been fulfilled.—
There ;81 therefore, no obligation of consistency
in the case. It is known that this Ministe
returned to Paris from Verona, full charged with
ti: designs of the Emperor of Russia ; and it is
not unlikely that Russian influence at Paris, and
not any regard for the forgotten Montmorency,
shuts out England from mediating between France
and Spain.—lt is, we understand, a common ex-
pression at Paris, that the two parties really in-
terested in the Spanish war, are England and
Russia.

RAW COTTON A REMEDY You BURNS AND
SCALD9.---The Baltimore medical and philoso-
phical Lyceum contains an account of an acciden-
tal discovery of this virtue in cotton by the wife
of Captain R-, who, in a frigate, caught ap
a large bundle of cotton, and applied it over the
whole of the scalded parts of a beloved child,
upon whom a large kettle of boiling water had

fallen while she was standing before a kitchen
fire. Soon after this, the tortured and screaming
infant became perfectly quiet, and fell into a
gentle and easy slumber. The cotton was suf-
fered to remain on several hours, and when it
was removed, there was not the least appearnnse
of inflammation remaining. Several other per-
sons, who at first had no faith in this remedy,
have also tried it in similar cases; it is likewise
supposed to have some efficacy in removing rheu-
matic pains.

A few days since a penny of William the Con-
queror was dug up in the Friars in this city.
On the obverse is a full-faced bust extending to
the edge of the coin, and crowned with an arch-
ed crown ; the right band holding a sceptre is
placed upon the left breast. Round the head is
the legend rit.w.st REX (r was the Saxon w).
The reverse has a single cross extending nearly
to the inner circle, with an amulet in every quar-
ter, each amulet containing one of these letters,
P. A. X. S. The whole is surrounded with the in-
scription 1 P,CLPINE ON PINT. Near the same spot
was found a London penny of Edward 1. On
the obverse the head extends only to the inner
circle—is full-faced, and crowned with an open
crown of three fleurs-de-lis. The epigraph is

Lnw. n. ANGL. DNS. 11 YR. The reveise is a
single broad cross, extended to the outer edge,
with three pellets in each quarter, and circum-
scribed with ►he words ctvrrAs LONDON.--(Os-
ford Herald.)
D►towNrxa.--Yesterday afternoon a reepect-
able youth employed at Mr. ACKERMANN% Re-
pository, in the Strand, named Christopher Cliff,
while bathing in the river near Waterloo Bridge,
unfortunately sunk into a deep hole, and was
drowned. The accident being observed by se-
veral persons, the drags were instantly put in
requisition, which very soon caught he body, and
it was conveyed to the Spotted Dog, in Strand-
lane ; two medical gentlemen were sent for, who
promptly arrived with their apparatus, &r. which
they used with the utmost perseverance for up-
wards of an hour and a half, but without the
slightest success, the spark of life being totally
extinct.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morn-
ing, the 6th inst. at two o'clock, J. Hopkins,
Esq. of Cottage-terrace, Dublin, was discovered
in his bed-chamber actually in a blaze. It ap-
pears that the unfortunate gentleman, had been
reading in bed ; and it is supposed that the candle
had communicated with the sleeve of his shirt.
Ile was found on the floor, scorched in a terrible

manner, and although medical aid was instantly
procured, all efforts to save his life proved un-
availing ; he lingered till yesterday (Thursday,
the 7th inst.) about two o'clock, when he ex-
pired. Mr. Hopkins was advanced in years, and
of tho most amiable and prepossessing manners.
His death, under any circumstances, would have
been a source of deep regret to his numerous
friends and acquaintances.--(Dublin Freeman's
Journal.)

A poor industrious woman of the name of
Scully; living in Green-court, Tooley-street, in
the Borough, on Thursday last lost a fine little
girl of four years of age, who had either strayed
or been taken away. Up to Saturday morning
last, the anxious search of the agitated parent was
unavailing in the recovery of her lost child, of
whom she could get no tidings whatever ; when,
being persuaded to issue hand-bills, she scraped
together sufficient money for the purpose,
and went out to get them printed ; on her
return, the ill-starred woman learned that
tier sole remaining child, an infant of two years
old, whom she bad left in the care of an acquaint-
1111CV, bud, during her absence, fallen into a tub
of boiling water lea upon the floor, and been
taken to Guy's Hospital, dreadfully scalded, and
where it died on Monday morning at eight o'clock.
The other child has not yet been found.

TREAD-MILL IN IRELAND.

The following is extracted from the Parlia•
mentary Report for 1823, of the Inspector-Ge-
neral of Prisons in Ireland :--

" We have an immediate prospect of the esta-
blishment of the tread-mill in many of the gaols
of Ireland. It may be applied, on a small scale,
for the purpose of supplying water: and on a
larger one, to the grinding of meal for the consump-*
tion of the prison. Some smaller wheels are
already in operation, and larger ones are in ope-
ration in several of the counties. We are sorry
to find that a question had arisen, whether the
exercise of the tread-mill is of such a nature as to
prove injurious, in some instances, to the health
of the prisoners employed. But this objection has
been to us most satisfactorily over-ruled, upon the
opinion of some of the most eminent mod ical audio.
rities in this kingdom,who haveentered into the de-.
tails of the case, and proved in the clearest manner
that these injurious effects are attributed to the lee
hour in the tread-mill wholly without reason.—
The inquiry will, we trust, remove from the
public mind any prejudice which may have been
excited against the adoption of a measure in our
prisons from which the most advantageous results
are anticipated, and of the good effects of which
past experience has placed before us the most
unquestionable proofs. The tread-mill has proved
to be not only a power applicable to almost every
description of work, but a certain means (even in
the failure of every species of manufacture) of
affording steady employment to the prisoners ;
and a description of labour, which, although
moderately severe, is yet of so interesting and
constant a nature, as to have become a terror to
those who are committed to prison ; and conse-
quently a check to the commission of crime."