The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-18 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

SIR—As the remarks contained in your Paper
of yesterday, on the Report which I have just
presented to the Greek Committee, are calculated
to create a prejudice against it generally in the
minds of your readers, and thus tend, in some
degree, to defeat the object-of my humble la-
bours in favour of a nation struggling for exist-
ence ; and ns, moreover, not a single line of the
Report, thus sweepingly condemned, has been
admitted into your columns, I trust you will
allow me to inform those readers, that, in-
dependently of the details communicated by
others, the British public was minutely in-
formed of passing events, together with such
data as I thought most likely to awaken Its
sympathies, upon all I saw during my recent
visit to the Moron, through the medium of a
Morning Paper of the highest resectability, both
on the score of consistency and principle. I
would also beg leave to inform the Readers.of
your journal,..that...ll--pArogri4itt-in the Report
promises such details as the Committee may re-
quire for the appeal, which itlittends to found on
a statement that merely professes to be "rather
promineltt facts, than a mi-
nute record of events," and that the Committee
has promised these details, in the few lines which
precede my report.
While I admit the nurnerousimperfections of a
paper drawn up at a very short notice, I hope it
is not asking too much, when I further request,
that your readers may not form their opinion on
what the writer of the remarks in question says,
without at least doing tile the justice to compare
his strictures with the report itself.
With respect to the
insinuation about my
courting notoriety, I am most willing to bear all
the responsibility of that
mighty charge, if the
occasional obtrusion of my name on public notice
does but lead to the smallest benefit being con-
ferred on the suffering
anti struggling people of
Greece.

I am, Sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
EDWARD DLAQUIERE.
London, Sept. 17th, 1823.

'„• As we felt a strong interest in Mr. IBLAQuiratr.'s
Report of the state of Greece, inserted in our Paper of Tuesday
hot, we readily give admission to the foregoing Letter.

THE SUN.

SOLRM QUIS DICERL F.ll-SUM driDEJT

LONDON,
THURSDAY, SEPTEZJBER 18, 1823.

Information has been received at LLOYD'S this
morning of the Capture of the following Portu.
guese vessels which left Bahia on the 2d of July
by Lord COCHRANE'S Squadron; they having
arrived at Bahia previous to the 4th ult. viz. :
Prornptistuo, Bizarrio, Leal Portuguese, Conde
de Peniene, and a Russian ship. It is supposed
the above are some of the valuable ships that had
the Church property on board. The greatest
confusion prevailed at Bahia on their arrival.

The Argo, ZINC, from Amsterdam, arrived at
Cowes yesterday with 300 foreign passengers, as
settlers, bound to Rio Janeiro.

A very general apprehension prevails, that at
the time the last accounts were sent off from the
French head-quarters, the Constitutionalists
within Cadiz' Were on the point of giving up the
contest, and of surrendering themselves, their
City, their Sovereign, and the Liberties of their
Country, to the Duke of ANGOULEME. It may
be true that the cause of the Constitution has
been reduced to this desperate situation. We
are not, of course, in possession of any infor-
mation which could enable us to prove that
the existing despondency is unfounded, and to
reanimate the drooping hopes of the friends to
the Spanish cause. On the other hand, however,
we do not sec that there are as yet any sufficient
facts to warrant the opinion that all further re-
sistance on the part of Cadiz has become hope-
less, and must necessarily be abandoned. The
French have done little or nothing since the
capture of the Trocadero. On the contrary,
they have acknowledged that the Spaniards
are still masters of their works near that
position. ,The shells thrown from the Tro-
cadero appear to have been only directed
(notwithstanding the assertion of the Etoile

that they had reached Cadiz itself) against thd
opposite fort of Puntales, near which, and not in
Cadiz, were situated the timber and brandy
magazines set on fire by the bombardment. It
is true, that an intercourse seems to have been
going on between the Constitutionalists and the
Duke of ANGOULEME, by means of Colonel GAR"'
CIA, the Duke of ALATA, and the Duke de
GUICHE. But it is just as probable that that in-
tercourse may be broken off, unless the French
consent to satisfactory terms, as it is that it will
terminate in the dishonourable submission of the
Cortes and Constitutional Government. We do
not say that the Constitutionalists have not
shrunk from the last great encounter in which
the French have threatened to engage them
before the walls and batteries of their city.
It may be, certainly, that they have yielded
to despair :—it may be that their principal
leaders have been induced, either by fear, or
by some other unworthy motive, to betray that
cause which they are bound to maintain to the
last extremity. Treachery has already shewn
itself, and has already succeeded, in so many in-
stances, that it is impossible not to dread its suc-

cessful manifestation also in this. We do not,
therefore, as we have already stated, venture to
assert that the Constitutionalists have not shewu
a disposition to submit. We only express
our opinion that such an apprehension as yet
rests entirely upon surmise. The French, indeed,
speak with an almost overwhelming confidence
of their approaching triumph. It is natural to
think that they would not thus expose them-
selves to the ridicule which must cover them is
the event of their failure, unless they felt some-
thing like an absolute assurance of the certainty
of their success. But, when we recollect the
equally positive, if not more positive terms, iu
which they repeatedly announced the certainty
of approaching triumphs over the gallant MINA,
only to encounter the disgrace of repeated
failures and disappointments, the glowing co-
lours with which they now invest their arms
and their prospects at Cadiz necessarily
vanish. It is also true, that they unhesitatingly
--
affirm that the population of Cadiz has decidedly
declareder_tht against
divisions
nstthe protractor' of Its resist
nhave b roken out between the
nave,—that
aa
militia and the troops of the line,—and that the
military Governor, VALDsz, after having held a
Council of War, has announced that he can no long-
er maintain the defence. But, when we also retol-'
lect that equally positive statements on the part
'of the French have been frequently falsified,—
when we consider that their knowledge of what is
passing within Cadiz must necessarily be very
imperfect,—and when we see thut in the present
instance they have themselves been imprudent
enough to discover the real quality of their al-
legations, by pretending to report what had been
heard and seen by the Duke de GUICIIE,
during his progress through Cadiz, before the
Duke himself had returned to furnish them
with the truth,—it is impossible not to be con-
vinced, that, even although the assertions of the
French may be well founded, they are utterly
unworthy of credit until they are established
by subsequent facts, and by the actual progress
of events.—A short time, however, must put
an end to all uncertainty upon this most im-
portant subject.—Even if the Duke of Artoou-
tests should obtain possession of Cadiz, and of
the person of the KING, they deceive themselves
much who think that by that success the-affairs
of Spain will be settled.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

SUS OFFICE, HALF.PAST Orat o'CLocr,

We have just received, by Express, the Paris
Papers of Tuesday, the Pilate of yesterday,
and the Madrid Gazelle of the 11th instant.—
They announce the important facts that the Duke
of ANGOULEME has sent his ultimatum into Cadiz,
that the Portuguese have commenced hostile ope-
rations against Spain, on the line of 13adajos, and
that RIEGO has succeeded in throwing himself
into Cadiz with his troops. The following are