The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-02 00:00:00

FONTHILL AlittEY, $E1T.,30,

The sudden-change it thcoweather this morning from the
most teuiperate heat and mellow Sun-shine to chilling winds and
rain, has thinned the expect Al attendance at the Abbey. There
were comparatively few partick to,-dLy, and they had not the
gratification of tteeing: Fonthl under the most favourable
circumstances ; still,. tinder &cry aspect of the atmosphere,
while yet undespoiled of its curious and costly decorations,
the interior at least must afford matter of interest and sub-
ject of admiration to the spectator. The rarest pieces of or
and furnitnie, which have been disposed of, re-
main still in their accustomed places, until the conclusion of
the sale, when The Tespectiie purchasers will dissmeember this
singular collection, never again to be -re-united. • There were
no articles of attraction-or- interest In the sale to-day. The ar-
tides disposed of were almOst exclusively or a domestic charac-
tter. consisting of houschoalinen of various sorts, lace, quilts,
and other things of thii nature, and therefore I shall leave their
merits to those who alone eke competent to fix their value with.
out the chance of contnuliution. •

The persons who wire injured by the accident which hap-
petted to the Salisbury co;eh yesterday, remain in the same
state as described in my lett.

It appears from the rOlimVitig communication
that Comtnodore O'BRIEN has been killed only in
the newspapers :--:- _ _

" T. 30,—We have great satisfaction in assuring
the public that the itateniebt contained in almost all the provin-
cial papers of the loss of Commodore O'Brien, at Plymouth, is
totally unfounded. This experienced seaman, 'in his diminutive
9itter, the .Royal bift, has been cruising daily, for the last Week
m Cowes Harbour and roads, and. the adjacent waters, to the
great. delight of the gentlemen of the navy anti the amateurs of
sailing, and the wonder and admiration of our visitors front the
inland parts of the kingdom. The niitt deal hem is at this time
in our harbour, and expresses great indignation at the report of
his being drowned, which, he says, while his activity and
skill in managing his Lilliputian craft remain, is an event al.
most beyond the verge at' possibility." . .

Bow-STur.rr (Tim liAy.)---4.10,yd, one of the
Officers, this day appeared to 'answer a charge
preferred against him by a gentleman, for abuse,
while 'on his duty on the Brixton road. Lloyd
strongly denied the charge, and staled, that he.
end his men saw the complainant in a situation
that excited their smspicionS, and which induced
them to speak; to 'hitu. The Magistrates
invited, that iu the event of any Officer being
guilty of abuse, they should, be visited very se-
riously., anti if tho gPtalf,Wlll4ll question wished
for any thing farther, 'the Officer should.attetid
on any day that ht.migtht Think proper. It is
hut justice to say that Lloyd bears a very good
character.

A Letter, dated' Frankfort, 14th of September,
says—" The.Frir that is now in progresS turns
out worse than was expected. Many sellers as
well as buyers have kept a'way ; and, excepting
a traffic in certain articles of luxury, little or any
business has been done: 'Every one, is hastening
to Leipsie, in the hope of finding a more favoura-
ble, state of things. ftisto be feared, however,
that the general scarcity of money will produce
similar effects nmong-the trading world there,
and that the language of complaint will more or
less be the order. of the day."

In the picture show. of Paris they are exposing
for sale a portrait of the Count Las CASAS, said
to be a striking resemblance.

In.the night between the 18th and 19tli ult. a
robbery to a very considerable extent was per-
petrated in the Hotel of the Prefect of the Seine
at Paris. The diamonds of Madame de Chabrol
werelaken away. The loss is estimated at about
80,000 francs-3,2001. sterling.
At the late Assizes at Aix, in France, the se-
ducer of a young girl under age has been con-
demned to six years imprisonment, and to stand
once in the pillory. However we may tax our
neighbours with 'gen,erql ;levity, it would cer-
tainly seem that the public murals cannot be in-
vaded with impunity..
The Brussels Papersinention that a Mr. Healy,
ate Englishman, (who had' already obtained a
patent in Great Britain for the invention of an
improved ship's anchor), had just been honoured
with a similar privilege, for ten years, by the
GOvernment of the Netherlands.
We are to have no fewer' than three French
companies of Comedians'eex spring—one at the
West London 'Theatre,-.another at the Argyll
Rooms, the third in the
ORIGIN OF 'mit;
won!) VAN
KM—Yankee is
the Indian Corruption 'of the word English—
Yonklees, Yanglees, Yankkes, and finally Tailkeer
got in generdl use as a fetal of reproach thus :
,About the year 1713; one J. Hastings, -a 'farmer at
Cambridge, in New England, used the word
Yankee it 4 cant word to express excel-
Jence ; a Yankee GroutlY horse, Yankee cider,
Sec. The Students -at. the College having fre-
quent intercourse with Jonathan, and bearing hirn
employ the. word on all occasions when he in-
,tended to exprt4s his approbation, applied it sat.;
casti'caliy, and caned him. Yankee Jonathan. It
soon became, a mit phrase among the Collegiails
to designate. a sithple week, awkward person ;
•from College, it sprteur over the country, till,
from its currency' in New England, it was at
jength taken up aed applied to the New Eng.
tande;rB. g"" v, as 3 term of reproach. It was
in consequence-of•this that the song called ricwthee
Doodle was comptised. •

In our preceding columns i4•e have, inserted
copious extracts from the Madrid Gazette of the
24th ult., consisting chiefly of a Proclamation
Issued by BALIASTEROS after the failure of the
brilliant enterprise attempted by Rizoo, and of
reports of the preparatory meetings and sittings
of the Extraordinary Cones,, copied into the
Madrid Gazelle from the Cadiz Espeetador of
the 7th and Bth ult.

• From the Proclamation of DALLASTEROS,
"less it should turn out to be a sputious
meet, it is at length ascertained that
_he had
not entered 'into any concert with RI,EGO,
and that, on the contrary, ho had inflexi-
bly. adhered to the conditions prescribed
in his capitulation, with MOLITOR. Ilis troops,
however, appear 'to- have been on the point of
placing themselves under the orders of DIEGO,
for it is admitted by BALLASTEROS, that when
the soldiers of Ritmo threw away their arms,
and rushed forward with Constitutional cries)

to embrace their countrymen, they were re-
ceived as friends by BALL STEII9S'S columns, and
the, men forming the two armies were mingled
together in indiscriminate crowds. BA I:LASTER OS
attributes their subsequent separation to the pro-
dent measures which were immediately adopted
by him ; but those measures do not satisfactorily
accoun4 t either for the retreat of Jill:Go, or for the
fact that none of BA LLASTCHOS'S men finally join-
ed him.. Perhaps the truth is that lbw° was too

precipitate in making BALLASTEROS prisoner,--
that the a ppeara n ce or treachery in that transaction
raised a ferment amongst BALLASTERos's troopi—
and that the failure of the whole enterprise ought
to be attributed to an occurrence which was cer-
tainly calculated to produce one of those sudden
excitements, by which men are sometimes rapidly
impressed with new feelings, and are hurried
into a line of conduct extremely different from
that which they had but a few moments pre-
ilously deliberately resolved on pursuing. BAL-
L ASTEItOi boasts that not one of his soldiers
incorporated himself in the ranks of his _enter-
prisine adversary ; but the last Madrid accounts
sta ted' that amongst the prisoners made from
RIEGO'M unfortunate corps, were 60 or 70 of
BALLASTEIWS'S officers, who had violated their
oaths. Which statement is to be credited ?
At the opening of the Extraordinary Cortes,
no fewer than one hundred and eleven of the

National Representatives appeared and took the
oaths, notwithstanding the perilous circumstances
in which they are placed. The ..4fadriii Grnetie
affects to represent their conduct as being cha-
racterized by 44 misery, madness, and Pride,"
whilst it eulogizes the " frank and grnerous" con-

duct of the Duke of ANGouccsiEl nut vaat
greater, evidence -can be required'', of the
madness of inflated pride, and of the insolent

arroganbe and injustice of successful violepce,
than the. obstinate determination of the French
Generalissimo rather to continue all the horrors
of a sanguinary war than to treat with dlegai-
inate government, composed of men to :whose
courage and potriotisth the Frt.ncli Bourbons.

themselves in a great degree owe their re-
storation to the palaces of their ancestors,
and to go on tratnpling on the rights and ,on
the mangled bodies of an nnofiending people,
and continuing his preparations for laying ,
a great city in ashes, Anless the subjects
of.', an independent -Monarch, who .hare
assembleil around him for the defence of his So-
vereignty and of their own and' their country';
- •
rigfitS, shall bow their necks to the axe of the ex-
ecutioner, and entail upon their natne3 eternal

infamy, by basely . delivering the person of
their KING into the tods of their enemies ',—
Can any thing, on the otherhand, he more frank,
more generous, more `noble and devoted, than

the manly and courageous manner in which the:
Constitutional Government- arid the Cortes come,
forward to acknowledge all the tliiliculties of their'
situation,—to confess that they are altnOst des."
time of resources for maintaining the un
equal conflict into -which they have been forced,'
—and, at the very moment that these admissions.
are wrung from them, by the exigencies or their
situation, presenting the dignified spectacle of
calmly deliberating on the means which'are still
within their power for endeavouring to present
;In effective resistance to the enemy, and with•
unshaken. fortitude proclaiMing to that enemy,
that though he may complete his work of
violence and iniquity, it is impossible for him to.
,triumph over the minds of Spaniards gloriously'
resolved to sacrifice themselves in the cause of.
their country ! Be the issue of the war what it
may, the Spanish Cortes have, by their moderation,:
their.coastancy, their patriotism, the calm and,
dignified character of their deliberations,under the
most trying circumstances as well as in the time
of their undisputed power, not only established
'tor themselves an imperishable fame, but have
contributed', hi a degree which may even per-
haps be considered pre-eminent, to exalt the cha-
racter of Representative Legislatures, and to.
demonstrate their fitness, and'utility in carrying
on the great and important business of national
Governments. ,

The following copiei of the Correspondnce
which took place between the Duke of A.NdOu-
LIME and the King of SPAIN, on the 17th and
21st of August, and of a letter accompanying them
when they were sent to this country from .Gib-
raltar, appeared in the Chtonicle. of this morning.
We exercise due caution in receiving, as genuine,
documents which obtain an unauthorized publicity
only; but we confess that we see no reason to

doubt the authenticity of those which we now lay
before our Readers. The answer of Fkaritl4:aND
is a just rebuke to the insolence, and a; rabble
rejection of the demand of the French General-

issimo.-Our Readers will observe that it confirms
the truth of a "statement which appeared-in the
Sun, but which some of our Contemporaries

took upon themselves to contradict at the
time, viz. that the Governments, both of France
and of Spain, had solicited the mediation of
England. The passage in Kiug FERDWAND'S

etter to which we allude, is as follows-:—.“

have on this subject (his desire to obtain an
honourable peace); communications pending with
the Government of his Britannic MAJESTY; whose
• •
mediation has also been solicited by hii ltlost
Christian illujesty.":---We. are not informed of the
causes which have prolonged and embittered.
the hostilities, notwithstanding this mutual mani-
festation of a dispotition on the part of both •the
Belligerents to terminate their differences by
negociation under the auspices of this
it is, _howevei, not improbable, that France,
with the duplicity which has characterized all
her proceeding,' towards Spain, only affected a
desire to treat, and a &hew of moderation, for
the purpose of lulling the Spaniards into a
dangerou-s security, and perhaps even for that
of amusing the English Govermnent, and of im-
pressing it as long as possible with the belief
that its interference for 'the,protection of Spain
was unnecessary.

LITERAL COPY OF THE AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF THE
DUKE D'ANGOULE:.IE TO HIS IWESTY THE KING OF
SPAIN, BROUGHT THROUGH THE .ItEDIUM OF.AN OFFI-
CER, BEARING A FLAG OF TRUCE FROM THE ExEmy's
SQUADRON, ON THE i9TII AUGUST.
Monsieur, mom Frere,q Cousiu—L'Espagne est delivrie du Joug revolutioanaire ; quelques vines fortihr'es servent seules
de refuge au:: boil-1111LN comproinis. Le Roi, mon Oncle et
Seigneur, 0...-ah pense" (et lea tr6uCmens n'ont Tien cliangi
de
sde on sentiment) que kotre Alajeutl, rendue k la liberti, et usatit
clemence, trouvuroit bon d'uceorder une
=nestle neces-
saire apres tant de troubles, et de dormer a ses peuples, par la