The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-13 00:00:00

111 E ,LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
tracts from the Morning Pqpers)November 13.

[Thr. TiMES.TJ
We present to-day a great mass, of Spanish
news, of as much importance as might be ex-
pected at. the conclusion of the first act of the
Peninsular revc,!ution. Mina, as we stated on
Tuesday, has ratified the surrender of Barcelona,
and the place will have been taken possession of
on ,the 4th instant. Tarragona and Dosta!rich
follow, we may almost say, of course. It is
impossible to blame the gallant Mina for what
be has done ; but it is somewhat ominous that he
should have been acceding to the absolute Mo-
narch at the moment when Ballasteros was ex-
claiming against the ingratitude with which his
occesbion had been rewarded. In the mean
time, however, it is proper to mention, that
Ferdinand has suspended all proscriptions or
deportations till he reaches Madrid himself.—
.We shall praise this act when we know the
result. James the Second sspended the execU-
tion of the Duke of Monumou.th till he had
,seen him, and humanity would have augured well
from the interview : the subsequent execution,
therefore, of the Duke did but evince more
strongly the ,cruel nature of the King. The
Grandees of Spain have signed a liatterinend-
dress to the Duke of Angouleme on his victories
over their country. It appears by the French
papers, that Prince Talleyrand ostentatiously
displays himself at Court, and is every-where
well received, even by the Duchess of Angou-
letne. Are we to infer from this that he is
acquitted in the judgment of the French Court
of the active partimputed to him in Savary's
work, in the destruction of the Duke d'Bughein?

ENEw Tunes.]
It was some time ago stated that there were
two classes of Bankers at Paris who were dis-
posed to contract for a Loan to the King of Spain.
One set insisted as a preliminary that he should
recognise the former Loans ; the other that a
he should not. By private letters of Mon-
day from Paris.. we learn, that in the latter
class was a M. Cassart, who was finally ac-
cepted as. Contractor by the Spanish Govern-
ment. It is said his Broker brought out the
Bonds for a new Loan on Monday on the Ex-
change at Paris; but that they were very ill
• received by the holders of former Bonds. This'
circumstacce, added to a report of Ballasteros
having issued a rebellious Proclamation, rather
seemed to cast a damp on yesterday's market.
Spanish Bonds of 1821 fell to 26.10 and those of
Bernales to 181. Consols closed at 83-.—Two
failures were announced yesterday, which created
some interest—one of extensive business in the
West India, the other in the Baltic Trade.—lt is
'ascertained by the accounts from Paris, that the
two vessels, the Perk and Arethuse, arc bound
icr the fiist instance to Teneritfe, where a num-
ber of French vessels captured by Spanish cruisers
had'been taken, in order to prevent their being
condemned, and passing from the reul owners;
whence these frigates will proceed to Mexico.

[MORNING POST.]
Paris Journals to the 11th instant reached us
bra night by Express. They inform us that the
fate of Catalonia was decided, the French having
taken possession of Barcelona on the 4th instant,
conformably to a Convention concluded on the
id. General Vasserot had been appointed Go.
vernor of that important place, the submission
of which, attended as it was to be by that of Tar.
raliona and ilostalrtch, would be most unfortu-
nate if there were any truth in the reports brought
by private letters from Paris yesterday, that"
Bal-
lesteros and his,. Army had positively hoisted the
standard of revolt against the King of Spain."--
Nothing of this kind is stated in the Papers,
but they mention contests which are said to
have taken place between . the French and
the -soldiers of the -Faith at Saragossa, in
which the latter had had some wounded, and
bad been compelled to retire 'from the town,
with their Chief Miralles. This is not the first
•time that disturbances of the same nature have
eccurred to Saragossa—they happened long be-
fore the liberation of the King, and itis not sur-
ittising that the. spirit from which they proceeded
(that of persecution towards the Constitution-
ilista)oliould have caught fresh activity from his
example, and broken out into acts of still greater
injury and violence. The Duke of Angouleme,
after having reviewed the French troops at
Madrid, and received the congratulations of the
Civil and Military Authorities,. tegether with a
most servile address from the grandees of Spain,
quitted that. capital at one o'clock, P. M. on the
4th instant, on his return to France. If he
should have inade no stay at Bourdeaux on his
way, we may expect to hear
.by the next urrival
of his having reached Paris.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Our readers will remember, that on the French
entering Cadiz, we were told by the French
Papers that two fast-sailing ships were dispatch-
ed" rom that port on a double destination. They
were in the first place to proceed to the Canaries,
• in order to rascue the French prizes captured by
Spanish privateers and carried thither, and then
they were to proceed to South America, to com-
municate 11w happy news of the liberation of Fer-
dinand. These vessels actually sailed form
Cadiz on the 4th instant, 45 Teneritie is only
six or eight days sail from that port, they
• ought to have arrived there on the Itth at
farthest. Now, we have letters from Tone-
riffe to the 'list, inclusive, up to which date no
such French ships had arrived. The inference,
,therefore, is, that the mission to the Canaries
is it mere colouring, and the ships have been or-
tiered to proceed direct to South America. This
proves two things Ist, That the French Press
is used by the Government in practising decal).
and,%dly, that France must have designs on
t South America, which are., at least, of more im-
portance to her than the rescuing the property of
French merchants carried into Teneriffe, tp a
large amount, from the hands of the privateers. It

is not, however, so much French force that we
demi in America as French intrigue. We must
never forget that the French do not meet us in
South America as an enemy that we can grapple
with, but act through.the medium of a part of the
population of the respective States. They count
on the clergy for instance, who in some of the
States have still great power and great influence,
and we may be sure the Monks and Friars
will always be on the side of despotism and
misgovernment. We are much mistaken if
ere long the French do not give a new turn
to things, both in Mexico and Colombia.—
The extensive emigration of Spanish Constitu-
tionalistis to South America, will also neither
benefit the Independent Cause, nor promote
the English interest. Deceived in their fond
hopes of the regeneration of their country, the
failure of which they attribute as much to the
faithless and Machiavelian conduct of the Eng-
lish Government, as to the imbecility of the
Cortes, and the treachery of:, their leading men,
the Constitutionalists now entertain the most
bitter enmity towards England. As far as their
influence in South America extends we may be
sure it will not be exerted in our favour.

[MORNING ligitALll.]
Accounts from Gibraltar to the iSth were re-
ceived yesterday: The members of the Spanish
Cortesond other leading Constitutionalists, who
had taken refuge, resolved upon closing their ca-
reer with au act of authority which accords little
with the want of energy they showed in the ex-
ercise of power, and the impotent condition to,
which they are at present reduced. Their reso-
lution is to issue a Manifesto, declaring that Fer-
dinand, by the violation of his pledges and his
oaths, has forfeited all right and title to the
throne of Spain. This step proves either of two
things—or perhaps both—that the refugees
have no hope whatever from the clemency of
Ferdinand, and that they contemplate the
possibility of a re-action in Spain. A variety
of opinions are expressed by persons arrived
from Cadiz and Gibraltar, as well as in private
letters, respecting the causes of the failure
of the Spanish cause. The most general one
is, that the inertness of the Spanish charac-
ter, and of the late. Ministry in particular,
was the great evil, and that the Cortes, as
, was not at all to blame. Some vio-
lent measure—others that may be called ener-
getic, were proposed, after the arrival of the
Government from Seville, at Cadiz ; but the
imbecility of the Ministry defeated every
thing ; and the Cortes, being a deliberative
body, did not dare to exceed its own attri-
butes by encroaching upon the Executive. Among
the measures suggested—and which, perhaps,
might have kept the Constitutional cause alive
still—was the continuance of the Regency. But
the Ministers wanted courage to hazard so de-
cisive a,step, and the idea of giving offence to
England was urged by them among other grounds
for their opposition. There was a sort of blind
delusion, even among the well-informed of the
Spaniards to the very last, that England
would not look quietly on whilst France was
taking uncontrouled possession of Spain. It does
not appear that the honesty of the Spanish Mini-
sters can be fairly questioned. They have even
by their Bight, and by their utter hopelessness
of being allowed to return to their country,
proved the want of any understanding between
them and the French. But they were wholly
inadequate to the crisis of Spanish affairs. No
one of them was a man of any political expe-
rience. They knew but little of the practice of
political business ; and whatever might have been
their dispositions, it is now generally said, and
even admitted by some of themselves, that their
accession to power was fatal to the Constitution.
The preceding Ministry bad more decision, more
energy, more ardour. So well aware were the.
French even at this, that when the change of
Ministry was pending at Madrid, hints were
thrown out by the French agents that the removal
of one party,and the succession► of more moderate
men, might lead to pacific arrangements. But
woe to those who are so weak as to take counsel
of an enemy ! One of the strong holds of Mr. Pitt
upon the people of England was the undisguised
eagerness of the enemy to see him removed front
the helm of the State. We are informed
that the Spanish Ministers were by no means
unsuspicious of the duplicity of Ferdinand, and
the probability of his breaking every pledge, and
revoking every promise, upon getting into the safe
keeping of the French. They obtained these
pledges from, in order the more effectually to de-
grade him, and in the hope of their being by pos-
sibility available at a future day, rather than
with any hope► of protection for themselves. The
last Cadiz Decree of Ferdinand happened to be
shown in the presence of some Constitutionalists
soon after his departure ; half the paper chanced
to remain blank ; one of the leading persons
present observed upon this, that the blank was
left for a new Decree of Ferdinand, revoking the
rormer.

[BRITISH PRESLI
The career of tyranny and blood in Spain is
running to its goal with rapid wheels. The fiat
of lUego's murder has at length been pronounced,
and Angouleme, who handed him to his blood-
hounds, in whose clutches he now is, has been
named by the tyrant, Duke of the Trocadero.—
Ferdinand, it appears, does not wish to scent
lUego's blood ; and, therefore, while the
deed of death is enacting, he will remain
at a distance in Toledo or Aranjuez. If
it were an auto-dale, in which a score of
victims were to die in flames, the despot, with
his family, would be present ; but a single mur-
der, and of a man with whom, is his Palace on
the Manzanares, he so often sate, and smoked,
and jested, calls " busy meddling memory" up
again, and provokes recollect►ons which even
he would fain be rid of. There is an all-
wise Providence who,, for his own inscrutable
purposes, suffers these things, sometimes, for a
sparer, to, go, on ; but sets them down in his ine-
vitable lists, for future retribution.. Ile will remem-
ber those days of blood, and visit them yet on the
tyrant with awful retribution. The Minister and
his hell-hounds may run riot for a space, covering

Spain with proscriptinn and massacring its pa-
triots who are still within their grasp; but foreign
bayonets cannot always keep down the spirit of
resistance. Vengeance wilt be treasured up for
:future day, and the period will "again arrive
when Spain will rise against the tyranny that
tramples it, and the tyrant and his familiars will
call in vain for that mercy, which their relentless
hearts denied to others. What a double tie of
disgrace does the Title of the Trocadero bring
with it, both to the heartless imbecile who has
devised it, and to him on whom the desig-
nation has been conferred ! What must that
man be, who seeks to perpetuate' the dis-
grace of Spain by a record of this descrip-
tion ? and what feelings must Angouleme
himself have, to receive the worthless favour
from such hands? The modern Nero seems to
be urging his measures to the 46 very crack of
doom." Could he be obeyed, Spain would be
now only one vast prison-house, and the scaffolds
in every province would float in blood. The scenes
of terror D'Aunoy was enacting in Cadiz fully
display the spirit of Ferdinand's Government.
Arrests were thickening under his secret man-
dates in every quarter, until arrested by 13our-
mont. Latre,,the ex-Constitutional Commandant,
and the Duke del Marque, a Member of the Cortes,
were both arrested on the 20th, and but for the
interference of the French General would have
been hurried off, to dungeons at Madrid. If any
thing can rouse the fallen Spaniards, it will be
execrable rind outrageous tyranny such as this.—
rhey must • see that, with the tyrant who now
reads on Spain, there can be neither faith, nor
rust, nor mercy, expected..