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

SPQRTUNG INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD RACl4.—(FtnaT DAY.)--TVESD.AY.
A Gold Cup, value 100 gs, and tiOgs in specie. Four.yr.olds,
7it. 71b. ; five, list. 7fb. ; six, Ost. ; and aged, 9st. 4th. Four
miles,
Mr. scaith's Netherfield, 4 yrs, won this race in a miter.
besting lir. Alolltineys b, in, Lug, and Mr. Brown's ch. e.
Brilliant.
The Noblemen anti Gentlemen's Plate of MX Threelr-olds,
7g.; four, list. Mb.; five, list. 121 h,; six,9st. Vb. ; and, ageti,
9st. 41b. The winner to be sold for 200 gs, if demanded.
\Von by Scarps, beating three others ; there were three heats,
but the superiority of Scarpa's running was such aitt to giv44
little cltocx. to his opponents, and tho two last heats were WOlk
in a canter. ____,,,,,
BLAKENEX RACES, WEDNESDAY.
The Town Plate of Fifty Sovereigns was won by Major
Wilson's linwrence beating l‘lr. Smith's Sailor.
Sweepstakes of Five Sovereigns each, with Thirty added.—
Major Wilson's II f. by Juniper, walked over.
Handicap Sweepstakes of Five Sovereigns each, withTweaty
added, was won by Mr. Warne's Huntress, beating two others.
The hunters' Stakesof Twenty Sovereigns, were won by M r.
Dewing's Brush, beating Mr. Chaplin's Haphazara.
The Ladies' Purse for Nag Horses was won by Mr. Gibbs's
Radical, beatify Mr. Cay's Violaute.
Match for k'ifty Sovereigns, Mr. Smith's Sailor beat Mr.

Gibbs's Radical.
Five Sovereigns for Galloway*, wax won lth. GooWe*
PoneY. Stnnilb.opec
atatctt fur .1 en Sovereigns, Mr. Gallant Snualliopos into;
Mr. Urruierwooti's Amy.

CKICKET.
Tho Match between Camberwell (with Evans givon) and
Kingston (with Watts, ilransgrove, and Nelhams, from Rich,
mond, given), was played yesterday at Hampton's Cricket,
ground, Camberwell, which terminated in favour of Camber.

KINOSTOIC
'At innings -
24 ditto

CAMBERWELL.
100 I lit Innings
til2d ditto • ,

ImIATCH fllO5l MAIDSTONIII TO LONDON,
Mr, 0. West, the pedestrian, started at one o'clock yester,
day morning, front 31aidstone, for twenty sovereigns, to go on
foot from Maidstone to Highgate, computed at forty.two
in nine hours anti a quarter. The undertaking was a great
one, considering that the road, from its hills, is one 9f the most
difficult out of London. The pedestrian reached Birchwood
corner, 20 miles, in 10 minutes less than four hours, and re,
freshed and started again ut five o'clock. fle proceeded at
something mare than four miles and a half An hour, and arrivfd
at NVeuttninster-bridge at eight o'clock, re4eshed in St. Mar-
: tin's.lane, and left himself' an hour and a halt' to perform the
remaining part of the distance. He had V 2 minutes to ascentt
the hill nt ffighgate, and he did it in 10 winutts very leisurely,
and won the match easily,

NewPowr, ist.r. Of Mott; Ace. 12.—The
harvest in this Island commenced on 'Monday,
with the prospect of a most abundant crop, par,
Ocularly Wheat, Barley, and Oats. Beans and
Peas have failed ; not more than half a crop is
expected : Turnips never looked better. Buy
harvest is completed with an average crop.
Accintsrr yr IlAstrsTEAn.—Yesterday morn,
ins;, as Mr. :Holmes And Mr. Robertson, of 014
North-street, Red Lion•souare, were returning
through llampstead to town, in a horse and rig,
at the descent which leads directly into Harry-
stead from the heath, they met a water-curt in
the middle of the road, duawn by a horse wholly
unattended. The horse in the gig being extreme,
ly spirited would not pass the cart, but began
plunging in a most alarming manner, And in a
very few minutes would have dashed the gig to
pieces, had not one of the gentlemen (Mr. Ro-
bertson) junti)ed out anti seized him in time to
prevent any serious accident ; as it was, one °V
the shafts of the gig was broken in pieces. Tilt!
parish ought to see that the water,carts are better
Offended.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIOY. ANPI Cumn
Between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning lot.
as Taylor and Allan, two of the dismounted patrol, were
on duty near Kensingtonalote, a woman with a Child in her
arms passed them with tk very disordered step ; anti they su,..
pecting the sanity of the woman, from her AppnarATlCO, at 0
being Out at welt an hour with an infant, Allan followed her,
and came up with her just as she had approaehed ep
open well near thU Pritlee of Wales publiF-honset jl.l whi*
day WAS catered Wan Mr. Sketchley, A Magistrate of iseusing-
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ottliun:selocilhiyfirilot°lwie:tiretiotnnhoiciobtli:l.
ton. She stated herself to he the Wire of Mr. .lonee, a carpenter,
in Young-street. Kensington? and admitted hv ful
iletof stilt etkaimittiu auto& and murderurg the childi►t the
ntia,naneerrifvoxeeritwirntneit;t:c Stlhie,:alntriithisreturnhiciln*.broarhia:rivihtere:whaLtteitiv.,eantdrpocAttietidlaziltikuthcraagrpoxetetttertsesem,
nobp:Buirrotebr:wt:k4ni
weehkeeem thesjealintsy was the.n.o.* for so rash an attempt.
After the mild aniVitlon of tho AlWitatrate, and the sdreetio4_
ate conduct of her hoebeniti she agreed to return home with
him. Mr. Sketchley bestowed 'real pritlee open the hust+titi
and eittantlett of the othcera,

ItE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts fr•orlr Morning Papers, August 14

.[MORNING. CHRONICLE.]
According to the last advises from Barcelona,
that place had been amply supplied with provisions,
as well through the active and patriotic exertions
of the municipality, as the devotion to the Con-
stitutional cause, and energies of the inhabitants
generally. The Municipality is composed of
men of the most decided character, and. the. first
Sheriff, Sofas, who is indefatigable in his exer-
tions, is a man of extraordinary ability. Before
the resources of the city and neighbourhood were
ascertained, some a ppreheOions were entertained
that a place, containing at present 160,000• in.
habitants, might experience a scarcity of provi-
SionSi if the French undertook the siege in good
earliest, and brought an adequate force before it,
-which must be at least equal to 20,000 men; but
!this apprehension is now entirely removed, so
great have been the exertions in all quarters. As
many useless persons as possible have been re-
moved from the town, and all the rich families
have been enjoined to lay in, for themselves and all
their dependents, a stock fully equal tosix months
consumption, renewable as fast as consumed. The
order has been readily obeyed, and numerous indi-
viduals who had funds lying bythem idle,and never
dreamt of carrying on trade, have invested them
in provisions, for the purpose of retailing them out
to the inhabitants, at a moderate rate, in case
the town should be pressed. Besides, there.
is always in the public store-houses a stock kept
up by constant renewal at the same amount, •of
which the following is a correct account—wheati
100,000 quarters ; flour, 79,000'quintals (100 lbs..
each) ; salt fish, 20,000 quintals ; peas, beaus-„&c.
79,000 qrs.; pickled tumey fish, 3,800 pipes oil,
300,000 cuartalesl. rice,3o,oooquinta Is; tire-wood,.
400,000quimals;.besides pulse„hay,straw,barrey,,
tki% of w hick the quantity is immense. The fortresses
are filled with provisions, and a constant stock or
cattle, sheep, &c. ii kept up. All the ditches
of the• walls, us weil as the gardens of the
Convents and private families, in short, every
portion. of spare ground, has been planted with
potatoes, which in three months will yield a crop
equal to 50;000' quintals.. in this provident
manner have: the.Catalonians acted with regard
to their capital', well aware of the great influence
its safety must have on the issueof the campaign
sensible,'On this very account, of the exer-
tions the French would make to get it into their
tiossession. So spirited and patriotic a determine•
lion on the part of one of the most important and
populous cities in the Peninsula, may enable us to
judge what must he the feelings prevalent in
a province in which so noble an example is
set. We have here .alt earnest of the' firayrnrin-,'
ner in which the Catalonians are resolved' to de-
fend their liberties. The S'ornateites,• a daring
and active militia, maintained at the expencu of.
the respective districts in which they are raised,
/WOW' the country, and when pressed, entered
Barcelona, Lerida, or some of the fortified points,
and laugh at the pursuit of an enemy.—When
Mimi has tired and exhausted his flying parties,
he makes them-enter, and takes out fresh troops,
by which, means' he is able to perform those ex-
traordinary movements that both harrass and con-
found his opponents. Hence the whole campaign
has hitherto been spent in marches and counter-
marches, in which the gallant Chieftan of Cala-
lona has wearied out the patience of Moncey,
-without allowing him to gain a gitgLe advantage
of a decided nature. The French 'Officers and
men are thus in the utmost dispair,• and also ex-
posed to the greatest privations, notwithstanding,
they are so near their own frontiers and resources.

[THE TIMSS.J
Letters and papers have been received from
Madrid to the 6th inst. They contain nothing of
any importance.. I•t would appear, however,
from them, that very active operations were car-
rying on by the Constitutional Guerillas in Estre.
madura, as we are told that some light troops
had left Madrid in great haste to assist,the Royal-
ists in that quarter, and to prevent the enemy
from advancing on the capital.

Of our extracts this day from the French pa.
pers, the most interesting is a long bulletin from
Guilleminot, dated Ilea7l.quarters, Manxanares,•
the 6th instant, and containing a French official
narrative of the several movements of Molitor's
division, from the capture of the small post of
Lorca, down to the end of last month. This,
though in some points an unfair and grossly co-
loured statement, is nevertheless of much
portance, from the light, partly direct, partly
incidental, which it throws on the preceding
French accounts, as well as on the strength of the
Spanish army, and on the operations of Bal
terns, previous to his defection. Molitor has
beet; compelled to weaken his corps, from
the prodigious line of country along which he
has advanced, and the number of Spanish
garrisons which he has left behind him. The
strength of some of these garrisons may be
judged of, from the fact, that a foraging party
sent out from Carthagena on the 18th, consisted
of 1,500 men ; and found employment for a
strong detachment of the corps of General
Vincent, who had been left by Molitor atMurcia,
to watch with upwards of 4,000 men the two
fortresses of Carthagena and Alicant. On the
0-Ith Molitor seems for the first time to have ob-
tained accurate intelligence as to the positions of
the Spanish army. Zayas, with a separate corps,.
was at Grenada. Ballasteros and IJulauzar, with
the main body, had advanced in secresy from
Grenada and :Jaen to Guadallmertona—a posi.
tion to the north of the great road leading
from Guadix to Grenada, nod flanking on
its right the march of the French corps
d'armee. Molitor was fortunate enough to
discover this design, and moved on to attack the
Spaniards. A cavalry action took place in front
of Guadalhuertona on the 25th, when, as usual,
the advantage is claimed for thi" hulletin-writer's
party, and with the usual addition also, which
has really become as disgraceful to the present
French staff as it was to the Buonaparte school) _

'whence they borrowed it—that while the enemy's
loss consisted of hundreds, their own was limited
to some half dozen men. After this action, Mo-
litor, in want of provisions, detached five batta-
lions and some cavalry against Grenada, from
which place Zayas, on their reproach, retired.—
The French force under Molitor was, in conse-
quence of its successive detachments, reduced,
says Guilleminot, to 14 battalions, or perhaps
6,000 men.—Ballasteros on the 27th took the
strong position of Campillo de Arena—all the
heights of which he occupied with his infantry
on the 28th, when Molitor attacked him with
the three divisions of Loverdo, Pelleport, and
Donlon. The conduct of the Spanish General on
that day is described by the adverse bulletin to,
have been vigorous and skilful. That the beaten
army (if, after all, it was beaten) continued to
give Molitor uneasiness for his communications
with Murcia, is acknowledged by Guilleminot,
who states distinctly, that in consequence of
such fears, the division of Loverdo had made a
retrograde march to Guadix.—(lbid.)

[MORNING eon.]
We received last night Fromlr Papers by ex.
press to the 13th inst. They contain no addi.
tional intelligence respecting the "submission"
of Ballasteros, and we should not he astonished
to find that if it really occurred it was wholly
personal, and did not extend to his army. This
opinion is in some measure confirmed by the
official details of the affair fought at Campillo de
Arenas, where, notwithstanding the admitted
bravery of his troops, and the excellence of their
positions, Ballasteros contrived, we are told,
with twelve thousand men, to lose a battle
against 6,000 French, commanded by Molitor !
For there appears to have been no fault or luke-
warmness on the part of his soldiers : and it
would be an extraordinary case of human incon-
sistency of the brave and patriotic warriors of the
day before, should en the morrow prove deaf to
the voice of honour and traitors to their country.
Had indeed the loss -of the Constitutionalists in

he battle been, such att to break down their

force as an army, and reduce them to utter help-
lessness, there would have been some excuse for
the defection of both Commander and mete. But
that was fur from being the ease, According to
the official Bulletin, in which the Spanish toss is
undoubtedly rated as highly as possible, it did
not exceed 800 in killedywounded,and prisoners,
and that after a whole day's fighting. Now
800 out of 12,000 leaves fur unimpaired body
of 11,200 men, still possessing a superiority of
5,000 in numbers over the victorious enemy.
—Whatever Ballasteros may have done, there-
fore, cannot have been done through necessity ;
and when we find it stated in the same Bulletin

that Zayas had so' separated from him, and was
at the head of a military corps after the
action,• we think it highly probable that he
may have inherited his army, as he did that of
A bishal some months before, and as Quiroga did
the greater part of that of Morino. Under the
command of a man of sincere patriotism, of skill
and enterprise, there Is no doubt from what Dias
passed in Catalonia that it might still do much
service to the cause of independence.•

[NEW Timas.l
The Courier of yesterday brought out another
'of its alarming articles : acid it told just as well
'as the famous retreat of the French behind the
Ebro. Stocks fell very remarkably, and all sorts
of rumours were' set afloat. The Cortes, it was
said, had threatened the life of the King—a
,Counter-Revolution had taken place in Portugal
—ilullasteros had not submitted to the Regency—
Quiroga was going somewhere, to do something,
nobody knew what.—For ow own part, we
must say, that in the midst or all this storm
we are disposed to feel pretty much at our
ease. It is extremely likely that the Gentle-
men in Cadiz, who so stoutly rejected the
mediation of- England: whe' they might
have had it, are now very desirous to get it,
when it is not so' easily to be given. It would
not suit the dignity of England to propose her
mediation at' the sae desire of the Cot tes, and
merely (as Sir Robert Wilson phrases it) " to
'save the honour of the Constitutionalists." The
Times, the other day, told us the French Govern.
went had applied to England for her mediation
in order to help the Duke d"Angouierne out of a
hazardous situation—but The Times is always
wrong : and so it proves in the present case.
However, the speculations of The Times and
7'he Courier leave things exactly where they
were. The violent Revolutionists at Cadiz will
'he obliged to submit without a mediation ; and
we yet trust that' the result will be to Spain a
better and freeer Government than she has ever
possessed.. Many years must elapse before that
country can- resume its ancient rank among the
European Powers; yet with a wise and orderly
system her natural resources may he so cultivated
as to insure her much comfort and respectability.
The prices of the French Funds continue to indi.
cate a successful state of affairs.—Some of our
Cotemporaries affect to throw a doubt upon
the Telegraphic Dispatch, announcing the sub.
mission of Ballasteros to the Regency, by rea-
son of the Paris Papers of Monday contain-
ing no additional intelligence upon the subject.
The official dispatch could not be received for
some days after the fact communicated by Tele-
graph. Consols yesterday closed at 821. All
the Foreign Funds have been affected, more or
less, in common with our own. French Script,
after being at 2k, fell to 2k, and closed at 1r
Prernium.—Spanish opened at 34f-, and closed at
4.—ln French Rentes nothing has been
done. Another failure is announced us having
taken place in Paris ; bat the name has net been
made known here.

1:13111T1311 Plt

The celebratid Carnot is no ri;ore. This stern
and unyielding republican died at the advanced
age of seventy, at Magdeburgh, within the ter-
ritories of Prussia, where he found refuge since
1815, as one of those proscribed by the Royalist
Chamber of Deputies of that day, as having voted
for the death of tho. unfortunate Louis X Vl.
Carnot was one of the most extraordinary
men of his time. Alternately ‘Var Minister

and one of the lxecutiVe Directory, whether
in the War Bureaux or the Tuileries, he
never laid the plainness of republican simpli-
city aside. In that respect he resembled the
celebrated Roland. A member of the Com-
mittee of Safety in 1794, with the sanguinary
triumvirate of Robespierre, Corthin, and St. Just,
and in communication with the Ministers Collot,
Carriere, and Le Bon, Carnot never meddled in
the bloody trade of proscription ; he was un-
stained with the human gore that then flowed in
torrents through France, and, with his coadjutor,
Robert Linciet, confined himself solely to the la-
bours of his office. Under his administration,
the plans of conquest suggested during the reigns
of Louis XI V. and XV. were taken from the ar-
chives, where they slept, and carried into prompt
execution; 700,000 men appeared on the fron-
tiers in arms, as Republican defenders of resus-
citated France ; and, in the inflated language of
the eloquent Barriere, Carnet " organized victory
and rendered her permanent." Ile subsequently
saw the feeble Directory and Republic over-
thrown by the ambition of an individual, backed
by military force, while the cold and metaphy-
sical Sieyes, with Barras, pandered to the power
of the youthful and aspiring victor, who returned
from the plains of Egypt to crush the struggling
liberties of France. During Buonaparte's career
as First Consul, and Consul for life, and his sub-
sequent usurpation of the Imperial dignity, Car-
not remained in retirement: He emerged from it
when the tide of misfortune began to roll heavily on
the falling Napoleon and France ; the stern repub-
lican then offered his services in the hour of danger.
Ile was accepted by a man by whom merit was
never yet rejected, and Antwerp was committed
to his charge. The ability with which he de-
fended that important post, until the recal of the
Bourbons, is fresh in the memory of all. On the
return of Napoleon from Elba, he was again ap-
pointed War Minister, and stooped to accept the
title of a Count. The appellation suited badly
with the name of Carnot ; it added nothing to
his escutcheon. Tire memory of this short cam-
paign is too' fresh in the recollection of our
readers to bear repetition; it was far dif-
ferent from the glorious and successful ef-
forts of his earlier years. The return of the
Bourbons again brought exile and poverty to
Carnot. Be addressed one or two able and
powerful remonstrances to Louis on the policy
then pursuing ; but the advice of Carnot was re-
jected, and he retired when proscribed, first to
Warsaw, where old Louis had found a refuge
only a few years before; and on the invitation of
Frederick, then came to Nlagdeborgh, where he
died. His name will be long remembered in
France, it is inseparably connected with a period
of her brightest glory and renown, and uncon
nected with any portion of her subsequent sla
very or disgrace.