The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-15 00:00:00

Tlf E A Rli Y

Major-General Sir EDWARD BARNES,
arrived in London on Monday, from India, and
being re-appointed Governor of Ceylon, will
leave England on his return, in about three months,
Lieutenant-General the lion. Sir Edward Paget,
G.C.B. relieved Sir Ed►card Barnes as Governoi
of Ce) lon ; but being appointed Commander-in-
Chief of the Forces in India, he left Ceylon in"
the early part of last year. It is supposed Sir •
Edward Barnes will go out with the local rank
of Lieutenant-General, as the second appoint-
ment of Sir Edwatd Paget has given him the local
rank of General.

WAURANT establishing Regulations by which General Of.
...;,,11.:ers will, umler.certain circumstances, be allowed the Full'
Pty or their last Reglitental Commissions.

GEORGE R.-41'hezerts, by our Warrant of the 18th of
i'ebruaryl,lBlll, the Unattached rates of Pay granted to Gene- •
rat Officers by his late Majesty's Waerant of the Bth August,
1814, have been prospectively limited, and it was therein .pro-
vided that such Officers as might thenceforwards be promoted
to be General Officers should continue to relive the 1 ull Pay
or Half Pay of their regimental rank, until they should be ap- „
pointed to the Reduced Establishment of General Officers on
Unattached Pay; and whereas We are graciously pleased to
make some further provision for General. Officers who are, or
shall be, placed upon the Half Pay of their Regimental Corn-
missions ; it is Our will and 'pleasure that, from and after the
25th of December, 1821, inclusive, all tietierai Officergs not
being Colonels of Regiments, nor in the receipt of Unattached
Pay, shall receive the Full Pay of the r.rgitnental rank which
they held when they became General Officeri, and shall con-
tinue to receive the same until they
.shall
.he, elected into the
limited number of General Officers receiv,ng the Unattached -
Pay of 1/. os. a-day, or shall be appointed to be Colonels of
Regiments or Battalions,
We are pleased, however, to declare that this Regulation is
not to apply....
lit, To any General Officer who was on half-pay, when he
became a General Officer, and who received the difference when
he went upon half-pay.
2dly, 'To any General Officer who was on half-pay when he
became a General Officer, and who went on half-pay at his
own request, in tittle of war, after having obtained the Brevet
rank of Lietenant-COlonel ; or, in time of peace, before he had
served six years with the regimental rank of Lieut.-Colonel,
either in command of a. regiment, or in some other military ca-,
pally in the public service.
Given at our Court at Carlton-Palace, this flth day of Nov.
1822, in the 3d year of onr reign.
By his Majesty's command,
PALMERSTON.

PROAIOTION.
Commission in Cle Perthshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by
the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Perth.
Major William Moray Stirling to be Captain, vice Drummond,
migned— dated December 19, 1122.

The depot of the 05th (or 2d York North Riding) Regiment
of Foot, General T. Grosvenor, Colonel, consisting of
upwards of 200 men, marched yesterday from Portsmonth, for
Chatham, where it will arrive on the 2Uth ins'. to join its 140.
ment, now arriving from Botobay.The depOt of the 13th (or
Ist Somerset) regiment of foot, Oeu. E. Morrison, Colonel,
commenced its march from Clutham, yesterday, for Albany
Barracks, where it will arrive oh the 21st instant.-421faid.itotte
Journal, Jan. 14.)

.I _ t EL A-. ►N
0.

(` Prom the " Carlow Morning. Port" of Jan. 13Th, reeririgi
this morning.)
cc We lay before our readers this day an at--
.
then ticated detail of a Requisition eiretir which
took place here the latter end of last week
give it without note or comment of our own.'.'
REFUSAL of tie SOVEREIGN of CARLOW to CON-
VENE a 1111.ETtNG to ADDRESS the 'MARQUIS
WELLESLEY ! ! !
TO TUE eaorattrott or THE CARLOW ItORNING POST•
tack or making a puhl c communication to you,
having devolved upon I beg peat eta hand you, endow cl,
for insertion in The. C. Aim oria, J'ost, copies of thrt:c do-
cuments : the first, tl at of a Requisition ; second, that of my
Letter, enelosing It to .Ur. Ilnowsup, the Sovereign ;
that of his reply.
The right of Mr. IluowsiE to refuse, as he has done,
tending to the wishes of the R ttsequisitots, I do not divoic
It is a privilege appertaining to Public Functionaries, iii many
eases, to refuse the Penple en opportunity of meeting,
,to ex-
press their opinions, or set forth their grievances. The exerelis
of this privilege., Ott Mr. Briowsist's principle, may be often
prudent and Judicious ; whether, in the present instance, it
has been so, is another question. Mr. BROWNE did not con-
descend to assign any reason for his refusah; and, indeed,'
am disposed to believe that it would have been impossitle fcr
him to assign a satisfactory reason: Of the Requisitionists,
thirty-one in number °, nineteen are Protestants Disscatterl,
and Members of the Society of Friendi, some of them officers
who have distinguished themselves in every quarter 'of the
globe. This fact alone is sufficient to shew that titre has been
ndthing of the spirit of
.party in the Requisition.—And when
I assert that the Requisitionists comprise a yen,
portion of the weed), independence, to:d respectability of our
population, what hats intoned will be matter,of surprtse to the
whole Kingdom.. •
I shall make no observation here further, than to assure you„
I shall take special care that the !norther of your Paper, which
may contain a record of this transacttion, shall be placed in tl:e
hands of the 'illarquia WE LLEsx.E.Y.
I remain, your friend and humble servant,
Carlow, Jan. 10, 11123. 111.10 MAS FIN'N..
(No. 1.)
We, the undersigned Inhabitants of Cath,w, amt Ale Tula. rs
of its Commonalty," ao request that you will, on tile earlitst
suitable day, convene a Meeting of the BargeSSett anti Vont-
monalty of this ancient and loyal Corporation, for the RurpoAe
of preparing an Address to his Excellency the Marquis of
WELLESLEr, expressive of our abhorrenee of the late outrage
offered to his person—of our attachment to' bintwand'our ad. nu-
ration of his firm and impartial administration of the Govern.
nient of Ireland.
Arthur o`.Brien Bernard, Thomas Finn, Richard Gran well,
John Fitzmanrice, Howard 'Moore, Thos. U. ~atkrtio, lßtli
Foot, Edwsrd.Eustace Dill, James Iti,clioc, John Kettot,
John Cummins, Richard King, (Stapletown),' Tracis
Montgmuery, John Coffiy, John Scruggs Henry Miran-
ney, Michael Finn, James Wilson,,-Rober' t ,Frapll TIKI-
Ilaugliton, John Ilaughton, Robert Jackson er , as , 'Thom
Fitzsimmoni, John 'Emerson, Etiseard'lkating; kit r;e
Dyer. James Smyth, John Thomson, James Cullen, raw.
Butler, jun, t illirtm M‘Darby, Thomas Hughcs.
Carlow, Januaty B, 11123,
To W;tx.Liast BkOWNE, Eifq. SoVereign.
(No. 2.)
Sirt„--1 have the honour to inclose you a Requis4tion nu-
merously and respectably sign*, to which an Answts, with
4311146 eXpeditiOtt its may perftetly suit yoor privatecenve-
nience, will much •
Four's, s with great reaped, , ' THOMAS FINN.
Wiw. Ilitowxr, Esq.
'Browne's

(No. 3.)
Sitt-1 received die Requisition you illaiNttl rte, and don't
think it necessary at this unite to cAil any Ille4ing.
rkonaith Sir
Your obedient Itionble Servant •
W1L4,14.31 itROIVNE.,
BrOwniti January; 1k23.
'l`o Tittn4.o FINN, ER.

Were it deemed necessary, the nvues of IbirX hurl :d
respectable boustholsilrs ould be Its readily Prvcuroi to the
Beguisftion,os.thirtY.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, JAN. 12.

Lord Fitzroy Somerset arrived on Friday in
Paris, and set out on Saturday morning for
Madrid. It is said that 116 has no particular
mission from his Government, but that he is
merely attached to the legation of Sir William
A'Court. The precise knowledge which Lord
F. Somerset acquired during his long residence
in Spain, respecting the men at present at the
head of atfa►irs in that country, may, in the pre.
sent circu►nstances, be of great utility to Sir W.

A'Court.—(./ournal des ,Delds.)
Though Lord F. Somerset only stopped a few
'hours,in Paris, that diplomatist had a conference
with the Spanish Ambassador, and took with.
him dispatches, from his Excellency.—(Courier
Franquis.)
[Prom the Quotidiertne.l
The Liberal Journals assert, with a xonfidence
which might deceive some persons., that the
Prench territory has not heenAdolated .by the
Spanish soldiers of the Constitutional Army : we
have received the following details from our cor-
respondent at Bayonne, which set the.question
at rest :—An armed column entered the com-
mune of Aldudes on the 29th of December last ;
it was composed of Spanish soldiers of the Con-
stitutional Army, and revenue-officers, and mili-
tiamen of the .valley of Bastan.. The quarter.:
master of the gendarmerie endeavoured to repulse
the band, but as he had only a very few men,
his efforts were unavailing. 'The Mayorof Al-
dudes was absent, and his deputy not only ex-
hibited weakness unworthy of a public' function-
ary, but.furnished the leader of the Spanish.de-
tachment with guides to shew :him the most-se-

. ,
cure road by which to return.
The Prefect of the •Lower Pyrenees having
been informed of these. circumstances, issued the,
following decree :

" Whereas we have received information' from the frontiers,
by which it appears that a detachment of the Spanish Consti-
tutional Army, under arms, has traversed the French cow.
mune of Aldudes, and that it has been furnished with guides
by the:Deputy Mayor of that commune;
" Whereas this functionarrhas acted in contravention of the
orders of the Government,. directing the expulsion from the
`French territory of every armed band, without respect to the
cause which it may support ;

"We decree-3. That ill. Sarochandy, the deputy Mayor
of Aldudes, is provisionally fuspended froze the exercise of his
functions.

" 2. That the sub-Prefect of Maiden, tO whom the execu-
.tion of the present decree is conBded„thall institute an inquiry
into the events which have taken place in.Aldudes on the 29th
of December last.
" Pau, Jan. 1, 1823. . (Signed) " DESSOLL"
This is not the first attempt which the Con-
stitutionalists have made. They presented them-
selves at the same place on the night of the 28th
of December ; but fearing that there was a
superior force there, they retired. Their object
in crossing this village was to surprize that of
ValCtirlos, which contains an hospital appropriated
•to the reception of the wounded soldiers of the
Artily of the Faith. On the following morning,
however, their enterprise was crowned with a
dreadful success The Royalist' Spaniards, who
—.were without the means of defence, were not able
to oppose the unexpected attack, and were almost
all put to the sword. Those who still possessed
some little strength, after having attempted to
.defend themselves, fled into the French com-
mune of Uhart, whose inhabitants have lavished
every kind of attention and assistance upon them.

( From the Constitutiormel.

. _
In the first weeks of December, Sir W. A'Court,
`English Minister at Madrid, was charged by his
Government to claim an indemnity in favour of
English subjects for the damages which they had
.sustained from pirates, under the Spanish flag.
This indemnity, claimed again on each new in.
stance, was constantly refused by the Spanish
Government ; and England, without doubt,
would 'have had, under ordinary circumstances,
as much difficulty in obtaining her demand, as
she experienced in causing Austria to pay the
debt which the latter had contracted, and to the
payment of 'which Austria opposed every year
some new delay : but the policy of the continental
Powers having put Spain to the tieces,ity of
finesse in treating with those who remained at-
tached to her, England expected this to produce
the-juncture most favourable for displaying her
pretensions, when she might insist with more ob-
stinacy upon their accomplishment as the first and
necessary condition of alliance. ' _

It was embarrassing, doubtless; to the Spanish
Minister to find himself compelled to accept con.
ditions which seemed hard, and which he had at
first refused, both as to indemnities for the past,
and guarantees for the future, although the
Minister who preceded him hud•engaged to grant
every thing. These guarantees were, as we an-
nounced more than three months- ago, the occu-
pation of Cuba and the National ,Jdelligencer,
a Government Journal of the United States, has
held out this occupation_ on the piqt of England
us an event which was to be expected.
A Ref' the refusal of the Minister San Miguel
to adhere to the demands of the English Minister,
the latter announced that an order would be ex-
pedited by his Court to seize the Spanish vessels,
until concurrence was obtained to the indemnity
demanded ; and he intimated, that as every thing
seemed to announce a rupture with Fra►►ce, it
became England to pursue her own measures,
however disadvantageous they might be' „for the
credit of Spain. This measure occasioned the
letter of M. Gasco, Minister of the Interior, to
the Consuls, whom he informed of the orders
dispatched by the English Minister. The Spa-
nish Minister alwap conceiving that these events,
badly explained, might cause it to be believed
that the commercial difficulties with England ex-
tende'd further than they really did, and that his
friends might under that pretence desert him,
however painful it was to cede to demands
which did not appear to be perfectly well founded,
it was arranged ►4t last, and the orders of the
Ambassador tote. the seizure of the vessels were
revoked, the guarantees being in part accorded,
insomuch that not the least difficulty now remains
.as to thins `secondary object. If in, the moment
'when the cause of discussion between the two

Ministers was not well known this news was cir-
culated, it is easy to believe that it must for se-
veral days have injured the Spanish credit. But
the discussionA now old; it has been terminated
more than twelve days, amicably terminated,and
to the musual satisfaction of the parties. Let the
fanatic journals again produce their suspicions,
and seek to fortify them—nothing more simple ;
but then the good sense of the public will not be
twice duped.
We may affirm that there has never beeu
stronger union between England and Spain, and
that the commercial difficulties raised were by
no means extended to a great political question,
on which Spain, Portugal, and England are alto-
gether agieed.

[From the Drapcau Blanc.l

We have seen with disgust, but without sur-
prise, the Liberal journals flatter the English Go-
vernment, basely endeavour to conciliate those
whom they formerly called'cowardly and perfi-
dious islanders, and prostitute the pure ardour of
their patriotism so far as to praise the old ene-
mies of France and Europe as arbiters of the
destinies of the world. These same worthy re.
Ipresentatives of the Frence nation, par excellence,
dared, in 1815, to hawk about the Crown of
France, and offer it to whomsoever would accept
it, provided he was not a Bourbon.
This unworthy traffic of adulation, exchanged
for hopes, continued only as long as the Liberals
believed, what they alone were sufficiently simple
to believe, that the English Cabinet would be-
come the gratuitous friends and disinterested
allies of the revolutionary government of Spain.
The tone was altered when the Cabinet of Lon-
don recovered its memory at the same moment
with the Dey of Algiers, and made a claim of
WO millions against the Spanish government, in
lieu of which sum it obligingly consented to ac-
cept of the Isle of Cuba, at the same time address-
ing to the Spaniards that passage so celebrated
in their history—" All that we do is for your
benefit."

The Liberal Journals now direct reproaches
against England, the complicated expression of
which may be said to amount to this—"Fy ! it
does not look well to be -so interested, and not
to have the generosity to do wrong for nothing."
The Pilule, the opinions of which are known,
announces that M. de Chateaubriand was yi.ster.
day to give a diplomatic dinner, to which the
Ambassador of the Cortes, the Duke of Lorenzo,
and the Portuguese Minister, are invited. If
this'news should he confirmed, -it may be sup-
posed that this remarkable invitation has had for
its object to console the two legations of the revo-
lutionary Peninsula, for...their exclusion from the
last diplomatic gala given by the Russian Am.
ba,ssador.

It was on the 2d of January that the Ambas-
sadors of the three great Northern Powers de-
livered the notes from Verona to the Spanish
Minister, with a declaration, that if within ten
days the King was not re-established in his power,
and the Cortes dissolved, they would leave
Madrid.

It is added that Count Legarde has received
orders, by a dispatch posterior to M. de Villele's
note, to leave Spain in a few days after the other
Ministers ; but this last report requires confir-
mation.

SPAIN.

MADRID, JAN. C.

In the sitting of the Cortes of this day, no Pro-
ceeding of interest took place except the appointment of a com-
mittee on the petition which Moreno Guerra, a Deputy in a
former Cortes, presented yesterday. He complains that he

had been made to appear before a Constitutional Alcalde for
expressions spoken in his character of Deputy in the Cones
for 1820.

The Cortes, in a secret sitting, have taken into consideration
the complaints made by the English Government in the name
of several merchants of that nation whose vessels have been
captured by Spanish cruisers on the coast of Terra Firma. The
report made by the Diplomatic Committee on this subject shows
that the negociation had been indiscreetly managed by the Se-
cretary of State, San Miguel. The committee rectimmended
that justice should be done to the claims, and that after they
are verified by a mixed commission, English and Spanish, the
amount should be made good by the Treasury. The Cortes
approving of the report.
The greatest activity prevails in enrolling and equipping
troops for the army. In another secret sitting, the Minister of
the SVar Department assured the Cortes that in less than two
months an army of 40,000 men would be assembled at the foot
of the Pyrenees.

Yesterday evening, Morena Guerra appeared in the Lends-
hurian Society. lie spoke for two hours, and entered into a
detailedetnnmentary on M. de Villele's note, which has been
published in all our journals, Ills speech was received with
great applause.
The Universal of yesterday, after translating from the lifoni-
leer of the 27th the instructions addressed to Count de La
Garde, the French Minister at Madrid, makes the following
observations on that important document :
" The servile: will regard this notification as a declaration of
war reflecting men, however little they maybe initiated in the
language of diplomacy, will observe in it., the medium course
which the policy of M. de Villele has Adopted for holding Spain
in continual alarm, giving no complete discouragement to our
factious, and at the same time not openly exciting the fury of
the fanatical party, which is powerfully protected in France, and
to which some unforeseen event may momentarily award the
victory.

" For our part, we view, thin note merely as the second edi.
tion of the famous article published in the Journal des Debats
on the 13th of November. It casts the same imputation on us,
and establishes the same principles. The same conditions are
proposed to enable us 'to maintain, the friendship of France,
and we are threatened with the same political arcomnunication

if we persist in asserting
,the rights derived from our indepen.
deuce. In the meanwhile, we return the same answer to the
charges and threats held out to us by the French Government,
fully persuaded that our Government, will not on this occasion
belie its yatriotism, and will reject with noble pride this new
kind of diplomatic war, with which it is attempted to put to the
test our constancy and fidelity.
" We have a thousand times repeated that the French Go.
vernment was ignorant, or szemed to be ignorant, of the history
of our revolution, and the true causes of our internal dissensions.

If the employment ofjbrce to which the King's Counsellors re•
sorted in 1814 to destroy the constitution, and to proscribe the
most zealous defenders of the national independence, created

the right of force to which the Eipao§h people resorted in 1820'
—if despots employ force tumaintaiti their pretended rights,
what reason is there why the people should not adopt the same
means to recover theth ? The employment of force, of which
Napoleon availed himself to invade Spain in 1800, created the
right qt force by which the Spaniards resisted his aggression;
an 1 if France should now employ force to repeat the same in.
sult, Spain will not a moment hesitate to use the same right.
History will show whether the people have abused the right of
firee against kings, or whether the latter have not uniformly
employed this means for oppressing their subjects.
" To think _of comparing the employment of force made use
of by the rebels with that adopted by the nation when it ap•
proved and assisted with all its might the glorious rising of the
army of la Isla, is as unjust as it is on the other hand ridiculous
to attribute the origin of the armed factions now existing in
Spain to the example offered by the first chiefs of liberty. We
all know very well, and the French Government knows better

than all, the reason why there are rebels in Spain. Let that Go.,
vernment cease to foment and protect them, and it will see how
soon they will cease, and how rapidly that tranquillity will be
established which we so anxiously desire.
" It is not the opinions of the rebels which induce them to
take up arms against their country, but the base interest of

their leaders, and the perfidious intentions of those who direct
and assist them. Of what importance is it to Jaime or to Rojo
de Valderas that the seignorial rights are suppressed ? The
most fanatic priest would preaCh to-morrow that the sove-

reignty resides in the nation, if the tithe were increased, instead
of being reduced one half. No, it ia not the Constitution which
has produced the rebels, but the measures which have been
taken to reform abuses. And would the French Government

wish those to continue, and us to go on in ignorance and misery
merely for its gratification ?

" That the civil war we are now enduring is not made by-
these deluded wretches against the Constitution, is so evident,
that if it were possible for Spain to forget her dignity, and to
alter her Constitution to the taste of the Holy Alliance, we
should still witness the same discontent which is now expe-
rienced; and the assistance of benevolent neighbours would
still he sufficient to excite the same flame of civil war which at
present rages 'in some of our provinces, provided the monks
were not to recover their rich rents, and other classes of the State
their odious usurpations. Ilinc ira? et lacrynur.
" The Instruction speaks of the revolutionary principles of
the Spanish Constitution ; but we would ask the French Go-
vernment
whether they did not exist in it when it was recogniz-
ed and eulogized by the groat Powers ?
" We are recommended a judicious liberty, but we are not
told of whit nature it should be in order to deserve this title in
the opinion of the French Government. It certainly would
not be that which the French Charter establishes, unless it
is meant that we should be obliged to erase the 12th Article of
our Constitution, and admit freedom of religion as It is there
permitted. But what if Russia, Austria, and Prussia were to
pretend' to give us lessons on constitutional and judicious
liberty ?
" We will dwell no longer on this subject for the present,
for fear of fatiguing our readers, by repeating what we have so
often said, and that it may not be supposed that we entertain
any doubt of the effect which this instruction must produce
on the minds of Spaniards. Prance may do as she pleases;
Russia, Austria, and Prussia may form what opinion of us
theychoose; but Spain, firm in the resolution she has adopted,
will not belie on this solemn occasion the noble and independ-
ent character site has at all times manifested ; she will respect
the rights of other nations, and even the prejudices of their
Governments ; but she will never consent to allow foreigners
to give the law to her, nor will she allow herself to be intimi-
dated by their threats."
_ _

The report of a Committee of the Co rtes on a proposition of
the Government for augmenting the militia, was discussed in
the sitting of the 29th of December. According to articles 6
and 7 of the organic law, respecting the militia, the active na-
tional militia is to be completely renewed in six years, by new
drawings for a sixth part each year. The Government had
proposed an alteration in these articles to accelerate the recruit-
ing. The Committee went further than the Government de-
sired, and recommended that two-thirds of the force ultimately
required by the law should be immediately raised.
Several Deputies were of opinion that what the Committee
proposed would be to impose a very unnecessary sacrifice on
the country. Senor Falco observed, that in the present year
there had been two Quinfas for the militia, which produced
about 40,000 men. To complete, the two.thirds in the manner
the Committee pointed out, would require about t. 2,000 men.
It was suggested that it would be better to complete all the
battalions, and that it would be a saving of expellee to have
them of 1,000 men each., as one such battalion required a less'
establishment of officers than two of Isoo men.

Senor Arguelles was for agreeing with the report of the
Committee to its full extent. He was not initiated into the
secrets of the Administration, but he believed the apprehen-
sions of war were not altogether vanished. It might be said
that the Cortes had already voted a considerable army, and
given the Government the means of maintaining it. The hos-
tility which some of the Powers of Europe had manifested to
the free institutions of Spain, and the civil war which the ene-
mies of liberty had excited on the frontiers, was in his opinion
a sufficient ground for the recommendation of the Committee.
" 1 confess (said he) that the sacrifice is great, but I am con-
fident that the people will cheerfully make It, since they well
know that this new burden is not thrown on them by the ca-
price of an absolute Government, or the intrigues of a favou-
rite, but is necessary to render the nation respectable, and to
prevent a foreign invasion."
The Secretary of State for the 'Tar Department observed,
that what the Government had asked was, that the active mi-
litia should be renewed at stated periods, and for that purpose
that articles ti and 7 of the organic decree should be amended.
After some farther conversation, the Committee agreed to alter
the basis of the report, and to substitute for it the proposition
that the battalions of the militia should be completed to their
full force. In this state it was unanimously approved by the
Cortes.

The Committee afterwards presented the detailed plan of
a decree for carrying this measure into effect. The articles
were successively discussed in the sittings of the 2d and 3d, and

POYAIS LOAN of TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND FOUNDS—Mr. JOHN LOWE, by
order of Sir GREGOR 31`GREGOR, gives notice, that such
HOLDERS of SCRIP of this LOAN as may not be desirous
of paying the instalment of 35 per cent. fixed for the 17th
may pay 10 per cent. on the 10th of February next, with Inte-
rest from the 17th January, and the remainder as will be here-
after advertised.