The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-02 00:00:00

COUNT .BETTIMA.

It is already known that an order has been is,:
sued for the removal of this person out of the
kingdom under the Mien Act. As soon as this
circumstance became known to the Counts he
contrived to possess himself of a brace Of pistols
and a sword, and swore that he would shoot
the first man who dared attempt to. expel him':
lie kept the door of his room constantly lock- •
ed, and threatened destruction to all who dared
to enter. Indeed, so resolute and determined
was he, that Mr. Wood, a messenger belong-
ing to the Alien-office, was dispatched to Queen.
square PoliCe-office on Saturday evening for
the assistance of . a couple, of police offieers.
The Magistrates, however, declined interfering,
but allowed the officers to go, if they thought
proper ; When Pople and Handley volunteered
their services upon this occasion, and proCeeded'
softly to the Count's rood), at the Alien-office,
the door of which they found locked. They then
held a consultaron together how they should best
d'eurtra the Count with the least danger to them-
selves. They spoke to the Count thro' the key hole,
who declared, with an oath, that he would not
surrender himself until he had a hearing before
the Privy Council, and swore the first who en.
tered his !born forcibly should be a dead man.—
The officers again consulted together, when they
hit upon the following stratagem to pacify and
disarm the furious Count. Handley spoke to
hiM through The key. hole, and told.. lath that
his request should be acceded to, and desired
him to write a letter, stating his grieVances, and
he would immediately' lay it before his Majesty'A '
Privy Council. This manoeuvre completely sue.
ceeded, and the Count sat himself down coolly •
and wrote the letter, which, when he had finished,
he pushed under the door, desiring the officers
to obtain an answer as soon as possible, which
they promised to do. 'Handley then folded up a
letter in answer, which was sealed in the regular
way, and after waiting a short time, he knocked
at the door, and apprised the Count that a mes-
senger had just arrived from the Priey Council with
an answer to his letter. Whereupon he Opened the •
door, and Handley presented him the letter, •
which he had previously prepared ; and just as he
was breaking the seal, the officers embraced the
opportunity; and seized hiS arms ; he made a des.
penile attempt to break •frotp them, and to seize
his pistols, which lay on the table ; he was,
however, foiled in his endeavours, and com-
pletely overpowered by the prompt and .re-
solote . conduct of the officers, who tied his
hands with a handkerchief, which effectually
prevented his doing any mischief. After he
was secured, he told the officers, that if they -
had not. had recourse to this stratagem, he cer-
tainly should have blown their brains out, and
the officers had every reason to believe his asser-
tion, for, on esuMining the pistols, they were
found to be heavily loaded ; he had also a sword
by his side, which he was prevented from using.
A coach was pro Cured, into which the officers
got With the prisoner, who is a powerful
athletic man, about forty. A fter travelling
a short distance in the -coach, they took a
post,chaise and drove to Gravesend, where they
arrived safe with the -prisoner at two o'clock Oa
Sunday morning, when he was immediately placed
on board the Alien vessel, which was about to
suil for the Nore, where he will await the, arrival
Of a vessel to take hint to Ostend.—(The Times.)

COVF4NT.GARDEN 111 EA:TiI E.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—I most sincerely regret that the unne-
cessary and therefore improper mention of mit name, in a state-
ment of the present Managers of Covent-garden Theatre, con_
tained in your Paper of this day, forces me for the first (and I
hope the last) time in my life (anti that not a very short one,
forty-eight years of it being spent in the service of that Theatre)
to intrude myself either on the public or , the columns of a
Newspaper. The passage to which. I allude is, that "on
examination of the books and accounts of the Theatre, as
kept by me, the Treasurer, they were found .to be, in such
an irregular and unsatisfactory state as to render it abso-
lutely necessary that another Treasurer should he immedi-
ately appointed;" and I now only notice it to state. that it is
an unjust and malicious uslertiari, and .nti more:founded in
truth than their statement on oath. " that Mr. C,oxtrr recom-
mended my dismissal, and the substitution of mr. nuNN in
my plice;' the books and accounts of the Theatre having
been kept by me, whilst I held my office, precisely in, the
same manner as they had, been kept-by former Treasurers for
the last 70 years (and front which plan I had no right to de.
viste),"by sending every morning to each individual Proprietor
an account in writing, containing the receipts and payments,Of
the preceding day, and at the end of each seasOrt the ,aocounta
and vouchers were examined, Mitt approved by the present Mr.
11 An RI it on the part of himself and his bite father, and by the
late Mr. Mani' z wtmt.}.l during his life, on the part of him-
self and wife, and the late Mr. of the 'louse of Corn-
mons, under whom Mr. WILL ETT and Captain ?MIAMI' de-
rive their interest in the Theatre, having married his two
daughter!, and who, therefore, •do not stand in the light of
Purchasers or new Proprietors, as their statement would
imply. The only motive I can attribute to these parties
for bringing my name forward in the way they have so ha-
properly done, is a wish to prejudge, 4, possible, an ap-
peal I have been compelled to make to,a Courrof Law against
them, standing for trial in the next Term (and which, had they
not made a Special Jury Cause of it, soli f for the:purpose of
delay, would have been tried in July last :and rthettiore re-
quest the Public will suspend their opinion until jig icrtlict Air
Jury shall have decided the justice or It*ltllke*cil rue gaissi).
intreat your anti the Public's pardon for this'jntrussnnar yeue
notice, and take leave of, the, subject, in the worils iit.our no—.
mortal Hard—

"Whit judgment shall i,dread—doing,no wreog,"
am, Sir, your obliged humble serwukh
BICApirION.
42, Upper Marykeour-atreet, Sept. 1,1023.

DEATH itY A Bu .i..---Au litquisitipu WWI lately.
taken at Cople, Bedfordshire, on view of biLty of Thom,*
Moore, a poor old ntan,`79 Years of age. If ,apßeakst that au
the prerecling day the deceased, who was ntatiy_ hlind4
taking hie usual walk through a rheatiew titer which he n.
sided, when hi was furiously attacked' by' whicb w4s
glazing ou the meadow. The deaeased expired,iti'about, half
an hour. A 'verdict " Accidental Death" *al tetur dne „au
the bull is to be destroyed.

PARIS. PAPERS.

IFrom .the lifoniteur If Saturday.]
ARMY OF TUE PYRENEES.—BULLETIN.

44 His Royal Highness arrived on the 16th inst.
at Puerto Santa Maria, and established his head.
quarters.in that town. Monseigneur_ was pleased

again to feud himself in the midst of the troops
which formed the expedition of Andalusia, who
occasions have,
-on all occ proved their devotion to the
King.- His Royal Highness has been satisfied
with the dispositions made before Cadiz. The
reinforcements.that we have received will enable
us to. give new activity to the operations against
'this!Place.
-t" The..Marechal-de-Camp, Lauriston, sent by
—Count Beurdemiull4 to Algeciras, arrived there
;on the lth. .The enemy immediately retired to
.the Isle 'of Irene, which he had fortified, and
where. he seenied disposed to defend himself;
_bat the fire of .the. .French frigates, the Guerriere
:and the Cralathea, commanded by Captain Le
?brunt, forced the:',Commander to hoist the
white firs, and on the 16th he surrendered by
'capitulation. After having left a garrison of
Spanish troops in the fort of, the Isle of Verte,
Gen. Lauriston marched on Tarifa.
[Here follows an account of the operations of Gen. Morillo
tuid'Cuunt Uourcke in Gallicia ; but they do not come later
than the lath ult., and consequently are deprived of all interest
the intelligenee of the, tall of tAirunna.]
General. Vincent, who commands the troops
of the 2d Corps.of Observation in Murcia, having
learned that the garrison of Carthagena had
made a sortie, marched forward to meet it, and
on the 7th arrived in sight of that place. He
-made an immediate attack with a battalion of the
4th of then line and a detachment of the sth Dra-
.goons on the village of St. Antoine, which was
occupied by 800 infantry. and 150 horses, and
forced them to., retreat with considerable loss.
'rime orders'of General Ballasteroi had been sent
to the Governors of Alicant and Carthagena, but
no answers had yet beenreceived from them.
" The troops of General liallasteros remain in
the cantonments that had been assigned to them.
The, regiment of,Almanza, and the greatest part
of those of St. Jug°, Numantia, and Galicia, be-
longing to the corps of Zayas, have joined the
troops of the second corps. The headquarters
of General Molitor are still at Grenada. General
Foissac Latour occupies Andojar and Cordova.
." Marshal the Due de ReggiO reports to his
.Royal,Highness that the most perfect tranquil-
lity prevails at Madrid, and in the whole extent
of his command. _ _

" Prince llohenlohe presses the siege of San-
tona with new vigour. •
" 'Marshal-Marquis de Lauriston is actively
engaged in the siege of Pampeluna.
" The troops of the fourth corps have obtained
brilliant advantages over the enemy, as well in
-the siege of Barcelona as in all the affairs that
have taken place during the campaign.
" /lead-quarters, Puerto St. Nark, Aut 19.
" By order of his Royaf Highness,
-",Major.General Compte tiUILLEitIINOT."
IPEEOII OF IdARSUAL TILE MCC Is} REGOIO TQ
;1115 EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER AT 'WAR.
" Mattrid, Aug. 24.
" MONSIELIII. LE MAnsnAL—Colonel Marquis
•Rochedragoit, commanding the Cuirassiers de
!terry, of the division Roussel d',Urbal, informs
me that in the evening of the 18th inst. be ett,
countered the Partisan Chief D. Francisco Abade
Chaleco, with, about 240 horse, near the village
-of. Puebla del Principe he charged and entirely
.routed them, after they had sustained consider-
able loss.

" The next day, the 10th inst., Colonel Cha-
lec.o and Lieut.-Colonel Jose Fellez requested
an interview with Colonel Rochedragon. Ile was
convinced that they would acknowledge the Re-
gency, and that all hostilities would cease.
"This affair does great honour to the Marquis
de Rochedragon, and proves that the Cuirassiers
have never failed., during the whole campaign, to
distinguish themselves on all occasions, and main-
tain their former reputation.
" The Marshal commanding the First Corps,
" Due de ItLUGIO."
tProm the Joureal del DeOats.l
Our Correspondent at L'Orient informs us, that the Alga-
siras, a man of war of 84 guns, was launched on the 21st, amidst
the cries of nue le Rai

[From the Courier Frattecais.l
"rhe most Important act of French authority in the Penin-
sula is undoubtedly the Ordinance of Andujar, which, how-
ever, has been least'spoken of by the Ministerial Journals. The
most circumspect of them do not say one word of it; those
must decidedly fanatic only speak of it sometimes, and with
blame. Thus, yesterday a paper contained the following ab-
surd phrase We have lately seen with some pain that the
french Government has taken some measures, but little in
htitainny with our usual policy." These measures having
nn other object but to preve.it arbitrary arrests, this is as
nisei: as to say, that this Journal formerly saw with pleasure
caresses and vengeance which then desolated the Penin-
sula, and that our usual policy tends to favour such a system.
It is difficult to put into two lines more absurdity. The Jour.
mils of the South are less reserved than those of Paris, and we
art indebttatto them for the knowledge that the Regency have
opposed the prudent regulations of the Prince, that the diplo.
thistle body's discontented with them, and that there have been
violent disturbances occasioned by ie execution of the Ordi.
ranee of Andujar, at Bilboa and Vittoria. The Memorial
Ilardetaiv contains some further particulars on this subject.
-If these facts are correct, it is natural to inquire if the Ordi.
mince of Andujar has been repealed by any subsequent Ordi-
nance, or if the Regency has decided that there is no occasion
t pay attention to it, and give the necessary orders; or if the
French Generals have been authorised to act as they might un-
derstand it, in the places under their orders.. Without having
any regard to the Ordinance of August 8, withotit giving the
preference to either of these suppositions, we shall only remark,
that, if the Memorial lturdelais is not imposing on its readers;
a irreat alteration is to he made in the instructions given to the
French Commanding Officers. A General who lied caused the
Alexi& of Vittoria to be,arrested, in order to preverithim froth
arresting more persons; now offers to support him in executing
these arrests.

( From Ike CoMitiitionnel.)
hi ram to, A u O. Exit-sets qf Private Letters.l—" The
report is spread that treaties are on foot' with the Cortes, and
that a Constitution, with Two eiximbers, similar to that of
England, is to be established. But can the will of the King be
known before he is liberated from his gaolers and surrounded
by Ida faithful subjects ? Will he not reject the projects of the
Revolutionists who have Iniulual and deposed him ? 'Will he
disgust the Royalists to oblige the party that ought to be op-
prelscd, and Which has done so much mischief to the 'King
anti the nation These questionis merit a close examina-
tion. The tranquillity and, the ,liberty of the King cannot
be established without reducing the revolutionary party to a
complete nullity; and we therefore do not believe the reports
in circulation. • -
" Bunoos, Aug. 19.—The Liberals have laboured with ex-
traordinary activity to sow dissension between the French and
the„floya,lists.. With this view they have spread the following
reports. Till the Kin is set at liberty, Spain is to be milita-
rily governed without the interference of the Regency, or of
theßpanish Authorities A treaty of peace is to be concluded
with the Cortes, and every thing which they have done up to
July, 1822,' will he sanctioned. On these conditions the King
at be set at
These false reports calumniate the' French rinrcrn,
nfebt and'the Cabinets of Europe, which have proposed to de-
rerolutiOn in Spainiand have no need oerefitation. It is

clear That these are the means employed by the French and
English Journals of the faction,
. and put forth by the secret
committee for revolutionizing Europe. At the epoch of the
invasion, these journals, which would not believe that the
Spaniards would pronounce in favour of the most just of
causes, were all against the invasion. Now convinced of the
contrary, they desire interference in order that the revolution
not being entirely put down; they may carry it on still to their
advantage.
Vruo, A Ito. 11.—General Morino entered San Jam Corn-
postella on the • 3d of this month. Two days before he was
joined by the brigade of Larochejacquelin at Pontevedra, he
received a courier Irani :sir Robert Wilson, to announce that he
himself was coming in person to submit propositions of great
importance. General Morillo immediately dispatched an aide-
de-camp to meet Wilson, to say that he could not, on any ac,
count, receive him, and to require that he should turn back.
The aide-de-camp met, just before he reached the bridge of St.
Payo, two light horseman, then two infantry soldiers, afterwards
the aide-de-camp of Nilson, and at last Wilson himself. lie
was mounted on a small mule, with a woman's saddle; his
feet supported on a piece of wood, and a leather strap round his
neck, held his wounded leg ; one man led the mule 'oy the
bridle, another supported him by the arm, and a third carried
his crutches. It was with this equipage that Wilson aet out
upon his expedition to settle the destiny of Spain with the Count
de Carthagena. The aide_de.camp signified to him the order
of his General, to which he with difficulty submitted ; he then
said that he had commanded in the affair before Corunna, that
he had been wounded, and that he was suffering. 'greatly ;
lastly, he assured the aide-de-camp that General Mordle might
attack the bridge, but that he would not find there such' soldiers
as had guarded it when .he forced it a few days before. In
fact, General Palarea had fortified the passage of the bridge
San Payo,. which is naturally a very strong position, in such a
manner that it could not be forced without great loss.
VrrTonra, AUG. 21.—The discussions which existed be-
tween the French and Spanish authorities are terminated, to the
great satisfaction of the town an& the whole province. The
Deputy-General and his Alcade have been set at liberty :, it is
known that the Regency and the diplomatic corps deeply
interested themselves in their situation, as soon as an extraor-
dinary courier had reached Madrid with the intelligence of their
arrest. The Prince de Ilohenlohe yesterday caused it to be
signified to the Deputy-General, that he should oppose no ob-
stacles to his decisions, and he would aid him with his troops
whenever the Revolutionists were to he arrested.

The Etoi!e also contains a report, without date, from the
Count de Espagne to Viscount de Conchy, stating, that the
enemy had been repulsed in two sorties sviiich they had made
from the fOrtress of Pampeluna. The Count particularly com-
mends to the notice of the Prince Generalissimo the valour dis-
played on these occasions by the officers and soldiers of the 3d
Light Infantry French regiment, and of the,. Spanish regiment
of the Infantry Don Carlos.