The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-07 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

PERPIGNAN, APRIL 21.—The forces of Minn, exclusive of
the division of (lorrea, are estimated at 20,000 men, troops of
the line. The division of Milan has marched to Estella Elado
and Bassegade. This corps is one league and a halt' from Vi-
gonet, which is occupied by the Baron d'Eroles. Mina is at
Vich, with 9,000 men, and the remainder of his imps are at
Besalti, Torteila, Olot, and Campredon. lie has detached a
small corps upon ltibas, to observe Gen. Donnadieu, who in
debouching by the hill of Tosas, may march upon Ripoli and
Olot. The Spanish peasants who come from that part of Lam-
pourdan occupied by our army state, that besides these troops,
the enemy have a considerable number of Guerillas who will be
in motion in a few clays.
It appears that there was much incorrectness and exaggera-
tion in the reports respecting the spirit which animates all the
inhabitants of Catalonia; the division of d'Eroles which was
to have raised the whole country, has not received a single re-
cruit, and the monks and priests who were to have gone forth,
still remain in great numbers upon the frontiers. Several have
returned here.
PARIS, MAY 4.—The public have remarked what Import:
ance the Parliament of England appears to attach to every
thing that relatei to the war against Spain, and to the situation
of Europe. A simple motion tending to propose an address to
the King inculpating The conduct of Ministers, has been dis-
cussed for three days,
.and no determination yet come to. In
any other case, or upon any other subject, a similar motion
would not have occupied the Parliament for two hours. The
language used in this discussion by the Ministerial Members is
not the less remarkable. Setting aside the reproaches cast upon
the Ministers by the Opposition, the partisans of the Ministry
equalled, if not surpassed, in energy the orators of the Opposi.
tion, when they wished to characterise the political system
which has led to the war with Spain. The Ministerial orators,
of course, cannot be accused of being Radicals. Mr. Baring,
one of tini'llrat bankers in t.lurope, and those of his friends who
spoke on the same side, are, by their situation and their.
opinions, completely placed out of the reach of this reproach.—
It mint be at once seen, 'that in England the men who are the
most decided in their attachment to liberty, and even those whd
are more moderate in their opinions and principles, have but
one way of viewing a system which they regard as at once
menacing the independence of governments and the liberty of
nations.

(Froni the Jonrnal dt. Debats.)

The Journal des Debuts, commenting on this passage from
the speech of Sir James Mackintosh in tho debate on the late
negoctations, viz:--" According to M. de Chateaubriand,
moral contagion knows nothing of distance; it is a principle
according to which a Revolution at Tomhuctoo may be eon.;
sidered as dangerous to France," has the following Note :
" This reasoning, or rather this sarcasm, is little worthy of a
grave and itteresting discussion. Sensible men perfectly un-
derstand what M. de Chateanbriand intended to say. Eu-
ropean nations are connected by a common civilization—by re-
ligious creeds derived front the same source—by a morality
founded upon that religion, and absolutely identical in all the
enlightened classes by frequent social communications, and
even by the use of the same language. A moral contagion
amongst nations placed in a similar situation is nothing less
than a chimera. A compact of mutual benevolence between
opinions and institutions, either religious or moral, is evidently
the object of all true European policy. English Statesmen
feel this truth.