The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-19 00:00:00

the 4th.

( From the Pilote of yesterday.)

The troops carried off by Riego from Malaga,
were on the 10th September near Alcala lit Real,

where the chasseurs of the guard, joined to a
corps of 4,000 men, are in pursuit of them. It
i$ asserted, as official, that Malaga has. surren-
dered. The garrison, composed of 400 men, are
prisoners of war.
They write from Marseilles of the lcith Sep-
tember, that they learn, by letter from Grand
Cairo of the 19th June, that the plague was rag-
ing at Alexandria, 80 to 86 persons died daily.

We have received accouts from Corunna, dated
the 11th instant, on which day the Royal George steam-packet
arrived at that port, after a passage of only 64 hours from Ports.
mouth. The four French frigates and two armed brigs which
were employed in the blockade of Corunna, had since its sur-
render sailed for Cadiz. On the Bth the 15th Regiment of
French Infantry entered Corunna from Ferrol; and on the
morning of the 10th, the 37th end 22d Regiments marched for
Madrid in consequence of some disturbance being apprehended
in that capital. The Speedy cutter, Captain BEAVER, arrived
at Corunna on the Ist* inst.., with a cargo of flour and other
provisions, sent by the Spainsh Committee for the, use of the
garrison ; but as the place had fallen into the possession of the
French, the cargo was to be sold to the best advantage by the
consignee, who would remit the money back to the Committee.
By this arrival we have received a variety of documents
relative to the negotiations which preceded the surrender of Co.
runna. On the 10th, Gen. NOVELLA summorud the princi.
pal officers of the garrison to a council, in which the question of
further resistance was discussed. The different opinions were
drawn up in writing, and signed by the officers. It appears
that some wished to hold out longer, in the expectation that
the troops operating externally, might oblige the enemy to
raise the siege; and because, at all events, the keeping the
French occupied in that quarter, might prove useful to the
Constitutional cause. The majority, however, thought that no
advantage could be gained by continuing the defence. At last,
the Commandant of the Granada corps proposed that the over.
Lure of an armistice should be made to. the besieging General,
on the ground that reports had been received of negocia.
dons being commenced between the Constitutional Government
at Cadiz and the Duke of ANOOI:LEME. This propositic
being unanimously approved, a correspondence was im-
mediately opened with General BOULIEE, which led.
to the calling of another council on the following day. After
communicating the correspondence to this council, General
NOVELLA formally submitted the following question, ri.z. :
`‘ Is it proper to negotiate on honourable basis, or to continue
the defence of the place ?" Twenty-six officers voted for nego-
tiation, and only four—namely, the Sub-Inspector General of
Engineers, the Chief of the Stuff, the Commandant of the En-
gineers, and the first Constitutional Alcaldo—voted for the
alternative of continuing the defence. Vow fiALLEif, the
Chief of the Staff, in his vote, which he reduced to, writing,
stated that the resources of the place were sufficient fc r
continuing the defence, and that he considered a surrender,
under the existing circumitaces, to be highly dishonour..
able. The capitulation which has appeared in the French
papers was the result of the negociation which followed on the de.
cision of this council. In the course of the negociation, Bole/as
dexterously availed himself of the submission ofßat.LasT Enos,
which he represented to NOVELLA as an example to be fol.
lowed. In the copy of the treaty communicated by the French
General, the first article states, that BALLASTEROS acknow-
ledges the Madrid Regency. That the negociation for the sur.
render of Corunna was very unpopular, may be presumed from
a proclamation published by NOVELLA on the 18th, in which
he states that his proceedings, though in communication with
the enemy, have for their object the common benefit of the
town and the troops, prohibits assemblages in the streets, and
orders the coefee.houses to be shut up at ten, and the taverns at
nine o'clock at night.

CITY, Twelve o'clock.--Consols opened (IC)
morning at 834 to -i—up to this hour 83-i.
The Express from Paris has brought the
French Funds at 91f.15c.—Spanish 42. Private
letters from the above Capital report that the
Cortes have demanded 21 days to frame a new
Constitution, which would be agreeable to the
KING and Spanish nation, which the Duke has
refused.

FOREIGN MARKET.—Little doing except ia
Spanish and Colombian Bonds.

American Papers have arrived to the ‘2sth
August ; they contain► little information► of coy-

sequence.

[From the Commercial iltiveitiser.l
FROM MATINZ AL—Accounts from New Spain
are to the 12th July. By an article, dated at
Jalapa on that day, we find that on the 18th
June the Convention had ceased, which had been
held in that city by the Commissioners on

the part of Spain, for the purpose of form-
ing a . Treaty beneficial, to the interests of
the two nations. The Convention continued,
during five separate sessions. From the intimate
connection that exists between the two nations
in laws, language, and religion, it appears that
a treaty of union and fraternity has been ar-
ranged, and this treaty has been founded on re-
ciprocal acknowledgment of the Constitutional
Ring of Spain, and the sovereignty of the Mexi-
can nation.

We are favoured with a perusal of a letter
received in this city from Buenos•Ayres, which
furnishes information from Chili to the 4th May,
and from Lima to the 99th April. At the latter
place the most active preparations for resisting
the Spaniards were continued : 2,000 of the
Colombian troops had arrived, 2,500 more had
been on their way 20 days, and the last division
of 1,500, with Gen. Bolivar, sailed twelve days
before from Guayaquil..

( From a New-York Paper of the 21st of Aug. 1823. )

, r Rom I.d „
oLomuLt.—Letters from Carracas to
the 42d are received.—Our Minister, Mr. Ander-
son, was on the eve of departing from that
place for Bogota, the capital of Colombia.—
The letters communicate the interesting intelli-
gence that Mr. Todgour, Charge des Affaires at
Bogota, has prevailed on the Government to
modify the revenue Court, by abolishing the extra
five per cent. hitherto paid on imports from the
United States, more than was paid on imports

from Europe.
The same letters assert that the Colombian
Government has ratified the Loan contracted in
England by Mr. Zea.

'We yesterday received a series of Gibraltar
Papers to the 29t1i ult., from which we extract
the following :
•
( From the Chipracle of the 20th.)
" People arrived this morning from Algesiras state, that
general Lauriston's division had retired from Twit& with
trifling loss.
" In letters from Malaga of the 21st inst. it is stated, that
Riego had with him in that city 3,000 infantry and 000 horse.—
General Zayas, as well as several other Officers and Priests,
had been imprisoned by Riego, and sent on board a vessel in
the harbour.
" ALEXANDRIA, JULY 9.—The Pacha of Alexandria is
forming a regular army of Egyptians and Africans."
( From the Paper of the 24th.)
" A vessel arrived at Trieste from Constantinople, which
place she left on the 2d instant, brings intelligence that fresh
-hostilities had taken place between the Persians and the
Porte."

On Wednesday night, Mr. lIUNTE►t, the
King's Messenger, left town with dispatches for
Lord STRANGFORD at Constantinople.
The Priuce de Pottux.tc (the French Am-
bassador) transacted business with Mr. Secretary
CANNING yesterday, at the Foreign Office, Down-
ing-street.
The report of the death of Rear-Admiral II AM E..
LIN is unfounded. Ile arrived at Brest in the
13retonne on, the 13th inst.

A private letter from a French Officer at Me-
tall), in Catalonia, dated the 11th, states, that during the night
of the 9th Sept. a swell having obliged the French ships of war
to stand off to sea, the enemy, to the number of 11 or 12 hun-
dred men, came out from Barcelona in fishing-boats, and made
a descent on the point called Castillo de Mongat, between Mittaro
and Barcelona. These troops, commanded by the Constitutional
ex-Governor of Cordova, were composed of 900 Spaniard
and SOO French and Piedmontese exiles. immediately, on
their landing being known, the tocsin was sounded in all the
villages, the peasants armed, and at Mataro, which contains
considerable magazines, the wisest means were taken to defend
the town in case of an attack ; but the enemy's corps, in.
formed of our good arrangement, and finding themselves pressed
in their rear, threw themselves into the mountains and on
the road to Bostalrich. If they make a movement to throw
themselves into that place, they will find there, ready to
elpose their designs, 1,400 or 1,500 French and Spaniards.—
They are pursued and closely pressed by the General of
Brigade Baron Nicholas, having under his orders the '23d horse
thasseurs, and two battalions of light infantry. While these
things were pesing, the garrison of Barcelona, wishing to oc-
euPy the blockading corps, and to make a diversion, effected,
on different points, sorties which were without success. The
bare
were every where beaten. Our howitzers
ilikVe set fire to Barcelona three times anti the troops of the
King have acquired new rights to the admiration of the French
and foreigners.
A. sudden depression of more than one per cent.
took place in the prices of French stock at Paris
on Tuesday, which has given rise to various re--
ports relative to the situation of the. French army
in Spain, of a very unfavourable nature. There
cannot be a stronger proof of the general ab-
horrence excited every where by the .invasion
of that country, than the readiness with which
such rumours are believed. The greater part
of those in circulation yesterday are equally
destitute of truth and probability. That which
appears best entitled to attention, though it can-
not be given as certain, is an account of the rup-
ture of the negociations before Cadiz, which reach-
ed Paris on Tuesday afternoon, and which induced
some very large sales of stock by eminent capi-
talists there. It is said, indeed, that the Governor
of Cadiz, never entertained any serious disposition
to negociate, but that he had sent the flag of
trpce to the French head-quarters, and allowed
the Duke de Guiche an interview with the King,
solely with the view of gaining time, partly to
render more complete the defences of the city,
but principally that he must remove to a distant
part of Cadiz a large magazine of gun-
powder, - which, since the French had taken
the Trocadero, was exposed to the shot fired from
its batteries ; such was the account received in
Paris on Tuesday. Whether true or otherwise,
it operated very forcibly on the public mind,
which having been led by the" previous accounts
to. expect a termination through negociations, fell
into the contrary extreme of distrust as soon as it
came to be believed that the risk of an attack on
Cadiz were after all to be encountered.—(Times.)
The Prefect of the Department of the Upper
Rhine being alarmed by the.report that prohibit-
ed arms were forged in the manufactories of
M. V. d'Attorisox and M. IiCeCIILIN, ordered
the Civil Power to proceed, with the assistance
of an armed force, in order to search the sus-
pected premises, when,
.after the most minute
search, two cast iron rejoicing patoreroes were
found.