The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-14 00:00:00

M. de Villele, an:injunction-to quirthe Peninsula
within a very few days after the departure of the
other Ministers of the Allied Powers.—(Drapeau
Blanc.) •

We (Item) have before us a private letter
from Bayonne, which contains the following
face :

"During' the night of the 29th December last,
a detachment of troops of the line of the Consti-
tutional Army of Spain, consisting of 250 men,
and commanded by Col. Arhura, violated our
territory. This horde of brigands passed through
the French village of A ldules, and proceeded
onward 3 or 4 leagues, still on our territory, to
Smayre, or Val-Carlos (a village situated on the
extreme frontier, near St. Jean Pied-de-port),
to murder, in cold blood,' the ill-fated wounded
Royalists there. Twenty of these braie de.
fenders of the altar and the throne were mas-
sacred, and the others carried off, and the houses
in which they had been received were gii,en up
to pillage. Laden with arms and the bloody
booty- of these unfortunate victims, the detach-
ment returned into Spain by the same way that
they had entered. Our indignant soldier* wish
they bad already punished this outrage."
We cannot doubt the authenticity of these
facts, which we have received from a certain
source. Whatever reflections they may inspire,
we will only say, if a vacillating and pusilla-
nimous policy—a policy unworthy of French
loyalty—pauses to negotiate when the white flag
ought to float over the Escurial, and our troops to;
be encamped before Madrid, it,*at -least, appears
to us that such an outrage demands a signal repa-
ration. Some brave soldiers, worthy of a better
fate, are betrayed by fortune "; they seek an
asylum amongst the inhabitants' of a neighbour-
ing State, and the latter are subjected to the
incursions of cannibals, who come to murder de-
fenceless men in cold blood ! in what manner is
our territory protected? Are we to protect the
descamisados ? How have our authorities behaved
under this violation ? Why, finally, have not
the bayonets of our brave troops revenged this
execrable invasion ? The Pyrennees echo with
indignation. War ! exclaim our soldiers; War!
repeats faithful France, and the Ministry remains
mute! A word, a gesture, and the Cortes would
return to their obscurity : the scaffold would
receive the wretches whom public vengeance de-
signates; Ferdinand would recover the Crowu
which he holds only from God and his ancestors;
and will Ministers still hesitate ?

[From the Journal des Debuts.]
Some journals have announced the destruction
of the Royalist corps of General O'Donnel by
the troops of Torrijos. This intelligence appears
exaggerated, considering the present state of the
roads of the Pyrennues, where it is rather im-
probable that his corps, though not very consi-
derable, can act. The only authenticated event,
and which doubtless has given rise to this report,
is of a nature far less glorious to the troops of
Torrijos

The, Journal des D6bats here copies, from the
Ruche. d' Aquitaine an account which we have
given above, of the incursion of a detachment of
the constitutional troopsinto the French territory,
to murder the wounded Royalists.
It.was yesterday affirmed in Paris, that the
courier who took to Madrid the note of the
Courts of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, has been
attacked on the route by robbers, who took from
him the dispatches and his money, and ill-treated
him, without, however, Eeverely wounding him.
This circumstande may explain why no :ixtra-
ordinary advices have yet been received in Paris
from Madrid, respecting the effect which this
note would produce in , the latter capital.—
(Journal de Paris.) •

A sensible rise took place in the funds yester-
day ; we will not attempt to explain it by extra-
ordinary operations, the source and the means of
which must not be looked for within the com-
mercial circle. Previously to 'Change hours, the
rente was offered at 86. 50.; it closed for the ac.
count at 87. 5.

The extraordinary efforts by which a policy,
more or less skilful, tnight attempt to maintain
the price of public securities, during a momen-
tous crisis, would necessarily be but transitory,
and would only, eventualy, render the conse-
quences of an ultimate Mil more severe. Let
us leave out of our consideration this supposi-
tion which the wisdom of M. the Minister of
Finance renders inadmissible. Some specula-
tors, doubtless reasoning more wisely, attri-
bute thii rapid and sudden rise solely to the tac-
ties of the very persons who foresee an immediate
fall, -and who, with the design of selling at a
better price what they would repurchase subse-
quently at the fall, have assisted to produce a
transient rise, in order to realize to their present
advantage, and provide means of future profit.—
These stock-jobbing calculations will, conse-
quently, be no more durable than any other
means employed to' produce factitious results.—
( Mem.)

ft should be generally known, that, in confor-
,
pity of an Ordinance, of the King of FRANCE,
under date of the 7th August, 1828, every ship
or vessel, whether French or Foreign, coming
from any port whatsoever, and•hound to any port
in France, shall be liable, on her arrival, if not
provided with a bill of health from the French
Consul or Consular Agent, at the port at which
she shall happen to touch last, to a restraint of
quarantine; and. if provided with a bill of health
from the authorities of the country she comes
from, it will be ultimately necessary to have the
same endorsed by the French Consuls or Con-
sular agents residing in tie ports where she may
afterwards touch.

The Yorkshire Requisition for a Couniy Meet-
ing on Reform was presented to the High She-
riff last week, and he has appointed the Meeting
to be held on' the 221 inst.

C A preparatory Meeting has been held at Maid-
stone—the Earls DARTiLF.Y and TIIANgT, and
other persons of respectability were present, to
consider of calling a Meeting on Agricultural
Distress, Reform, &c.
EDW. BAKER, Esq. of St. Ann's-street, Salk-
..bury, has; been elected, without opposition, Re.
presentative for the• Borough of Wilton,