The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-11 00:00:00

TUE LONDON JOUEtNALS.

DAILY
&tracts from the Morning Papers, November

[MORNING POST.]
Lisbon Gazettes to the 2?d instant reached us
yesterday. They contain, however, no news
from Portugal, but some interesting intelligence
from Spain. It appears that the Spanish troops
a Puerto Real and Chic!arta had so freely
given, way to their dissatisfaction, that General
Hourmoat,•Who commands at Cadiz and in Ast••
dalasia, 'faring lest they should proceed to open,
itssurrectiOn,• as their officers " did not repress
tbem," (which probably may he more correctly
'understood,- did encourage them) had caused
then to be disarmed. A strong necesliity • must
isideed have existed for so strong a measure, for
the soldiers, now disarmed were those who had
been received in the King's- service, and in their
disbanded state they will scatter themselves
about the country, and carry discontent
to ; every, part. Much apprehension' seemed
also to ba entertained at Cadiz of strangers,
for' tWp Prochunations. had been issued, the
one ordering all strangers to repair to their
yespeetive Consuls, in order to their 'being re-
gistered ; and the other calling on all masters of
houses to make a return of the strangers lodging
with them, by 11 o'clock on the 13th ult., and
threatening arrest and punishment in all cases of
disobedience. It does not appear, at least up to
the dute'of these . Papers, that the reported ex.
pulsion of the Spanish' Governor by the French
Commander •had taken place. The former, on
the contrary, seemed to display the most humble
and profound obsequiousness to all the mandates
of General Bourmont.

[MORNING. CHRONICLE.]
We have seen letters from Gibraltar of the
r2fitli and 27th ult., received by some of the most
distinguished. Spanish exiles here from their
countrymen, who have found refuge in Gibraltar.
These letters state, that the accounts from Cadiz
give a dreadful picture of the state of things iu
that city. The present Spanish Governor d'Au.
fey, an old officer of the Walloon Guards, had
issued orders for the arrest of whole classes—all
the Merr►lcers of the Cortes—all the Municipal
Authorities—all the Corporations, 1. e. City
Companies—all the Ministers, &c. The num-
ber of families affected by these measures
amounted to no fewer than COO. The consternation
was indescribable. Bourmont, the French Com-
mander, either fearing the consequence of this
system of proscription, by which multitudes were
driven to desperation,. or wishing to derive ad-
vantage from it to his nation, and to acquire po-
pularity for himself, had affected to he greatly
.ahoelted at the proceedings of D'Aunoy, and op-
posed. Errs►self to them. Two hundred men of
tlie.Regimienla de la Lealla basing been sent
to aid thilGoverner in his work of cruelty, and •
landed on the Mole of Cadiz (each man having
fifty rounds of ball-cartridge) the French stop(
them, and ordered them hack. Bourmont had
also insisted on the liberation of the Duke del
Parque,.Latrie, and some other persons of dis-
tinction. The accounts received from Madrid
are still more gloomy. The number of fa►uilies
comprehended under the orders of banishment is
so great that we hesitate to repeat it.

[N EW TIMES.
tt ft seems strange," says The Courier," that
any persons should view our sentiments upon the
South American States us breathing either war
er defiance." This explicit declaration of our
worthy cotemporary, we trust, will quiet the
alarm which his warlike tone the other day in-
spired. To the South American States we wish
all imaginable prosperity ; but %,s e really do
not see ,what business we have with the quarrel
between them and their mother countries.—
Ler the Portuguese, if they please, send
*nether expedition to Bahia ; or the Spaniardsl
send one to Peru. Let the Continental Powers
hold a Congress, if .they please, to settle any ab-
stract que:,tion on the obedience due from a dis-
tant Colony to a Power which is Utterly unable
to afford it any protection. Our business is to
attend to our own concernst, to husband our re-
seurcea, .Ind to maintain an Immovable neutrality
twin British interests are attacked—then woe to
the assailant ! Meanwhile we shall gain more by,
one year of peace than all the Continental
Voiver4 would by ten years of war ; if we could
suppose them all so insane as to unite their
forces for the purpose of conquering South
America—a notion which no wise man will for a
imknent entertain.

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[TILE TIMES.]
fly some means or other, the country will ob-
tain" ion perhaps before the end of the present
generation, a tolerably accurate kunwledge ,of
the tvay puthlic business of all kinds is
and has ;seen conducted in Ireland. A Parlia-
sgentary,,-
,Qounnission has nnketinelled a good
number of.ttai,vermin which prey upon our un-
fortunate felioW-subjects----at once despoiling and
corrupting them, . A Government, prosecution
OMUTA now and!then,. to help the griod work of
detecting criminals; for vs,to.the punishment of
any Malt: delinquents,, if .above the rank= of
thy, penr...3tarvieg .creatures in Munster, that,
War point: in the,,progress of society which it' will
lucky, if we arrive At, these fifty years to
come.. Goverment ltaa just been prosecuting, or
pretending to prosecuto,two.persons iwthat rank
.e+hiAll is • usua Ily called ", respectable,"
fPrrePosiit, ads of ,plunder, said to have been
ansnodttod. upent; thif'cristoni7hOuse of Ireland.
The quantum of property, 'is not: described,to
ittuelf.:—Only 100 quires of piper,
Whiefitippear to have been transferrea by or froin
widen -the care of 'one Willk`rns, a Clerk in the
Clutiontsj; tOwnother Clerk, named:l'4lot., in the
Eloise ;-ittttl4 as Attorni,y:General and his,
-wftrkisns '-alleged,"for ' tin hetiefit of 1' nylor;
ostAlNiuttnr: `or'tenth of thern. The property
carriedlotr,i We' aliriw'r-wtt4 not excessive ;, but,.
eactl4-IWlt#lttrid,-iVi'dmilit whether it would be
affirimed4bat, the' more or less in bulk of the
thing suede' itieify with is :What determines' ihe
govoirtot oliathett ; 'yeti We are at it loss to sea: