The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-16 00:00:00

NEWS ritOM DIE VRONTIEnS OF SPAIN.

BALLISTEROS occupied Talava on the 24th
ult., extending himself to Valencia; his corps is
composed of 7000 men he has imposed a con-
tribution of eight millions.

PAnts, Jusc 13.—The Doile states having
received accounts from Madrid of the Bth June,
w hich bring news from Seville of the 3d, mention-
ing -disturbances having taken place there, and
that the garrison of 3000 men fired on the people.

A traveller who left Madrid under the name of
If et»equez, accompanied by a woman dressed in
man's clothes, was arrested at Bergera in the
French coach which carried the mail ; this pre-
ten►led traveller proved to be the fugitive Count
A bisba •

Fitt:NCH FUNDS of Satttrday, 87f. 40c., 88f. 35c., fell to
88f. 25c., left off at 88f. 20c. at five o'clock—Spanish 41i to 42.

We have this morning received another corn-
tnunication from the Gentleman at Paris, who
made us so liberal an offer for the insertion of his
'articles. It is:dated " Paris, June 19. th." We
extract the following passage from the communi-
cation :
" The King of SPAIN was to be removed to Cadiz on the 4th
instant ; Seville will instantly recognize the Regency. A large
French force blockades Cadiz by sea ; and a combined force of
forty thousand Spaniards and French will invest it by land,
there not being the slightest fear of any rising in the rear of the
French Army, so that the war may be regarded as entirely ter-
minated, or confined to the single point of Cadiz, which, even
taking the. matter in the extreme point of view, can only hold
out as long as there are provisions, with which it is known to
be only very slightly supplied."
The rest of the article is political, and is there-
fore omitted by us for the reasons stated at the
'Meeting at the London Tavern. Even the state-
ment of alleged facts, in the preceding extract,
must for the same reasons be viewed with great
distrust.—We have not received the " sme."
indeed it is probable that our Correspondent,
from the language used in the columns of THE
SUN, must have begun to " smoke" our inten-
tions, and will keep the labae for his own
tabald•re !

It would have been extraordinary indeed, if
none of our contemporaries had endeavoured to
ridicule the exposure which we made at the
meeting in the City on Friday last. Our
Readers will find under the head " London
Journals," an article on the subject, which we
have extracted from the New Times of this
morning. We cannot, of course, deny to the
New Tunes the right of attempting to defend
itself from the charge which it says was
made against it by The Times, but we are en-
titled to complain, if it were worth while to do
so, of the manner in which it has thought fit to
pervert and misrepresent, and to endeavour to
falsify, our statement. We can only say in
answer that the facts are indisputable, and that
the documents nre in our possession. .If the
Editor of the New Times " knows very little of
THE Sun," 'he must also know very little of the
foreign Journals, particularly those of France
and Spain, or he would know from their perusal
that THE SUN is held in very high estimation on
the Continent, and that it is there regarded
as speaking the sentiments of the English
Government. If French reasonings, and French
views, and French wishes, therefore, could have
been palmed upon the brave Spanish nation,
through our medium, in such a way us to leave it
to be inferred that they were the reasonings, and
'she views, and the wishes of England, the New
limes itself will admit that our enlistment in
the cause of France might` have been of some
value to Frenchmen ! It is truly diverting to see
the impudence with which the New Times says
that our communications from Paris, 44 after
all, contain nothing more than mere doubt-
ful hints, which the writer asserts will be veri-
fied !" If the New Times knows little of THE
SUN, he most assuredly knows still less, or rather
nothing, respecting the contents of those docu-
ments of which he endeavours to speak with so
much affected contempt. -

We extract the following from the British
Monitor of yesterday : •
" The New Times, indeed, professing to be a 21finisterial
Journal, has had the audacity to suggest that 'Ministers ought
now to calculate which party in Spain is likely to be the sue.
ee:.sful one, and to recommend, that for the sake of interested
considerations, they should recognize the Minister and the
Government of the stronger power ! No respectable French
paper, even, would have dared to insert finch an insult
as this to the British Government and nation I' Was
this language which was fit to be addressed to the
Ministers of a country which had made such disinterested saeri,
does--which had upheld and cherished the Bountroxs, whilst
Austria, Russia, and Prussia, proscribed that Family, and
truckled to the blood-stained throne of the Usurper of the
French Crown One I'aris Paper, indeed, the Quotidienne
of yeterday-week, actually threatens the exclusion of Great
Britain from the European community, if she persists in keep-
ing an Ambassador with Ferdinand, and has even the insolence,
with reference to the present position of England, to quote the
well• known line of the Roman poet,—
" Toto divisos or* Britanno, I"

Saturday the Duke of CUMBERLAND, accompa.
n►ed by Prince SOLMS, and attended by Major
PORTLAND, arrived in town. His Royal High.
ness landed at Dover, where he was received
with great applause, and amidst the firing of the
guns on the heights. A fter a short stay at
Wright's Hotel, his Royal Highness set out for
town, and arrived at three o'clock. At six
o'clock his Royal Highness left town for the
King's Lodge, in Windsor Park, where his Royal
Highness had an interview of his MAJESTY, and
afterwards returned to town in the afternoon.

SIR ROBERT WILSON.

tXTRACTS FROM TWO LETTERS FROM SIR ROBERT WIL-
SON, ADDRESSED TO J. G. LAMPITON, ESQ. M.P.

Or Vroo.—" Already 1,000 men have been sent Off to the
army. EVery horse has been given up for the service, and every
man of the town and district IS enrolled in the militia:"
OF GALICIA.—" This province can be defended with
12,000 troops, aided by the inhabitants, against the whole army
of the Duke d'AngOuleme, supposing he could employ his
whole force in the operation ; at the same time, by its connexion
with the Asturias, and communications with heon and Castile,
it assumes, with its defensive means, an offensive attitude on
the most important basis of the enemy's cominunic,ations, if
he advances South of the Ebro, and mbre particularly of the
Douro. I:N.B. Refer to the niap.l Galicia, connected with
the Asttirias, and secured on its right by Portugal, can have
hut one danger to apprehend, and that, 'is updn her sea-coast,
but the French will be very cautious of maritime expeditions,
as they will be afraid to rouse our Jealousy. It is really extra-
ordinary what the Galicians have done with their own limited
means; and I haYe this day seen on parade several hundred
more men of the finest Military description, who are all ready
to go forward hs soon as they can be armed and equipped.
OF Vr00..-;.." I have requested a return of what has been
done by the inhabitants of Vigo alone, and of their present
wants. It would be most agreeable to me, and most useful, if
any contributions should be going forward, as I trust there are,
in England, to send here the first supply of arms, &c. 1 should
think 1,000 are required at the present moment.
" Et qui tiro dat, bis dat."
" For France must make peace, or try the fortune of her
arms very soon in this quarter under every disadvantage, and,
as I affirm' with assurance of defeat, if I can only get one-half
executed of what I propose in the interests of this country and
our own."
Or ConuNl4A.—" The people of this town aro enthusiastic
in their attachment to the Constitution, and the English Vices
Consul of Ferrol tells me ikis the same there, but the popula-
tion is small.
" The volunteer force is composed of as fine men as ever I
saw in any country, and also the disposable militia, many de-
tachments of which are doing duty IA Galicia. The greater
part are clothed, and all are clothing, though, with great sacri
fice to the inhabitants. They are also nearly all armed, but
some of the arms are in an imperfect state, though I was
much pleased to see they were all in good order, as far as clean.
ing could accomplish it. The conscripts are all tine young
men, and do not seem discontented, except for want of clothing.
" Some of those who formed part of the Royal Guard
on the sth of May arc here, and I am told behave as
well as any of the very, best troops of the army. There are
also some penitent factious, but they are very inferior to the
Constitutionalists; from youth and appearance. Altogether)
I suppose, between Vigo and Corunna, the garrisons of
both included; I have seen 5,000 men, wanting nothing
hut suppl.es and discipline; to make them the best troops in
the world; taking all in all ; fbt a Spaniard, with water and
a bit of breath, or a kind of pea, will march forty miles a day.
" The auxiliary corps of 5,000 British (at least Os clamoured
for by all classes; and it would create and orpsnize a force of
30,000 men in this province and the Astiiria* ; 'but even with.,
out this corps, with only a few good officers and s.nne few non-
commissioned officers, I would pledge myself to have an army
of 25,000 men in two months, if we could only get aims and
equipments."

THE CORONATION.

INTERESTING QUESTION AS TO lIEREDITAItt ItIGIIT

AND TITLE.
In the Privy Council, Counsel were on Saturday heard for
the claima;it, Lord Douglas, according to appointment, as we
mentioned a few days ago. The ancient rights of " Dignity"
in'olved in this question are those of " leading the vanguard of
the army of Scotland in the day of battle • of having the first
vote in the Parliament of Scotland ; and of bearing the Crown
of Scotland before the King at all Ridings of Parliament and
Royal processions within the city of Edinburgh, whenever the
crown of Scotland is in use to be borne in pubic." It will be
recollected we stated that Lord Douglas, the claimant, having
succeeded, by judgment of the House of Lords in 1769, after
much keen litigation, to the Estates of his uncle, Sir John
Stewart, of Grandtully, Baronet, who married Jane Doug-
las, only sister and heiress of Archibald Duke of Doug-
las, he, Lord Douglas, claims the honours and dignities men-
tioned, along with the Estates he acquired. Mr. Warren
and Air. Brougham were heard at eonsiderable length for Lord
Douglas. The substance of their arguments may be stated in
very few words; and indeed, We 'already anticipated in the
account we gave, the purport of them. The Learned Counsel
argued that these military and other services described devolve
on Lord Douglas, he having succeeded, through a female heir,
to the Estates or Territorial property of Douglas, and as being
hereditary offices in gross, attached to the land. They denied
that they are " Honours," but " Offices." That it was common
for such offices even to be adjudged by creditors, alienated by
sale or acquired by purchase in Scotland. That the tutors or
curators of an infant Duke of Douglas having; by 'a power,
which they argue they had, but which the Duke of Hamilton
denies they had, by resignation or new grant, a common and
usual mode, changed the order of succession so far as to des-
tine the estates and these offices to a series of year*, letting in
females, and Lord Douglas having succeeded through a female,
lie ought to prevail in his claim. They argued farther, in an-
swer to the objection of the Duke of Hamilton, that it never
could be meant that such offices should be performed by females,
but that males, heirs alone, should inherit them I that in former
times there were many instances on record of females having
even exercised the duty of presiding on the bench in judicial
courts ; of performing the office of Sheriff; of being Peers of
France; and that, however strange it may seem, the objection
of " females" succeeding to such offices was no stranger than
it would be in the case of a male heir being an idiot, and thereby
incapable of exercising such duties, or any duty. In short,
that these military, parliamentary, and processional offices of
trust and Confidence, *ere heritable and patrimonial ; were
attached to the land; they went with the titles by which
the land Lord Douglas acquired is held, and that they
descended to the possessor of the land, who is the claimants
Lord Douglas, entitled, as they argued further, in the oppo-
sition to the right of the Duke of Hamilton to the title
of " Earl of Angus," besides that of " Lord Douglas of
Douglas," a title, to the possessoa of which, the rights and
honours claimed alone belonged, the lands having been erected
into the " Earldom of Angus," by whom they were all along
enjoyed and exercised, as being part of the " Peerage" of
" Hamilton and Brandon, Earl of Angus, &c.;.' to which
title of Earl of Angus the Learned Counsel maintained, Lord
Douglas ought to be considered entitled, along with the terri-
torial property to be acquired through his mother, sister of a
former Duke of Douglas. Mr. Adam and Mr. Abercromhy
are to be heard for the Duke of' Hamilton on Saturday next,
the 21st instant, at eleven o'clock, to which day the Most lion.
Privy Council were pleased to adjourn.

DEATH OF TILE MARQUIS OF S AUSBURY
His Lordship, we regret to state, died on Friday
evening last, at his seat at Hatfield, in Herts.
The Noble Marquis was distinguished through-
out life for gentlemanly demeanour and amiable
disposition ; possessing an enlightened mind and
sound understanding. He died in the nth year
of his age. His Lordship's titles were Marquis
and Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, &c.
in which he is succeeded by his son, Lord Craw.
borne, now Marquis of Salisbury. By his death
there become vacant a Blue Riband of the Order
of the Garter, and the Lord Lieutenancy of the
County of Herts.

At seven o'clock on Friday evening the Duke
of YORK arrived in town from Frogrnore.—The
Duke of Cumberland paid a long visit to Prince
Leopold yesterday.—On Saturday Prince Leo-
pold, accompanied by Prince Reus Ernsdortr,
honoured Sir Charles Long with his presence at
dinner, nt his residence Bromley Hill, Kent.—
The Duchess of Clarence left town for Bushy on
Saturday.—The Duchess of Saxe Weimar dined
with the Duchess of Kent, at her residence in the
King's Paluce, Kensington, on Saturday.
Ye6erday, after Divine Service, his loyal
Highness the Duke of YORK went to view Mr.
BACKLER'S great window, representing the Last
Supper, previous to its removal to Hereford Ca-
thedral.
For the honour and triumph of British art, Sir
JOSIOLA REYNOLDS' portrait of Mrs. Stnnoxs, es the
Tragic Muse, sold on Friday, by Mr. CIIRISTIE, its WATsow
TaYton's collection, for 1,750 guineas. Earl anosvzxon
via* the purchaser.