The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

BAYoNxv, MARCH .—The bustle in our city
and neighbourhood is really extraordinary. The new corps of
troops which successively arrive from the interior, the great
number of persona employed in all the branches of the army,
the crowd of officer* of the Faith and of Spanish emigrants '
who flock hither from the frontier provinces of Spain, have con-
siderably ,1
raised the price of provisions, and made it very diffi-
cult to find lodgings. Independently of the reinforcements
which the division of Count d'Autichanrp has received within
this month past, bath in old troops and conscripts, and the total •
force of which is estimated at 14,000 or 15,000 men, orders have
been given to receive between the let of March and 15th of
April, many other Regiments, amounting ;.together to 16,470 •
infantry, and 3,991 cavalry. The army which is now collect.
ink in the Lower Pyrenees may therefore be estimated at 35,000
or 36,000 men. The artillery, including that at Orthes, Dux,
and St. Jeun-Pied-de-Port, consists of 160 light and 24 heavy
guns. The number of waggons is 500. But few train horses
have hitherto arrived at Bayonne : it Is true that the rendezvous
for them is at Dux, Orthes, and Pau, where the general orga-
nization of the artillery takes
„place. .
The Army of the Faith of Navarre, the three provinces, and
Arragon, including the division of Besaieres (according to lists
furnished by the Spanish Generale who are here), amounts to`
15,000 men ; to which must be added an equal number who
have been enroled in the provinces, and who wait only for arms
and ammunition to join the others. It is decided that General
O'Donnell shall command in Navarre, and haye under him
Major-Generals Espagne and Longa, who will first make an in.
cursion in Arragon ; and Quesada will command in the three
Biscayan provinces, having the Trappist under him. These
two last set out yesterday for St. Jean tie Luz. They are to
embark at Socoafor Biscay ; 12,000 muskets, 12 pieces of field
' artillery, and a pretty large sum of money have been placed at
the disponi. of O'Donnell and Quesada. The first sent yes-
terday 2000 muskets and 6 pieces of cannon to St. Jean Pied.
de Port; and the second has taken all the necessary measures
to convey his warlike stores to Soc,oa. Considering the present
situation of the frontier provinces and The want of constitutional
troops to oppose the designs of the Generals of the Faith, it
cannot be doubted that they will succeed in raising the number
of men that they reckon upon. All Spanish officers, subalterns,
anti citizens able to bear arms, who are at Bayonne and its en-
virons, have received orders to join the army. It is observed
that almost all of them choose to follow Quesada. The Con.
stitutionitlists on thelaontiers are really alarmed ; many are pre-
paring to leave their families and their homes to join the na-
tional army, fearing, not the French army, but the vengeance
of the soldiers or the Faith and its agenta. It is affirmed,
however, that on their entrance art amnesty will be proclaimed,
which tertainly will not be extended to the principal leaders of
7 the revolution.
It is seriously contemplated to throw a bridge over the Bi.
dialog, Ara to occupy bun with the troops of the Faith. but
then all communication with Madrid or the interior would
r cease.
We have rot received the. Madrid mail with the letters of
' the 20th, 21st, 22d, and 23d ; but we know by expresses who
have passed throli here, that the situation of the capital was
, not very favourable, though tranquillity had not been inter.
rupted. The Kln,cipal causes which bad induced the Kinx to
; change his Ministry were not certainly known, only M. Ber-
tran de Lis was reproached with having been concerned in this
intrigue : he has snught to justify himself by a long letter, in.
serted in the Spanish Pallid in which he, however, acknow-
ledges having had a long audience of his Majesty on the 19th,
in the evening, in which he declared to his Majesty that the,
, Ministers, though devoted to the Constitutional cause, were
destitute of the talents and experience requisite to save the
nation in the present crisis. In fine, the division of par-

ties 'in Madrid is at the heights some are inclined to the
present Ministry, others would have the King set aside, and
a Regency appointed ; for this purpose, on the 22d, in the
evening, a table was placed in the "Square of the Consti-
tution, with two candles, a quire of' paper, pens, and ink,
that the people .might put down their names; the table was
guarded by a tletachnient of cavalry, and various persons
were busy in drawing attention ; but the object failed, and,
in general, the whole business was ridiculed ! The King, on
his part, when the decree of the Cortes was presented to him,
relative to the removal of the Govetnment and the Royal
Family to the place which should be fixed by the Military
Committee appointed for the purpose, (that is, in case of real
danger), answered, that he approved of this very wise resolu-
tion, but did not yet see the necessity of it, and that it would
only be all'ording foreigners a pretext to say that the King was
not free. It is well to know that there is a plan at Madrid to
prevent the removal of the King, which may succeed if the
Ministry have not'sufficient strength to baffle it.
It was Lord Aithrie, son of, the Earl of flopetoun, who
lately passed through Bayonne, coining from Madrid, and
not Lord Fitzroy Somerset, who has not quitted that capital.
An express received yesterday evening, by the Comninee of
the Faith in this city, positively states, that Bessieres was on
the 25th ult. at Soria, and that the greater part of his division
was proceeding towards the Ebro, in the direction of Etudel,
Alfaro, and bogrono : lie has sent the most pressing orders to
collectimmediately on the banks of that river all the troops of
the Faith that could be disposed of. The member of soldiers
under him is considerable, for lie brings with him 6,000 con-
scripts;-besides his division, which is 6,000 strong.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

NOTICES of MOTIONS, and ORDERS of the DAY,
which now stand in the Order-Book, for the Present Week.
Monday, Mardi 19.
ORDERS OF TitE DAY.
._l. Marriage Act Repeal Bill—Second Reading.
2. Assessed Taxes Reduction Bill—Committee.
3. Yeomanry Corps (Ireland) Bill—Comniittee.
4. Warehousing Acts,-Committee thereupon.
5. Supply—Report.
6. Supply—Committee.
7. Arms (Ireland) Bill—Report.
B. Ways and Means—Committee.
U. Assessed Taxes Repeal (Ireland) Bill,-Third Reading.
10. National Debt Reduction Bill—Second Reading.
11: Lime Exemption from Toll Bill—Committee.
NOTICES OF 'MOTIONS $
1. Mr. Robert Ward-Ordnance Estimates. (In Committee
of Supply.)
2. Mr.Jones—Bill to amend and correct the practice of the
Courts of Great Sessions in Wales.

Tuesday, March 11.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
Lord Archibald llamilton—To take into consideration the
state of the County Representation in Scotland. (Tb move
Resolutions.)
Wednesday, March 12.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
Mr. Cripps —Parish Apprenticeship Laws.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
DiViiion of Counties Bill—Second Reading.

Thursday, March 13.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Lord Viscount Cranborne—Selcct Committee on the Game

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Laws.
2. Mr. Lennard--Address for Account of the Savings in the
Third Class of the Civil List.
°RAVI or THE DAY.
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Sligo County Eleaion Petition—Ballot for Committee, at
three. _ _ _

Friday, March 14.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
Sir John Osborn—Navy Estimates. (In Committee of
Supply).