The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-23 00:00:00

CORN E.',.ci!AloE,..Ly. 23.

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The arrivals this week arc increasing. Nat ; Wheat 6,70,
and Oats 24,000, Oaten), none 8,400 sacks. The weather
continuing still unsettled, has nut produced any material ahem-
tion in the prices. Prime Wheat is held at more money, but
the'buyerti Comply reludtantly..• Batley, Beans, and Pea*, ob-
tain rather better terms. The Oat trade continues very heavy.
at Monday's prices. Flour is expected to be as. per sack
highet. •

THE LONDON JOURNALL

DAILY

E,rtracts from,the Morning Papers, July 23.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
A vessel has arrived at Stang-ate-creek from
Gibraltar, which place she sailed from on the
4th instant. A letter received by her, of the
above date, advises' that information had that
moment arrived there of the French army having
:retired from St. Mary's to. Xeres, in consequence
of several reverses which General Rourinont
had experienced in the neighbourhood of Seville.
This account agrees in so many particulars. with
'private intelligence received last week from
Paris, that strong hopes are -entertained of its
authenticity; for letters from the French Ca-
pital; dated on Thursday last, and received here
on Saturday, stated, that on .the 2d, 3d, and 4th
July several affairs occurred betwixt the Con.
'stitutional troops under the orders of Villa.
• Cainpa and Lopez Banos, and those of the
French conducted by Bourmont, and that the re-
.''cult had been the abandonment of Seville by the
latter. Letters 'received here direct from Xeres, of
the 27th ult., also stated that the Spaniards had
collected a large force at Chicalana, and that de-
cisive operations ?were daily expected. It may
therefore be reasonably co.ncluded that some-im-
portant events have occurred in this quarter, and
the arrival of the steam-ship is consequently
ltioked for with increased anxiety. The Gib-

ratter letters farther state that Cadiz was well
supplied with provisions, although prices had
risen in consequence of the expected siege. The
French force in the neighbourhood-did not ex-
ceed 5,000 men,, was without artillery, and inca-
pable of investing the smallest fortress in Spain.
With the addition of another cypher to the above
figures, the French lay before Cadiz during the
last inva‘lon for two years, and, us it is well
known,'were never able to get possession of it.—
It is, therefore, farcicaj to suppose that this
strong city can ever be reduced by means so
paltry as the French have now assembled in
Andalusia.

[MORNING POST.] •
W received additional Papers last night from
Paris to the 'list instant. Their contents possess
st 9 importance, An extract from the Journal de
Perpignan, of the 19.1 th, asserts that intelligence
had just reached that city, announcing the death
of Mina ; but the Parisian Editor justly observes,
that neither the official...bulletins nor any of the
private letters received, though of a later date,
had made any mention of that event. The re-
port is therefore entitled to no credit ; for
when we find it doubted by the erench them-
selves, nho have so many reasons to wish it
true, we must suppose OW its want of foundation
was too obi, ious to allow them to use it even for the
purpose of tempo, ary delusion. Another report was
also prevalent in Paris, but considered at least
premature, that the Pope had died in conse-
quence of his late accident. The decease of this
aged Ponliff at the present juncture would be
chiefly important, becatp.o it would afford a
ground of quarrel to' the members of the 1101. Y
Alliance, each of whom it is expected would
support the interest of different candidates.—
Austria is welt known to have nn (le to that
quarter ; for, with an ,Austrian Prince in the
Pupal chair, the whole of-Italy would be as com-
pletely under the sway of the Emperor Francis
as his own, hereditary states.—Together with
these Papers private letters, dated on Saturday
night, have been. received. They state that
the Spanish Cortes had made overtures to the
Madrid Regency, and that the following were
the propositions submitted for consideration
Ist, that in the event of King Ferdinand
being given up, the appointment of his Ministers
should be at his own discretion ; and, 2dly, that
no Act should be passed by the Regency to annul
the Loans raised under the Constitutional Go-
Vernmetit." N6thing, it is added, was said re-
specting the personal safety of the members of
the Cortes, because they conceived that if the
King were at liberty to select his own Ministers,
they would be men of constitutionrl principles from
whom they would have no persecutions to appre-
hend. But letters from Madrid of the 19th inst.
seem to intimate that another course is to be pur-
sued, and that the*llegency was determined to
" make an example of ail those members who
had been the means of protracting the war, when-
ever it should get them within its power ?" if
such a determination be really taken, or a dispo-
sition to take it exist, negotiating is useless, and
war must continue till the people, freed from the
influence of self-exposed traitors, rise in ven-
geance against the inVaders, or till the Cortes
nobly perish with the Constitution.