The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-27 00:00:00

Dendariena, 2 years' imprisonment in the royal.'
gaol;; but on payment of 10 ounces of gold an-
nually, she is at liberty.—Donna Eloya Harre-
quin, 4 years' imprisonment in the royal gaol ;
but free on an annual payment of 100 dollars.—
Donna Martina de Yriarte, 4 years' imprison-
ment; or to pay 20 ounces of gold annually.—
Donna Joaquima Echarri, to be exiled from the
kingdom of Navarre for 6 years, and not allowed
to go near to the royal residence : sentence re-
deemable for 500 dollars.—La Senora de Eche-
verria (63 years old), exiled from Navarre for 4
years : remitted for 20 ounces of gold.—The
sister of General Mina, whose husband was killed
in one of the batteries during the siege, was still
in prison, and her trial was to have come on last
week ; when nothing could avert, according to
the information received, her being sentenced to
the hulks at Malaga. The only crime of this
lady was that of being General Mina's sister.—
A great number of ladies, both old and young,
were in the prisons of Pampeluna when the
letters were dispatched, which was on the 13th
inst. We hardly know whether the Spaniards
are more gallant who inflict these iniquities, or
the French who suffer them to be inflicted.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The information received yesterday from Paris ,
by private express is by no means unimportant.
From IVladrid the accounts received there were
to the 17th inst. The Prime Minister of the ab-
solute Ferdinand, M. Casa riojo, :died on the..
preceding day. His death is ,an: unfortunate
event to Ferdinand, for his talents and his cha-
racter might have assisted in reconciling Spa-
niards to despotism. To the cause of the
people, however, it is advantageous, because it,
will hasten the period when the natural rights of
men must triumph over the principles of fana-
ticism and tyranny in the Peninsula. A
great deal was talked of reducing the American
Colonies to the legitimate sway of the Bourbons.
Silver, it was reported, had been hoared, and
priests and spies had been forwarded, by French.
men of war, to pave the way in the American
Continenent for the restoration of ignorance and
mental debasement. The internal state of Spain,
however, will for some time, at all events, not
only afford full employment for all the resources,
of his Most Catholic -Majesty, but also for the
surplus means of his Most Christian Majesty. In
Estrantadura the Constitutionalists are in consi-
siderable strength, under the Empecinado, and
wherever there were not French troops,the govern-
ment of A bsolute Monarchy could not be inforced.
At Madrid itself it required all the exertions of the
French garrison to subdue the dissatisfaction of
the -people, and every thing portended a reaction,
which will require another hundred thousand
Frenchmen, commanded by the Hero of the Tro-
cadero, and invoking the God of Saint Louis, to
put them down. On Saturday the dismal ac-
counts received from Spain caused the French
Rentes to decline to 94f. SO c. ; Spanish Bonds,
on the same day were done at 24-“, and the
;Naples, fell from 81-1- to
Bonds of the King of
804-, because it. was reported that his Majesty
would require another Loan, for which rumour,
however, there was no authority whatever.
Should Naples require farther
pecuniary assist-
ance, the Gentlemen who have heretofore con-
ducted these operations, will fully • satisfy the
public of the causes which render more money.
necessary.
[MORNING HERALD.]
The private letters from Spain contain little
that can be properly called news. They are,
however, not without interest. • The state of that
kingdom, or rather of Madrid, is anomalous—
scarcely comprehensible. How is it to be recoil-
cited with reason that the faction of slaves and
fanatics should be able to keep its ground at
Maileid in spite of the French—that is, of
the invading power which has overrun the na
lion ?-
Yet such appears to be ,the fact.
has.
been generally, an.d with every appearance of.
reason, belie,yed that the French were hos-
tile to this party, and that an order had been
issued for the instant departure of .the Bishops
and Heads of Monkish orders from Madrid.—
But so far is any such order from having been
complied with, that a secret club of them,,called
the Apostolic Committee, holds its meetings in
the capital—nay, more, that they are visited by.
King 'Ferdinand incog. Among them are Saez,
the late Confessor, old General Eguia, and Ma-
taflorida, and others of the heads and partizans
of the first Regency of Urgel. Under these cir-
cumstances it may readily be imagined that the am-
nesty has, according to the most recent accounts.
been abandoned, and that the Inquisition, though
declared no longer a fit instrument by the Pope
himself, is about to be re-established.. The only,
reasonable 'way to account for these singular. phe-
nomena, is the supposition that the monks- and
fanatiCs are countenanced by Russian influence.
It is said that Ferdinand personally is more
under the controul of the Russian than of the
Fretich *Minister, and of all the Constitutional
powers Russia 11,3 urged the principles of abso-
lute authority in civil government and religion
with the most undisguised and unmeasured la-
titude. The Inquisition itself was expressly
defended in one of the Russian State Papers
shortly before the invasion of Spain, and the
imputations upon that 4 4 venerable institution".
called revolutionary calumnies. It is not at.
all matter of surprise, then, that the Inquisition
should be restored under the auspices of his
Imperial Majesty. One only tangible and
specific measure ,seems to occupy the Govern-
tnent at Madrid. It is the organization of the
police, or' rather of a .system of espionage to
cover the whole kingdom, and to have its centre
in the capital. The only doubt seems to be its
practicability, considering the basis of the plan,
the extent of the country, and its disorganiz-
ed state. The first step is to take a census of
the population, Specifying age, sex, Circumstances,
and, opinions. This, however, seems to us a system
of suspicious tyranny incapable of being carried
into execution by so weak a govertment as that of
Ferdinand, and over such a population. In the
provinces all is still pillage and confusion. The
servile Governors- or petty authorities frequently
denounce Constitutionalists by name, as persons
out of the pale of law and humanity, who may be