The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-17 00:00:00

- BAYONNE INTELLIGENCE.

TIAYONNE, SEPT. B.—The army courier has
brought letters from Madrid of the 3d inst., from
which we select some particulars that appear to
be most interesting:—

MADRID, SRPT. 3.—The accounts of military operations are
rendered so confused by the exaggerations of party spirit, that it
asp difficult to obtain any thing more than an outline of the truth.
Csa.d:z is the subject of the hopes and fears of the two parties.
The Royalists flatter themselves that it wiU soon be reduced;
:though'some think they will be disappointed, unless measures
• asefomuld to favour the French, against, the place, by some
-understanding within the walls, Meantime, an Express, which
has arrived in fifty-six hours from Port St. Mary's brings the
news of the taking of the Trocadcro. The Spaniards, it is
said, did not resist as might have been expected, 'with the ex-
ception of 240 artillery, who were cut down standing by their
guns. The Duke of Reggio, who has alone received the news,
has not been able to satisfy the curiosity of the parties who
are eager to know whether Matagorda is also taken. At the
.departure of the courier, the cannon was firing both at Cadiz
and the Isle of Leon.

This new victory gives increased spirit to the Regency,
which, depending on the support of the Russian Cabinet, will
not hear of any compromise with the Cortes; all, or nothing,'
-is the motto of its partisan. On the other hand, it is not easy
-to imagine that the Cortes can be inclined to treat, if it be true,
as reported here, that the Regency, in a secret council; sitting
as a Chamber of Justice, has condemned forty Deputies to ca-
pital punishment, and fifty others to perpetual banishment to,
the Philippine Islands. Among the first are the two Arguelles,
Romero, Alpuente, Isiaritz, Oaliano, &c. This being the
case, we may believe that the Deputies are resolved, as they are
said to be, to support a bombardment, and to be buried, with
the Royal Family, in the ruins of the place, as such a fall would
be more honourable than an infamous death or terrible
But how distressing would be the situation of our Prince, in case
web a calamitous event. should take place.

The partisans of the Regency, however, in their meetings,
,airect to regard the Duke as of little weight. ' We have too
many means,' say they, 'to subdue the Revolutionists;' al-
luding to the offers of foreign aid, whence we may infer that
the cause of the Constitution is desperate ; hut shall we attain
the pacification which is ardently desired ? It seems that the
Cortes have given full liberty, to such Deputies as may desire
it, to withdraw from the Congress, and that only two have ac-
cepted it who, on account of severe illness, have asked passports
for Gibraltar.

•• A:plot has been discovered st Palma, the object of which was
to deliver the Balearic Islands from the revolutionary yoke, and
to deliver Port Mahon to •the French squadron in the Medi-
terranean. A Rusidan Officer has been arrested there who
gives himself out for a German, travelling for a mercantile
`house in the North. Tranquillity begins to be established at
Madrid; except the-Inquisition, every thing is returning to its
former footing. The police is still very actively engaged : the
Trench ere in•general liked; the organization of the Spanish
troops goes on slowly, which seems to confirm what has been
eften repeated, that the mass of the nation does not take any
interest in the' contest, and even, to speak frankly, it does net
like the Constitutionalists, either through the influence of the
clergy, who begin to resume their place, or because their own
troops have not been able to avoid being a burden, while the
French continue to pay for everything with the most scrupulous
. punctuality. Thus Chaleco, Eguaguiera, and the partisans,
being unable to support themselves, have submitted. We
have also the news of the capitulation of Palaces, Vigo, and
Roselle ; nothing must surprise us. Those provinces, the in-
habitants of which are not naturally warlike, like those of Cata-
lonia, have not taken a step in favour of the Constitution, or
to repel the invaders, who have not disturbed their tranquillity.
This was one of the causes that hindered Ballasteres, whose
troops are in the same positions, and paid by the French.
• From the 25th to the 30th there were some warm disputes
between that General and Molitor, so that a rupture was ap-
prehended, but till now they both remain where they were; all
this seems very • strange. Alicant and Carthagena have re-
fused, for the third time, the armistice proposed by Belles-I
teros ; it is true these two places have no great force to contend
with, as the French have left but a few troops in Murcia and
Valencia,
• We have no certain news from Estremadura. The couriers
• who come from that part say that 3,000 Constitutional troops
have marched from Corks towards the banks of the Guadalqui-
vet., and that beyond Talavera they saw a party of 00 horse.
O'Donnel observes and keeps in check the garrison of 'Ciudad
Rodrigo, from which place guerillas sally out and ravage the ,
banks of the Douro. Morino is endeavouring to counteract
the effects of the counter-revolution in Galicia.
By a special ordonnanee he has declared that he will
severely. punish every insult offered to the Constitutionalists
who have submitted; but that he will also severely punish
those who may abuse this indulgence, by seeking to mislead
the people, and plunge them into anarchy. By following this
system, he will certainly purify a province where there arc
no constitutionalists except, those who took up arms. Some
detached parties, however, are about Aaterga and Leon, and
hinder the communications between Galicia and the Castiles.
—Morrill° has ordered the organization of a national guard to
purstue them.
The Pastor, Campine, and about fifty other prisoners, front
Cozunna, arrived at Bayonne on the 7th ; there are many
citi-
zens of Bilboa among them.