The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-02 00:00:00

MTV ON nIA4II.

Mr. Eintcht-,-;-It has "long been a matter of
regret, both With the.importers and consumers of
this article, (especially for the last few years
since the price has been so moderate and the
quality so bad), that some arrangetnemt iii the
way of an ad valorem duty has not taken places
As it is, the duty is the same on.hemp of Wt. per
ton value as it is on that of 501., consequently it
acts as a total, exclusion . for the inferior. sorts,
Which are subject to increased charges from their
bulk; and the growers of the raw ankle havin4
no demand for the short and common hemp, allow
it to remain with the best, to the injury of • the
quality of the whole. A general expectation
exists that an alteration of the Duty an Hemp
will shortly take place. The interest and nue'',
lion that is taken by ydtit• Paper in every thing
that concerns Commerce, induce me to hope you
will notice the above:

A. 11.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
.Extracts from the Morning Ptpers, September

[THE
The private letteis received by the last "inail
frem POrttigal strengthen the belief formerly ex-
pressed, that,the present state of things there is
far from resting on a stable basis. The party in
power become more odious, because diey .are
Mete .violent, every day ; and the prisons are
tiled, or rattier overflowing, with their victims.
The chief of Judicial Power at Oporto has
hcen,,thOwn into gaol like a common felon.—
ThOliaister of Justice is superseded in his
office, by every underling who has fears to be
quieted, or vengeance to be appeased, and whose
will,is a law under which the innocent or re-
spectable members of society may be imprisoned.
Here, then, under legitimate sway, is the worst
feature of French Jacobinism, the confusion of
all authority, re-established. The Cabinet is
torn, by opposite views and interests.—Pal-
mella is for England, while Pamplona and
his party represent the French interest. A
change in that quarter, therefore, is to all ap-
pearance unavoidable and immediate. The Com-
mittee for framing a Constitution are, it is said,
at utter variance as to the principles on which it
is to rest. Stockier and four others are for mak-
ing the people the only source of power. A second
party patronises divine right ; so the Constitution
ill still, in nubibus, and so must remain, until these
extremes' can be approximated. The movers of
the late counter-revolution, it seems, have been
presented with medals, which the people of Lis-
bon turn into open ridicule. In the mean time,
the insult to Sir Robert Wilson appears to have
made some impression even upon the Portuguese.
The King was compelled to sign the decree !
compelled to disgrace himself !—The troops are
said to be badly paid, and, like the Praetorian
bands, licentious and venal, threaten a second
time to barter away a monarchy. I f these por.
tents do not precede a crisis, fortune is decidedly
on the side of despotism.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
• A Spaniard, resident at London, has received
from one of his friends, a Deputy to the Cortes,
the following letter, in answer to one, in which
he had expressed his fears that the negotiations
now pending, according to French Journals, be.
tweet' the Duke of Augouleme and the Spanish
Cabinet, would succeed :—" I see by your letter
that the news in the French Journals have at
length had an influence even on your good sense,
and that you believe what is contrary to every
probability, and opposed by every thing you
know relative to the present situation of our
affairs. ‘Vith whom do you expect that we
should trent ? On what shall we treat ? And
why shall we be forced to treat ? Here are three
questions which must he answered before you can
credit an event of such great importance. With
whom ? The enemy who would force us to
treat cannot treat with us without acting in
contradiction to himself ; for after having
declared the illegality of the Governoient—after
having', so to speak, outlawed it—he could not
begin to negotiate with it which supposes an
equality of rank, rind that the Government is
legal. On our Own part, we cannot see in the
Duke of Angouleme either the I{eprisentative of
a civilized Government, or the Commander-in.
Chief of the army of a civilized nation, but the
head of a band of robbers who have invaded our
territory without deigning to declare war, and
without any provocation on our part having fur-
nished-any motive for such an act of hostility. Thus
you see we might have the greatest desire to treat
and we should not Lind any body to treat with us.
And on what shall we treat. ? Have we taken nay
thing.from France ? Do we owe her any reparation
for wrongs done towards her ? No. She has at.
tacked. us becauFe our Constitution does not please
her, acid it is neither reasonable nor expedient
that we should give way to such caprices, or
that ttaticitiS should bend to the will or to the
nassionS of neighbouring nations. Finally, why
should we be oblig'ed to trent ?—The preserva-
tion
,Of ger
,strong places, the rapid increase of
the duerillaS', the exploits of Mina, the precari.
OHS situation of the French, the state of Cadiz,
are Q. sufficient reply to this question. Such ele-
coentirare, not calculated to discourage our party,
nor ~make it submit, to the yoke which tyranny
would impose. You may he sure that they have
never. yet, spoken, and that they never will speak,
in,the august Assembly of which I have the ho-
nour to be a Member, of treaties and arrangements,
nor of any, other measure incompatible With the
dignity of the nation, and with the rules and forms
accord,ing,to which the political affairs of Europe
are ,regttlated. To know the just value of the
menaces.. of the French with regard to Cadiz, it
isnecessitry that I should tell you the following
fact I--.On tide l 3th of last month (July) some
inhahitanp of Cadiz made an excursion to the
COtinent, and did not meet with a single French
Soldier at Chiclatta, at Puerto.lteale, nor in the
neighbourhood of the Carrara, the most im-
porium,tl ppintti, for carrying on the siege, and
and were never abandoned by the troops
of
.Napoleott during the last siege. It is also
known., that the, besieging army does not
cum the Trocadero, the only point from whence
would be bombarded; in case the French
bad mortari(Sitnilar to those in St, James's Park,
hot of which they have none. You may see from
thii that thei.Warklike tone recently taken by the
vich Ai oteilat Journals, and their bravadoes
Oadiz, are. only the expression of their own
bitter disappointment, and of the disgust inspired
by, the impossibility which their Generals find in
executing their silly and wicked enterprize."

[iwonnii4o eorr.l
,We received last night, by Express, French
papers to the, Ist instant. They contain an
Official ilulletin, from Port St. Mary's an
uo -
uncing the . arrival of , the Duke of An-
gogeme at that place, but saying not a word
abiint the atkepnitng of, nflOciations nor even
about any,intention I negotiate. t speaks on,
the contrary of the satisfaction experienced byl

► the Generalissimo at the military dispositions
which had been made, and expresses a triumphant
expectation that the reinforcements received
would give new activity to the operations against
Cadiz. This certainly does not sound very paci-
fic : neither, from the other statements of this
Bulletin, do the Constitutionalists seem very
anxious to treat. For the very advantages which

are represented to have been gained over them,
show that they remain steadfast in their op-
position to the Invaders, and that the defec-
tion of a few treacherous Commanders has not
brOken down their spirit, or induced them to
despair of success. At Algesiras, they only
surrendered to force, when assailed by sea and
land, and even endeavoured to maintain them-
sefves in the works of the isle verle, after they
had been compelled to evacuate the town.—
In Murcia they did not wait till they were
attacked. Although the orders of General Bal-
lesteros had been communicated to the garrisons
of Alicint and Carthagena, they not only, it
is officially admitted, returned 44 no answers,"
but the garrisoh of the latter place made what
the Major-General calls a sortie, but what ap-
pears to have borne some resemblance to the ex-
peditions of Milans and Llobera : for the Con-
stitutionalists do not seem to 'have been engaged
with the blockading troops, but to have proceeded
to some distance, or in other words to have taken
the field. This is proved by the fact of• General
Vincent being compelled to bring his corps from
a different part of the country to repel them,
and by the action which we are told led to their
retreat being fought at the village of St. Antonio,
and not at Carthagena. It is also remarkable

that in the midst of the active warfare now car-
ried on in the South of Spain, the troops
of Ballasteros, which it had been asserted
were to act for the Madrid Regency, should
do nothing but (in the words of the Bulletin)
" remain in the cantonments.that had been as-
signed to them." This state of inaction at a time
when their services could not but be highly useful
to the French and the Royalists, seems to imply,
either that they are not trusted by their new al-
lies, or that the condition on which they capitu-
lated was neutrality, not submission. Molitor
had not yet moved from Granada, where he pro.
bably remains to watch Ballasteros, who, accord-
ing to a private letter, was to resume hostilities,
if after a certain period the Cortes remained in
existence, and did not ratify his' capitulation.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Saturday's Paris Papers bring accounts of some

interest from Spain. - It would appear that the
hopes of ending the war by negociation have
been greatly damped. Various versions are given
of the propositions made by the Duke of Angou.
!erne upon his arrival at the Gate of St. Mary--
but whatever they were, the Cortes have answer.
ed them only from their batteries. The works
preparatory to actively besieging the place are
accordingly carried on on the side of the French.

If the affairs of the Cortes are in the unfavour-
able, which all late intelligence renders proba-
ble, at this distance, it is difficult to account for
their obstinacy and blindness. Cadiz is a place
of great—of all but, impregnable strength. But
were it even absolutely impregnable to the
French, there do not appear the elements of a
constitutional re-action in the kingdom generally.
Perhaps the defection of Morillo and Ballasteros
have been over-rated. That of Morillo appears

to have been the more distinctly pronounced,—
he joined his forces to those of the French, and
now that Corunna has opened its gates, the whole
of Galicia is reduced. But the troops of Dallas.
zeros are quiescent—they appear rather to have
capitulated than gone over to the enemy. It was
stated some days back from a bulletin of Mar-
shal Oudinot, that the Constitutionalists appeared
in some force in Estremadura. This force now
appears to have been part of the army of Anda-
lusia, under the command of General Lopez-
Banos. There is no account of Zayas. But it
is admitted that the report of his submission
was false. In Catalonia the war goes on as
usual, between partial encounters and constant
manoeuvring. Were the fate of Spain to be de-
cided by the issue of the campaign in this pro.
vince, between Moncey and Mina, the Con-
stitutionalists would have good ground for hope.
The French have suffered great losses there
without gaining any substantial advantage. It is
to be feared, however, that Catalonia will rather
follow than influence the result to be determined
in other quarters. Upon the whole the refusal of
the Cortes to accept. the propositions of the French
General-in-Chief, even though he offered nothing
but their personal safety, is scarcely to be account-
ed for without supposing that they have still re-
sources. It would be rash to suppose that persons
so deeply interested and so likely to be informed,
would throw away the last chance of saving them-
selves. Their rejection of the terms could only
be founded on their still confiding in the elements
of a Constitutional reaction, outside the Isla—a
confidence which, ut this distance, and with the
intelligence recently arrived, we cannot share.