The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE PARIS PAPERS
OF TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
(Prom the Monitcur.)
NEWS FROM THE ARMY IN SPAIN.
LERMA, MA y 13.—1 t was announced that
Abisbal was in echelons at Olmeda, Coca, Santa
Maria de la Nieva, and Segovia, but we have only
found weak detachments on this road.

We receive from Valladolid the following re-
ports, under the date of the llth :--
" The city of Avila having broken the Constitutional !tone,
and arrested the. Political Chief, two thousand men entered
Avila from Madrid, and set tho Chief at liberty: the Royalist
inhabitants fled.

" Zamora having declared for the King, desires troops to
preserve the tranquillity of the country. Medina, Olmedo,
and other communes of this province, have destroyed the stone
of the Constitution.

" Morillo, on the 4th May, was at Leon with 1,000 or 1,200
soldiers, with an intention of forming an army of reserve.
" At Cuellard, nine leagues from Valladolid, some Liber 1
soldiers have appeared. At Sepulveda some soldiers have also
presented themselves, and retired after having robbed the
churches. They carried off three curis. At Santa Maria de
Nieva, the Liberals are to the number of 2,400; in Sony)
Sierra there are 900.

"Ballasteros's soldiers desert daily,and all the recruits which
he had received from the mountains have returned to their
homes.

(Front the Etoile.)

PARIS, 111.117 21.7—111 s Royal Highness the
Prince of Savoy Carignan arrived at Bayonne on
the 10th. A detachment of 100 horse had been
commanded to escort him ; but the Prince did
not accept them, beiause the safety of the roads
rendered the precaution useless. - His Royal
Highness immediately set off for the' head.quar-
tens of the Duke d'Angouleme, under whose or-
ders M. the Prince de Carignan is desirous of serv-
ing, in quality of a volunteer.

( From the• Conititutionnel.)
CIIAMBERY, MAY 10.—The French half-pay
officers residing in Savoy have received notice to
hold themselves in readiness for the very pro-
bable event of their being called into active ser-
vice, and employed in the war in Spain.

(PRIVATF CORRESPONDENCE.)

" BAYONNE) MAY 12.—The troops of the
.
blockade of St. Sebastian, encamped in a burning
sand, are in complete inaction. The garrison send
to graze on the &cis the cattle destined to fur.
nish provisions for the besieged, without being
opposed, and but for the ramparts, it could not
be ascertained which are the besieged and which
the besiegers.

" In the provinces occupied by the French the
Spanish Authorities have sent to the Army of the
Faith all the men between 20 and 30 years of
age ; those who are, serving in the Constitutional
Corps are to return within, a limited period,
otherwise their relations are to be arrested as
hostages, and their property confiscated." '
[Pram the Pilate. j
MADRID, MAY 7.—( Private Correspondence.)

Our intelligence from the neighbourhood of
Valencia says, that the city is amply supplied with
provisions and ail kinds of stores, and continues
to make a good resistance. Troops and artil-
lery marched yesterday to reinforce Its garrison.
Colonel Velnsco had an engagement with the
insurgents on the 28th ult. ht. Yepes, when he
drovo them out of that district with some loss.
We have news from Seville up to the td of
May.

The Sitting of the Cortes on the 26th, and part
of that of the 27th, was dedicated to the propos-
-ed law on seignOries, which-had been previously
discussed In two former Sessions ; all its articles
were approved.
Senor Salva proposed that an Address should
be presented to . the King, to express the par-
ticipation of the Cortes in. the patriotic senti.
ments contained in the Royal Manifesto to the
nation, and tck suggest that, in the critical situa-
tion of the country, it would be imprudent
to dismiss the - present Ministers
,before a new
Ministry should.be formed. . Senor Galiano op-
posed this motion, and brought forward another
nearly of the setae import; omitting the
point re-
lative to the -dismissal of the Ministers. His
proposition was adopted.. In the sitting of the
28th, the Cortes.were occupied with an applica-,
tion.from General Riego, requesting authority
to raise a free corps, to be employed against the
enemy., This General demanded that the pen-
sion.granted to him in isgi should be commuted
for a given sum, to, be appropriated to the pri-
mary expeoces of that legion.
-Another proposition on the subject of a new
tri-coloured cockade, to be, composed of red,
green, and violet, was rejected
The law relative to the formation of Foreign
Le ions was adopted.
In the sitting of the 29th, the law respectinz
Deserters was approved ; and in that of the LA
of May- the Cortes proceeded to' the electiun'
tf
the Members of the Bureaux, and appointed hr.
Ferrer President for the current month. sr.
Miran delivered a very remarkable speech, in
which he pointed out how- highly urgent' it was
that the Cortes should- take proper steps to
provide for the public -service, and to make
public functionaries responsible for their cony
duct. " The first measure which the Congress
ought to adopt," said he, 44, is to grant the Go-
vernment all the requisite subsidies.' With money
we shall increase our armies,--this will rouse the
patriotism of the people, for citizens love to
see soldiers well equipped, and will make
every exertion to render the nation victorious in
the war she is engaged in. The peasantry will
gladly embrace a militarflife. Let us then, find
these means, and promptly grant therm Lel us
fly to the succour of the army, and, that the
•war may become Tuitional, -let us rush for-
ward to attack the enemy who has invaded us, in
violation of the laws of humanity and the rights
of nations." The:Deputy concluded-by demand-
ing that the proposition of Senor Sanchez, in the
Sitting of the 23d of April, should be carried into
execution with the least possible delay. This
proposition required that the Government should
immediately suggest the means of defraying,tho
expences of the war.

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Exchange on London, 4114 19, 81.

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THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DIOEDE FALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
FRIDAY, MylY 23, 1823.

IVe have taken some further extracts from the
Paris Papers of Wednesday, the principal con-
tents of which we were enabled to insert in our
columns yesterday, by the arrival of our Express
from Paris. We have received no further intel-
ligence from the Armies in Spain.

We extract the following important article
from the Dutch Papers received this morning.
Our-Readers will observe that it is confirmatory
of all that we have said respecting the condi-
tional neutrality of England in the war between
France and Spain :
" ST. PETERSBURGII, APRIL 22.—The reports
respecting the march of our troops to act as auxi-
liaries in the South of Europe, are contradicted
by persons who are believed to be acquainted',

with the secrets of diplomacy. These persons

say that the Court of St.Petersburgh had at first
resolved to place a considerable army at the
disposal of the French GOvernment ; that with
this intention not only had communications been

made by Count Pozzo di Barge to the French
Ministry, but even that orders had been sent to
various corps of troops stationed in Poland ; that
all this, however, had been given up in conse-
quence of a declaration from Sir Charles Bagot,

the English Ambassador, stating that the neutra-
lity of Great Britain in the war between France
and Spain was conditional, and would continue,
only so long as the other Powers of Europe
should take no part in the war. The Court of

Vienna is said to have delivered a friendly note,
breathing the same spirit to the Russian :Go-.
vernment, which not a little contributed' to stop:
the measures at first resolved upon by our
nistry. Austria exhibits a very wise policy; by
endeavouring, to prevent the dankers which would
ensue from a general war in Europe. •
gf The Minister of Wathas, summoned to the
capital several stair-officeri from the Southern
and Western Armies, to receive new orders,.
which they'are to carry to their respective head-'
quarters. It is positively affirmed that Sir Chas.
Begot has received from Count Nesselrode; Mi-
.rdster of Foreign Affairs, a very long note in an-
swer to the communication which he had made to
.the Russian Cabinet, in the name of Lord Strang.
ford. It is added, that his Exc'ellency has for.i
warded this note to Constantinople, by way of
Odessa.'

We have also received,,this morning, Bayonne
Papers to the 17th. We subjoin the only article
which they contain of any interest :
" BAYONNE, MAY 16.—Letters received to-
day from Vittoria, speaks of the continuation of
the blockade of Santona by Zabala.—The letters
received tosday. from Saragossa state, that the
Royalist descamisados commit all kinds of acts
of vengeance.

" A traveller, just arrived from Pampeluna,
affirms, that the garrison of that place had unex,
pectedly made a sally with 1,000 men and four
cannon, bad attacked the French troops, and bad
returned into the place, taking with them a good
number of prisoners.

" Letters from Catalonia, this moment re-
ceived, do not confirm the previous statements
of the flight of Minn, but say, that according

to his favourite system of tactics, he had taken
about five or six thousand of his best troops,
and entered La Cerdagne, where he had
inspired general consternation. Meantime Mar-
shal Moncey had been obliged to turn
round and accept a battle, for which he
was not prepared, in the neighbourhood of Fi-
gueras, into the citadel of which Mina threw
some troops to reinforce the garrison. Mina
afterwards crossed the Ter, and when the ac-
counts came away be was at !tip°ll."

A Gentleman who has recently arrived in
London from Andalusia, informs us that the
greatest enthusiasm in favour of the Constitu-
tion pervades that Province, and that the,
inhabitants of all descriptions are flying to arms,
'and are determined to stake their lives and pro-
perty in the cause of their country. He adds,
that generally the whole of the South of Spain
is warmly attached to the Cortes, and that
any disposition towards the French is confined
to some of the northern districts.

We hear that an Express has arrived from
Paris this morning, bringing the prices of the
French Funds, it is said, 89f. 45 c., and of
Spanish, at Paris, 46 to 461.

We are sorry to see, from several recent Oh-
eussions in the House of Commons, and particu-
larly from those on the Bill for abrogating the
regulations" of the Spite!fields Silk Manufacture,
that the mischievous fallacies generated by a
spurious system of Political Economy, have
been almost universally adopted by the Mem-
bers of the Legislature. It has of late be-
come the fashion to decry all legislative interfer-
ence with the concerns of the people, and, because
it is possible that the enforcement of compulsory
regulations may in some instances have been in-
judicious, to hold it as an incontrovertible pro-
position that all regulation is equally injurious,
unwise, and unjust. In opposition, however, to
the strong current of public opinion on this sub-
ject, we venture to maintain the converse of the
proposition, and to contend that the degree of pro-
sperity enjoyed by the nation always has been
and always' must be in proportion to that of the
skill with which scientific principles are applied
to its concerns, and the adaptation to them of
REGULATIONS well devised and judiciously
combined for the attainment of given and un-
derstood results. No absurdity can be greater
than that of inferring from the presumed fai-
lure of legislative interference, in any number of
cases, that. all interference is therefore necessarily
vicious ! Even if every Legislative enactment
for the direction or the protection of navigation,
trade, manufactures, or agriculture, had hitherto
been found mischievous in practice, the failure
would not justify the assumption, as a principle,
that all regulation is injurious, but on the contrary
would only prove that the particular regulations
so ascertained to be objectionable ought to be
rescinded, and that other and better regulations,
(rained with the additional knowledge obtained
by a more extended experience, should be sub-
stituted in their place. The fallacy, if pursued
to its utmost extent, brings us to this conclusion,
that the best Government is no Government
whatever; and indeed there are not wanting those
who, have gone so far as to lay it down as an in
controvertible axiom in political science, the

Governments should content themselves with
the collection of taxes, and should
their People to govern themselves ! But Is

t not, on the contrary, demonstrable, tha

the perfection of Government would be the uni-
versal application of the regulating principle to
all the great and complex machinery of the
national interests, the parts of which, from the
absence of skilful regulation and adjustment, so
frequently operate in counteraction to, and in
collision with, one another? In the very MC
of the Spitalfields Weavers, it is admitted,
that many advantages have been derived
from those regulations which are now so
generally condemned as obnoxious. It Is Ad-
mitted that the Legislative interference with
their concerns has diminished the disputes be-
tween the manufacturers and their workmen,—
has kept down the poor's ratesi—and has ren-
dered the weavers, if not always prosperous,

at least more prosperous than they would
otherwise have been, and generally contented.
The only evils which are alleged to exist under

the present state of the law, are attributed to the
absence of the same regulations, for the other
seats of the manufacture, as those which have
been so long in operation for Spitalfields. Is it

not the obvious remedy for those evils, then, to

extend the operation of the Spitallields Act over

the whole of the Silk Manufacture of the king.
dorn, rather than to repeal the Act'entirely.—
Even Mr. WALLACE'S Warehousing Bill con.

nue* the protectiou of the Silk Manufacture

against foreign competition. The alleged evils
, arising from the unequal state of the law within
the kingdom, therefore, may be obviated as well
by a general enactment, as by the repeal of the
particular and partial Statute now in force.—
All the competition which can be excited, by
inducements to improve the mechanism and skill,
and the texture and economy, of our manufactures,
should be encouraged ; but we question very
much the policy which exposes to a ruinous com-
petition the value of the human being himself.
The blanket manufacturers of Heckmendwike, in
Yorkshire, for a time enjoyed an unfair and a
most pernicious superiority over their competitors,
because they paid a large portion of the wages qf
their work peopk out of the poor's-rates ! An enact-
ment for the general regulation ofwages would have
prevented this gross injustice to the parishes,—
this ruinous advantage over the blanket manufac-,
turers of other districts,—this wretched mode of
payment for labour, so debasing and demoralizing
in its influence upon the labourers!_WTe hope
that Parliament will grant a Committee for the
special investigation of the case of the Spitalfields
Weavers. We are opposed to the further progress
of the fashionable doctrines, however, not so
much for their sake, as for that of the great prin.
ciples of our navigation laws and of our com-
mercial system, which are involved in the deci-

sien, and upon which depend the continued se-
curity, prosperity, and power of the British

Empire.

Limiroor, Mty 21, Half-past Eight o'Olock
p.m.—Arrived the Resolution, from New Or.
leans. Oil' this port are two ships, one supposed
to be the .Nestor, LEE, from New York, which
ship passed Holyhead yesterday.

ABUSE. OF TUE PRESS.—It iS slloCking to ob-
serve the virulence which debases the glorious
freedom of the Public Press. A Morning Paper
speaks as follows of the present King of FRANCE,
who, merely as a Gentleman and a Scholar,
as well as one whose misfortunes entitle him to
esteem and respect, and whose political errors,
at his advanced period of life, may rather be
imputed to his advisers than to him6elf :—" The
BOURBONS seem to have
.a cordial attachment to
all the abominations of the ancien Regime; and
the old Epicure who now fills the Throne will,
no doubt, gloat over the accounts he receives of
the sufferings of the unfortunate wretches within
his dungeons."—ls such language consistent with
the dignity of the British character ; and would
it be tolerated in France, if applied to the
British Monarch!

ARRIVAL OF TILE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF
SANE WEIMAR.

The Prince and Princess:of SAxl: WEIMAR arrived in Lon.
don at an early hour yesterday morning from' abroad, on a
visit for some time to the Duke And Duchess of Clarence.
The Princess is sister to' the Duchess of Clarence, and was
in England about 'three years since. The Prince is the
son Of the Grand lihilte of Saxe Weimer, and this is the
first visit of his Serene Highness to England. The Prince
and PrinCos, accompanied by their infant Princesses, one
of them three and the other five years of age, embarked
on board The Fox tiacket, at Ghent, and owing to a favourable
wind-they arrived'abont .12 hours sooner than they were ex-
pected. An express arrived in London about 11 o'clock on
'Wednesday night, announcing the approach of the Rix packet
and, in conseenence,, the Duke of - Clarence's carriages and
servants were dis Patched to the Toler-Stairs. . At three o'clock
their Serene highnesses proceeded in the'lloyal Carriages to dui
King's Palace, St. James's'. The-Duke and Duchess of Cla.
rence arrived in town yesterday morning nt 11 o'clock to meet
their Royal Relatives.

Yesterday the French Ambassador transacted
business at the Foreign ()nice.
Yesterday theDukes.of.Yonx and CLAIIENCE
visited the KING.
Yesterday the Duke of WXLLINGTON had ati
audience of his MAJESTY.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE arrived
in town yesterday morning front Bushey-park.
It is reported that the Prince POLIGNAC has
been appointed the French Ambassador to the
British Court.

It gives us great pleasure to ho able to state,
that the KING is so far convalescent as to have
signified his intention of being present at Ascot
Races. The Races ure this year fixed for the
10th of June, instead of the first Tuesday after
Trinity Sunday, as usual—an alteration rendered
necessary by other Turf arrangernents.-01/orn-
ing Ilerukt.)

So plentifully laden are some of the gardens
with fruit, that from four apricot trees in a gar-
den near Hammersmith, on Tuesday, the gar-
dener pulled one hundred and finely four young
apricots, in making room for the fruit, that is
was deemed advisable to preserve on those four
trees.

St?unman CIRCUMSTANCE.—A gentleman late-
ly deceased left to a friend, among a variety of
other property, a chest of tools with which be
had been accustomed to amuse himself. The
legatee having no use for the chest himself,
sold it to a Quaker living near Brighton, who
on examining it, found in a secret drawer 130
guineas• He immediately waited on the Gen-
tleman, saying, " Friend, thou didst sell me
a chest of tools, but thou didst not sell me
thy money—here are thy 130 guineas." The
satisfaction of the other party at this consumma-
tion may better be imagined than described.