The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-11 00:00:00

EMOIINING 11.1111.ALD.]

The Paris Papers of Monday last bring the
official account of further successes obtained by
the French in Spain, from which it appears that
they now have the undisputed possession of the
-hole of Gallicia--an event which any one might
have anticipated, after the defection of Morilio,
and the consequent capture of Coruntia. The
corps under the command of Palerea, consist-
keg of about fourteen hundred men and officers,
when on the point of being attacked by General
DaarPic, near Orense, surrendered as prisoners
of war. it was lie to be expected that such a
handful of men, cut off as, they were from all
communication with the rulers under whom they
acted, could have held Opt for a single day against
the superior tuke, opposed to them.. This cap-
ture is, hotvever, of some ilnportinee to the
French,,as,it leaves. the farce under General
Uptirek' disposable for outer operations. Cata.

lonia the affairs of the French seem to bear a very
different aspect. If an account published in the
Constitutionnelof Monday last be worthy of credit,
the force employed in besieging Barcelona has met
with a serious repulse ; not one of those petty
annoyances, generally caused by . a sudden
sally made by a party of the besieged, but a
positive defeat, after an engagement of four hours.
This is an event highly favourable to the cause of
the Constitutionalists, because it shows how
great are the difficulties which the invaders still
labour under in that part of Spain, the undisturbed
occupation of which would be of the greatest im-
portance to them, on account of its proximity
to France, and its being a place which forms one
of the chief points of communication between
the two countries. If a force issuing from a
besieged town in this province was able,
after , a conflict of four hours, to defeat
the besiegers, there is reason to infer that the
French troops in other parts of the same province,
and especially near those passes through which
their supplies must be 'conveyed to them, are sub-
ject to similar disasters. Here it is where Mina
constitutes the' life and soul of resistance ; and if
Spain is to be saved from the grasp of the French
Bourbons, the thing must be done by such dar-
ing and lawless bands as that enterprising man
has now under his command.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Monday's and Tuesday's French Papers
reached our office, by private Express, yester-
day. The Eloile of Monday states, that an
English vessel, coming from Gibraltar, had pre-
sented itself to the French fleet blockading
Cadiz, and that the Captain of the ship and a
Secretary immediately landed on the coast, and
requested to be conducted to the head-quarters,
to pay their respects to Angouleme. It adds,
that the Secretary was Sir Wm. A'Court, and
came to offer a capitulation under the mediation
of England ; but Angouleme is said to have an-
swered, that the delay which he had allowed
for negotiations having expired, he should trust
for the issue to the valour of the French arms,
and the justice of the cause the King had sent
him to defend. If, as the Blade states (an
authority, however, of no character), the me-
diation of Britain was offered in this degrad-
ing way, and rejected by the once mendicant
Angouleme, formerly a dependent on the charity
of,England for existence, is a blow to the pride
of Britain not easily recovered, but one that her
Ministry deserves. She might have commanded
at Verona : if the E toile speaks true, she now
humbly sues at Port St. Mary. Her influence
and power are indeed reduced, when the con-
temptible Angouleme affects to lord it before her
Ambassador. And, after all, where are her
pretensions? The Trocadero, it is true, has fallen,
but Cadiz is still inaccessible. The French were
in possession of it fully during the last war,
yet the effectual bombardment of Cadiz was not
hastened by it. Th defend garrison within the
place, detevnined to it to the last. Little
doubt can exist that the French have not taken
the whole of the Trocadero, with the forts of St.
Joseph, St. Louis, and Matagorda, and that they
are only in possession of the branch of the Penin-
sula fronting Port St. Mary, with the Fort of the
Trocadero, known only by that name—that this
important point was only defensible to a certain
extent, anti defended by the Spaniards so far ;
And that the French attacked it with great bra-
very, and carried it with immense loss, is equally
clear. Its possession, as we stated before, will
facilitate the communication between the land
nud naval forces before Cadiz, inasmuch as the
a'tOcadero cominands the entrance of the inner
harbOur. But even the fleet cannot bombard
Cadiz with any destructive effect ; and if An-
gonleme or the French Admiral could throw
shells into the city with certainty, would they do
so at the hazard of the lives of the Royal Family,
and lay Cadiz in ashes without weakening its,
defences for a moment ? The city, we are sure,
will be most determinedly defended ; but great
blame is due to San Miguel and his colleagues,
that they did not, from the first threatenings of
the war, bestow the fullest labour to render it
completely impregnable.

[SEW TimEs.]
The accounts by express from Paris fully con
firm the accuracy of our views relative to the fal
of the Trocadero. So important was this even
felt to be by the best informed persons in the
French capital, that the Rentes rose nearly one
per cent. A report prevailed at Pampeluna having
surrendered, which obtained much credit; and
another, of less probability, was the removal of
General Guilleminot from his important station
of. Major General of the Army on account of
ill health. It is curious to observe how vaguely
our cotemporaries talk about the late attack on
the Spanish lines. One would think that they
had never heard of the Trocadero before, and
could not form an idea what was meant by the
word. The Times copies and mangles an article
which appeared some days since in the Journal
des Debals, describing the Trocadero ; and then
argues in its own confused way on the facts so
distorted. The Trocadero, which we yesterday
stated to be a peninsula dividing the Bay. of
Cadiz from the inner harbour, is rather more
than a mile broad, and is in length, from
the Matagorda point to the cut which sepa-
rates it from the main land, about two miles
and a half. This cut was fortified, anti no less
than fifty pieces of cannon were employed for its
defence ; so that the Revolutionists must have
considered it, as it really is, a position of the
utmost consequence. The Times suggests, that
though the lines are carried, one or more of the
forts on this peninsula may still hold out. Tlds
is possible (at least so far as yet appears,) but
even if true,it cannot long retard the ulterior
operations.r—These will he steadily pursued, and
we cam have little, doubt of the result from the
simple consideration that the French can now
act both by sea and land. The attack on Santi
Petri may be expected to take place soon, as the
French had already constructed their batteries
against it. As- ,to the rumours of the large loss
sustained by the French in carrying the Troca-
dem—undoubtedly lines defended by fifty pieces
of cannon cannot be carried without some loss,

but it seems to be overlooked that there was no
mode of learning the French loss but by Tele•
graph. Private letters had not yet arrived.

[IIIO.prING CIIIIONICLB.I
The nervous system of the Parisians is easily
agitated, and the successful attack an the Canal
of the Trocadero has elevated their expectations
in a proportion equal to their late depression,
when appearances were less favourable to their
military operations. In, what manner, however,
the prospect of the Bourbons, being successful in
their iniquitous attack on the inhabitants of the
Peninsula, can benefit the British empire,
only those whose operations advance the Funds
can explain ; for it is impossible to doubt that,
to the mercantile interest at all events, the partial
occupation of Spain by the French is already
hurtful, and their farther progress in that coun-
try must be extremely injurious. Tho invasion
of this Ally of England was made contrary to
the declared wishes of the British Government,
and it is certainly not probable that the time for
its evacuation will in any manner be influenced by
an Administration the weakest recorded in the
history of this nation. It is impossible for England
or Ireland to be safe while the French command all
the harbours of Spain and Portugal, and an excuse
for hostilities against the British nation when an
opportunity occurs cannot be Tinting by that
Government which found one for their present
atrocious conduct towards an unoffending people.
Some rumours were circulated last night, which,
although most probably without the slightest foun-
dation, still shew that considerable apprehension
has been created in the minds of some mer-
chants for the consequences of the successful is-
sue of Bourbon ambition. It was rumoured that
his Majesty's frigate the Active had arrived at
Cadiz, which was known a few weeks ago to
have sailed from Portsmouth on a secret service
with Mr. Ward, and that an arrangement had
in consequence been concluded which would
prevent the occupation of Cadiz by the Duke
d'Angouleme. Although this report, proba-
bly, is unfounded, and although the Constitu-
tional Spaniards may still be able and willing
to defend this most important station, still the
idea itself of its occupation by the French shews
how sensitive are the feelings of the British peo-
ple to an occurrence so very inimical to their in-
dependence, for they fear lest the French should
wish to retain Cadiz as a set-off against our occu-
nation of G ibraltar.