The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-25 00:00:00

Spanish troops aav
le enemy aanced towards
the city, and have commenced a very heavy
cannonade, which is yet continuing, and is re-
turned by the garrison, bui from the great supe-
riority'of the enemy we entertain fears that the
French will ultimately prewol. Their logs has

hitherto been very tOn;itlerable, -cortsistjug,
as
far as :report can' he trusted, of .three or four
hundred, killed, and about five hundred Wounded
'The loss on. our part has' not been much ; the
otlicees- haie'much exerted thernselves„andseveiai
have been,wbetided, some severely. Same.Of the
inbabitants'are taking refirge'on.beard the ship-
ati-d' spine vegsels, have sailed in balteSt,
Ititiing several passengers for [)gland and else-
where. '.Up to' the moment of .writing this
(1) .e. sr.) the Njiii,ng continues with encreased
violence'on boils sides, and the greatest-confusion.
reigns among us.'
I'. • An English passenger by the Auguste has al.,
rived in London, and he Says, that 'on "the 15th
instant,•the French, to the number:of 4,ogo.en'en,
attacked the Spanish army, consisting of about
-6,000 men, in the. neighbourhoodl.of Commie,
.and, after a severe action, compelled then) to re-
tire' Within the fortitcations of that town, froin
which :- a heavy fire was immediately npened•On
the InVadeis,'and which continued with little:in-
' termission during that, and the folloWing day:. At
five .O'ClOck itrtbe. morning of ilia :17th the firing
was renewed,' and at the same' time the ..44gtiste
saileth During the day a boat crime off. to her,
end stated•-i)lat the, French had alreutlyjilott 700
. men killed and wounded, and that' the CO=
~.stittitietinilits were ,both '-al.)le. -and :,deterroined
the place. The ,eitqusie was still
otCoranna •on the'evening- of .the 17th,
at •isitich4line. the. .• firing, .:from the :quantity of
smoke, -eiipeared-to be more. extended, and was
eXtrentely heavy.. This westhe :stuteof affairt•
at. Commie on the 17th in the, evening, and the
next arrival is anxiously expected,: ,because.it
will communicate the result 'of operations,so ho-
nourable to the Spaniards, assisted by the counsel
and 'countenance of two illustrious British 0111.
cers, both_ of whom were slightly wounded in the
action of the 15th. It is proper to observe, that
:the fortifications of CorUnna are at present in
the. best , state of defence, a sum oinourithig to
1790)091. having been expended ou them
Since, the., battle in which Sir join) Moore
lost his life. The works round, CorUntia
'now render
...it nearly. an Island, and the bights
cannot eginmand the unless they be bristled
.with long twenty-fours. The French have no
battering artillery in Spain, for they calculated
On golden, bullets being more suited to their ini-
quitdus undertaking than an honnurn hie contest
in the field of battle. 'The attempt on Coinnna
has •been the consequence 'of the 'treason of Mo.
rillo, and ii does not succeed, the French army
must nndergO a disastrous retreat from Galicia;
for on the heights aboVe Coraiio they cannot re.
mahi, and to recede will .be the signal for a gene-
ral. rising of the inhabitants. Therrepnlse of them.
at Commie may be the salvation .of Spain, and
the condget *of the..garrison in this instance. Must,
at all 'events, convince mankind thatltie treason
of the Spanish Generals alone has:ociasioned the
easy prdgress of the invaders, tor, when properly
commanded,: the great body of the people have,
on all Occasions,.nobly ,upheld the huttour,of the
:SPanith vati&n. . • .
'BOY COalititA-:-Thp 'brig . Margaret,
Capt. Williamson, arrived here yesterday from COruniatafter a
ps...ssge-of-anly'7 days,bringing intelligence, from thenee'down to
thetith irist..two days biter thatithitpreviouily received ; ('apt.
Williamson reports, that the French had invested biturina with
4600 Wien;'. and had commenced bombarding it. 'Three of
theSitan lards %,41v, estimated at about 6000 men militia included;
Sir .RobettlWilson,-; who, it is stated, had the korntniiiiti, had
fdrittied the city, and had expressed Ills terniinAtianto.ttefend
it so- long. as there was a house standing:. The city had a
.de
supply' of provisions for six months, and it wild thought that
the French could not blockade it by sets. Ninctecli Passenrero
arrived in the 111argaret, anion it whom wad a, Capt. Taylor,
who departed immediately for London, with dispatches for the
Foreign.office.—( Licrreeot Couriei, Jab 23.) •
Boy-Pro x, JuLitl7.,--AccOunts lure just been received
hcrp Kale entry' of the French Into Coronae on the 16th, after a
.seitere actlort, in which the Constitutionalists under Quiroga and
Wilson, were completely overthrown. W m
hat fii.s, becoe of
Sir Robert Wilson and ins friends is not correctly known : it. is,
,however, believed that they have not been able to affect their

PROHIBITION OF THE, SUN NEWSPAPER IN

FRANCE.

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The Constitutipnnel of Tuesdny last contains
the follovi ing paragraph :. • . .
" THE SUM English Journal, to which Mr..
CANNING, it is believed, sends communications,
has just been prohibited-in France."
This, then, explains the seizure of " a contra-
bond number of THE So; - or Friday last, at
Calais," us stated in the Times of yesterday, and
which' we confess at first appeared to us to he'
somewhat unintelligible, We 'really feel' pity
for the French Government, Selfllegracled Ili it
is by this impotent inanifesttitton of :spleen
against a Journal'whiCh unifortwly advocated the'
txuie .of the Bourbon Filthily ‘down.tc.' the very
itiiiment- at which the head of:Oat fitmil.sl-fatallY
eoesentea..to nHdertAe the •present 'unjust and
itepolitic war aginst thisSpauishnation
- We are
now .confirmed in the,ppi►liont Ni.loll we statedvvaterday, that we baie inCiliTed;
Itte. anger 'of
the French Government by. Ovii^ reeOlt articles on
,the,.l44sian Manifesto ! But was thiro- any thing
40 -those articles, or indeed in the whole of our
Cohilna'on .the, Spnish
,queb•tion, .wliich.• could
..have justly. given 00.46, to Oly Government.
'not -conscious of ttaV,ing exposed: itself.. to re.;
J. i ,because;
.
-they-consisted, not of virulent h-vectives,.but. of
pro tic hes, which were only them Ore sev-ere.
statements of incontrovertible .facts, and bribe just
inferences deduced from them, by candid ex,ainitia..,
lion and • tern perate reasonin a :------
? -NT , t
r.. 0 . this is not
the witsi to induce
aS to sr;erve from that course
which. we have hitherto- pursued, from
a conscien-
tious conviction thafit,is indleated to '-
us equally
by li regard to the principles of justice, to the
rights of independent natiotis„ arid, to
the true.
Interests of our own c t
ountry ... xv h
.• e'“u've resisted
'the scandalmis: temptation of . a bribe, -offeied to
us: as an inducement to advocate, proceedings
which-we behold with mingled 'feelings of scorn,
iind
or alarm for` their future and :still incalcu..;
.table. Con sequences against
..the cause of good
'Order and good -government in,l4.lurop6,__aye, and
in :.Fiance itset f ;—and. having, spurned -a direct
and certain recnaloy advantage 'plated ivithin