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

" course of events" which, as The Chronicle
with ,so much naivete avows, has wholly dis-
couraged the poor Liberals; proves% beyond the
shadow of a doubt; that the unanimity of the
Spaniards, in defence of the democratic Consti-
tution, was as impudent a fiction as any that ever
disgraced the columns of that prolific source of
falsehood, The Old Times. The unanimity (if
such,it be to be calle4) is all the other way.—
h The immense majority of the Spanish nation
appear to have a thorough abhorrence of the
Cortes, whose name to their ears has nothing
popular, and whose, power, to their eyes has no-
thing patriotic.,

[MORNING eosir.l
We received last ,night, by Express, Frenc
Papers to the nd instant. They contain intel-
ligence from Moncey's head-quarters, which pro-
bably reached Paris- in ,the shape of a Bulletin,
but was not deemed , favourable enough to be
publicly invested
,witb an official character. It
is therefore given in the form of letters from
Gerona, dated May 15th, and, though far
,
from explicit, isof considerable iroportance.7--
It appears indeed frogn„ his, statements (what
we all along suspected and maintained),
that notwithstanding the assertions and boasts
of the enemy respecting the desperate,nature of
Mina's situation and the close manner in which
he was ,pursued, that, active and enterprising
Commander had moved wherever he pleased,
without any real itnpedimentfrom his antagonists
since the, moment when he., ,out-manoeuvred
them, and passed into their rear. They pre-
tended that his communications with Millais
and Barcelona had been cut off by their own
dispositions ; that he was surrounded, and had
only the chance of a momentary escape, by
throwing himself into. Cerdagne, where he must
ultimately perish for want of resources. It is now
plainly admitted on the contrary, that after hav-
ing ranged freely behind the whole of Moncefs
,Artny and the Army of the raid], pursued but
pot overtaken, he had returned unbroken, to his
former positions,and was quietly" retiring to Bar.,
celona," the very city from which he was for ever
cut off! The Baron d'Eroles, who though closer
to hiM than any others of his pursuers, never
came in sight of him, and Generals Donnadiru
and Curialovith their divisions, were once more
hurrying by forced marches, not to complete his
destruction, but "in the hope of intercepting
him and forcing him to an action." It is' evident,
therefore, that by the boldness and rapidity of
his manoeuvres he has taken the lead of the war
out of the hands of the invaders, and reduced them
to act a defensive part, at the very time when
on the activity of the offensive operations
carried on, in that particular quarter, the fate,
of the contest was considered to d epend.—
Even had he gained no other, ativantage than
that of stopping the advance or the enemy
for nearly, three weeks, by the gallant dash
which he made into his rear, without losing a
single man, and probably with the acquisition of
1 many, he would have performed a, most signal
! and important service to his country. But it is
not denied in these papers, that in the course
of his march he defeated Remagosa And obtained
all the other successes which rumour had as•
cribed to him.