The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PUNCH PAPERS OF SATURDAY AND SUNDAY,

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTING OF FRIDAY, MAY 9.

The Minister of the Interior presented a Pro-
clamation from the King, ordaining the closing
of the Session of both Chambers. The Deputies
instantly dispersed amid cries of " Vive le Roi!"

PARIS, MAY 10.—There are no accounts from
the army to-day, and a rumour'has got abroad
that there has been an engagement between
Mina and Coruegliano, which is in some measure
countenanced by the wnnt of positive intelli-
gence. Letters from Seville of the 26th men-
tion, that the change which was to have taken
place in the Spanish Ministry, has not been car 7
led into effect, the Ministers elect refusing office.
Itego and Mornlo are said to have effected a
junction at Leon, and to have a force of 16,000
men.
ENVIRONS or TOLOSA, MAY 2.—There is a
talk here of a request made the day before yes-
terday by a Russian Officer, who was at Bayonne,
and who proposed to induce the Governor of St.
Sebastian not to make any longer an useless re-
sistance. On an explanation taking place, the
Spanish General would have consented to receive

this person as a flag of truce, provided
,he..pre-
seated hims Elf according to the accustomed
usages. This condition not having been accept-
ed, the Officer set out to proceed by sea to St.
Sebastian. We shall be curious to know what
steps he will take to cause himself to be pre-
ceded by a trumpet.
FaANKron.T., May. 4.—We have been able to collect some
certain information relative to the present policy of the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh, and the position •of the Russian troops,
which we hasten to communicate. The Emperor Alexander
must be considered as the principal person who urges on the
war with Spain ; for a long time this. Monarch has been given
1 up to religious enthusiasm and veneration for legitimacy, which
has induced him to resolve to remove for ever, as far as lies in
his power, whatever is injurious to religion and monarchy.
--Tilts is with him a matter of sentiment more than of policy,
and this is the cause why he has sacrificed the Greeks, and
neglected the most favourable opportunity that ever occur-
red of spreading. his standard on the Bosphorus, and this
keeps him ready to employ all his threes on the other side of
the Pyrenees. Since Capo d'lstria has left his Councils, there is
not one man of talent about thel'nperor to check this bad poli-
cy. At his return from the Congress of Verona, he slimed a
. great deal of ill-humour, and would not admit several foreign
Ambassadors, particularly the English Ambassador, to an au-
, dienee, nor were they received by any of the imperial family. It
was only after his return from the country seat of Count Arakt_chizen that they were admitted to an audience. Alexander has
on snore that one occasion declared his resolution to employ all
his forces to 'put down the hydra of revolution wherever he may
shew himself. ln effect, a very considerable Russian force is con-
centrated in Poland ready to march to the %Vest, but this project
meets with very formidable obstacles in the policy of England and
Austria, who have both done and are doing all in their power to
.
1 binder-these hordes from over-running Europe. Prince Metter-
nich and Mr. Canning are guided by the same principles as to
the facts, however they may differ in theory. The Cabinet of
Vienna maintains its system with vigour—it is a system found-
ed in reasoning, and in this respect differs wholly twin that of
Alexander, of which we have already mentioned the leading
1 motives.

FRENCH FUNS.
The Rentes on Saturday opened at Kr. 40c. and closed at
87f. 45c.

SPAIN.
SEVILLE, APRIL 20.
CORTES EY.TRAoRDINARY.—SITTING Of APRIL ......
The Deputies having arrived in sufficient number for trans-
acting business, the session was this day resumed at Seville.—
The sitting commenced at half past 19, and after the „tonal
forms had been gone through, the Presklent, Senor Florez Cal-
deron, made the following speech :-L-
-" We have heard read the minutes of the sitting of the 22d of
March, in ptirsuance of which the sittings of the Cortes were
suspended, to be continued at Seville.
"Amidst thousands of obstacles, and in spite of those who
have raised them up against us, we have just given to all Eu-
rope a further example, calculated to undeceive it, by removing
with calm deliberation from the banks of the Manzanares, so
fertile in heroic virtues, to the vast delicious plains of the
Guadalquivir, whither we have, with the assistance of the
'worthy General who accompanied us, and those brave
Spaniards whose courage and discipline merit eternal
praise, conducted liberty, as it were, in triumph. On
hearing that sacred name, all the people eagerly crowded
to congratulate us, offering themselves as voluntary victims,
rather than that any profanation of their territory should
be suffered. The sentiments which animated us at the
moment of our departure from the heroic city of Madrid, the
• sacred flame which burnt within us seemed to be propagated
throughont all the provinces. As we proceeded on our tourney,
we found all hearts tilled with the same emotions. The Po-
litical Chiefs heading the provincial deputations, the Constitu-
tional Ayuntarnicntos, the military ot every description, the
Magistrates, thejudges, the clergy, the establishments of pub-
lic instruction, waited for us in the villages, and even on the
public roads, to offer us their wishes, and to manifest their de-
sire to contribute to the happiness and prosperity of their coun-,
try, established on its independence, and on the maintenance
of that fundurnental code which we have all sworn to observe.
" The local and volunteer militia of La Mancha, Jaen, Cor-
(bye, and Seville, have, in particular, distinguished themselves
by their zeal and determination. Under the helmet and the
plume were to be seen illustrious heads which length of years
had whitened, and numberless young men, lavish of their ser.
vices to the country before the period at which they became
due. Thus the coolness of ripened age is united with the ar-
dent courage of youth, and prudence accompanies energy and
Zeal. In tilis happy institution of the militia, every thing ap.
pears to be combined to consolidate our rising liberty, and to
transmit to our posterity as a secure inheritance.
" Matrons, worthy of our respect unit ,gratitede, and their
virtuous daughters, met us in the most desert parts of the road,.
and welcomed us with hymns of glory, abandoning their ilwel-
lings to obey the generous sentiments with which they were
animated.
"Thus, Senores, did the Commission of the Cortes travel
from Madrid to, Seville: the journey was a triumphal march.
Xliushave facts proved your prudence, and that of his Ma-
jesty's Government; and thus do the enemies of our happi-
ness find their plans disconcerted, and perceive the falsity of
their sinister prognoetics. They have not been able to prevent
Our meeting in this august and new sanctuary, which, serving
as an asylum for our independence and our liberty, places them
out of the reach of the violent convulsions of despotism. Here
we will fearlessly await those propositions which never yet have I
been made, but the making of which has been feigned to se-
duce the weak and the inconsiderate.
" We repeat, that in framing our Constitution, we never
ineant to leave it exposed to all the fluctuations of caprice, nor
Pretended to confer on it an unchangeableness—an eternity,
which belongs not to human things ; but that, when it shall he
convenient for the nation so to do, we will consider, according
to fixed and precise forms, the alterations which time and ex-
perience may render necessary : and that we will not permit
ally other power on earth to arrogate to itself a sort of initiative
uhich confounds and subverts the most sacred rights. Here
our enemies will again learn that we never tamper with ini-
quity, nor with any thing which might compromise the honour
of the great nation which has intrusted us with its destinies.
They will once more see defeated all their most artful intrigues,
to which it will be sufficient for us to oppose the prudence and
entr.gy which characterize the nation.
„_ Here, in fine, we will repeat to them the lessons which
They never ought to have forgotten, and the vestiges of which
they ought to find at every step as they advance on the sacred
territory which, for their misfortune they have dared to pro-
fane. Let them come, then, since so'dictates ambition to the.
very men for whom we coniestererlovith our blood, not only the
consideration which they had lost, and which they never de.
served to possess, but even the bread which until then they
Were obliged to beg.:--let them spelt with every right—let them
*Temple under foot all that is holy and sacred among nations
' and mankind--let them drag in their train that horde of' op-
Pressird or misled men who serve for their instruments : it mat-
ters not. They will find, unburied and insulted by time, the
bones of their brethren, with which with their own will, to the
affliction of human nature and disgrace of certain degraded men,
Roan be mixed. They will, when too late, he convinced that
hone can with impunity insult us, or attempt to wrest from us
OUr rights.
" Stich will be the object of the labours which we are now
about to continue. Our Constitutional King and his loyal