The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-24 00:00:00

men.

FRENCH PAPERS BY EXPRESS.

We have just received Paris Papers of Tues-
day, from which the following are extracts.—
Their most important intelligence, however, is
anticipated by the copious extracts given in our
preceding columns, to which we beg leave to
refer our Readers:—

Extract of at Dispatch of the Provisional Junta of

Murcia, sth July.

To-day, at five o'clock in the evening, the
stone of the Constitution was destroyed, amidst
the transports of joy of all the people, and the
picture of our King, Ferdinand, was shown, to
the great satisfaction of the people.
PARIS,. JULY 22.—The I'ilote of yesterday
evening states, that Sir Robert Wilson and QUi-
roga have left Corogne for St. Jago, with 5000
men, and that they left 3000 at Corunna.
tM. Achille JoufTroy, who was going to Ma-
drid, was arrested at Burgos : it is not known
by what authority, nor do we know the motive.

The Emperor Alexander will leave St. Peters.
burgh the 15th August to be at Moscow on the
12th September, to celebrate the Birth-day.
SAINTE MAaIE, BEFORE CADIZ, JULY 11.0-....•
We are cantoned at St. Mary and at Chulans ;
the Constitutionalists do itot appear disposed to
make sorties, but they fire very oftat. on us, and
do la no mischief, There came to' us on the
Bth a• Spanish
_vessel, which landed a great
number of Royalist soldiers and officers which
were taken at Madrid on the 7th July, after hav-
ing been shut up in that capital for nine months.
The captain-General of Andalusia is
.arrived
here. with two battalions of the Royal Spanish
Guarg. Prince Carignan and Lieut.-General
Bordesoulle have paid a visit to Admiral Hame-
lin on board the Admiral's ship.
Count Nauvion, Aid-de-Camp of Gen. Borde-
soulle, was sent to-day with a flag of truce ; his
dispatches
,alone were received, and the Consti-
tutionalists on their side have sent us one to-day,
but the contents are not known. We are assured
that after the'lsth, the troops will have orders to
fire on every person leaving Cadiz, of which the
Cortes have information.

MATARO, JULY 12.—The corvette Vichtreuse
captured, on the 9th July, near Majorca, a
Constitutional Pinque, with 64 Spanish Royalists,
who were transported from Carthagena to Mahon.

The Express, from Paris brings the French
Funds 91f. 75c. ;—Spanish 36.

SUN OFFICE, QUAUTER.VAST Two o'CLocx.

We have just received authentic accounts from
Perpignan of the 14th instant, from which we
extract the following. The Reader will not fail
to remark the admissions respecting the sickness
of the French troops,—the movements of the Mi.
quelets,—and the obstinate bravery of the Spa-
niards. The French begin now to speak openly of
the " conquest" of Spain, and of the " long fu-
turity" of calamities which their aggeession upon
the Peninsula, undertaken for the purpose of
establishing good order and tranquillity, has
entailed upon the Spanish Nation !—They now
too speak openly of the continued military occupa-
tion of the country !
•
PERPIGNAN, JULY 14.—We have learnt this
instant that a very serious affair has just taken
place near Barcelona, at Molins del Rey. This
action was sustained with sufficient vigour by the
troops commanded by LLOBEII A and MILAws,
who in the end, were repulsed, but who opposed
in this engagement an uncommon resistance, and
such as has yet bad no example in preceding
combats.
MINA, though very seriously is not dead,
and the notice of his death reported by the Per

pignan Journal of Saturday, is wholly withou
foundation.

The head-quarters of the French Army are at
t►vo leagues froni Barcelona, and that place is
invested by about 16,000 men.

Diseases are beginning their fatal ravages in
the army. The Hospitals in this Department
are immediately to receive the first convoys of
the sick. This circumstance is so much the more
unfortunate as some parties' of Miquelets appear
to be in movement.

--The war now waged by the Spaniards assumes
every day a character more afflicting to humanity,
and presents two distinct and remarkable circum-
stances. The difference of opinion on the form of
Government suitable to that Monarchy which di-
vides the nation, and resigns it almost without re-
sistance to the success of the French, and the im-
placable and ferocious hatred of the two parties,
which has no bounds, and which no human
power can restrain, except by force. Thus,
after the Conquest, it will require efforts still
more arduous to restrain the effects of the fury
of the parties, carried to a point of which it is
difficult to form an idea, and which announces a
long futurity of misfortunes.

Papers and letters have been received from
Madrid to the 17th inst. The Madrid Gazette
of that date contains a decree of the Regency for
establishing anniversary honours to the memory of
Gen. Emo. The same Gmettecontains an account
of the presentation of the Russian and Prussian
Envoys to the Regency, and the speeches which
their Excellencies made on the occasion. There
is nothing in these speeches of the two northern
Ambassadors, or in the answer to them, which goes
beyond what appeared in those that passed between
the French Ambassador and the Regency. The se-
vere captivity of FERDINAND is lamented, and his
speedy liberation hoped for and predicted in all.
The pilvate letters from Madrid of the 17th are
more important than the Gazelle. Accounts had
been received from Port St. Mary of the 13th.—
The blockade of Cadiz had then begun to be more
rigorous. Two vessels that endeavoured to enter
with provisions had been sunk by the cannon
of the French blockading squadron. It was cal-
culated that in ten or twelve days a bombard-
ing flotilla would be formed for throwing bombs
into the city. General BORD ESOU LLE sent every
day a boat with fresh water, vegetables, and
meat for the King's table. The present had been
accepted without any observation. A Portuguese
General had arrived at the Duke d'ANGon-
LEME'S head-quarters, from Prince MIGUEL, of
Portugal, to compliment his Royal Highness on
the success of his arms, and to express his hopes
of the speedy termination of the. contest. This
messenger was instructed to make to the Spanish
Government a tender of the army and the naval
force of Portugal to aid in restoring absolute power
to the King and the Inquisition to the Church.
The Regency, and his Royal Highness have taken
time to deliberate on this offer. An account had
reacted Madrid front Seville, that Sir W.
A'CouaT had left that city for Gibraltar on the
10th:, No details are given.. A new plot is
formed for getting possession of the King's per-
son. The in; himself is already in communi-
cation with the conspirators.

Mr. Moo, one of the Government Messengers,
arrived this morning at the Foreign Office,
Downing-street, from Seville and Corunna,
with dispatches. Mr. BEG° left Corunna on
the 15th, one day previous to the action in which
Sir ltouctur WILSON anti Col. 'Atomr were
wounded.—lt was then expected that a battle
would be fought on the following day.

SEIZURE OF THE SUN NEWSPAPER AT CALMS.

The following paragraph appeared is the Times
of this morning :

" A letter from Calais, of Tuesday, says —Search has been
made here for a contraband number of Tin: Strw of Friday,
which was seized with as much eagerness as if it had contained
the plague."
We know of nothing which can have provoked
this extraordinary measure of severity towards
THE Sus of Friday last, except that in our three
preceding Papers we had 'entered into a pretty.
free examination of the famous Russian Note,
which may have given offence to the Authorities
either at Paris or at Calais,—we neither know
nor care which.

The subjoined paragraph appeared in the
Morning Post of this day, and has been thought by
some persons to indicate warlike intentions on
the part of our Goverr.ment.—We have been
unable to ascertain whether any such orders as
are represented have been sent to Admiral Sir
13. II ALLOWELL ; but we can give the most posi-
tivo contradiction to the ;warlike construction put
upon the paragraph :••••••
4G An order was received at Chatham on &tut-
day by Admiral Sir 13. HALLowELL, Port-
Admiral, for the whole of the ships fitting in the
Medway, which consist of four flag.ships and
some smaller vessels, to be fitted to their full war
establishment. For the equipMent of the Revenge,
of 71 guns, Admiral Sir 11. 13. NEE LE, fitting for
stleierv)icieedairteertroanbeem
Mediterranean
drafted.''
A Jamaica Mail is arrived to the 18th June,
which does not bring
i the
n edi men
atel yof
the
Preventive
any information worth ex-

tracting. —....--
The following was sent to the Foreign Stock
Exchange this morning :--
" fly the Jamaica Mail the Contractors of the Columbian
RL on agl have
t.to
theere c
ii vi
lett ih lAeltayt er s from their agent, Mr. JoNtEs, from
.
purpose
" Mr. JONES arrived.in that city the 21st April, and found
the Congress of Colombia sitting. A committee had been
appointed by the government, for the of receiving the
accounts and documents relating to the Loan, of which Mr.
.
JONES was the bearer, and making a report to the Con.
gress thereon. With this Committee Mr. JoNts had held
two metings, viz. on the 13th and 17th May ; and he enter-
tained no doubt that the recognition of the compact for the
Loan by. the Congress of Colombia would be the result.
Mr. JONES encloses a copy of the Message of the pr,."..m'"'
.
to Congress, the translation of which has already appeared.
The above was posted upon the Foreign Stock
Exchange this morning.