The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-12 00:00:00

c" a general strike :" and so was the conspiracy
amongst despots for the destruction of the rising
liberties of Spain as fully proved by the simulta-
neous 44 strike" of their Ambassadors at the
Court of Madrid. Those diplomatic personages,
however, did not leave the world to infer their
unity of design from the identity of their actions ;
for, on demanding their passports, they an-
nounced with one voice, that the cause of their
departure was to be found in the general
agreement of their masters at the Congress
of Verona and now that the difficulties of the
Spanish enterprise begin to thicken upon the in-
vaders, we find that a Russian force is assembling
on. the Vistula, and the Austrian troops concen-
trating in the Milanese. How will these men
smooth the difficulties ?—by marching through
France into Spain ? or by retaining military pos-
sessiowof France, while the Bourbons send their
troops into Spain ? it will be recollected that
by the treaty of occupation at the conclu'siorrof
the last war, the French fortresses were only to
lie held by the Allies for a term' of three or five
years. Both these terms are long since expired
but the foreign troops are withdrawn at the close
of the three years, the French people making the
most painful sacrifice to purchase the evacuation'
of their territories. Will a Bourbon have the
audacity to render those sacrifices useless by re.
calling or-re-admitting the foreigners ? The Allies-
were to consider the' stability of the House of
Bourbon as ascertained at the end of five years,
at the most, from the close of the last war. From
that epoch, at the farthest, whenever it should
arrive, they renounced all pretensions to sup-
port Louis X VIII. or his successors on the
Throne of France: the family was thenceforth
to stand or fall by its own merit. Upon what
pretence, then, can Russia and Austria now or
hereafter interfere in the internal concerns of
France, supposing that the misconduct of the
Bourbons should again threaten their exclusion
from that country ? The soil of France has been
twice polluted by the presence of foreigners;
but it was in a glorious struggle for the dominion
of Europe and of the world that she suffered' these
disgraces : she will hardy' be content to sustain
similar or greater shame and suffering, on account
of a despicable and wicked attempt, made by
her reigning family, to subjugate the Spanish na-
tion to the will of a miserably ignorant bigot of
their own blood—the voluntary gaol-bird and
abject flatterer of the Corsican, who prayed to be
admitted by marriage into his more noble race.

[rats TIMES.]
The. T renal Papers of Thursday awl Friday
fast contain various official ,statements, both French and Spa-
nish,-affbrding welear view' of the actual progress of the cam-
paign: We are unfeignedly grieved at the lamentable state of
disorganisation and weakness into which these advice' sheWthe
Spanish Government to have fallen. The SpaniardS, nationally
speaking, are an honest and brave people, and among those at-
tached to the Constitution of 1820' arc doubtless many sincere
friends to their country but, alas they have fallen under the
guidance of leaders equally destitute of civil-and military talent.-
-While the Allied French and Spanish Royal Armies, acting
upon a combined system of operations, advance regularly to-
wards their e,otntriOn object—the Revolutionar Armies nowhere
dare to face the enemy, but abandon position after' position,
wandering and straggling about, without any combined effOri,
without plan, and without resources. The information before
us divides itself into three branches, writ relates to the military
operations in the north western part of Spain, to those in Cata-
lonia, and to the recent proceedings at Seville; we shall notice
each in its turn. His Royal Highness the French Generalis-
simo, whose head-quarters had been fixed for nearly three
weeks at Vittoria, about sixty miles from the Bidassoa,
moved them on the sth instant, 111 miles, to Miranda de
Ebro. Under his Royal Highness'S more immediate com-
mand are the lit, 2d, 3d, and sth corps, and reserve of the
French army, anti with these the Spanish Captains General of
Biscay and Navarre are in co-operaticn. The 3d French corps
is left to blockade St. Sebastian and Pampeliina, and part of the
2d has been detached to the Eastward to communicate with the
4th corps, which is under Marshal Moncey, in Catalonia. The
Generalissimo only waited at Vittoria for the complete esta-
blishment of this communication, which being now effected, he
moves his forces on Madrid by three converging routes, as
follows : the sth corps and the reserve are to proceed from Mi-
randa to Burgos, 44 English miles, to Arendt' 48, Buitrago 43,
Alcovendas 30, and Madrid 12. The Ist corps is to march from
Palencia to Valladolid 25 miles, Segovia 53, Espinar 17, Gale-
pagar 25, and Madrid 20. The main part of the 2d corps is to
advance from Tudela to Tarrazona 12 miles, Agreda 17, AP-
:nem 38, Paredes 14, Jadraque at, Guadalaxara 30, Alcala
10, and Madrid 17 and it is calculated that all these different
bodies will reach the capital between the 20th and 25th instant;
it is scarcely anticipated that they will see an enemy on the
who's route.

The accounts from Seville are equally depressing to the re.l
volutionary cause. The King has been forced to set his name
to a declaration of war against France ; but it will remain a
dead letter as to any effect in creating a resistance to the Allied
Arms. Even in Seville Itself the population appear to bear but
little atTection to the Cortes. Ballasteros has furnished the Go.
vernment with a bulletin, in which he boasts very much that
brigade of his troops had the honour "to Measure swords" with
the French, on the 10th ult., at Logrono. Ile highly praises the
courage cif this soldiers ; but has the candour to admit that they
retreated after the battle. In fact his dispatch proVes that fact
prettly clearly, being dated Tarazona, 13 miles south of Tudela,
which Is 48 miles East of bogrono. The affair in question was
that mentioned in the Monitor of the 24th of April, when
Don Julian Sanehei, the Commander of the revolutionary
forces, was defeated with the loss of 200 men, and was himself
taken prisoner. Ballasteros himself has since wandered
away to the South, no one knows whither, leaving open the
road ,for General Molitor to Saragossa, and giving up the very
attempt to effect a junction with Mina. Such are the military
exploits on which the revolutionists of Seville have to count for
support !:--( Ibid. )

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Russia is assembling her forces on the Vistula,
having withdrawn her hordes from the Pruth, and deferred, for
a while, her projects against European-Turkey; she has trans.
ferred these savage bands to Poland, for whom employment
ultithately must be found. The eye of the Northern Despot
is fixed on Spain; could resources be assured, the Autocrat
would rush on the Spaniards at once. But France is not equal to
the subsistence of her own troops, though, from habits anti from
Climate, they are in every way more suited to a Peninsular cam-
paign. The Russian would dissolve amid the summer heats of
Spakn, and starve, under a burning sun, on, her sierras and bar-
ren rocks. On own decided opinion is, that neither Itusala nor
Austria will venture to attack the Peninsula, not from want
of inclination, but from a total absence of supplies: The
French Cabinet failing
_itself in the war, might be base enough
(for what limits can we put to the servility of those men ?) to
permit a Russia or Austrian army to march through France.—
But once within the Pyrenees, in a coutry previously exhausted
hostile against the invaders to a man—.looking on them with the
same horror diva the horse .does when he breaks from the scent
of the camel—how, under such circumstances, are the heavy
Austrians or the voracious Russians to exist? France could not
' and would not afford them supplies. The French people would
barely tolerate their consuming march through the country ;
further they would not aid them. The present expellee of
the French armies is frightful ; it is in itself destruction ; it
weighs on the resources of France to the amount of more than a
hundred millions annually. This is an expenditure that cannot
last. The ltiorniv Chronicle was the first to notice the cellet.
tion of Russian troops in Poland, and it was hen denied by the
Courier. Now this. versatile and venal print turns round and
gives full credence to the report; anti, with its wonted spirit,
immediately sets about excusing' and accounting for it; but
the truth is, the Courier and its articles are now mere ditch.
water ; they have not even a ripple on the surface. This
Paper, turned off and discarded, bas no information at. all ; and
thus, like the seer Cobbett, one day's hapleas augury always
contradicts that which has past. Itussia end Austria both
pledged themselves to the policy of Montmorency at Verona ;
but, until the subsidies which England formerly produced
•are again forthcoming, until France consents to play Squire