The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.
FULLEST PARTICULARS.
The following will be found to contain the most ample
details relative to the revolt at Pampeluna ; the facts are
brought from the time the movement broke out down to
the latest period when news had been received, and are
taken partly from the French papers and partly from
other sources. The following extracts are from the Sen-
tinelle of Bayonne:—
" At daybreak on the 2d inst. General O'Donnel ap-
peared at the quarters of La Merced, which was occu-
pied by the 2d battalion of the regiment of Eetreinadura,
made it form into line, and led it to the citadel, where it
found another battalion of the same regiment, and a
detachment of cavalry ; with these forces he declared
himself to be in revolt against the present Go-
vernment. As soon as the news of this reached
General Ribeiro, he proceeded to visit all the bar-
racks, and took every measure circumstances required,
and, assisted by the National Guard and the rest of the
garrison, prepared to defeat the designs of the insur-
gents. Some Spaniards, whom we believe well informed,
assure us that this act of O'Donnell's was certainly in
concert with a party at Madrid, and that we might ex-
pect to hear of the insurrection breaking out at several
towns. We are also informed that movements similar to
that at Pampeluna have taken place at Bilboa and Vit-
toria. A report is circulated that an attempt at a rising
was made at Tolosa, in the same night as that at Parn-
peluna ; that a commissary of the army and a brigadier
endeavoured to seduce the troops, but succeeded only
with a few of the soldiers. With this detachment the
two leaders took up a post at about a league from
Tolosa, on the road to Navarre, and here stopped the
Pampeluna diligence on its way. Not finding the com-
munications they expected, they suffered it to pass
on. General Alcala is at Tolosa with a bat-
talion.s He has trusted the keeping of St. Sebastian to
the national militia. He has issued an order of the day,
addressed to his troops, in which, after praising their
valour and loyalty, makes them acquainted with what
has taken place, and expresses his confidence that at
their head he will be able to execute, however difficult,
whatever may be necessary for the preservation of the
Constitution, the young Queen, and the present Govern-
ment. A commercial traveller just arrived at Bayonne
from Pampeluna, states that the National Guard was
under arms and sent out patrols, but refused to do duty
at the gates because this task belonged to the army,
while theirs was to preserve the property of their fellow-
citizens. The diligence in which this person was travel-
ling was stopped on the road by an officer, who, after
questioning the passengers as to what had occurred at
Pampeluna, informed them that the movement was to
extend to all parts of Spain, but the discovery of the
plot had hastened its execution at Pampeluna. This
officer had come from Tolosa, the garrison of which town
he had failed in exciting. A report was current at Be-
hobia that some soldiers at Tudela had massacred their
officers, and then went to Pampeluna."
ORDER OF THE DAY AND PROCLAMATION
OF GENERAL O'DONNELL.
" THE CO3I3IANDER-GENERAL OF NAVARRE AND THE
BASQUE PROVINCES.
" Soldiers—The august Princess whose name was your
guide for seven years to battle and victory; she who in
her zeal for the welfare and prosperity of Spain, opened
the doors of the country to exiled Spaniards ; the re-
storer of liberty to this unhappy nation ; she who pre-
ferred at Valencia an honourable exile rather than vio-
late the Constitution of 1837; the mother of your Queen,
in fact, is about to return to you. In vain has an ungrate-
ful man, allied to what the revolution has produced of
most impure, attempted to substitute himself for the
illustrious Christina. That was impossible. You have
been witnesses, during tp year, of his odious tyranny.
Incapable of governinglibe nation, feeble in the presence
of foreign Powers, ungriteful towards the army whose
blood he did not spare In elevating himself, you have
seen him, in the midst of offended Spain, authorising the
most despotic and immoral acts, whilst trampling upon
the Constitution to which they had sworn, and gloryingin a brutal firmness, the revolution and its chief deprived
a mother even of the consolatiOn of educating in the
love of her people the daughters whom she loves with
idolatry, and at Carthagena trampled the national flag
under foot. The Spanish army is dying with hunger in
return for its campaigns ; those worthy officers whose
wounds had compelled them to retire from military ser-
vice, but who were expecting civil employment when the
benevolent era of peace had arrived, have been set aside,
their wounds have even been laughed at, and offices of
every kind have fallen into the hands of a scum atro-
ciously notorious in street revolt, but utterly unknown
in the camps during the seven years' war. Even the
lives of the Queen and of the Infanta, her sister, are in
peril ; yes, soldiers, the lives of these august children,
which are our guarantee against the renewal of the pre-
tensions of Don Carlos. The august Queen -Mother,
who, by the treason of an ambitious man, has been de-
prived for a time of her regency, returns to Spain to
claim the sacred deposit which the country had confided
to her by the organ of the Cortes. You will find by her
side the generals who have so frequently led you to
victory, and whose blood, mixed with yours, has flowed
on the field of battle. For myself, I have no doubt of
your fidelily. Soldiers ! you have been too long made
the dupes of the ambition of one man. Hasten now to
the post of honour assigned to you near the throne of a
Queen. "LEOPOLD O'DONNELL.
" Head-quarters of Pampeluna, Oct. 2."
" Inhabitants of Navarre and the Basque Provinces!—
When, at the expiration of the civil war, you embraced
the Spanish army on the plains of Bergara, your lan-
guage was sincere, and the oath of fidelity which you
swore to Queen Isabella 11. at that solemn moment, has
been kept by you with your characteristic good faith.
But do you remember, Basques and Navarrese, the day
when you received the solemn word of the Chief of the
armies, and that he promised to respect your fueros' and
that the peace which was that day welcomed by all
should never be disturbed? Do you remember that it was
then the illustrious Christina who governed the kingdom,
and who, more than any person, was anxious to put an
end to the struggle between Spaniard and Spaniard ? If
so, cast your e
judge
over what remains from that memo-
rable day, and what is likely to occur if you,
the army, and all Spain, do not awake from your sleep.
The man who made to you so many promises whilst you
were in aims, General Espartero, who gave you a hy-
pocritical embrace at Bergara, has deceived the mother
of his Queen, compromised the Spanish nation, treacher-
ously laid hold of the Regency, virtually abolished
your fueros, and will finish by the open destruction of
them on the most frivolous pretext. Under his rule
the most sacred laws of the State have been violated ;
the august Princess, deprived of Isabella 11., has
been compelled to seek refuge from revolution in
a foreign land ; the religion of our fathers is
already attecked with effrontery, and this false
and traitorous man only waits for an opportunity
to drive from the throne of their ancestors the innocent
children who stand in the way of his ambition. Basques
and Navarrese, Queen Maria Christina of Bourbon
is about to return amongst you ; the majority of the
nation and the army expect her with impatience, and
certainly you will not be less eager. In Spain there can
be no struggle between anarchy and the defence of the
throne. We shall triumph—we shall triumph without
the effusion of blood. Under the Government of a
Queen who has given so many proofs of her affection to
the Spanish people, your venerable fueros will be main-
tained to their full extent, and the respectable clergy,
whose rightful possessions are being taken from them in a
revolutionary manner, will be protected as they ought to
be in a country which is eminently Catholic; the Ministers
of the Lord will retain the dignity attached to the worship
of the eternal God. If interests which ough t to be respected
Should inflict any prejudice upon the purchasers of
national property, the august Queen Regent and her Go-
ve-nment will come to an arrangement with the head of
the Church as regards those interests, which shall in no
manner injure the actual possessors. Basques and Na-
varrese, being charged in the name of her Majesty, and
preparatory to her arrival with the command of your
provinces, the inhabitants will find in me a firm defender
of their rights, and a general well known never to have
broken his word. Let the friends of the Queen rally
round me ; let them throw themselves into the arms of
that army which, more sincere than the man who com-
manded them at Bergara, heartily embraces them ; as
for me I shall always regard as traitors all who act
otherwise.
" The Lieutenant-General 'Viceroy and Captain-Ge-
neral ad interim of Navarre and the Basque Provinces.
" LEOPOLD O'DONNELL,
The Quotidienne says that it was between twelve and
one at night when O'Donnell introduced himself into the
citadel of Pampeluna. Some persons (this Journal adds)
say that O'Donnell took 12,000,000 of francs (40,0000
with him, and not three only, as was stated.
The following, from the Spanish frontier, is from the
Memorial Bourdelais :—" We hear that Estella in Na-
varre, and Aspeitia in Guipuzcoa, have adopted the po-
litics of O'Donnell against Espartero. A Junta is to be
established at Aspeitia to provide for the immediate ne-
cessities of existing circumstances. Both these towns
have made themselves remarkable for their zealous demo-
tioneo Carlist principles, and therefore it may be ques-
tioned whetheramovement, begun under pretence of main-
taining the. throne of Isabella 11. may not, in the end,
be turned to the advantage of Don Carlos and his par-
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WINDSOR, SUNDAY NIGHT.—Her Majesty,
who until that time had been in the enjoyment of her
usual health, felt somewhat unwell last evening, and in
the course of the night was so much indisposed that it
was considered necessary to require the presence of both
Dr. Locock and Sir 4. Clarke. They were, of course, im-
mediately in attendance, and the former has not left the
Castle since. This morning her Majesty was much better;
but although she had expressed an intention of remaining
for a few daYS longer at Windsor, orders were issued for
the Royal Household to prepare everything necessary
for her Majesty's reception at Buckingham Palace to-
morrow (this day). Considerable bustle, as may be
supposed, was occasioned by this sudden determination,
but at a late hour this evening- the former orders have
been countermanded. In ordinary times this would
have excited no attention, but at a period when an
event upon which the feelings of the nation are so deeply
excited may be almost hourly expected, every move-
ment in the Castle is regarded with the utmost anxiety. ti
Several of the Cabinet Ministers had interviews
with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at the official resi.- i
Bence of the Right Iron. Baronet in Downing-street.
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