The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1541.

INSURRECTION IN spjiM,:.
(From the French Papers of Tuesday.)
The following Christinite documents are published by
the Presse and the Monitcur Paris ice
" Don Manuel de Oca, Ex-Minister of Maiine (under
the presidency of Perez de Castro), Member of the Pro-
visional Government of Spain during the absence of the
Queen-Regent, Maria Christina of Bourbon.
" The Government which is to rule Spain during the
• absence of the legitimate Queen-Regent, being solemnly
proclaimed in Navarre and the Basque provinces, as it
will in a few days be proclaimed throughout the kingdom,
I ordain— •
" Ist. Every individual who shall combat, with arms
in his hands, the authority of the said Provisional Go-
vernment, who may conspire or rebel against it, or who
will not recognise and submit to it in twelve hours after
the receipt of the present decree, or who shall oppose in
any way the acts of the troops and population faithful to
the cause of the Queen, is declared a traitor, and remains
liable to the penalties established by the laws and mili-
tary ordonnances.
gi," 2d. The individuals who, after the term fixed, shall
continue to obey the orders and dispositions of the revo-
lutionary Government of Madrid, or of the authorities
depending on it, shall incur the same penalties.
" 3d. Li the name of the Queen Regent, all classes,
civilian and miliary, are relieved from any duties con-
trary to the order here set forth.
" MANUEL MONTES DE OCA.
" Vittoria; Oct. 4."

The second is addressed to the soldiers :
" The time is arrived for fulfilling the most sacred of
military duties—fidelity. An act of violence has torn
the Government from the august Princess who was called
the Mother of her people. Since then a deluge of evils
and outrages has overwhelmed the army, in common
with all classes of the nation. Those who owe their
glory and laurels to you were most forward to offend
and hurt you. The honour of the army,:the cause of
the laws and of the nation, must be restored. The Queen,
whose name you invoked in battle, claims the succour of
your swords. Soldiers draw your swords, &c.
" M. M. DE OCA."
The third proclamation is as follows.—
" Noble Basco-Navarrese--I have come into yeur hcs-
pitablo mountains as a member of ./hat Provisional Go-
vernment which is to rule Spain during the short absence
of her august Majesty the Queen-Regent, in order to
seek the chief support of the monarchy.
" A year has now passed since the most horrible in-
gratitude and the most scandalous sedition invaded the
the Royal palaces, broke the steps of the throne, and
opened to the man, who had received most recompenses
from the nation and the greatest kindnesses from his
Sovereign, the way which was to conduct him to the
throne, and give into his hands the helm of state. The
same interval has elapsed since your holy and pa-
triarchal customs, your venerated institutions, your
great virtues and imperishable glory, have become the
object of raillery and insult to an ungrateful and an
ambitious revolution. There is no decorum which these
two tyrannies combined have not outraged; no duty
that they have not infringed,no compact that they have not
brokers, no object worthy of veneration which they have
not overturned by violence and injustice. Religion,
liberty, tradition, independence, all has been the prey
of this monster of September. When our unfortunate
brothers bent their heads under this ignominious yoke,
prepared by a long series of misfortunes to endure the
hardest slavery—when the wicked began to celebrate
their triumphs by horrible bacchanalia, and when the
men of the Monarchical party were content to groan
in silence over so many scandals, one city of pure
renown and great name, styled the invincible by
all the world, dared to raise its voice in favour
of the august Princess, whom the revolution had
exiled. This city is in your province ; its illustrious
name already belongs to history—whenever it is men-
tioned it is with praise ; twice did this save the throne
of Isabella, and a thousand times has it appeared
resplendent with valour and glory in the midst of our
civil discords. Honour and glory to the noble, the invin-
cible Bilbao. It has given the grand example of fidelity
to misfortune. It has been strong enough, and generous
enough, to prefer conquered legitimacy to triumphant
usurpation. The deputations of the three sister pro-
vinces, rivalling each other in fidelity and heroism,
hastened to offer to the illustrious exile the homage of
their love. When the noble Princess received this holy mes-
sage, her heart was filled with tenderness, and her eyes
bathed in tears. You still preserve in your archives, and
you will ever keep in mind the affectionate words in
which she answered the demonstration of your loyalty.
The daughter of Providence then mingled her destiny
with that of the children of
.glory. The alliance be-
tween the Queen Maria Christina of Bourbon and you
will never be broken, for it is God himself who has
formed it in the day of tribulation.
" Noble and valiant inhabitants of the Basque pro-
vinces and of Navarre !—I promise you in the name of
this august Princess, the preservation of your FITEROS in
all their integrity. You have conquered them with the I
blood of your veins, by the sweat of your brow, and by
the loyalty of your hearts. The commerce of the in-
vincible Bilbao will again flourish under the shelter of
protecting laws. The industry of all the country will
be admitted to the benefits of national industry, in such
a manner, nevertheless, that the favour granted to your
labour will not become a means of fraud and harm to the
the rest of the Spaniards.
" Basques and Navarrese !—You sill have neither
now, nor later, any other modification and regulation in
your secular fueros than those which you yourselves will
establish by means of the only exclusive and legitimate
representation of the country, that is, by your Juntas
and your Cortes.
" The throne will never be ungrateful to those who
act as its shield. It is not the illustrious Princess, into
whose hands you are again about to place the sceptre of
your Kings, who will take away your liberty, or who
will forget your heroism. It is not she who will consent
to see your laurels disgraced, your glory tarnished, and
your deeds of arms remaining without recompense. The
nation does not, you cannot, think valid the abdication of
Government made by the Queen at Valencia, because it
was, as her Majesty herself declares, an act of violence.
The nation does not, you cannot, recognise as valid and
legitimate, the resolution by which the
isstelage of her
Majesty and sister was declared vacant, and by which a
new tutor has been named for these august minors. The
Col tes, who passed this act are illegitimate, and the vice of
their illegitimacy renders all its acts invalid.
" Noble and courageous inhabitants of the Basque
provinces and of Navarre !—Maria Christina of Bour-
bon, is the only Regent of the kingdom; the only tutor
of the illustrious orphans called to rule the destinies of
that nation, so rich in glory and so poor in happiness.
There is the banner of loyal Spaniards; this banner now
rises in every part of Spain. It waves at the head of
the armies, and it waves in your mountains. The most
illustrious generals, the bravest soldiers, those who bear
the marks of a hundred wounds, received in a hundred
battles—those who never failed in their fidelity, and
never committed perjury—follow that resplendent ban-
ner, which leads to victory. It is the symbol of our
holy religion, and of our Catholic monarchy. We will
triumph with it, as our fathers did before us.
" MANUEL- MONTES DE OCA.
" Vittoria, Oct. 4, 1841."
The following proclamation has boen issued by the
Deputies of Biscay :
" Biscayans !—Your fueros are threatened with total
annihilation, after all the attacks made upon them before
your eyes. The Commissioners appointed at Guernica
to treat on the subject with the Government of Madrid
have been obliged to retire. In due time and place the
general deputation will publish all the documents, and
thus prove beyond all doubt our noble conduct, and ex-
pose the bad faith of the Government. The General
Juntas which are shorly about to assemble will, we con-
fidently hope, approve our conduct. The convention of
Bergara has been shamefully violated, both in respect
to the laws and to individuals. The violent treatment
of the officers of the country who have retired from active
service, the impious attacks made upon religion through-
out the kingdom, and many other outrages, are evidences
of this. The general deputation can no longer sub-
mit to these outrages, and feels thaeit is not allowed to
hesitate in endeavouring to put a stop to them by force.,
of arms. Her Majesty Queen Maria Christina has been
proclaimed at Pampeluna Queen Regent of Spain. The
same standard was raised throughout the kingdom on
the 3d, 4th, and sth of this month. The Basque depu-
tations to whom the Government guaranteed the preser-
vation of their fueros, in their integrity, as you will see
by the annexed Proclamation, have also adopted this
standard, and thus save our venerable laws or perish with
them. The city of Vittoria is already up, with all the
troops of its garrison. Bilbao has done the some, with
the brave Bourbon regiment, commanded by its noble
and intrepid Colonel Brigadier Don Ramon Lim-
cha. From this moment the fueros are restored
in all their force and vigour, and the Corregimen-
tal Tribunal is re-established. To arms, Biscayans I
Your general deputation will be at your head, and will
guide you through the difficulties with which we are
surrounded, and will never abandon you. The law 5, of
chapter 1, of our fueros ordains that every Biscayan
shall run to arms in defence of his lord; what would you
not do in defence of your Queen and your fueros? If
during the last civil war you gave, though divided, so
many proofs of heroism, what will you not do now when
united under the same standard, under the legitimate
standard, and led on by your aathorities? The deputa-
tion ordains that the municipalities of all the communes
of the province enrol immediately everyßiscayan capable
of bearing arms, and appoint all officers up to the rank
of
Captain,
proportion
Castor Andechaga will command these forces. All the
other military chiefs, commandants, and officers who are
the number
in a general meeting, and in
enrolled. Brigadier Don
in the country, will place themselves at his disposal. The
deputation invite all those who shall have arms in their
possession to come armed for so sacred a service. They
will take care to procure arms enough for all the country,
to inclusively,
and to insure pay to all who shall enrol themselves for
active service. Hasten then, Biscayans, to defend your
threatened religion and laws. It will be treason not so
to act. Let us preserve the noble inheritance of our
fathers. Long live Isabella, the Queen-Regent, and the
Fueros !
" Bilbao, Oct. 5.

" D. E. BE LA TORRE,
" M. DE IZA GUIRRE."
The Constitutionnel publishes the following from
Bayonne, dated the 9th instant :
"At a late hour to-day further accounts were re-
are greatly discou-
ceived from Catalonia and Arragon. All the large
towns, such as Barcelona, Saragossa, &e., have de-
clared against the O'Donnell movement. Reinforce-
ments to the extent of 2,600 men have been received
by General Ribeiro at Pampeluna. The Christine
agents in Bayonne, and who forward their despatches
rraeredlarlbyy for Spain
Ribeiro, upon whose
adhesion they seem to have reckoned. They
have experienced the same disappointment as to Ge-
neral Concha, upon whose defection they had reckoned,
although he is a relation of Espartero. It is cer-
tain, from all the accounts received were during the day
from different sources and different points of Spain, that