The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid Journals of the 20th have been received.
Dispatches have been received from General Con-
DOVA, the contents of which have not transpired, but
which are said to be of the utmost importance. Some
persons state that they contain the resignation of
CORDOVA, others the submission of CABRERA. Of
the utter improbability of the last rumour our readers
may judge from the following letter addressed by
CABRERA to the editor of the French Union :
"Sir,—Under the tyrannical dictatorship of Narvaez,
the independent press of Spain can no longer give ex-
pression to my protests. Nor, from any other sources
than the official reports of my tnetnics, or the letters of
correspondents who limit th:_mselvcs to the repetition of
on Bits, can this press enlighten public opinion as to
the war in Catalonia. The foreign press will nut refuse
me the use of its columns—

" 1. To contradict the silly and lying reports of the
greater part of the officers who command the Labellist
troops.

"2, To protest against the calumnies which the
papers, paid by the Government at Madrid, incessantly
repeat in reference to the conduct of my volunteers.
"3. To lay open the truth to my own country, and to
the whole of Europe, with respect to the conduct of the
two armies.
" Our enemies continue to brand us as brigands—let
us use their own word, Trabucaires. According to them,
we are always running away—invariably defeated. If
our kill. d, our wounded, our prisoners, were calculated
from their official bulletins, the amount would be per-
fectly frightful. On the other hand, they carefully con-
ceal the progress that we continually make; such as the
capture of the forts of La I3tsbal and Cobra, and the re-
cent defeat of General Paredes, who left in our hands
150 of his men, his own horse, and other trophies. My
honest soldier's pen refuses even to record the names of
the Isabellista chiefs, who owe their rank to reports as
false as they are contemptible. Let these same chiefs
cannot deny that the very arms that are borne by my
volunteers have been taken from their own soldiers; that
in order to combat ' insignificant bands of Trabucaires,'
the Government at Madrid has been obliged to send into
Catalonia 50,000 of its chosen troops and the best of its
Generale. Further, and this is ai humiliating to our
enemies as it must be conclusive to the rest of Europe,
why has that Government just implored the assistance
of Portugal by asking for an auxiliary force of 8,000
men 7

"As to the odious epithet of Trabucaires, with which
our enemies insult us, a single reflection will suffice as
an answer to it. My 6,000 volunteers could not always
fight, and frequently defeat, 50,000 troops, without the
spontaneous and powerful concurrence of Catalonia. A
strife so unequal could not have continued if we had not
possessed the sympathy of the noble. minded Catalans;
and if we do possess their sympathy, it is because we are
worthy of it.
" Catalonia is weary of the arbitrary acts of the Go-
vernment at Madrid, and of i:s hateful system of cor-
ruption. It is this disgraceful yoke that it desires to
throw off. My volunteers are for the most part its own
children ; it is proud of their conduct, and proud, more
especially, of their fidelity and their courage. All the
chiefs of the enemy's troops do not deny them the claim
to these qualities, but 0(.13 who admit it are compara-
iively ,few, because the majority of these chiefs have
only one object in view—to push themselves forward in
their career by flattering—the' Government at Madrid.
Colonel Rios, who commands the column of °lot, is dis-
tinguished amidst this class ; end yet, if he had been
under my command, I should, en more than one GCCi-
sion, have brought him to a court-martial for his MI.
Atilt ulness and the exaggeration of his reports. Doubt-
less he is anxious to imitate the chief of the column of
Ripoli, who, after having been defeated and with all his
men shut up in Villa de Lilies, obtained the rank of
Colonel simply by writing a lying dispatch. I call this
neither more nor less than military prostitution.

" But the nightmare of the Government at Madrid is
the Carlo-Progresista union. Misfortune has always
brought more closely together fellow-countrymen who sie
themselves exposed in common to L.e imprisoned, t: ans-
ported, or shot by tyrants whom cunnirg, corruption,
and terror alone retain in power. Moreover, the Conde
de Montemolin, in his manifesto of the 14th of Septem-
ber, 1846, recommended to us oblivion of the past and
reconciliation. • Let thero.be no more partit s,' he said;
we are all Spaniards.' From that moment we have no
long. r looked upon as foes any but those who fight us in
the open field; while we joyfully receive into our ranks
the Progresistas, who, deprived lace ourselves of the
right of discussion, have recourse to that of insurrection,
in the hope of overthrowing the common enemy. I
freely admit that their conduct and their courage are
worthy of the cause.
" Whilst our enemies shoat the prisoners they
take from us, or ship them off to the Phi-
lippine Islands, I have, up to this day, sent
back theirs, with the exception of the officers, who
have been treated as welt as my own position and
the precautions of war w,uld permit. I have
just proposed to General Cordova an exchange of pri-
soners. Let us hope that he will accede to it. At all
events, I shall not be responsible, in the face of Europe,
for the consequences of his refusal. The recent assassi-
nations by General Villalonga have lowered the character
of the nation. If my duty had not kept me in this faith-
ful province, I should already have marched to teach this
monster the laws of humanity. But let us wait a little!
" My serious occupations may possibly prevent me from
again refuting the calumnies of an enemy whom we all
despise; indeed, I should only repeat myself, because my
principles are unchangeable. Strong in my own recti-
tude, in the honour of my soldiers, and in the powerfulshail
co-operation of this loyal tvicl generous province,
continue my exertions for the defence of ray legitimate
King and the independence of my beloved country. To
c.ntribute to the triutorh of both is my sole ambition.
"Accept, &c.
(Signed) " CABRERA, CONDE DE MORELLA.
" Cubells, Nov. 5, 1848."
It is well known that the sum of 8,000,000 reals
(80,0001.) has been offered to CADaER.& by the Go-
vernment, to induce him to abandon the cause of
Count MONTEMOLIN, in addition to the recognition
of his rank in the army, his titles of nobility, and the,
Captain-Generalcy of Cuba; he has refused all these.
magnificent oirt-s.