The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-02 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1833.

A correspondent, who appears to be well ac-
quainted with individuals and parties in Spain,
assures us that the English public are mistaken in
their estimate of the political character of the Spa-
nish Prime Minister, M. ZEA BERMUDEZ. He
says that M. ZEA, so far from being regarded
in Spain as a partisan of the absolute system of
government, is the object of peculiar dislike to
the Carlists, who will never forgive the execution
of BESSIERES, which took place under the
Ministry of which M. ZEA was a member, and,
as'it was believed at the time, at his direct
instigation. He also adds, that M. ZEA owes
a grudge to the Russian Court, which refused to
receive him when he was sent as Ambassador
from the Cortes, and concludes by expressing
an opinion that M. ZEA is merely temporizing
with the Carlists with a view to subdue them and
introduce into Spain a Constitutional system.
Our Correspondent is correct in his statement
as to the execution of BESSIERES, and the re-
fusal of the Etnreror ALEXANDER to receive
M. ZEA ; but he omits stating that the one act
of vengeance against Carlism to which he alludes
was lost in the multitude of executions upon
Constitutionalists when M. ZEA was Minister.
If the Carlist BESSIERES met a death from
which M. ZEA could not, if he had been so
disposed, have preserved him, it should not
be forgotten that the brave EMPECINADO
and fifty other Constitutional chiefs were
brought to the scaffold, when, probably,
M. ZEA'S influence might have, at least, ob-
tained the commutation of the punishment of
their patriotism into banishment. True it is
that M. ZEA, when sent as Ambassador to St.
Petersburgh, was not received by the Emperor
ALEXANDER, but what was the motive of the
refusal to receive him ? The indignation of the
EMPEROR against M. ZEA for the temporary
abandonment, in the love of place, of the prin-
ciples which he had acquired at St. Peters-
burgh, where he commenced his diplomatic
career as Secretary of Count CoLomut, and

subsequently resided a long time as Charge
d'Affaires from the Spanish Government.
M. ZEA may be, for aught we know, a Spanish
Talleyrand—a despicable character enough as
regards the man himself, but a shrewd politician,
without fixed principles, and therefore useful to
a nation from his willingness to follow a reason-
able impulse—but we must have some better
proof of his not being devoted to Holy Alliance
principles than the apology which has been
offered for him, before we express any confidence
in the assertion that he is merely temporizing
with the Carlists, and that he has in view the
improvement of the present system of Govern-
ment in Spain, and the amelioration of the con-
dition of the people.

We have received the Paris Papers of Thurs-
day in due course. They contain no news of
importance from Spain. In Catalonia a national
guard of 15,000 men has been raised, and other
Constitutional corps are forming. How will
the QUEEN REGENT be able to maintain the
principles of her Anti-Innovation Manifesto,
with the constitutional portion of the popula-
tion in arms ? When the Carlists are put
down, if she does not grant a constitution,
MINA, ARGUELLES, and the other distin-
guished patriots now in exile, will have
only to show themselves in Spain, to effect a
glorious and bloodless revolution. A change of
this sort appears certain, whatever the wishes of
the QUEEN REGENT may be.

A report prevailed in Paris on Thursday, that
Don CARLOS had entered Estremadura, at the
head of a party of 400 cavalry, and that General
SAARSFIELD was about to be superseded in
his command for not displaying sufficient energy
in quelling the insurrection in the revolted pro-
vinces. This, however, can only be regarded at
present as mere rumour. It was also said that
General CASTAGNON had been forced by the
Carlists to a retrograde movement.

FRENCH FUNDS.—l'mus, OCT. 31.
Five per Cents., 102 f. 40c.
Three per Cents., 75f. 70c.
National Loan, 102 f.
Rente de Naples, 91f. 40c.
Roman Five per Cents., 91.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 16
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 38%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 78.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 64%.
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 95%.

Hamburg and other German Papers to the
29th ult. arrived this morning. They give the
speech of the French Legitimatists to the young
Duke of BORDEAUX, with the answer of the
youthful aspirant, in which he states that he
shall not be happy until he unites his efforts with
theirs for what he calls the deliverance of their
common country. If the little Duke possess the
mettle of his mother. he Louts PHILIP
on the alert, but his hopes of obtaining the
Crown of France are chimerical.' If LOUIS
PHILIP should, by an abandonment of the
!principles which placed him on the throne,
forfeit of the French, and
be added to the icit of !loci Save'
I -
r.-Agns, the nation will know bcfrt.r how to
act than to prostrate themselves at t
feet of a
worn-out Legitimacy, and saerifics..:.he glorious
advantages which the Revolulion'OfJuly, pro-
scri) follb*til. up, are
,certain produce_
The German Congress agoiiist the I:nerty of the
Press is again talked of. What a monster this
Press is in the eyes cf 27-1)1,7 Alliance. It is
a political nightmare, tihict: allows them no