The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-05 00:00:00

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LONDON.
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1835.

Letters and papers from Madrid to the 27th ult.
have been received. Their contents are very impor-
tant, and altogether very favourable to the cause of
liberty aud the QUEEN. The Gazette of the 25th
contains a Royal decree for raising an army of 100,000
men, to take the field in December against the Car-
lists. This force is to he raised lw a general levy
throughout the kingdom, all unmarried Spaniards not
in Holy Orders, from 18 to 40 years of age, being
henceforth declared soldiers. The decree contains se-
veral excellent regulations with respect to voluntary
service, and pays due regard to the claims of indigence
and old age, by exempting young men upon whose in-
dustry their parents are dependant for subsistence. We
are not surprised to learn that the promulgation of this
decree caused a general rejoicing in the Spanish ca-
pital. M. MENDIZABAL has certainly done wo►:-
ders since his return to Spain. " In an incredibly
short time, (says the Madrid Gazette of the 25th)
the adherence of all the Provinces to Government, has
taken place without shedding a drop of blood, or a
single tear—on the contrary, many sorrows occasioned
by former errors, have been relieved." The same
Journal states that the Province of Estremadura having
offered her MAJESTY to raise and maintain .10,000
men to fight against the Carlists, the levy of 100,000
for the whGle kingdom, must be regarded as exceed-
ingly moderai:.e.• " It is time," says the writer,
" that all true i9naniards should become persuaded
that it is necessary, above all things, to, bring the civil
4 to a close. Probably it will be requisite to make
a great sacrifice to insure this—if any thing can be
considered as a sacrifice, by our magnanimous nation—
but it will be momentary. By means of privations for
one year, we purchase the happiness of the rest of our
dais and that of our country—the consolidation of
liberty, and of all the benefits which follow in its train ;
when, being united with the legitimate throne and with
order, it animates and vivifies with its active, yet gentle
all the faculties of the man and of the citizen. Is

there, then, any sacrifice which can appear painful to
Spanish hearts, in order to. secure so many advantages ?
They gained the country which belongs to them after a
struggle of eight centuries : another of six years' dura-
tion insured their independence : the war for liberty
will only now be necessary during a few months."

This appeal has not been made in. vain. Money
and me.:—` the sole requisites for putting down the
insurrection—are now at the disposal of M. MENDr-
zABAL. Both are , also in great abundance ; and
during the winter there will be no cessation of hos-
tilities, unless Don CARLOS be captured or driven
out of Spain. In Madrid the people are full of
hope ; and so tranquil is the city at all hours, that the
Gazette, in alluding to it, gives as an instance that the
QUEEN REGENT, after having been present on the
night of the 22d of October, at the performances
at the theatre of La Cruz, the product of which was
destined to the expense of the armaments against the
factions, returned at nearly midnight to the Royal resi-
dence of the Pardo, with no other escort to her carriage
than one outrider. Neither the garrison nor any of the
corps belonging thereto were, for a single moment,
I under arms ; not .one extra patrol was to be seen ;

tranquillity and order reigned in every direction.
This is a very different state of things from what pre-
vailed in the capital during ToßENo's administra-
tion. M. MENDIZABAL, in fact, appears to have
wrought a change in the whole flame of Spanish so-
ciety. The timid have become brave ; the despairing,
full of hope and enthusiasm. The Juntas, so formi-
dable to the Government of his predecessor in office,
have voluntarily dissolved themselves, with the exception
of that of Malaga now on the eve ofvoluntary dissolution.
These Juntas have all terminated their labours, and
their existence Kith addresses in favour of the QUEEN
and Constitutional Liberty. The following is the last
which has appeared. It is from the Superior Junta
of Barcelona, on resigning its political functions, in
consonance with the pleasure of M. MENDIZABAL
" Catalonians—ln these moments, when a just and elec-
trical fear, caused by the false and ambiguous measures of a
man in power, inspired you with the patriotic exertions which
have for ever blasted the hopes of hypocritical moderation,
and of darkening retrogadation, your sublime decision created
this Junta, to whose love for legal liberty was entrusted the
charge of achieving the glorious work of your magnanimous
resolves. So noble a mission, conferred in such trying cir-
cumstances, did not appal your Delegates, for though they
felt how inferior their talents were to the occasion, their pa-
triotic souls were filled with civic courage, which appeared
to them quite sufficient to supply the absence of intelligence.
You observed our progress—you saw us go hand in hand
with that wise Minister, who stood by her Majesty, and who,
despising the decrees of proscription and death, rose up more
powerful, and, communicating his electrical lightning to the
remotest corners of the empire, overthrew that fatal chair, at
whose fall the nation seemed to lose all her grief and misery.
" A son of liberty, a man whose whole life is a pledge, has
taken in hands the reins of the State ; and a warrior without a
blot, whom thl Junta in her anguish called aloud for, has
placed himself in the van of this distressed country. From
the first has already emanated radical remedies to our wrongs,
since the law on the duties and rights of man is decreed, and
the second, the invulnerable bulwark of our liberty, is with us.
" What is now the duty of your Junta? What is now want-
ing, that hettermination should not be glorious, but to give
you the example of submission to these solemn pledges, and
not afford a pretext by a prolonged existence to feuds and dis-
sensions, which arc the end and wish of our infuriated enemies?
Your Junta shall not, from a puerile vanity, or attention to
emi;ty forms, arrest the progress of liberty, or the measures of
such respected men ; much less when the devoted example of
the best of Queens gives us the magnanimous example we are
bound to imitate, as the only means of lowering the pride of
our pertinacious iiiversary, whose fall can alone ensure the
liberty of the Spanish people.
" These sentiments wet: expressed on the 11th instant to
the Civil Governor, rectifying likewise the ideas which the
Government might have had on the creation, conduct, and
intention of your Junta ; and if then we waited, to fix the
dissolution, the arrival of the illustrious Chief now at our
head, it was that we possessed in this one circumstance pledges
for dissolving ourselves, with confidence and without fear.
" Thus your Junta is at an end. We have ordered mean-
while a statement of our operations, both general and private;
and if, in the difficult circumstances with which we were sur-
rounded, we have been enabled to do our country and our fel-
low-citizens any good, we aspire to no other glory, and arc
ambitious of no higher recompense.
( Signed)
" Joss MELCHOR PRAT, Civil Governor ad interim,
Vice- President ; the Intendant ANTONIO SALAS;
ANTONIO DE GIRONELLA ; JOSE MARTANO DE CA-
BANES; PEDRO MORET; JUAN VALLES ; JUAN
ANTONIO DE LIANAS,' GUILLERMO OLIVER;• JOSE
CASAMAJAS ; JOSE ANTONIO LLORET ; ERASMO
DE JANEZ Y GONIMA ; ANDRES SUBIRA ; FRAN-
CISCO SOLER, Sec., &c. &c.
" Barcelona, Oct. 22, 1835."

The whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday have
been received. The Moniteur contains the following
official announcement :

" A telegraphic despatch, dated Bayonne, October 31st,
announces that the steam-vessel La Reyna Gobernadora on
the 29th carried into St. Sebastian an English merchant-
man, laden with cannon, muskets, and gunpowder, destined
for the insurgents. On the 27th Don Carlos was at Fo-
ronda, and General.Cordova was at Vittoria, in presence of
the Carlists. Four thousand Christinos have entered
Oteisa, near Estella, with the intention of taking on the
following day possession of that town, which was without
garrison.
" A second despatch from Bayonne, dated the Ist inst.,
states that it appears from the Saragossa journals that
everything has been arranged at Madrid between the Go-
vernment and the juntas of Andalusia. The junta of Ma-
laga is the only one that exists. An order of the day has
been issued for the departure of the Portuguese troops.
The Captain-General of Arragon on the 22d formed 4,000
men at Calandra into two columns, with the intention of
marching against the rebels."
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The only other important intelligence in the' Paris
Journals of Tuesday, is the report of a rumour in the
Temps, to the effect that the Charge d'Affaires of the
United States had, in obedience to the orders of his
Government, demanded his passports, and was to quit
Paris in three days. The Temps does not vouch
for the correctness of this report, but observes that
even it were true, there would be no reason to
fear the commencement of any hostilities, as the
American Congress does not assemble before Decem-
ber. We are of the same opinion, although we
cannot but be persuaded that the settlement of
the question by Congress would not exactly suit
the taste of the Citizen King. LOUIS PHILLIPPE is
very far from being so popular in the United States
now, as he was two years since ; and if the
question be left, undecided until Congress shall
have assembled, an expression of feeling may be
elicited which may lead 'to much mischief. We think
the French Government would act wisely in paying
the instalments of the debt, for which the Chambers
have made a provision, without waiting for the concts-
sion which the Legislature has; thought proper to demand
on the part of the PRESIDENT. The debt being for-
mally recognised by France, cannot in justice be with-
held on the plea of wounded pride. The del t,
and the insult offered by the PRESIDENT'S mes-
sage, are quite different things ; nor would France
consult her own dignity in avenging what she con-
ceives to be a reflection upon her honour, by refus-
Mg to pay what she herself admits to be a just
debt. Besides, the idea of France being bullied into
the acknowledgment of any demand made upon her is
too ridiculous, and of that the PRESIDENT took no •
Lice in the very Message which has given such offence:
The military character of that country is too well
known to be impugned by any person not an inmate
of Bedlam. At the same time we grant that France
has a right to demand what explanations she pleases.
But to demand them in a way worthy of herself, she
must begin by paying the debt. When the debt is
paid, or even when the Government has declared that
France seeks other reparation for insults offered to her
honour than forcibly to defraud her creditors, then
will any explanation demanded by the French Cham-
bers command the respect of every Power in Europe,
PARIS, Nov. 3.—His Royal Highness the Duke of
Orleans left Toulon on the 31st of October, on board the
Castor steam boat.

The Prince will visit Corsica, and arterwards go to dif-
fennt parts of the coast of Africa.
We have news from Algierstof Oct. 24. No official