The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-13 00:00:00

SPANISH AMNESTY.

In order that the decree of amnesty, published by the
Queen, our Sovereign, on the 15th of this month, may
have its due accomplishottnt, and also with a view to
avoid the doubts which might arise in the tribunals, and
other authorities, who may be charged with its execution,
her Majesty has been pleased, in conformity with the
sovereign will of the King, our Lord, to command that
the following rules shall be observed :-
Ist. All emigrants and exiles for political motives are at
liberty to return to their houses, to the possession of their
property, to the exercise of their profession or industry,
and to the enjoyment of their decorations and honours,
under the secure protection of the laws.
2d. It is not understood that by this decree those offices
and salaries are restored which such persons obtained in
the time of the convulsions in which they were implicated ;
but they are competent, like all other Spaniards, to solicit
and obtain any employment which the Government may
consider them fitted to fill.

3d. No process for the crime of disloyalty committed
prior to the 15th of this month shall be formed against
any person, although the accusation may have been already

4th. All suits for disloyalty already pending shall be
immediately quashed, and the accused placed at liberty.
sth. The sentences pronounced prior to the date of this
decree which have not been already carried into execution
shall remain without effect, and cannot be cited in judg-
ment, nor out of it, except in the sole case of a relapse.
Consequently the condemnations which are in process of
accomplishment by virtue of such sentences cease and de-
termine, and the goods sequestered shall be restored to
the accused; nor shall the costs occasioned thereby, which
have not already bee❑ satisfied in the course of the said
trials, be exacted from the accused.
6th. The trials for purification shall cease, and those
which are already pending shall be terminated in favour of
those interests. .

7th. By this amnesty, an act of eternal oblivion is
passed on all crimes of disloyalty (but not on other
crimes). under whatever denomination they may have
been classed. . . ..

Bth. Are excepted from this Royal determination all
those who voted the dethronement of the King at Seville,
and those who have headed an armed force against his
sovereignty, conformably to the tenour of the said decree.
By order of her Majesty.
JOSEF de CAFRANGA.
Madrid, Oct. 30.

MADRID, NOV. 1.

The Government has just given orders for the marching
of troops to B.scay, in order to put down the disorders
which the Carl lets have raised in consequence of the Act
of Amnesty. This Act has been received with transports
of joy in Corunna, but in other cities in the same province
the Apostolicals maintain too high a hand to allow the
people to express their satisfaction.
The night before last some Royalist volureeers were
heard singing seditious songs, whilst others repeated the
cry of " Vive Charles V. !"
One of the four Members of the Council of Castile,
whom the King lately appointed, threw himself into a
canal a few days since ; he was taken out dead. He had
gone out with his wife and child to take a walk.
The day before yesterday a courier brought despatches
from Miguel, which gave rise to a meeting of the Cabinet.
Nothing certain has transpired as to the nature of the dis-
cussion which took place ; it is, however, univers illy be-
lieved that the tidings brought by the courier are unfavour-
able to Don Miguel.
A decree, purporting to be an exposition of the law of
amnesty (see pr ceding letter), has just been published,
taut in in my particulars the decree is just as little capable
of being understood as the law which it attempts to ex-
plain ; it does not at all satisfy us as to the extent of the
crime of taking up arms against the sovereignty of the
King, or how, or in what case, this crime is really perpe-
trated, where it begins, and where it ends ; for the reign
of the Constitution, which is considered to have been an
act of revolt against the sovereign authority, was sup-
ported IT arms ; the army and militia constituted the
firree of the Government ; they conducted the King to
Cidiz against his Majesty's inclination ; they fought
against the Army of the Faith, the French army which
defended the rights of Ferdinand. Now let us ask, are
the army and militia, and those who commanded them,
excepted from the amnesty, as the Council of Castile
and other tribunals contend that they are ? On the
other hand, it is impossible to deny that this armistice will
prove much more injurious than beneficial to many of
the emigrants. The latter at present receive an allowance
in proportion to their rank ; the countries which snpport
them will naturally withdraw their charity, and the law
by which these refugees are recalled includes ❑o provision
for their support. How then are they to exist in their
own country? Here then are Colonels, Field-Marshals,
and Lieutenant-Generals, coveted with tiecorations, who
are destitute of the means of support, and can only main-
tain existence by eleemosynary relief. Further, those who
obtained their purification were restored to their employ-
ments. The 6th article of the decree purified all those
who were under accusation, and who, therefore, must be
considered as not merely amnestied, but absolutely puri-
fied. They are right in demanding the restitution of the
offices which they held before; for otherwise it would
have been better for them to have obtained a judgment of
purification which would have restored them to their em-
ployments, whilst at present they are obliged to solicit
them as a favour, and not as an act of justice.
It is calculated that Ballasteros goes out of office with
a fortune of forty millions of reals vellon (about ten mil-
lions of francs).

Many well-informed persons are of opinion that the
Queen's party will be placed in a state of jeopardy, unless
the most open, prompt, and energetic measures be adopted
for the suppression of the schemes of the Carlists. It is
essential, then, that AI. Zea Bermudez should return to
Madrid to harmonise the Cabinet.

The army is devoted to the Queen ; so is the Aristo-
cracy ; but the Royalist volunteers are formidable, inas-
much as they can, in case of need, command the populace,
whose minds are biassed by the fanaticism inculcated by
the Priests.
must be conclusively disposed
lis corner of the Peninsula, and
of;TpheeaqoeuesistioenssoefotPiaolrttougtah
the Catholic Government should set aside certain pre-
judices in favour of the principle which it is desirable to
make triumphant in Spain. The question of our co-
lonies must likewise be got rid of. if we are not able to
raise the flag of Castile any more in the New World, why
not recognize its independence under conditions that would
be beneficial to the mother country, and serviceable to the
interests of humanity? For it is not to be lost sight of
that this delay in acknowledging the independence of South
America is the whole source of the protracted wars by
which that country has been so long torn. Spain is suffi-

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ciently opulent and powerful by herself, if her Government
have only strength and popularity. Let us then leave our
colonies to build up States for themselves, and become, if
they can, powerful and independent.
The great question which now demands an answer is this—
will the Coats be convoked merely to sanction the anti-
Salic law, or will its discussions embrace the whole political
state of Sp tin ?

PAMPELUNA, NOV. 3.

Orders came down yesterday to this city to change the
Judges of the different provinces. Those stationed here have
departed suddenly, so that the Courts are shut.
The Viceroy, it is said, has the charge of the police, ad
interim, by the express command of the Government.

The late unexpected turn which things have
taken at Madrid has led the people of this country to be-
lieve that the good cause is new out of danger in Spain.
The contents of an important Letter from Madrid of the
30th ult. have been communicated to us, which reminds
us of the adage that we should not hal'on till we are out of
the wood. The writer, who is a man now in great favour,

speaks gloomily, and apparently not without much reason.
He says, that unless the QUEEN takes very decisive mea-
sures to rally round her the Liberal party, the mine which
the Carlists have laid will explode, and involve her and

her party in destruction. —Morning Chronicle.
ARREST OF THE DUCHESS DE BERRI.-
This arrest was the work of M. TRIERS. He vowed he
would, at all hazArds, obtain possession of her person, and

he I,as succeeded. When he received the news, he jumped

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higher than himself in his ecstacy, and cried with a loud
voice, " Then we are saved !"—Saved, indeed ! Why,

if
i the Revolution of 1830 had been followed up—the pre-
sence of a million of Caroline Berrys in France would have
been of no importance. But the arrest of the Duchess,
though it has flattered the vanity of M. THIEItS, has by
no means gratified the Court or the Cabinet. It is an ad-
ditional embarrassment instead of an additional good to
the quasi legitimists, and therefore, in the hurry, annoy-
ance, and vexation of the hour, it has been resolved to
refer the matter to the Chambers.—From 0. P. Q,--
Morning Coronicle. , .
A petition to the KING, praying nun to use
his,ood offices with the Emperor of Russia in behalf of
the unfortunate Pules, was presented a short time ago
from Nottingham. Upwards of 4,600 signatures were
attached to it. A similar petition bas been sent from Bing-
ham, a small town in the neighbourhood of Nottinv,bam.
MONMOUTH.—The intelligence of Sir T.
DENMAN having been raised to the Lord Chief Justice-
ship was received with the most lively emotions by the
friends of freedom in Monmouth. In the year 1824,
when the burgesses were making so glorious a stand
against rlucal influence and magisterial tyranny, the then
T. DENMAN, Esq., left his circuit at Warwick, and went
down to Gloucester, where he nobly advocated their cause,
and with a patriotic devotion to liberty, in which these
martyrs were engaged, he refused the retaining fee of 300
guineas, and would not allow even his clerks to receive any
sum, or his lodgings to be paid for by them. The Learned
Gentleman liberal:yr became a subscriber of 101., observing
that he never witnessed a cause which was more one of
the people of England than that of the burgesses of Mon-
mouth.—Hereford Times.
Mr. CAMPBELL is appointed Solicitor-Ge-
neral. There is no truth in the report of Sir JOHN LEACH
resigning the office of Mower of the Rolls. He has even
volunteered the statement that nothing should ever induce
him to retire from his Court.

Scotland has recently lost the most eminent
of her literary ornaments by the death of SCOTT. We
hope she will seize the present opportunity, occasioned by
the vacancy of the chair of Natural Philosophy at Edin-
burgh, of rewarding the most eminent of her scientific
characters. In conferring it on Sir DAVID BREWSTER,
the friend of SCOTT, she will do honour to herself. Th
eyes of Europe are upon this appointment, which, if
otherwise disposed of, will stamp with truth the alleged
decline of science in our country.— Times' Correspondent.
The Corporation of the Trinity-house have
given notice of the erection of two lights at Burnham, in
the Bristol Channel, which will' be exhibited on the Ist
of December next.— Cornwall Gazette.
STATE OF THE COUNTY WESTMEATH.—

We understand there will be a meeting of the Magistrates

of this county, on Tuesday next, the 13th instant, to take
into consideration the disturbed state of the county. The
Marquis of WEST3IEATH, as Lord Lieutenant, is expected

to preside.— Westmeath Journal.
The Aberdeen Herald states that a report is
current that Earl GREY contemplates a very extensive re-
form in the local government of the country. The plan
is to be, to give to such towns as are not at present in•
corporated corporations of a popular character, and to
repeal the charters of existing corporations, so that they
may he remodelled on a more popular system. The great
principle of the projected alteration is understood to be the
election of the magistracy by the people.
Nearly the whole of Lord LONSDALE'S mush-
roo:n freeholders have b:en admitted upon the registry,

by the registering Barrister, as voters for the county 01
Westmorland.—Carlisle Journal.

The activity observable in the French dock-
yards far surpasses even that in our own. The number
of ships of war which will lie on the stocks by the end of
the present year will amount to 70. Among these may
he enumerated 21 ships of the line,27 frigates, 5 corvettes,
and 5 steatn-vessels. —Portsmouth Herald.

A mauufactory of sugar from beet-root at
Grezins, near Issoire, was totally destroyed by fire in the
night of the 3d instant. The loss is computed at 200,0001.

—French Paper.
THE STRING OF PEARLS.—We are re-
quested to state that this new work by Mr. JAMES, the
Author of "Darnley," &e., in 2 vols., price was pub-
lished this day by Mr. BENTLEY, New Burlington-street,
and may be procured at all the principal Circulating Li-
braries, and of all the respectable Booksellers in the
United Kingdom. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. BELL
and BRADFUTE, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. Jourl
CUMMING, Dublin. " Otterbourne, or the Early Days
of Hotspur," by the Author of "Derwentwater," in
will be published on Tuesday, the 20th inst.
A letter from Ostend says, " Two vessels,
strangers to our port, are stranded at the entrance of the
harbour. They left 11Ii.fdleburg, under the apprehension
of an embargo being declared."
The great and sudden fall in the price of
grain is an unequivocal proof that the crop must be gene-
rally abundant. Barley, though unusually large in quan-
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be generally admitted.—Forfarsharire Reporter.
THE MACCLESFIELD TURN.OOT.—To the
narrative of the circumstances connected with this much-
to-be-regretted event, detailed in our last publication,—we
have not much to add—or at least nothing that is decisive
of the struggle between the employers and their work-
people. During the present week, theee have been several
meetings of the masters, at which, whatever other points
thehave been discussed, an unanimous determination to abide
by their former decision, as to any advance of wages to
their work-people, has been repeatedly exhibited, a deter-
mination forced upon them by the necessity of the times.
There have been also frequent assemblages of the operatives,
and the influence of the " Committee" has in many in-
stances, prevailed over the better judgment of the more
industrious. The Magistrates of the county, and also the
Mayor and Magistrates of the borough, issued notices in
the early part of the week, that protection would he
afforded to all who were willing to resume their occupa-
tion ; and in consequence many hands have returned to
their work. We cannot announce this as being generally
the case, but we understand it prevails to a considerable
extent, and the desire to do so is daily becoming more ap-
parent. —Macclesfield Herald.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF RETRIBUTION.—

The young man, GENTRY, who we mentioned a few weeks
ago had received such a punishment from his own hands,
While killing some geese in the dirk, which he had just
stolen from the barn-yard of Mrs. DAVID TAYLOR, at
Navestock (the knife, it will be recollected, having slipped
from the goose and stabbed him in a most dangerous man-
ner inside the thigh, cutting one of the main arteries),
was moved from the ditch where he was found bleeding
shortly after the robbery to the workhouse at Navestock.
The medical gentlemen who attended him have no hopes
of his recovery—the thigh has swelled to an enormous
size, and the pain he suffers makes him at times delirious
..—he is described by the surgeons, who have see❑ him, as
a perfect model of symmetry ; in the prime of life—an
excellent workman, and in the constant employ of JOHN
RODGERS, Esq., of Bedfords—up to the time of the rob•
fiery. His fate is another melancholy proof, if any
were wanting, of the pernicious effect that these beer-
shops have upon our peasantry, this young man having
only just issued forth from one of those dens of iniquity,
and in which he had been drinking the greater part of the
previous day, when he met with the above accident.—
Essex Independent.

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