The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-23 00:00:00

SPANISH PAPERS.

VERA CRUZ, APRIL. 21.—0 n the sth the Go-
vernment ordered the port to be closed, in order
to prevent the Cinconermanus and other vessels
from sailing the next day, in order to be able,
with their crews united to the local National
Militia, which was forming, to defend the place,
if the proclaimers of indpendence should ap-
proach, who, masters of the towns.of Cordova
and Orizaba, strong in numbers and commanded
by Officers who had gone over to them, declared
Their intention of molesting us. In fact the In-
dependents encamped at La Solidad, about 7
leagues from this place, where there was a little
fort, one cannon, and some of our troops, which
all went over to the enemy, prpclaiming inde-
pendence. They then sent parties about the
villages and towns and prevailed on them all to
join them ; so. that, in this whole Province, We
have only Alvarado, Ilacotalpase, Puente del
Rey; and Jalapa, and consequently have no
letters from Puebla and Mexico since the 21st
and 14th of March.—By accounts of traders and
couriers we learn that a Colonel Bustaesente has
followed at El Bagis the call of Iturbide at San
Luis de Potosi. Another, of the name of Tavar,
states that in, the environs of Puebla there are
two large bodies under the command of Bravo,
an old insurgent, who has once been pardoned,
and of a Priest, and that Colonel Hevia,
With his regiment of Castilla, and others,
had 'advanced from Mexico in search of
them, and that he would come as far as
Orizaba Mountain. Mean time we remain with-
"out Communications, and the vessels detained all
persons desirous to emigrate from this unhappy
country, Where we were threatened with the
loss of our property, and even of our lives.—
Though
the Insurgent Chiefs are men of ruined
foitunes.and characters, yet secret hands supply
them' with money .to seduce the soldiers, to whom
they give three reals daily, and three quarters,
arid delude the officers by promotion and in-
creased pay. From this place, Jalapa, and
others in the province, about 600 soldiers have
gone over to them, and the country people by
thousands,: without their having hitherto done
much more danger than robbing passengers of
their arms and horses, and demanding 20,000
piastres from Orizaba and Cordova.
_ _

The Chief of the Insurgents of this province,
wlto is stationed at Orizaba, is Don N. Herrera,
formerly Captain in- the regiment of Corunna.—
We know nothing of Iturbide. The army of
composed' of 5000 men, was in search
of hi

11AirikNitAlt; MAY 11.—The news- we received
rrerri7CArr*Ael4o4about Iturbide was wholly false.
Wre:WcieliWryesterday news from Vera Cruz, by
the packet La Magicia. The papers are full
of contradictory . articles. There are ac-
counts from Mexico to the 30th of March ;
and we have seen the "copy of a letter
Of the l Oth of the same month, written from
Iguala by Iturbide, to the Viceroy, in which he
persists in•• his- demands of independence, and
infOrms him, that if he does not accede to his

desire, orders will be given to the commander of
the troops to fight. It is remarkable that there
has been no action, and that travellers had been
till then respected. The Viceroy, in the Ga-
zette of the 14th of March, declares Iturbide.
and all who may join him, outlaws. The writers
of the numerous letters received are so different
in their views, that it is difficult to form an accu-
rate idea of the state of the kingdom.
VITTORIA, JULY 3.—General Equia has fled
from Duranges to France, disguised as a sailor.
MADRID,. JULY s.—Yesterday morning, the
Constitutional Abralde, after communication had
with the political chief, took a detachment of
militia, which divided into two parties, to sur
prise, at the same time, the houses of Don Pedro
Saiz Terrones, and of Don; Ambrosio Fernandez.
They seized -their pews, takilig care that none
should be lost, and tiro result was, that Don P.
Saiz, and his two servants, and Don Ambrosio,
were confined in the prison of this city, without
communication; and Donna Josefa and Donna
Moria del Pilas Terrones, likewise detained as
prisoners, but at their own house. The necessary
legal steps have been already begun.
HERRERA, JUNE 26.—Twenty-fourindividuals,
all of the town of Guadaloupe, some of them of
distinction, have been brought in here under ar=
rest, and escorted by troops of the line, accused
of plots or attempts against the Constitutional
System.

111Anatn, JUNE B.—General William Pepe is
gone with his aid-de-camp, Coh Pisa, to Lisbon.

SPANISH STATE PAPER.

The followittg Document appeared in The
Morning Chronicle of Saturday as having been
addreSsed by. the Charge d'Affaires of his CA-
THOLIC MAJESTY to his Highness the Prince
METTERNICH, the Austrian Minister of State.
There is no signature to this alleged State Paper,
which renders its authenticity suspectable, par-
ticularly as it. is expressly mentioned to-issue
from " The. Undersigned." It
.is dated Vienna,
Jan. 24, 1821 :
" His Catholic Majesty, actuated by the deepest interest for
the King of the Two Sicilies, and for the happiness of the
Neapolitan people, as well as by the ties of blood and friend-
ship which unite them, seeing that the enlightened councils of
a provident policy have followed, with the most scrupulous
attention, the progress of events that have lately taken place at
Naples, either with regard to their relations with the interior
situation of that Monarchy, or with respect to their relations
with the other .European Powers, his Catholic Majesty flat-
ters himself that the operation of time, the impartial Observa--
don and estimate of facts, the dictates of experience, and 'the
knowledge of all that is required by the wants and spirit of the
age, will be sufficient to destroy the sad impressions produced
by the first movements in the Kingdom of Naples. It ought •
not to be lost sight of, that the doctrines on which rest that
order, so decidedly wished for in almost every country in
Europe, are participated in, at the same time by tribunes, by
legislative assemblies, and
.by the elevation of throaes ;. that
they presided at the deliberations of the Powers in the transac-
tions with France at the period of the restoration of the Legi-
timate Dynasty; that they are contained in the treaties which
have affirmed the Germanic Confederation ; that they are now
spread through all civilized nations, and constitute, as it may
be said, the vital principles of Governments and Nations. It
was these principles which served the Spaniards as a rallying
point in the days for ever memorable of their contest against the
Colossal power of the Usurper of'the Throne of St. Louis ; it
was these principles which were found indispensable at the re-
establishment of the Bourbons, and as the more certain pledge
of the tranquillity of France, and of the duration of her pacific
relations; it is these principles which successively develope
themselves in the different States of Germany, and which tend
to tranquillize the agitation previously existing ; it is these
principles that have again saved Spain from all the scourges of
a revolution, which, without them, would have had no definite
object, and which would have given birth to all the calamities
that have marked the progress of popular movements, except
where public opinion called only for the empire of the laws,
and repelled the. suggestions, always so melancholy, of ven-
geance. His Catholic Majesty, better than any other Monarch
of the, earth, is in a situation to appreciate those institutions
which have reconciled the great Spanish family, and which pro-
mise a long day of prosperity to all the subjects of both hemis-
pherei. The acquisition of these benefits was the wish of the Nea-
politan nation ; and its justice has been recognised by the words
even of their Kingin the message which he addressed to the Parlia-
ment on communicating the invitation which he had received from
the three Sovereigns to proceed to Laybach. The concessions thus
announced by his Majesty, contained nothing contrary to the
Spanish Constitution,and the former offer made of these conces-
sions to his people is the most convincing proof of the necessity
of granting them, and of that of demanding them: otherwise
affairs ought to be restored to the same state in which they were
previous to the month of July, without which, the promises of
his Sicilian Majesty would bear the character of a transaction
little worthy of the elevated sentiments of the Sovereigns as-
sembled at Troppan. It is, therefore, true that the Sicilian Mo-
narch ought to enjoy a Constitutional regime. But what is
the fact ? The only condition exacted by the Powers, is the
abandonment of the Spanish Constitution. That Constitution,
nevertheless, was adopted by the King, who swore to it, his
subjects having applauded the act with the greatest enthusiasm.
He, on quitting his capital, renewed his promise of main-
taining it, and of causing it to be respected, and it was after
this that the Hereditary Prince was' placed at the head of the
Regency of the Kingdom, in the full exercise of the prero-
gatives of the Crown. The steps taken by the Parliament, with-
out breaking through the literal text of the Constitution, were
respectfully and eminently Monarchical, and well suited to the
object and desires of the. august Allies of his Sicilian Majesty.
It is this same Constitution which, in the Note addressed by the
Cabinet of Vienna to the different Germanic Courts, and which
unfortunately has received general publicity, has been describ-
ed as the Code of Anarchy. It is the-revocation of this same
Constitution which has been called for by the Minister of his
Imperial Majesty, in order that he may interpose his mediation
in favour of the. Neapolitan nation.
" In consequence of all these circumstances, which arc but
too well known, the undersigned has received orders from his
Government to represent to the Austrian Cabinet the painful
sentiments which such conduct has necessarily excited in the mind
of the King, his august Master. llis,Catholic Majesty cannot
but complain of the injustice of a notification emanating from
the Ministry of a Sovereign, his relation,his friend, and his ally,
which tends to stigmatize as anarchical the Constitution which
lie has adopted in his States. It is painful to the King, tho'
at the same time honourable to the nation, that he can surround
the Government with-glory, by recalling to the attention of the
Imperial Court of Vienna the period when that Constitution
was formed and promulgated, as well as the circumstances which
accompanied its birth.
" France and all Europe groaned under the yoke Of a formi-
dable Conqueror ; the political dogma of legitimacy had given
place to usurpation, instead of the principles now universally
received of rational liberty ; every combination was established
of the most ia,yolting tyranny ; social order was entirely over.
thrown, and there was nothing to announce the approaching
termination of a system as detestable as insupportable. It was
then that the Spanish Nation, indignant at the outrage which
it had sustained in the person of its well-beloved King, raised
the cry of independence, and awakened all Nations and all Go-
vernments, inducing them, to entertain a hope of a happy
change, for which the whole universe had so long sighed.—
Spain fought obstinately for her King, for her religion, and for
her laws. Providence crowned her efforts with success, and at
the same time that the Nation delivered its .Monarch from
chains, into which the most abominable perjury had thrown
him, it revived those institutions which formed its-glory and its
strength in the fine periods of its history. Spain proclaimed

that Constitution which was recognised in diplomatic treaties,
without giving the least alarm to Cabinets then so interested in
the triumph of the inhabitants of the Peninsula. That Consti-
tution openly proclaimed legitimacy ; one of its articles ex-
pressly purported that the captive King was the King of Spain ;
it declared that the interests' of the Throne were the interests of
the people ; it suggested the appeal which Sovereigns should
make to their subjects • it revived that spirit of liberty which
animates the mind, and which puts in activity all public vir-
tues. By a very singular chance, remarkable even in that pe-
riod so fertile in extraordinary events, it was sworn to in 1810, at
Ciarsko Zelo, by a Spanish regiment, formed under the special
and magnanimous protection of his Majesty the Emperor of
all the Russias. Emulous of the fidelity,and of the heroismof the
Russian' army, the shout of " give le Roi Ferdinand," mingled
itself, without interruption, with the shout of" give l'Emperetir:
Alexandre ;" thus at this truly patriotic fete, anticipating the
triumph of justice and of peace, over the author of all the evils
of which mankind were so long the victims. How does it hap-
pen that this Constitution, so vaunted in 1812, should be cen-
sured in 1820 as anarchical, and calculated to destroy the foun-
dations of social order in Europe ? Such a contradiction would
give rise to suspicions which would be productive of mbre in-
jury to that same social order, than the Constitution of the Spa-
nish Monarchy (according to the pretences set forth) could pos-
sibly produce. _

": lint, to return to present circumstances.—The undersigned
has the honour of testifying to his Highness the Prince de Met-
i.ernich, that the Cabinet of Madrid considers that in the ques-
tion regarding Naples, Spain, herself and her Constitutional Re-
gime are attacked, and that every thinggives reason to presume,
that but for the concurrence of a great number of circumstances,
which happily exist in her favour, au attempt might be made
to violate her independence.
" In this situation his Catholic Majesty, his Government,
and the whole nation owe it to the dignity of the throne, to the
maintenance of public liberty, and to that independence which
has been at all times dear to Spaniards, and the object almost of
their idolatry, to make a frank, energetic, and complete mani-
festation of • their monarchical and constitutional principles, by
virtue of which the King and the nation do not recognize, nor
ever will recognize, either as legitimate or admissible, the in-
terference of any foreign_ power whatever, having for its object
to reprove, in a tone of supremacy, the changes which nations,
in accord with their princes, may judge it suitable to make in
their internal legislation. They still less recognize in any na-
tion the right of taking any measures, or assisting in any, for
the purpose of overturning the institutions or the forms of which
any other nation shall be already in possession, by virtue of its
desire, and of the full consent of its prince.
" The right which every nation possesses, founded upon the
law of nations, and which immediately derives its origin from
natural law, of regulating its internal affairs without admitting
any foreign interference not requested, gives to the King and
the Spanish nation the right of making the foregoing declara-
tion against all the measures which shall be, or may have been
adopted against the Neapolitan Government and nation, having
for their object to compel them in whatever manner to submit
to the will of another power.
" The sentiments which the Austrian Government has ma-
nifested
.against the Spanish Constitution in its Note to the
Germanic Courts, and also according to public report at the
end of the offer of mediation proposed by the French Cabinet,
and the inflexible perseverance and open expression with which
the Allied Powers signify their disapprobation of this Consti-
tution, notwithstanding the difference which they attempt to
establish between the present and former circumstances of Spain,
and those of other countries, have determined his Catholic Ma-
jesty to demand of the Cabinet of Vienna a frank explanation
regarding the views, the object, and the present or future inten-
tions to which that disapprobation leads.
"Although his Catholic Majesty owes to the principles of
justice, upon which rest the Government of his Imperial and
Royal Apostolic Majesty,all that may tend to assure in the best
manner the friendship, the good understanding, and the rela-
tions subsisting between the two Monarchs, he owes at the
same time to the dignity of his throne, and to the glory and
prosperity of the nation which lie governs, as well as to the
tranquillity of his people, and to the maintenance of the fun-
damental laws, to which they have reciprocally sworn, the de-
mand of these explanations and the Protest already stated.
" His Catholic Majesty flatters himself beforehand, that his
conduct will never be misinterpreted,, if those who estimate it
take for their guide in the judgment which they may pron Ounce as
to its nature and its true spirit a calm and candid examination
of all the circumstances. When the Allied Sovereigns support
the justice of their decision against Naples upon the grounds of
the interests of their respective States, his Catholic Majesty has
an equal right to have recourse to the same reasoning, and to
declare firmly, that he also owes the steps which he has taken
to the tranquillity of his subjects, and to the sanctity and the
inviolability of his oaths. History has taught his Catholic Ma-
jesty that the influence of other Powers in the internal affairs of
a nation, particularly when it is accompanied by the appearance
of a menacing superiority, has always been most dangerous to
thrones and to nations; and very often to those who arrogate this
right of interference of a revolution purely domestic, and unin-
fluenced by any foreign ascendancy.
"Whatever may be said, the Revolutions which have lately
taken place in some of the States of Europe, have nothing in
cc-minion with that of France in 1789. The exaggeration of
principles—the deadly contest between the different classes. of
society—the forgetfulness, or rather the inexperience of cala-
mities, brought about by-an extravagant desire of attaining, a
perfectibility which is nothing but ideal—all these circum-
stances united, of which the influence was then so dreadful, and
so unfortunate, no longer exist Nations have recognized the
necessity of 31onarchical Authority, and Sovereigns in their
turn recognise likewise the necessity of institutions which con-
solidate their prerogatives by founding them on the.love and
happiness of their subjects. It may happen that - a deplorable
similitude may disturb these times of concord and joy, but it
can only arise from determinations calculated to. excite a vio-
lent alarm amongst nations, by furnishing to men who are the
enemies of a moderate regime pretexts, founded enough to en-
able them to represent in false colours the intentions of Sove-
reigns and their Governments. The French Revolution de-
rived its source from the errors of such miscalculating policy,
and all the cabinets continually failed in their expectations,from
their not discovering it till too late; and when it was impossible
to stem the torrent of devastation.

" His Catholic Majesty thinks, in consequence of all the de-
velopements which the undersigned has submitted to theconsi-
-deration •of his Highness the Prince de Metternich, that the
Constitution which in the days of distress was applauded and
recognised as the salvation of Spain and of Europe, can only,
by a very evident act of injustice, be now considered as anar-
chical, and contrary. to .those rights which it defends, and ac-
knowledges in the most solemn manner; principles. always re-
main -the same ; those which were good and laudable in 1812,
must be equally so in 1820. Those which were then Monar-
chical in Spain, cannot be either seditious or subversive at pre-
sent in Naples ; for if the truth of principles Is to be subor-
dinate to the empire of circumstances, or the irresistible combi-
nations of policy, there can exist neither rights nor duties either
for Sovereigns or Nationg:
_ _

" His Ca'tholic Majesty, persisting therefore in. the accom-
plishment of what he considers to be the-first of his desires, that
is to say, the fidelity of his oaths, the maintenance of his per-
sonal dignity, and of. the honour of his people, hopes that his
Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty will render justice to
his sentiments on a question which is so highly interesting to
kublic Affairs, and to the protest which he desires to make
nown categoricalli%

" The King also promises himself, that the Cabinet of
Vienna will not hesitate to afford him the explanations demand-
ed, and thus to destroy all motive for suspicion or distrust ; his
Majesty, not doubting that there exists in the magnanimity Of
his august relation end ally, a disposition favourable to give
attention to what imperiously concerns the rights of his Catholic
Majesty, and the interests of the heroic nation submitted to his
Government.

" The undersigned, in acquitting. himself of the orders of
its Court, has the honour to renew to his Highness the Prince
Le Metternich, the assurances of his highest consideration."

Suicior.—On Saturday morning, a little after
six o'clock, Mr. Waller, of Prince's-square, St.
George's in the East, builder, was discovered by
one of his labourers weltering in his blood, quite
dead, having his throat cut almost from ear to
ear ; a razor besmeared with blood was found
near him. The unfortunate man has been ob-
served to be in a low desponding state for some
weeks back, He has left a widow and a large
family.