The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-22 00:00:00

ALLEGED REPUBLICANISM IN SPAIN.

Inhabitants of Galicia!—The enemies of the
Constitutional System, in the paroxysm of their
impotent rage, had already exhansted every ar-
tifice in their power. Neither the reports that
religion was in danger, spread only to excite
pious minds ; nor those of the.coming of foreign
armies, intended to strike terror in the cowardly ;
tior of the King's want of freedom, conjured
up' merely to delude our own people and
other nations ; nor the disorganising projects
of Merino ; nor the attempts of other ridicu-
lous defenders of a faith, which no one attacks ;
nor so many and such varied projects, disconcert-
ed at different points, through the vigilance of.
the local Authorities, and particularly in this
heroic province, by the strong hand of the last
'civil Magistrate, who well may be proud of •hav-
ing restored trancinillity in the preceding May—
nothing, in short, has produced the effect desired.
What, then, was left for them to do ? To
credit the first supporters of the Constitution,
to render them objects of suspiciOn, even to its
friends; in a word, to represent them as the
Chiefs of a Republic of which they neVer dreamt,
in order-that, thus -undermined to its very foun-
dgtions, the beautiful edifice of our' liberties
might irremediably be brought to ,the ground.
Disgraceful means! Infamous -impostures ! Yet
of such, if I have.nOw to address you, it is when
I see you• nearly undeceived yourselves.
Listen to me, InhabitantS of Galicia!—Tongues
which deserved to be plucked o•ut, ,pens' wielded
by handS, which deserved to be cut off, have re-
presented,rne as implicated in plans of republi-
canism, and, possibly they extended their ve-
mernous influence to the very Throne ; perchance
persons are not wanting
.who can assert that they
heard from the, mouth of his Majesty," Mina is
a Republican.". But Mina'', satisfied with regard
to his own proceedings, and relying on the testi-
mony of
.hisow,n, innocence, would have deemed
it a degradation..to answer ,charges from which
he considered
.fiimself so free ;' he never took a
step under an. ilea of the kind Mina fearlessly
followed the path..in:which.he long-ago began to
tread. Yes, this, Ifollowed, because I was cer-
.tain, in any,eventhate,yer,. that. I could con-
found my .rivals, as well as put them to shame.
Nevertheless, my indispensable duty of remit.;
thxg to the Government n . subversive Proclama,
tion, which, in fact, alluded to Republicanism,
airorded me an opportunity. of stating to the

Minister of Stale my opinion on this Subject,
which I did by letter of the 14th July. Its
perusal alone would at once have manifested
to the King what were my sentiments. In that
dispatch I expressed myself in the pure and
frank language characteristic of me ; not in
that of dread, servility, or adulation, to which
I am altogether• a stranger. And what other
could I have used ? Was it not I who, in
1814, formed the project of undeceiving the
King ? Was it it not I who in the same year for
the first time attempted the re-establishment of
the Constitution, which would have been rea-
lized, if so great an enterprise had not been re-
served for more fortunate hands ? Was I not,
destitute of all hopes, persecuted and beset on
all sides, compelled to abandon my home and
my country, and seek safety in a foreign land ?
Did I not there weep over the evils of Spain,
for the last seven years, and spend my days and
nights in meditating on the means of saving her
Did I not, as soon as the first cries of Constitu-
tion and Cortes were raised in Andalusia, in
1820, by the immortal Quiroga and Riego, fly
to the assistance of these heroes, and, over-
coming obstacles and disregarding dangers, did
I not present myself in Navarre and there
re-echoed the same cries ? Did I not swear to
our sacred Code ? Did I not make numberless
protestations to the King, to the Cortes, to the
nation, to the whole of Europe, that this and no
other was the object of all my wishes, and that
for this and this alone, I would sacrifice a thou-
sand lives if I had them ? How then,by Contrary
projects, could I becothe a traitor to my own
principles, false to my oaths, or in the least con-
tradict what I had said ? Let this be reserved for
men of another kind; I esteem too much the cha-
racter of firm and invariable, which I flatter my-
self I have acquired.
Republic, indeed ! and where was this chimera
to have been realized ? Was it in Corunna, where
the people are essentially Constitutional—the
country that saw a great number of its children
banished—that beheld others drag out a miser-
able existence in horrible dungeons, and at length
saw the memorable, but unfortunate, Porlier ex-
pire on a scaffold ? With an army, decidedly in
favour of the present Institutions, the second that
rose up in their support, and composed of men
who have always the memory of the illustrious
Acevedo before their eyes—with a national mi-
litia, the first established in Spain, one that
boasts so many enlightened Patriots among its
number—what an absurdity must the bare idea
of such a project appear to the reflectin!, mind ?
Citizens !—Foiled, like the rest, this grand
discovery of the existence of a Republican fac-
tion ; not hearing any one of you speak of such a
scheme but with disgust, or the public papers
name it, unless to treat it with that contempt it
deserves, no doubt the authors will ere long in-
vent another stratagem to carry on the war
against a system they abhor. Let us be on
our guard. Union, soldiers and civilians, of
all classes. Constitution is our watch-word;
.this is the anchor of our hopes—this alone
will save and make us happy; because it se-
cures to us the religion of our forefathers--
it places our King firm on his throne, and it gua-
rantees to us all the enjoyment of that just and
rational liberty with which we are born.—
Again and again, I repeat it, a Constitution is
our aim ; it was framed for the eternal glory
of this heroic nation, and as an example that
some day or other will be followed by the
rest. Do not doubt it. Let us persecute to
death all its enemies, be they whom they may,
and whatever the disguise under which they pre-
sent themselves, or place in which we find them ;
and since in Spain Constitution is synonimous
with country, religion, and King, let us exclaim
to our latest breath, Long live the Constitution!
<Signed) FRANCISCO ESPOZ V MINA.
Corunna, August 10, 1821.

SOUTH AMERICA.

EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM LIEUT.-COLONEL

EDW. BRAND, DATED SANTA MARTHA, OCT.
25, 1821.
" For the satisfaction of their friends in Eng-
land, I have the honour to enclose you a list of

the killed and wounded of the Battalion of Ca-

Charles Smythe, very dan4efoitslyi Lieutenants John Hands,
Henston (since deatt, John:Hubble, •James Matthews,
and William Talbot :—.Setjeants John' Hayman (since dead),
Hugh Lee (since dead), J. ' Robinson,- James ill'Donald,
Samuel Mains (since deadl,- Henry Wyllett, and James Far-
' ley :.--Corporals, Thomas Woodward, Edward Griffiths,
.Ed-
ward Bird, 'William Ashford, •Charles Webley, (since dead),
and Thomas Blair; - Band, William Hill:—Privates, Michael
Brennan, William Bradley, 'Edward Brown, Ist James Daley
(since dead), Thomas Millinton (since dead), Thomas Gid-
ney, Charles Johnston, Thomas Larkin, Simon Pitson, Wm.
Robinson, Joseph Smith, James Spence, Charles Varney,
Daniel Dowd, Patrick Gelvan, Walter Hardy, Thomas Liv-
ingstone, James Nelson, Anthony Stevens, George Spencer,
Joseph Donovan, Joseph Ellis, Richard Alinan„lOhn Butcher
(since dead), Benj. Kailer, William Lawrence, Robert Mea-
dows, James White, John Hubbard, James Martin, Hugh
Murray, James flood, John Hall, James Muggleston, Isaac
Evrett (since dead), John" Grice, John Havcrling, J. Howard,
James Mills, and James Smith, 2d James Daley (since dead),
John Collier (since dead).
ABSTRACT—To-FAL KILLED-1 Captain, 1 Sergeant,
2 Corporals, 26 Privates ; making together :30.,
Wor N DED-1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 2 Captains, 4 Lieute-
nants, 4 Sergeants, 5 CorpOralS, 1 Band, and 36 Privates ;
making together 53. -
DEAD OF THEIR WOUNDS—I Colonel, I Lieutenant, 3
Sergeants, 1 Corporal, and h Privates ; making together 12.
(InAND TOTAL of killed, dead of their wounds, and
wounded, 95.
(Signed) EDWARD BRAND, Lieut.-Col.
Commanding the Battalion Carabobu.