The Sun.
London, England, 1811-12-14 00:00:00

SPAN IS I-1 ,e P Ell S.

VALENCIA DE ALCANTARA, N0v...--A4 one of
the happy effetis of Gtrard's destruction, we are
assured that our Army .Commissary has given no-
tice, that 800t1 fattegas of wheat, and 4001) of bar-
ley, will soon arrive here. The most-severe punish-
mauls are inflicted upon, renegado Spani•irds, who
are taken with arms in their hands. Benito Mafia •
Civia, the intrwilve vvernor of Altnag'o, who was
taken in that town by. the ),,and of Chaleco, and af-
terwards brought to •Lead quartes, hatrbeen tried by
a \Couri-mar!ial, at which General Castanos presid-
ed. fn pursuance of his sentence, he•was first de-
graded tit the loot of the seatiold, and afterwards
banged; his head was then cut off, and sent to be
fixed up at Almagro. Some days atter, five Spa-'
nitrds, taken in his comp•iny, were also banged, and
six picketed, and sent to a garrison. In short,
energy is' here at its height, and produces marvel-
lona effe&ts. . • _

CADIZ, Nov. 13.----The Minister of Finance lately
read a memorial in the Cortes on the snbjedt of
,the
excise on tobacco. He observed, that the use of
that 14,314 %Ae- introduced into Spain about the mid-
dle of the 10'11 century.; t!,e, royal monopoly of to-
.imcco was esrabl,s4ed in I G 36 ; end in 1789 it pro-
duced On sum of 110 millions of reals.—
Some' financ'eers had called this excise t lie great pillar
of the State; but, in his opinion, it was a canker
Which devoured it, both trout the innumerable
vexations which it ,caused, the number of families
who were ruined by smuggling, arid the harsh fiscal
regulations which were enaeted to prevent it.
Having established, as first. principles at
.finance-, that rhe 'public treasury ought nrir -to be
Cualtuerciaie nor its interests placed in aired oppost•
tion to thrice of the people, let deduced. as infer-
ences, that all three regulations ought tube abolish-
ed which impoverished our colonial agriculture and
cernieerce, cherished the cupidity of custom-house
efficers, encouraged espionage, peopled the dun-
geons and the, garrisons with eueigglers, ailohe
highways with rubbers. He proved that the num-
ber ot,smegglers sent to garrisons in 1796 amounted
to me and in one year they elicit amounted to
'5OOO, which was equal to a small' witty. He ton-
chaded his memori4by subinittitig, that the cultivas
Lion and sale of tobacco ought to be free, paying
only certain Moderate duties on importation ; by
which, while the Exchequer would be benefitted,
not oily the cells he had enumerated would be re-
medied, but the agriculture and commerce of troth
hemisphetes woulu be cherish, d, and the coil:lump-
tion of Spanish tobicco augmented in Europe."
This memorial was heard with great attention,
and gave general satisfact;on to the Cortes, who re-
f 'rred it to he Committee of Finance.
[The French papers lately informed us, that Bop-.
had established an imperial monopoly of to-
bacco in France, which in his late tour, in Holland
he also extended to that country. All the tobacco
produced in or imported into his dominions, was to
beeunveyed to certain imperial mar utatorie, of
which Holland had only two fur her share, .arid
from thence to be sold in its prepared state to the
retailers. The, principles 'of political econteny ,are
well understood in France ; and, certainly. hardly
any thing could have eicited moreastenidiment and
diSgust anion all intol;gerit men in that cautery,
than this 'reliant, by the sole will and flit of
parte, to the exploded principles ef stern monopoly.
This is one of those traits of- a blind and senseless
despotism which Beonaparre is every day exhibiting;
arid when contrasted with the liberal and en-
lightened doeirines of the leading Members ref. the
Conies, must excise a_ strong interest iu favouraf
the career of improvente4 which the DMus have
.commenced.)

It is said that the Directors of the East India" Co-
mpany have entered into an agteernent never to
drink French wines at 'heir owii or arty other to-,
hies, until it shall appear that the Exchange is in
favour of this country. 'Fins is a resolution worthy
.or Britons, and we are glad to see so very respett-
able a body of Gentlethen set so good an example
to their countryineli—an exuinple thlt we hope
will be generally follo,4ed, and tot be confined to
French wines only, but. to every production of
France, and every ether State under the immediate
government of BUONAP.AIITE;) or meanly _subservient
to his'v. ili. Titis.exariiple
.ongh t to he, the 'amnia-
Lion of a similar determination in --every Corporate
;:Body throughoui the British EiApite,, as will as of
,!eveey ink) whq baS any regard tot the interests' of
his country, 'and is not indifferent to the itionour-
qtble reputation of pat must. • ,•
pr
•
Processor :DSvy, who, as, we meniioned some
time ago, was' cositmunicasing his chemical disco-
- veries so the_pepple of_ Ireland, is still engaged in
the yar ie laudable pursuit, under the proteelion of
she Lord Lieutenant, and ,the chief charsidert =Of
that cotintry.

LOSS op 'tip' S/ILD_IINHA

The following particulars of the loss of this 63
gate arg contained in a letter of 'the 6th iuStant,
from Rinhmilton

„
RATIIMILTOM, =DAC. 6.--r His majesty's ship
Saldanlta, Captain the Hon. W. PAA.4I4IIAM, sailed
&mu Cork on the loth of November, to relieve
his Majesty's ship EAdyntion, off Loughswilly.
Having reached that harbour, she, with the Endy-
mion and 7 dbot,.qailed on tho aoth ult. w ith an in-
, tendon, it is said, of proceeding to the westward. On
the 3(1 December it blew very hard from the north-
westward; the wind continued to increase all the 4th
and in the evening and night of that day it blew the
most dreadful' hurricane that the inhabitants of' this
part of the country ever recollea. At about ten
o'clock at 'night, through thedai ness and the slot th,
a. light was seen from the sign:d-roaers pasaing
rapidly up the harbour, the gale then Wowing near ly
• right in. This light was, it is supposed, on board
,the Salitailha ; but this is only conjeatire,, for when
the day-light discovered the ship, a coMplete wreck
'in Ballyna Stoker-bay, on the west-side of the har-
bour, every soul on board had already perished, and
all the circumstances of her calamitous loss thus pe-
rished with her. his stated in some of the accorots
that the strip first struck on
,sotne rocks near the en.
trance of the harbour,,and that the wind drove and
the tide floated her to the distant place where the
wreck came ashore ; but this also can onl) be con-
jecture ; and whether well remitted or otherwise, is
trove of little consequence.”
The .s'uldanlia was a new frigate, and one of the
finest in'oor navy. She had. probably near. three
hundred souls on board, mai her Commander was
a young otiker of the highest character. Captain
Pakenham was brother to. tire Earl of Longford,
Lady Wellington, and the Hon. Colonel Pakenham,
Deputy-Quarter-Master-General of the Army in
Portugal. The Lteutenants of the Saldanha were
D. Thomas, G. H. Campbell, and John Gardner.
The bodies of Captain Pakenham, and about 200
of the crew, are said to have been washed ashore,
and were to hive been imegerl in fr.oeighboutang
'burial ground. It was repelled that :iuor her, ship
(ieppos.d to be either the'ToThot or /Stay/neon),
had shared the fate of the &Manisa, and in tire
same place ; but this, we are happy to say, is not
true. Neither of those ships have been heard of
stns tire sailed on the Stith ; and it 'was the wreck
of. the So/don/La, having completely separated into
two parts, that occasioned the speatoors on the
shore to believe that there were two distinct wrecks.
01 course, cotSidering the violence of the storm,
. we cantor he gone free from apprehettaioty retipe,a-
ing tt ese ships ; but their not havatg 6een heard of
on any part of the coast is encouraging to the hopes
which we strongly entertain of their 1) atety.