The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-29 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the ConstitutionneL)

BARCELONA, SEPT. 11.—Within these three or
four days there have been arrested during night, and
thrown into prison, 85 of the richest inhabitants of
Vich. At Reus, and in the other principal towns
in the power of the rebels, the rich merchants and
Men of property are the persons chiefly persecuted.
Our authorities have just received the fltst, second,
and third numbers of the journal which the directing
Junta of Catalonia established at Manresa has pub-
lished. The following is the translation of 'the third
number, the latest which the rebels have printed:—
By order of the Government;
' _ Manresa, (printed by Martin Trullas.) •

From the Catalonian Royalist, Sunday, Sept. 9.)

Live Religion ! Live the absolute King ! Live the
Inquisition!
Death to the Police ! Death to Masonry, and all
secret sects !

THE NEWS OF THIS PRINCIPALITY.
The Commandant of the Royalist troops of Vich
las addressed to the Inhabitants the following pro-

clamation
Live the King ! Cataloniaut,wfro love the King,
and obey his sovereign decrees, do•not believe that
the troops already raised follow the cause, or will
ever embrace the party of, the Constitutionalists, as
some have attempted to make you believe. No,
never; our glorious object is that' our well-beloved
Monarch, Ferdinand VII., should be delivered from
the infaMous Masons, who, by artifice and cunning,
have contrived to usurp the Government. It is in
vain that his Majesty has dictated the decree relative
to several military proclamations, with orders to ex-
amine most rigorously into the informations, when
the greater part of the members of the juntas of
purification are themselves not yet purified, or have
succeeded in getting themselves declareti its a state
of purification through intrigue or bribery, while
none of the individuals, who formed part of the
Royalist army, have yet been appointed members of
the said juntas. But why speak of purifications ?
They were not necessary : several constitutional
civil and military officers have obtained appointments
without undergoing any purification, while Royalists
have been dismissed from their places with the most
arbitrary effrontery.
What might not he said on the infraction of the
sovereign decrees issued for the purpose of granting
employments to the Royalists, particularly that of
the 9th of August, 1824, which orders- that they
shall have the preference ? How many orders has
not his Majesty issued for the execution of those
decrees, particularly for the punishment of the revo-
lutionists, and for indemnifying, in preference to all
other things, the towns and villages for the damage
and loss they sustained in defence of the just cause ?
All this has been done in vain ; the Royalists have
been exposed to derision and to the cruellest perse-
cutions; the Constitutionalists have enjoyed favour
and protection; the contractors for the Constitu-
tional Government have been indemnified, while the

advances made for the just cause are entirely for-
gotten. The Constitutionalists have been em-
ployed, and the Royalists dismissed. Finally, im-
portant offices have been conferred on Constitu-
tional militiamen, while the honourable titles of re-
ligion, fidelity, and Royalism, have become motives
of exclusion, which bar our approach to the throne.
Interrogate Pihuela, the comptroller of the army,
he who in this province so loudly boasted of being a
Royalist, who placed one of his relations, formerly a
militia-man, in the Custom-house of Villanueva and
Gertrue. This man drove one of the best of Royalists
from his situation. Interrogate Gayo, the Intendant
of this province, as well as Pombo, another comp-
troller: the former a political chief under' the Con-
stitution, and the second a secretary to the Masonic
junta, have dismissed all the Royalists from their
places, and refused to pay them the pensions which
his Majesty granted for their services. Interrogate
the Inspector-General of Infantry, who to retain his
place, and to raise himself to a still higher rank, has
gone such a length in adopting a system of his su-
periors, that he has not only given places to Consti-
tutional officers, by delivering unlimited furlows to
the Royalists who occupied the same places, but has
not even executed the orders by which he was en-

joined to attach to regiments Royalist officers, in
order to place them in a situation to pass their exa-
minations. But why fatigue ourselves by vain ex-
amples ? Inhabitants of Vich, you have just seen
depart from, your town the Governor Dias Perez,
who, after sacrificing the inhabitants by the most
scandalous exactions, restraints, and penalties, has,
notwithstanding the inferiority of our force, fled, for
the sole object of saving the fruits of his arbitrary
acts. I have not drawn my sword from ambition.
You know lam a landowner. The misfortunes of
our country, not constitutional fury of which I have
been the victim, make me thus call upon you.
Catalonians !—These are motives, which have

made us take up arms in defene6 of our well-beloved
monarch. The King wishes justice-and obedience
co his commands, but alas ! all the paternal care of

our adored Monarch has hitherto only served to
make the authorities spend their fury on the
Royalists; and if it be true that there was a neces-
sity for modifying the police formed by the consti-
tutional vermin, and men formerly devoted to the
brother of Napoleon, there remain still other evils,
to which a remedy must be applied. 'Hasten, then,
to exterminate impiety, injustice, and all the men in
place who belong to the dark sects of masons, corn-
muneiros, and other religionists, who govern under
the mask of moderation. Follow me, and the
Great God of armies will recompense your efforts.
Follow me, without the fear of being deceived.—
Follow, and you will be armed,-fed, and rewarded :
follow in order. The provinces of Spain, suffering
under the same evils that we suffer, are acting in the
same way. The sound part of the army is animated
by the
_same sentiments. Two hundred thousand
Royalists, who have been despised and persecuted
by the infamous men who manage the Government,
are our companions, in arms, to conquer or to die
with glory, pronouncing these words :--c Live re-
ligion ! Live Ferdinand VII ! Death to the Secta-
ries ! Down with the wicked placemen !"
(Signed) JOSEPH CLARA, Commandant.
PRIVATE NEWS raom MANRESA.

The most illustrious Commandant-General of the
vanguard of the Royalist army serving in this pro-
vince, Don Augustin Saperes, entered Igualada on
the 4th current at eight in the morning. He was
received by the assembled inhabitants with loud
acclamations, and cries, a thousand times repeated,.
of " Live Religion ! Live the august Monarch, Don
Ferdinand VII., whom God preserve Live
Saperes, who has aroused us by bis arrival I" The
battalion of the Royalist volunteers immediately
placed itself under the orders of General Saperes, as!
did all the battalions and flying companies in thei
neighbouringvillages. The works for fortifying thet
town of Igualada are continued with activity, and;
that town is determined to defend itself against all.
the efforts of the enemy if he dare to attack it.
Don Paul Miro, a rich merchant and proprietor of:
Reus, has raised a division of 300 men in the neigh-
bourhood of Montblane, and great numbers flock to•
enrol themselves under his glorious standard.
At Puenta de la Armentera,another Commandant,

born at Valls, is at the head of .500 intrepid!
Royalists.
The very probable report is circulated, that his;
most Christian Majesty has caused to be published„!
in Roussillon, an order which enjoins the leaving a!
free passage to all the Spanish Royalist volunteers;
in the case of their wishing to take refuge in France
and the granting them the same assistance whicl
was afforded them in 1822 and 1823.
It is said that tit Mataro our troops fell in with
.the French troops, and that the latter departed withi
out occasioning the least inconvenience to ours. • I
Our troops have entered Cervera victoriously.
The people received them with demonstrations flf
friendship and joy. All the Royalists have enrolled
themselves under our standards, and the town is
fortified to resist, if necessary, the enemy's trcioos.