The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1842._

BOMBARDMENT of BARCELONA.
(From the Moniteur Parisien of Sunday night.)
We have received the following letters from Bar-
celona to the sth inst. The following is a summary
of their contents :—" The bombardment began on the
3d, at 11, A.M., and continued without interruption
until midnight, 817 bombs having been thrown into
the city, causing the greatest damage, and setting fire
to several places. The quarter where the Municipal
or Town-house is situated was particularly affected by
the fire. General Van Halen signified on the 4th that
he would give six hours to the authorities and inhabit-
ants to disarm the corpos francos, who still held out,
and if the place did not surrender at the expira-
tion of that period, he would resume the bombard-
ment. The authorities after having convoked the
principal citizens, and, assisted by a great portion
of the population, immediately commenced to disarm
the insurgents, and succeeded. The town has suf-
fered much, and it is impossible to estimate the da-
mage that has been done or the number of victims
who have fallen. On the sth the fire was still raging
in some quarters. The French Consul, whose zeal,
energy, wisdom, and humanity, cannot be too highly
praised, obtained from the Commanders of the French
ships of war in the roads the assistance of the crews,
who afforded every assistance with their known ac-
tivity. Before the bombardment the insurgent mi-
litia went en masse to the ship where their officers had
taken refuge, demanding with fury that they should
be given up, and the Commander had to repulse them
with force. Several houses belonging to the French,
and even that of the Consul, were more or less da-
maged. A forced tax of two millions of piastres was
about to he imposed on the town. The Regent had
not yet made his entrance into Barcelona. As soon
as the town was surrendered, and Van Halen and the
Stoops had made their entrance at five P.M. on the 4th,
the General issued the following proclamation :
" Don Antonio Van Halen Sarti, Murphe y Casta-
neda, Count of Peracamps, &c., Captain-General of
the 21 Military District, ommandant-General of the
First Corps d'Armee, &c. The town of Barcelona
having submitted to the empire of the laws, violated
by the most scandalous sedition, my first duty is to
prescribe the measures which at the first moment I
consider most conducive to order by destroying every
germ of anarchy ; to chastise the crimes that have
been committed, and to protect honourable Spaniards,
the faithful defenders of the legitimate throne of our
young Queen, of the Constitution that has been sworn
to, and of the Regency, with which the nation has
invested the Duke of Victory, by investing him with
a shield of a nature to preserve their persons and their
property, menaced by the ambition and efforts of the
partisans of despotism. Consequently, making use
of the powers which have been conferred on me, and
are ascribed to me by decree, as Commander-in-Chief
of the army in campaign, I decree the following
bando :
" Art. 1. Barcelona is declared in an exceptional
state from the first shot fired at the troops of which
the brave, faithful, and well-deserving army is com-
posed. The state of siege will continue so long as
circumstances shall require it.
" 2. The National Guards of all arms is dissolved
in Barcelona, until its re-organisation has been deter-
mined according to the rigorous terms of the law.
" 3. All the arms and war materiel belonging to
the said militia, as well as the arms extracted from
the national magazines, with all the articles and effects
appertaining to the State, shall be delivered up within
24 hours, without fail, after the date of this procla-
mation, to the fort of the Atarazanas.
" 4. At the expiration of the 24 hours any one in-
fracting this order shall be shot.
" 5. Any denouncer of the existence of arms in any
house, or in the possession of any individual, shall
receive as a reward 10,000 reals. This sum shall be
paid by the person or master of the house or locality
where the said arms shall be seized. In the event of

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the incompetency of the party to pay the fine it shall I
be levied on the quarter where he or they live.
" 6. Within two days all arms and weapons of every
kind, including those for hunting; shall be given up
by the inhabitants of Barcelona, and no person shall
he allowed to retain any except by virtue of a license
to that effect.
"7. 10,000 reels fine for the infraction of the pre-
ceding article.
" 8. Everything valuable, whether in horses, furn,l-
- &c , taken from the individuals forming the gar-
rison, to be restored, or the value thereof.
" a. Any one committing a robbery, or any other
crime against public order, to be shot, whether he be-
long to the population or to the army.
" 10. The legally constituted authorities will see
that all crimes are duly prosecuted in the interest of
public justice, and any one who, by words or otherwise,
commits an outrage is to be severely punished. The
troops as well as the inhabitants are to forget the past,
and are to embrace each other like brothers. The'
authorities are and will remain responsible for the
execution of the present decree, their misiion being
only to proi.e the offences and to punish them.
" Barcelona, Dec. 4, 1842."