The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-18 00:00:00

tind,e iris caniraind 111.4livi4iou of Citraei
PAEZ and SoUBLETTa : the latter is coining bete
to ifisptct the troops of General NlAtimr, audio
put the Army of the Erst in motion, in order
that the intended attack on Mtramtu may take
place: Alottita.o, at the time the last accounts
left him, was fortifying himself in-;San Carlos,
and General Mostst.zs was in Calaboza with a
small division of Spanish and native troops. The
whole of the Royal force is stated to. be about
5000, principally natives, and the army of Gene-
ra! BouvAtt, including the English and Irish
troops, will amount to about 10,000 excellent
troops. It is the opinion of every person here
thH!, the present campaign will give liberty to the
whole of Venezuela."

FROM llAvANtirt, FEB. «..—Accounts bale
retiche(l here diet the British cruisers have cap-
tured ten sail of Spanish Guineamen, from Cuba,
taken to the Northward of the Line.

The Hine of a General Election is a kind of
general Saturnalia, a time of licence, abuse, and

every species of gross personality ;. hut such scur-
rility is, even on these occasions, chiefly confined
to the immediate scene of action. The Morning
Chronicle, however, has this day attacked Mi.
:MELLISH, the Candidate for ,Middlesex, with a
cold-blooded malignity that wolld better become
the mob•placards surrounding the hustings.
That factious Print has the impudence to say,
that ‘c the of Mr. MELLISH are. tin Co-
nditional devotedutato allthe wishes of the Minister
of the day, if such can be called principles." Mr.
Mar-Lisit is as independent a man as Mr. 1.1 Na,
and has served the country with as much disinterest-
ed zeal as Mr. BYNG has served his political Party.
The same factious Journal has said, that " in
voting fur Mr. Macctsu, let the Electors bear im
mind that they are voting for the continuance of
every abuse."
,Such en accusation brought be-
fore an honest Jury would, we doubt not, sub-
ject the Infamous slanderer to merited punish-
ment, but at all events it deserves the castigation of
a horse-uhip. We know nothing of Mr. M et.crsu,
except what we heir of his private character, and
public conduct.—We really do not even know his
persOts,. but we have found him. acting the part of
a 6rsn, intelligent, and impartial Member of Par-
liament. He has been staunch in the support of
Governinent, but not a servile adherent to Minis-
ters. Such a man is more fit to be the Represen-
tative of such a great County as Middlesex thauMr.
BYNG, who cannot but be said to be in the tratri#
tads of Patty. We have, however, no objection
to his being returned, provided that be.does not
coalesce with Mr.WHITBRaAD, in order to obtrude
a young man upon the County who may be con-
sidered as a man (f strew set tip by Sir FRANCIS
r, What right has FITBREAD, a
young man destitute of experience, and without
any particular connection %alit' the County,
to come forward, in order to disturb its peace ?
We have no wish to disturb the ashes of the
dead, or the feelings of the living ; but,
however respectable the late Mr: WHITBREAD
might be in private life, there is no reason why
his offspting sKould boast of any hereditary pre-
tensions to popularity. The late Mr. IVEIITEREAD
was a constant and violent opponent of Ministers
at all times, and if his son is to adopt the same
political conduct, the Elect Ors of Middlesex,
in choosing him, will not choose an impartial
man, and will consequently bring discredit upon
themselves, not only by selecting one who comes
forward with predetermined hostility to Ministers,
who surely cannot alwayi he wrong, but a young
man unknown to them, and without 'that know-
ledge and experience which ought to characterize
their Representative. As to the scurrility of
The Morning Chronicle against Mr. Mcwsii, such
is the rancorous character of that' Paper that all
public men must suffer , more by its panegyric
than abuse, and Mr. 'MELLISH can hardly have a
better proof of his own pretensions to the support
of the Electors of Middlesex than the attacks of
a Paper that seems, to use its own words, to act
with an " unconditional devOtedness to all the
wishes" of the Radical Reformers in general, how-
ever it may affect to divide itself from the COB-
BETTS, theIIUNTS, and others whom we will not
name, because they will soon be subjected to the
justice of their Country.

We give this day a copious account' of the first
day's Proceedings of the Trial of HUNT and
others at York, on a Charge of Conspiracy.

Letters were received in town, on Monday,
from the Duke and Duchess ot eAtIRRIDGB, at
Hanover, staring that their Royal Highnesse,
and the infant PiinceGEORGE were in good health.
Yesterday the Duchess of CLARO.NCB ririterl !be
Duchess of KENT, at the King's Pal Ace, at, Ken-
sington.—All the branches of the Royal Family,
in town, visited the Princess Sorir LA at Cant-
bridge House. The Duke ot Yotu is constaut in
his visits to his Royal Sisters.