The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-17 00:00:00

[The Times.)

We continue to present the intelligence from
Spain communicated by the private letters, sepa-
rately from that derived through the medium of
the French Papers, not only because they gene-
rally contain later facts, but, what is equally inte-
resting, furnish additional details of events before
known, or more accurate views of the real state of
the country. The epistolary correspondence, too,
may be supposed to afford a more just picture of
the public feeling, and is likely, whets collated
extensively, to be separated with greater ease
from any political bias. Accounts were received
yesterday from nearly every part ,of Spain %shit
which a commercial intercourse is maintained.
The letters from Corunna ate dated the 2Gth, and
contain some details of the Revolution there,
which deserve to he recorded, were it only as a
specimen of the caution, calmness, and determi-
nation, with which the Constitutionalists proceed,
even if the event itself did not possess so powerful
an interest. Vanegas, the Commander of the
troops at Comma, • by whom he was greatly
beloved, after an absence of a few days, re-
turned to the town on the evening of the 20th.
He was waited on the following morning by
the whole of the Officers composing his Staff,
professedly on a visit of ceremony to congratu-
late him on resuming his command. After the
usual compliments had been interchanged, they
entered on their real object, which was to inform
him of their determination to follow the example
of their brethren in the South in establishing a
Constitutional Government. Out of respect to
their Commandir they submitted this resolution
to Wm in the first instance, and requested to know
if he had any advice to offer, or any obset vat ions
to make on the subject. Vanegas then asked,
what would be the consequence of his refused
to sanction .a proceeding of that nature i and
was answered, that they should in that case be
under the necessity ut pl..cing his Excellency
under arrest. Vauegas replied, that the step
was wholly incompatible vvith his allegiance
to the King, and his duty as till officer, and
was immediately, without the least personal injury
or insult, committed to safe custody. The officers
immediately repaired into the streets of Comma,
and proclaimed the Constitution. Another re-
markable feature of the Revolution at Corunna is,
that it affords the first distinct evidence of a de-
cided part being taken by the people at large
against the existing Government. lit other parts
of Spain the whole change, beheld by the people
with supineness or indifference, has beets effected
by the military. The new Junta, or patriotic
Government, formed at Corunna, is of itself a
specimen of the general participation of the com-
munity; its members being taken trom the upper
class of the inhabitants, and comprising the civil
as well as the military professions„ merchants,
and even nobility. We subjoin a list of their
names
Dan Promo AGAR, President, formerly a Membcr of the
Regency of the Cortes,
Don Fatta Actvmoo, General of the National Troops, the
Officer Mute name is affixed to the first Proclamation.
M. Burgs, the King's Attorney-General at Corwin*.
The Marquess VALLADARES.
Don MANUEL LATHE.
Don ANTONIO DE LA VEGA, merchant.
Don Catt Los EIIriNOSA, Colonel of Artillery.
Don JuAquxsi FREYRE.

That lIIC lower classes have participated in the
same feeling appears from the fact, that nearly
2,000 of the inhabitants of Corunna have formed
themselves into a corps, called the National Gre-
nadiers, and petform military duty alternately
with the regular troops. The internal security
and confidence produced by this arrangement,
had enabled Acevedo to detsCh a battalion of light
infantry, with some pieces of flying and!, ry, from
Corunna tuwards the frontiers ut Casiile. The
purpose of this movement• is nut, however, di• -
titactly ascertained. Such is the rapidity with
which the example of Co'llllll6 has been followed
in the neighbouting districts, that along the whole
coast from St. Antler, in Asturias, to Vigo, on the
confines of Portugal, there is scarcely a towu of any
consequence that has not proclaimed the COII3IIIII-
- and if the accounts trout Biscay of the pie-
valence of a similar spirit are to be credited, the
line of coast will be completed till it touches the
Pyrenees. The proceedings of General Epos y
Min• 10 Navarre are 001 known, but lett& rs !MY('
been seceived from himself direct, ataiing that
affairs were going on as tavourably as Lie could
have wished. The State of Amigo'', Valencia.
and Catalonia, touching accurst operat lout, is atilt
less knowu; but the (011 e of the letters from Bar.

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celona, the capital of the latter province, indi.
cafes an approaching change. The people nowr
assume confidence ; and, as the Government sinks
iu their estimation, every day deliver their send-
, ments wish increasing freedom on political subjects.
The cause of the Constitutionalists was every hour
gaining proselytes, and the fermentation spread-
ing. Amidst all the doubts, however expressed,
'concerning the wants of the morrow, no appre-
hension was entertained of an interruption to the
general tranquillity. As we pass into the interior
of Spain—where, from the presence of the Royal
troops, the cause of Ferdinand appears to find the
best support—we are far from finding it trium-
phant. Two of his best regiments, those of Na-
varre and of Valencia, have, it is said, joined the
Insurgents. The letters from Malaga, which
failed during the occupation of that city by Mega,
now arrive regularly. They distinctly state, that
this Chief received no material injury on his march
front the troops of O'Donnell, that he was well
received by the inhabitants, and that no disorder
was committed by his detachment whilst it re-
mained at Malaga. They left the city on the 2211,
announcing that another detachment from the Isle de
Leon might be expected on the 25th, to garrison it;
hut this had not arrived on the 26th. An express
has been received at Madrid of the defeat of Riego,
in an attempt to enter the town of Ronda. This
occurred on the 28th, and the troops opposed to
him were those under the command of Brigadier-
General bare. Riego left behind him 34 wounded,
and retired to a place called Grazaliema, at a
short distance from Ronda, where he established
his head-quarters, and collected all his troops
together. The letters from Cadiz are truly me-
lancholy. Suspicion of the dispifFect ion of the in-
habitants bad led to frequent arrests, and every
man suspected his neighbour. The persons
arrested were sent in some instances to Ceuta,
and in others confined in the prisons of the city.
About the 20th ult., by order of the Govrrnur,
several of the principal merchants were arrested
at the same time, and were immediately placed on
board a ship of war in the harbour, which sailed,
as was supposed, for Ceuta ; but the weather
proving tempestuous, the ship put back into port,
in which interval the Governor appears to have
reflected on the boldness of the step he had taken,
considering the rank of the parties, and to have
retracted it, in some degree, as be ordered the
prisoners to be brought on shore, and placed
them in confinement within the city. The account
of the taking of the Cortadura by the troops in
die Isla de Leon is not confirmed by the private
letters, and die fact is now generally doubted.