The Sun. — 1823-09-19 (London, England)

PRESS.]  On the last accounts. from Spain'there appears little hope of any pacific treaty succeeding, or of any thing but the fate of war deciding the contest between the Cortes and Constitutional Government and A ngouleme. The latest intelligence from ' Port St.lMary's states, that foi. two days,while negociations were pending, hostilities had ceased, and the cannon of both parties was ad longer heard. The I)uke de Guiche had returned, after delivering Angouleme's letter CO Ferdinand -in person, in the presence of several Members of the Cortes. At eight in the evening or the 6th; Angoulenie; it is said; again sent in hiS ultimatum. A Spanish flag of truce' is asserted. to have again arrived ; but the presence' of Ferdinand in the French Camp, and the surrender of Cadiz, were required. And it was considerably hinted, that then the Spanish Bourbon, with his characteristic mercy, might grant a general amnesty to those who had supported the Constitution he had • himself sworn to inaintain! Sngouleme's last letter, it is asserted, was another menacing attempt to frighten and bribe the Cortes. He generously informed them they need not be in despair; that as soon as the ' gates of Cadiz Wereutibtirred, and Ferdinand at liberty, the French Government would bestow a gratuity on each of those most marked for his patriotism, sufficient to provide for future subtsistehee in a foreign land; find supply vessels to convey them to whatever country they might &elect as d place of exile, whether England Or America. This letter was delivered to the" Spanish Ministers on the .sth. Their answer Was not known ; but they read the. Bourbon's inSolent letter, we are sure, with indignation, and rejected his proposals with equal scorn. The Government and garrison of Cadiz will, we hope,' burn and sink.that 'city to its foundations-before they submit on desperate and degrading terms Such as these. It Weald brand them 7 wherever they tied, with eternal infamy, were they to ask their lives ." with the privilege to breathe,", and receive as the means of subsistence a wretched alms from the- charity of the destroyers both of their country and its liberty, after they had weakly surrendered. This was the imprestion the latest accounts from Cadiz conveyed. The Ministers, Cortes, and people were then most determined. All within the walls had resolved to !miry themselves under the mini 'of the city sooner than submit, without confirming the freedom of Spain,'and emitting for her at least a nio: dified Constitution. General Alava offered, it is said, to treat on these terms. lie only required,l On the part of the Spanish Ministers and Cortes, the concession of a free Constitution, guriranteed-,by Angouleme ; and the gates of Cadiz *ould Alien be opened, and Ferdinand and his brother be free as air. But Angouleme and the Ultras of France have no taste for Constitutions of any kind ; they Worship nothing but absolute power. Unconditional surrender was required by the French Bourbon; any cOncessians wire to:be the otripting of Ferdinaud's after-fancy, and a general amnesty might issue from him, who, eight years before, Murdered the purest patriots Spain ever poisessed—sent others to the ramparts of .Ceuta Or Tarlife, or to the galleys, to work in chains- restored at once the felt Inquisition, and had its infernal dungeons choked with victims. But tr new foe has risen on the French, for which they were little prepared—a sudden and a frightful enemy. Intelligence had reacheil Paris-on the afternoon' of ,Tuesday that the yellow fever had. appeared at -Passages, between that port and St. Sebastian, said to be imported by tt vessel front' the Havanpah.