The Sun. — 1823-07-08 (London, England)

STAFF.--Colonel William Marley, from the Royal Staff Corps, to be Permanent Assistant Quartermaster-General, vice Lord Greenock, who exchanges.  Office of Orrin Once, Jag 3, 1823. • Roybi Regiment of' A rt:licry-11 ajor and Brevet LieutenantColonel. William Robert Cary to be -Lieutenant-Cohmel, vice .Waller, retired ; Captain and Brevet Major Charles Younghusband to be Major, vice Cary; Major William Payne to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Scott, retired :, Major George Forster to be hieutenant.:COlonel, vice Owen, retired; Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Dickson, K.C.8., to be Major, vice Forster; Captain 1110111113 Greatly, from halfpay, "to be Captain, vice Dickson.  From the brief extracts which we were yes• terday enabled to give from the Paris Papers Papers brought by our Express, our Readers would perceive with pleasure that MINA bud succeeded in reaching Barcelona ; and although the French, as usual, endeavour to make it be believed that he was accompanied only by a very small number of men, their former statements respecting this distinguished Chieftain have been so notoriously false, that no reliance whatever con  now be placed on their representations. But it appears that nothing has been heard for fifteen days of the division of General DONNIDIL, except a rumour that it had been engaged with MISA ! We stated -some days ago ,that the Spanish Legation in London hail received Re= counts which affirmed that MINA had defeated a corps of the French ; and the silence of the hench Authorities respecting the force under tia command of DoNNAnice, and the rumour, on the other haw!, of a 'ada, in which it is said to have been engaged, induce us to hope that the intelligence received by the Spanish Legation w..s well-founded, and that a blow of some of importance has been struck by the Constitutionalists in Catalonia. MINA:i movement to Barcelona having united the various Catalonian corps, the development of the future intentions of the enterprising Spanish leader will be anxiously expected ;.and we shall not be surprised if he is shortly seen conducting offensive operations on a large scale. The garrison of Lerida made a formidable sortie on the 17th, with I.Boo.men and two pieces of cannon; but the French modestly suppress all the particulars of the affair which ensued, and only enflounce that the column was obliged to-retire,  with the lost of Its artilleti. The guerillas, even in the vicinity of Madrid, are beginning to give disquietude to the French, and have had the boldness to attack a regiment of chasseurs in the immediate neighbourhood of the capital. The Bulletin of Major General GUILLEMINOT, of the 270 i tilt., at length admits that the troops of LOPEZ BANos (whose army bad been totally destroyed) embarked with their General! The French, nufortunately, " could not come up with the zavalry" of the Constitutionalists ; and " the infantry, though pursued, were a good deal in advance, and succeeded in embarking at Iluebla!" LOPEZ BANOS, therefore, even admitting that the French took 350 prisoners from his rear guard, and eleven pieces of his artillery, has carried off the main body of his army, still consisting, according to the French themselves, of upwards of-three thousand men, and has doubtless landed them on the Isle of Leon, where we may expect speedily to hear of their junction with the dis. parsed corps of VILLA CAMPA ! There are also further accounts from Cadiz to  the 24th. The Cadiz Papers confirm the state • ment of a plot having been discovered for carry. t . • ing off the 'Km} from Seville, in which our countryrnan,,Sir Jour; DOWNIE, is said to have been implicated. Wo have given some extracts from the Cadiz intelligence iu our preceding columns; The Constitucional contains the following remarks on the melancholy death of the late War Minister : " General Sanchez Salvador, who had charge, ad hiterlin of the War Department, has finished his days in imitation of Londonderry. The real. motive of this suicide is still an enigma. The political life of this Officer, during the period of three years subsequent to the Restoration, is too well known to require any elucidation from us. The occurrences in Seville, the unexpected invasion of Andalusia, and a variety of dramstances, weighed heaVy on the mind of the War Minister, and in this state it would seem as if he had sought to tell us, by his death, that he did not wish to implicate those who possibly had implicated, him, and who are still living under 'disguise among la. The following is the letter lie is said'to have left behind him, 'written with 146 own hand : " r Life every, day becomes more insupportable to me,' and the conviction of this truth impels me to take the horrid resolution of. terminating my existence with my own hand. The only consolation I can leave to my estimable wife, to my belovedchildren, and friends, respecting this terrible determination, is; that I descend to the grave without my conscience reproaching me for ever having committed any crime or offence whatever.—ln the night from the lith to 18th June, 1823. " It is my intention to do the deed with a razor, which I hereby declare, in order that no one may be charged with the crime. (Signed) •"