The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT. OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS..

If the Parisian politicians had not been so ex-
clusively occupied with their own affairs, and so
keenly engaged in opposing or. supporting the
Polignac Ministry, we should have had from
them a great deal more speculation on the cha-
racter, conduct, and prospects of the German
Prince who has recently arrived among them.
They have been long, indeed, accustomed to
the presence of Prince Paul of Wurtemburg,
commonly called " Prince Paul of the Opera
a Royal person, who, being balked in his hopes
of a Greek Crown, has now- no dominions, ex-
cept the saloon of the establishment front which
he takes his title. But a German Prince, like
the Duke of Brunswick, deserting his states ra-
ther than comply with the supreme authority of
the Germanic Confederation, Mould in ordinary
threes have appeared an interesting novelty, and
have created what they call " a sensation." He
woeld have even derived some additional noto-
riety in France, from the character of the Mo-
narch to whom he is opposed, and the political
circumstances connected with their quarrel. That
Monarch is the uncle, and was the guardian, of
the young Duke. By his arms the Duke was
restored to the dominions of his ancestors • and
by his counsels, he would have been rendered
more worthy of managing the improved consti-
tution which had been conferred upon them
during his minority. But he has outraged the
feelings and reversed the arrangements of his
affectionate relative and benefactor ; making his
subjects expiate the constitutional blessings in-
tended for them by his Royal Guardian, under
the sanction of the Germanic Diet. It sel-
dom happens that public sympathy takes
the side of power against weakness—that a
great monarch can be opposed to an atom
of , like his Serene Highness
of Brunswick, without excititing suspicion
of tyranny and oppression—or that an orphan
who compbins that his person has been treated
with indignity, that his rights had been with-
held, and his property dilapidated, by an irre-
sistible Guardian, ie not heard with favour cr in-
dulgence. But, in this case, so provokingly
just, kind, and conciliatory has been the con-
duct of the stronger patty, that the weaker has
been deprived of the. usual commiseration in his
defeat, and of the popular presumption in his
favour. An appeal has been made to relatives
and strangers,—to courts and to the people,—
to the press and to the deliberative assembly of
the German Confederation, and they have all
pronounced an opinion adverse to the young
Prince. The King of Prussia and the Empe-
ror of Austria have both most earnestly advised
Jinn to make his submissions to his uncle, to
continue the constitutional franchises established
during his minority, and to indemnify those
Councillors and servants, whom from a
mistaken pride, he has persecuted for con-
sulting I:is interests in opposition to his
caprice. The Diet haS decreed what Courts
coold only advise ; and has ordered his States
to be occupied till he evinces the obedience,
without which it would be absurd in that body
to hold another meeting at Frankfort with the
parade of a Sovereign Council, and in the pre.
sense of foreign Ambassadors. Nor has he any
yeason to dread that reparation will be a sacri
flee, or submission a disgrace. Never probably
was there a more striking union of indulgent
kindnece and paternal wisdom than appeared in
the letters of a High Personage to his wrong-
headed ward (which have already met the public
eye) ; and we may rest assured that the affec-
tionate feeling which they display, would be sa-
tisfied with the least degrading apology. The
German Diet has only interfered to adjust the
rights, or to avenge the quarrel, of the King of
Banover ; but from what is known of his feel-
ings towards his relative, the settlement of these
elisagreeable differences would give equal plea-
sure to a Sovereign beyond their sphere—the
King of England.— Titna!-.
We do aunt know that public curiosity is much
alive to the topics .of the forthcoming Speech,
for, notwithstanding the efforts which have been
made to excite commotion on the subject of the
currency, we are sure we merely state a matter
of fact, when we say that every rational man
feels at the bottom of his heart that nothing can
be done, and therefore nothing ought to be at-
tempted. But, upon the subject of a fresh
issue of small-note trash, there are some re.
snarkable facts stated in our city article, to which
we would refer Mr. Western and politicians of
his stamp. They would issue small notes—
they would increase the circulation—would they ?
Why there is already more money ready made
than can be employed. There never was so great
a redundancy of it ; not even in those hale} on
days when we were said to have borrowed money
et one value, of whisk we are paying the interest
pow in another I The truth is almost the reverse
of this—for it is perfectly cleae, that whatever
might be the abundance of money at eny time
of the war, when we were taking loans—
whatever might be its abundance after
die Bank restriction took place—there is
rnore of it now, when the Bank is not so pro-
tected, and small notes are taken out of the
mass, We fancy, therefore, we may infer, that
except Government were mad (and we think a
cautious firmness, the very reverse of insanity,
is its chief characteristic), it can never ennteine
plate meddling with the currency, and will pro-
bably not allude to such an absurdity in the
King's Speech. Quietness, and abstaining from
experimental measures of every kind, eco-
nomy, esre ail that the nation wants at present
relation to he internal administration. Of its
external politics, the subject of the Greek ques-
tion is that to which plaits feeling has affixed
the chief interest. It would he gratifying, no
doubt, to learn that the Constittstiee was set-
tled ; and, mean time, it is some satisfactjon
know that bloodshed I.has ceased; We have
sometimes complained that a King s speech said
nothing ; but that was at a time when we thought
much might be said : at present, though we
might find many topics which might Ise piked
ahout, it would be difficult to point out any mea-
siure which Ministers might announce the inten-
tion to execute.---ibid.
Amongst the predictions oftentimes and for
many years put forward in this journal, on behalf
of the policy of emancipating the King's Catho-
. lie subjects, our readers will do us the justice to
remember, that one—and a leading one—was
our assurance that emancipation would break up
the Catholic party, and disperse again throughout
society the various elements of winch it had been
composed. When our adversaries alleged that
the Irish Catholic interest would be always one
and indivisible, that priests and laity would hang
together, and never suspend nor relax their exer-
tions, until they had driven the Protestants out
of every county in the island, and procured an
entire Catholic representation,—we foretold dis-
tinctly, that the infallible and only means of neu-
tralizing that spirit of unnatural excitement which