The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-06 00:00:00

(From the Newark Times.)

This is, indeed, au age of wonders! Since our last
publication, France, the finest country in Europe, has
undergone two revolutions ; one of these revolutions was
the work of the King and his Ministers, who, in a time
of perfect tranquillity, after months of deliberation, at
one blow struck down the Constitution of France, and
reduced that intelligent, though wounded people to the
political level of the Algerines. Our readers, even them,
of tlint least in the habit of political speculation, must
have partaken in the intense indignation with which the
news of this commons and unprovoked aggression was
received in England. It was felt as an insult to the spirit
of the age, and every e)e was turned wit's deep interest
towards the French nation, to see how they would resent
the outrage. Thank Col ! the challenge hot been ac-
cepted ; and a second revolution quickly followed the fret.
Before time had been given for the aggression to be known
throughout that great country, the people of Paris showed
that, under all the habits of a luxurious life, they retained
that deep-seated love of freedom acquired at the revolu-
tion of 1789. They have risen as one man; and, a• far
UN the accounts have been re,.eived up to the moment of
our writing, they have played their part nobly. Word'
cannot express our ardent sympathy in their cause. Their
cause did we say ! It is our own, it is the cause of the
world. If the experiment had succeeded, it would not
long have wanted imitators. Its failure will add another
bulwark to the liberties of Eurt pe.
(From the Hull Packet.)

The infatuated conduct of the Bourbon fasting has once
more, as might have been easily foreseen, plunged France
into all the horrors of a sanguinary civil war. The de-
tails, as far as they are at present known, of this awful
state of things, will be found extracted from the London
Papers, in another cilium. Overwhelmed as we are this
wrek with the proceedings at the election for this town,
we have no room for a single word of comment, and
shall merely venture to breathe a hope that the French
will this time be allowed to settle their own disputes,
without any interference of ours.
(From the Cork Mercantile Chronicle.)

We greatly regret thAt Charles. the Tenth should have
lent himself to evil counsellors. He has done the deeds of
a tyr ,nt, and, pr haps, even ere this, he has suffered fir
them. On the 25th ofJtily he dissolved, by Royal ordi_
nonce, the Chainber..he reduced the Electoral Body of
France from 80,000 to 20,000 votes—and on the 29th of
July (accounts say) Paris saw one thousand of her citizens
slain, and all, even the military rising against 60 abet.ors
of the massacre. Freedom has been struck down in For-
ttigulin Spain—in Italy. We eontldently trust !bat it
will not experience the same fate in any other land. It is
gratifying to think thut the Bourbons are likely to receive
no aid in their crusade against humanity trim Arne, at
h art, of the Governments, who hitbei to eormeed them.

(From the Caledonian Mercury.)
The more we reflect upon these proce.-dings of the Go-
vernment, the noire fixed does our conviction become, that
the present race of the Bourbons are totally unfit for the
Government of France. The present Monarch succeeded
to the throne with the advantage of the experience at his
immediate predecessor, who. during the course of his reign,
1,4 several occasions, etintinit ed liimsel by acts unpopular
with the nation, hut was always adroit sod dexterous
enough to retrace his steps before it wJe too late. Charles
X. himself, when he yielded to the wishes of the people
by dismissing the Villele Ministry, had an opportunity of
seeing how eatsy it w!ill to regain his an• jects' affections
without the 'lightest compromise of his dignity or real
authority. But upon this Bourbon race experience end
adversity alike bestow their lessons in vain, and if ever
there was one which by the most signal perfidy, treachery,
and hail faith, could be supposed to merit the infi'ctinn of
divine vengeance, the beetle of the' three branches reigning
iu France, Spain, and Naples, have displayed instances of
it sufficient to stifle every emotion of pity or compassion
for Whatever miseries may be hereafter in-store for them.
Read the article " Ferdinand the Beloved,' in the last
No. of Blackwood's Magazine, and say whether any other
Royal family in Europe can produce such a monster of
perfidy and ingratitude. Francis of Naples is scarcely a
Whit behind him. - When the recent conduct of Chariest
X. is considered, although it may not exhibit ti.e setne
personal turpitude as his cousins of Spain and of Naples,
it is, In its consequences, even more fatal to his subjects.
Whichever of his Ministers may have been the prime
mover of the measures which have already produced such
calamitous effects, (they are all of them responsible abetters)
the sacrifice of his head will be but a poor recompence for
the mischief he has occasioned. And that fate, we fer-
vently hope, is reserved for him. One of the things, that
must immediately strike every reflecting politician is,
whether in 'this crusade commenced against the liberties of
France, the King has been led to form expectations of
support and assistance from his allies. Some of the
English journtWittrongly insinuate as moth:" bet we.
show bs rather inclined to doubt it. Were that the
Case, we ghouls! say, God help poor Rurope ! As to our
own Government, it is totally out of the question, and'
Russia and Austria, we think, have matters enough on
their bands to prevent them, even if they were 'livened,
(tom volunteering their assistance on this occasion.

(From the Dumfries Courier.)

In other parts of our paper will be found a whole man
of facts and circumstances, doeuments official and non»
official, illustrative of the atrocious assumption of power
which has agitated France from its centre to its extremi-
tien—which leas wrung the heart of humanity to its core,
and revived very painfully the memory of scenes which we
cpassed away for ever—the revoking horrors
or the Trench had
e:rcli Revolution. Good God ! and has it really
come to this, amidst the full blue of the enlightenment of
the nineteenth century? Have the lessons of the great
mistress of wisdom—the experience of the last thirty
years—the memory of countless campaigns and battles—.
cities sacked, and garrisons stormed-..been entirely thrown
away on the besotted Bourbons ? llas an old man of
seventy, with one foot in the grave, dared to strike et the
root of the liberties of his country ?, dared to throw the
happiness of millions into the one scale, and his own pride
and prejutlicee into the other, exclaiming with a reckless..
nese allied to insanity, 'I my soldiers will make the people
kick the beam." Yes, Philip Cam, formerly Count
D.Artoit, now Charles X., so long a Pauper on the bounty
of others, who fled like a craven when the battle raged,
who, at the restoration, owed every thing to, the prowess
a England, and is as deficient in gratitude u an every
other quality, has perpetrated all and more than we have
named. There are two sorts of treason.,.-treason
against the Majesty of the King, and treason against
the Majesty of the People. Of the latter, Charles X.
would stand self-convicted, if tried before the assembled
world. Ile that sows the wind, ehOuld reap the whirl.
wind; and on his head he the consequenceof hisown folly I
But what, it may be eaked, has Charles done tolnstify this
warmth, if not Violence of sentiment and language ? Every
thing, we answer, that is base, had, and unconstitutionels Let our readers ouppose (we almost blush so make the

supposition) that the elections now in progress in Britain
sboulrl terminate contrary to the views and wishes of the
Duke of Wellington, Anil that the Duke in revenge should
advise William IV. (a monarch who. is as incapable uf listen-
ing to curb evil enutith.l as the Premier, we believe, hi in
capable of giving it) to dissolve the new Pirlisment before

it had assembled-4nd .reduce everywhere the counties and
burghs, in S'othtnd, England, and Ireland, as regards .t
least the elective franchise, to one-fourth of their present
number. These would be tolerably sweeping changes,
and if the Premier, in addition, retablished a rigid
Cerro--
ship of the press, and placed the whsle journals of the
empire under the surveillance of such a man as Colman—
of whose tender mercies the players can speak—what
would the British nation say, or think of the Duke's mo-
deration, and their own safety? The case, we have sup-
posed, though impossible in Britain, has actually oc-
curred in a neighbouring country. The decrees of the 25th
July invest Charles with all the powers of the Grand sus.
tan, or the bat barian be has conquered, the De), of A'giers.
But infatuated as the conduct of Charles has been, we
should be sorry to sre a hair of his head harmed. .Let the
accursed guillotine rest for ever—let there be no more
atrocities perpetrated under the sacred name of liberty.
Let the King go into exile like his brother of Sweden.—let

him dree tie punishment of the last of the Stuart., and
die unlamented as he has lived unrevered. A compromise
we consider out of the question. The Bourbons are ten
times worse than the Stuarts—are perfectly incorrigible.
Look at their conduct in France, Spain, Naples. Every•
wht.re they display the same wilfulnos—everywhere they
are totally unamenable to counsel, excepting where it
favours their own exaggerated notions of prerogative_
everywhere they are the laughingstock of the more en-
lightened portion of their own subjects—everywhere the
scandal of the crowned heads of Europe. Whatever may
he the issue of the present contest, we feel assured 014
Britain will look calmly on—an unimplivated though by
no means uninterested spectator. Nations, like individuals,
must be left to settle their own quarrels, end dear-hotteht
experience enforces the necessity of abjuring the Quixotic
principle of crux ides, undertaken in favour of the abstract
principle of legitimacy.