The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-14 00:00:00

meneed A furiatis attack; but were fOrtunately de-
feared in their design, which evidently was directed
against the life of this thoughtless Prince, by the
rapidity with which the coachman drove off. They
followed bias,. however, to the Palace, where the
formidable preparations which had been made over-
awed, fur that time, the assailants. To show again
the analogy between their proceedings and those of
the people of Paris and Brussels, they spent the
night in preparations for a new attack, which they
commenced ins more methodical manner and with
redoubled fury, on the following day. They began
by assailing some detachments, of troops, which
paroled the streets, and having overpowered and
disarmed them, they proceeded against the Palace,
and though it was defended by cannon, and a
large body of troops, they carried it in less
than an hour, the military, it is said, having
refused to obey the orders issued to them
to fire on the . people I The' latter, having
fully gratified their vengeance, appear to have then
separated, though it is insinuated that they were
compelled to do so by the respectable por-
tion of the inhabitants, who had armed themselves,
and afterwards constituted themselves into a Bur-
gher Guard. Here another analogy between these
proceedings and those in Brussels is perceptible, and,
to render the imitation perfect, a Provisional Go-
vernment Was afterwards appointed. What is be-
come of the unfortenate and thoughtless Duke is
not mentioned, but the events we have thus rapidly
sketched require no elaborate commentary to point
alt their most alarming tendency. In the mean
ime we learn from the Prussian Sick Gazelle that

the renowned Balkan-passer, Count Diebitseh Sa-
balktuely, has arrived in the Prussian capital, com-
missioned by his Sovereign to congratulate the King
of the'French on his accession to the throne. We
learn from the Same source that the Russian Minister
of Foreign Affairs has also arrived in that capital;
and though the arrival of these two distinguished
personages is a memorable passage in the eventful
history of our times, we look upon it as a mote
extraordinary circumstance still, when we see a mi-
litary despot, who vaunts of having a million of sol-
diers at his disposal, preferring the resources of
diplomacy, at this crisis, to those means in which he
is known to extel. But, if he imagine that he can
t)), the former cope with the spirit which is now
abroad, he is lamentably ignorant of that spirit. There
was also an arrival last .night of Dutch Papers to
the 12th, but their contents are ill calculated
to gratify the .impatient curiosity with which they
were expected. In fact they are more remarkable
for their omissions than for what they contain, as
they do not throw the faintest additional light on
the intentions of the Government with rtipeet to

the demands of the Belgians. But they make op in
abuse of the former for their want of precise infer-
illation. It is as ridiculous as it is. dangerous to
employ .menacing and irritating language, unless there
be a determination, of which we can discover not the
slightest symptoms, to back it by corresponding
measures. It is stated, indeed, that troops are con=
tinually marching towards the South ; but by some
accident these Papers omit to add that they desert
in shoals as soon as they tench Belgic ground: if
calling names could promote the King's interests,
the Dutch: Papers would. be excellent auxiliaries.
They are also good profieients in professions of pa-
triotism' but we apprehend' that they are very bad
counsellors; 'and we cannot help thinking that the
vaunted zeal of :the. Dutch people at the present
juncture is greatly overrated, as it. shows itself more
in wordsthan in action. They vote Addresses, and
boast of what they did for the house of Orange 17
years • ago; but .their patriotic fervour ends here ;
and money, which they know, better than any other
people, is.•thegrand sinew of war, and by which
working zeal is distinguished from the holiday
species', they have contributed none; and, until
they furnish this pledge of .their sincerity, we
shall set very little value on their profes-
sions, . The King seems to hold this hitter
in couch the sumo degree of estimation as
we do ourselves; and this is probably the cause of
the conceding spirit he shows towards his Belgic
stibjects, We have also received the Paris Papers
of Saturday and &Miley, from which we supply
copious extracts. The most striking feature in them
is the frightful state of alarm in which the Spanish
Government is thrown by the movements of the
refugees, who, according to letters from St. Sebas-
tian, of die 29th ult. and 2d lost., have contrived
to enter Spain in considerable numbers, taking the
route of Navarre and Arragon, to pass into Cata-
lonia. In the menu time Ferdinand has issued a
decree, interdicting all Frenchmen, wearing the tri-
colonicil cockade, to enter his dominions by land;
whilst he has issued another decree, us our readers
are aware, permitting French vessels, though deco-
rated, with the same ilsg, to enter all his ports.
Accounts from Bayonne, of the lth, mention the
arrival in that city of the Duke of Montebello, son
of the celebrated Marshal Lannes, on his way to
Madrid, to. which Capitol he is proceeding in the
equity of .French Anibassodor-Extraordinary.—
Morning

We twee already expressed our unequivocal
opinion respecting the appointment of Prince Tal-
leyrami as Ambassador
;from the new. Government
of France to this country. One of our French Cot.
respondents, as will be teen by a letter in our
columns of today, attempt% to justify that appoint-
ment. Aq we are not advocates for that sort of
policy which is founded on the Infraction doll moral
principle, so we cannot approve of the patronage of a
Government which hag been cemented by the blood
of the martyrs of public virtue being extended to a
man whose political celebi ity is in the inverse
ratio of hie personal worth. Au appointment of
this nature is calculated to do incredible mischief to
a Government which, if it be not supporter) by pub-
lic opinion, can have no support whatever. The
throne of LottiaXhilip has been raised upon the
ruins of an odious system, and a corrupt Court.
The manhood and the patriotism of the people "MVO
erected it to be die protection and ornament of a
regenerated nation. To associate the MachireVellian
policy of a man who has worn the colours of
every change of opinion, and been in turn the hc.7
trayer of all parties, is to attract towards it not
the popular confidence, but the public suspicion.
The career of his personal aggrandisement has been
!over the Wreck of priticipleit. Those who patronize
'hint will be supposed to be equally reckless of the
valmi of a high-minded sense of honour, and an in.
flexible integrity in directing the affairs of nations.
In proportion es we admired the heroic firmness and
moderation of the French, and as we anticipated a
carver of useful glory from their constitutional King,
do we regret an appointment which will excite the
distrust of the one, and injure the moral authority of
the other.. Though the sacrifice Of principle to cr.
pedieney—s mild term for political turpitude—has
been exceedingly common of late, yet such iniquity,
however gilded by prosperous fortune, has not ceased
to be detestable to. this common understanding of
mankind. Governments that flourish in spite of
.opinion may consistently select for especial honours
turn whose conduct opinion most condemns, hut
power which this public sentiment upholds can derive
nothing but weakness from an association with the
most gifted votaries of a corrupt ambition. What
contrast does the character of the venerable La-
fayette, who has grown grey in the principles of his
early, and not unhonoured youth, present to that of
the inconstant Talleyrand, who has been uniformly
faithless to every thing but selPoterem, and who has
received his reward in fading immure and in impe-
rishable contempt. It was well said by the Duke of
Wellington, when he so peremptorily dismissed Mr.
liuskisson from Nit Cabinet, that " any loss was
better than the Joss of charade'', which is the foun-
dation of public colffidenee." Well would it have
beets for his Grace's fame had he always felt the
Valet a his own maxim and we have too
great a respect for the King of the French, and too
sincere a desire for the stability of his throne, to
wish him to affOrd an example of the dangerous
P!'ili%l of:preferring the. despised and " fawning para-
litteis ' of power to Mon who have not atielitlied are