The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THU PUBLIC 4DUIVNALS.

Incontradiction toe series of trash which has beet)
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newspaptehre s, public,as if
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from the Pyrenees, we would bespeak attention to
.he letter of our correspondent " M. N.," which ap-
peered in the Time; of yesterday, and which came,
as it professed to do, from Perpignan, on the eastern .
frontier. It thence appears that the Carearilla Goe
eernment, instead of attempting in this last stage., of
its life and fortunes to conciliate the people, on
whose breath its destiny is suspended, has recentmenced that system of persecution which in fact
first created the desire and stimulated the effort for
its overthrow. At Barcelona three persons seen
together in the street are instantly separated by the
police. The theatres of Barcelona and the coffee-
honaes are closed, and after eight o'clock no human
being is suffered to be absent from his habitation.
All these fetters upon the existence of society attt
fostered there by a man called Carlos de Espana,
who is not a Spaniard, but a French adventeriro
noted at all times for his cruelty, and placed by
Ferdinand as Captain-General of Catalonia, from-
tßhaer
ci me l
omnear: s ea
nd importancefro m t
hiset t a
merciless
heerdc toioath,
cehsaenic rei rtei try
oo of
Espana, who reigns by the see, the scourge, end
the gallows. Nevertheless, this tyrant is 110 W
trembling, not merely for his province, but for his
personal safety. lie ban demanded reinforcements
from Ferdinand, and that respected Monarch sends
him, from Aladrid, troops whose presence theist
had filled the Carnarilla with disquietude : of the
soldiers despatched from the interior, hundreds de-J
sert on the route, and join the ranks of the patriots
In the mean time abhorrence of the Government
takers
increases
oftila that
every
sentiment
tl aby. A
y.
thosend properwho attled vsnt
abouts age t los
show
themselves as leaders of the revolution; and who
act deliberately, but with incessant activity, in or.
'tieing the constituti ore
.'tieing force throughout Spattle--.
One clew to the feelings of a most important thee
of military men—vie. the non•commisslonett °Mcrae
of the army—may be collected from the fact,, th4e.
large proportion of these men were eubeltern tidiccts
under the Cortes, were degraded by. Ferdinand in
an inferior rank, end have since employed therneelven.
in laying tip materials for a mighty ',aligner., When
the day of retribution shall be at hand. We have
always exposed the absurdity of imagining that the
danger incurred by the Government of Ferdinand,
from the returning refugees, was to be measured by
their muster-roll, as the reek and file of an army,
though even in that respect they are extremely.
' strong. It is not as an army, however, drawn up in
brigades or divisions, and marching incolumns Weis
the Pyrenees, that the formidable character of this
elite of the Spanish nation is to be estimated. They
are, about two-thirds, experienced officers of the
line. Many of them have already found their way
into Spain, and as the veteran troops recollect them
as their commanders with reverence, their cffice le'
undoubtedly that of assembling and regulating mill.'
tary bodies, not acting (themselves) as privates tit
the ranks of any given corps. If the accouni.o
which have reached us from men of high distinction
be not altogether incorrect, the spirit which per-
vades and animates the whole kingdom is one which
Ferdinand will be unable to resist much longer than
his congenial cousin at the Tnileries withstood the
three days' tempest. Except the Bishops, the other
high church dignitaries, and the monkte•there Is not
in Spain one steady friend to the Camnrille.. '
little patience will soon make known the result.
is stated in our correspondent's letter ofyestertlay,
that the manifesto which we published some weeks
ago, us proceeding from the directing Committee of
the Constitutionalists, is disclaimed by the chief.
officers on the Catslemian frontier, who were tidy
parties to it. W. pledge ourselves to the public?'
that the manifesto alluded to was the genuine pro-
duction of the directing junta, and was signed with
the names of two of the most enlightened and
esteemed of the Constitutional Spailiards. Those
names we do not yet deem it expedient' to preintile
gate—let other journals act as they may. When the
necessity far secrecy is considered, under which the
directing junta was compelled to act, anti the tit-
treme difficulty of communistation between min In'
different countries, watched, and tee.: the utitit4;
thwarted, by more than one unfriendly Goverrinten4ii
it will not appear irrational to postpone the •eiplise:
nation of various names and circumstances, until after .
a blow shall have been struck. Upon the nature
of that blow, and the success of it, we have no
shadow of anxiety ; but let the reflecting part of our'
readers bethink themselves, that es the means of
the patriots were enlarged, and their intereonrso
throughout the Peninsula extended, necessities arose:
for new and wider combinations, anti for a conse-
quent delay of those positive movements, of which
the power would be multiplied as the general plan
would be matured. Such is now the temper of the
national mind in Spain, that a check experienced by
military parties of the Patriot'', should they come in
contact with any not-disaffected troops of the Cama-
rillo, would neither impede nor retard the consum-
mation prayed for, even for a single fortnight. Tito
fact is, that the appetite for a constitution spreads
like wildfire throughout the whole Peninsula, and'
no matter what Spaniard takes the lead in it, we
may rest satisfied that the thing will, be done. It is
the nation that will liberate the nation. Timer.
A letter, entitled " Incendiaries," in this day's
limes, is calculated to provoke tome difference of
opinion among our renders. In Kent, as else-
where, we grieve to say, hey and cornestecks, and
farm-houses, have been deliberately set on fire; and
it appears (rota our correspondent's letter, that per-
soils are found who can emulate the morel excel-
lance of the incendiaries by approving sad defending
their conduct. The statement of the writer is, tlut
an inhabitant of Kent considered those gentlemen
of his neighbourhood who employed Irish labourers
on their land, while their own countrymen, liviirg
near, were destitute, were rightly served by having
their property burned. Here is the blessed epirtt
of monopoly in rather a novel form—here, likewise.,.
is a spirit not unlike !het of_the enti-maclutiery,,pir!
losophers, whose principle would, if carried fer.
enough, leave mankind at last no tools to work with
but their fingers. For whether a piece of untehiseisin,
performs more work for the same price as nears, or
turns out an equal quantity of work for a smaller re.
muneration, it is in effect pretty much the same
thing—the anti-mechanisms principle comes into
play, and compels us to admit, at the point of the
firebrand, that the great perfection of all econermy,is
for Mell to abolish every description of irseed,instrue,
ment, save those ten digits, and atriniey toe',
twice or thrice, perhaps, the same numhee of WO.
with which it has pleased Providence to _lmpish
him. Now an Irishman, who labours' for hilt` art
Etiglialimetr's wages, is a species of teonornicai ma-.
chine, which works equally well with 46
neighbour, and at a smaller cost. The gm/114km is,
ought the English labourer to be suffered to blue
the farm-yard of every gentleman who preleterere7
playing an Irishman at lie to rrt Englishman et tic,
per diem P The Kendal coach omen et deeleres,
that such a retribution is no more thee jog ; et,. the
same time he must allow that it is at vatiance with
principle, and in practice itt somewhat inconvenient,.
If the plan succeeds, by frightening gentlemen into
an exclusion of every individual from the labour
market who is not in a manner (arm:plus glelme, a
rigorous monopoly is at once esteldished for the be.
!refit of the neighbouring peasant, who, in process
of time, like other monopolists, becomes insolent
and rapacious, and turns out for higher wages. The
Scottish and English part of the Glasgow and
Manchester working manufacturers would be *ell
enough pleased to expel every Irishman from among
thorn, and to have the labour-market of dim two
great towns to themselves. 'Fury have, indeed,
very often struck work for higher wages; and when
the demand was unreasonable, time mast era have
been enabled to refuse it, by calling in strangers
Irishmen if you will—at lower wages, to take upon.
them the rejected orders. If Irishmen had beta
prohibited from such walks of industry, the mititeis
might still have been at the beek of the aftieatieid

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CPI "i 0 We "YAP
apintWand we mottopo cs e
ever workf, and.pax,rl4atrer wages, that, merciful
multittidVmiglit .preireribe to their' If the Kentish
peasant is to purge the vied (rpm all but native
bitenti of the eounty,. by fire, the next &Mood will
tee from each Kentish diattict, parish,: or village,
that certain gear:Mew shall not look for labourers
from any but the-one specific spot. Thus will the
servant -he set above his master, a complete mono-
poly be fixed open the'.neck.of the land-owner, and
the wages of labour: raised:so high, - and the cluatr
City or quality of :his work co'reduced, that the ma-
facture, of -whatnot various other produetione of:a
cultivated aoir must: be at length abandoned,': When
accounts reach this country!ohlte:herning of stack.
yard* or of human habitations:. in Ireland,: all tit,
woad -is justly. ,stricken With abhorrence of the
wretches who commit such crimes:: Yet the Irish-
incendiary is, in one:respect,' precisely on a par with:
the Kentish. Ile wantsi to turn out the tenant of a-
farm which -be had once held himself t: the ,law :ia
expensive and precarious, so helsdroini,ters his own
law, and after his own failtion. lie stands on his
rcorropoty of ground,- as the' Kent :mats does -or+ hiss
monopoly of labduil and if they both' should be
hanged for their exertions in that sacred cause, why
there is our correspondent's :letteras:a consolation
to them in, their last moments.: We wish to be tut•
derstood as by: no means denying 'that a country
getitlematt ought, evteris paribus, to give the pre-
ference to a poor neighbour over n stranger, so far,
as employment is concerned. All the charities-of
life, and much sound- policy, command this choice
of servants. But still he ought to have a :choice.
Although the Irishman: need not be had receurse to,
except its terrarent, when thete 'seems mischief in
the wind, his being wit hinleach,' and ready for
mediate action,' (Ili-Inuit, we think, fail to he salutary.
The- spreading of these destruct ire crimes is enough
to stupify s Whole community.—Times.