The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-24 00:00:00

We have received the whole of the Paris papers of
Thursday. The whole of the Ministerial Press cry
out against the state of affairs in Spain and Portugal.
It is quite manifest that the Doctrinaires will throw
every difficulty in the way of the establishment of the
Constitutions in these countries. "We do not be-
lieve," says the Journal des Debats, " that there are
in Spain many advocates for a Republic ; neverthe-
less, according to some letters, it has been proclaimed
at Tortosa, and according to others at Valencia. If
we are well-informed, it was on the evening of the 14th
inst., a few minutes after the departure of the mail,
that the Government of Madrid received intelligence
of this ; and it is certain that on the 12th it appre-
hended some attempts towards anarchy in the capital
itself. This movement, which had been prepared
several days before in the clubs, would have had the
effect, had it succeeded, of placing the Government
in the hands of men of more advanced opinions than
the present Ministers, such as MM. ROSAGA and
CARDERO, who, it is well known, will not shrink
from any excess." Now this is altogether a fabri-
cation as gross as the object of it is dishonest. The
Debats has had no information on the subject of
the proclamation of a Republic in Tortosa and Va-
lencia ; the Spanish Government received no intelli-
gence of such outrages on the evening of the 14th ;
and no apprehension was entertained of the proclama-
tion of a Republic in the capital, previous to the
seizure by the National Guards of two wretches who
uttered such a cry, being instigated thereunto by a
French emigrant, who is strongly suspected of acting
as a Ministerial spy. The Debats is also guilty of
propagating what it must know to be a falsehood, in
stating that the proclamation of the Republic was pre-
viously resolved upon by the clubs. Now the fact is,
that there is but one club in Madrid, the members of
which are opposed to the Government, being, in fact,
neither more nor less than the agents of a faction in
France which at present is secretly countenanced by
LOUIS PHILIPPE. Of this club the President is the
notorious Don LORENZO CALVO DE RAJAS, and the
Vice-President the equally well-known ex-Procurador
SEPTIEN. The majority of the members, including
some writers in the Castellano, are mere adventurers,
without property, principle, reputation, or moral influ-
ence. Their object is, if possible, to sow discontent
and distrust among the people, and to wind up their
labours by a general scramble for property. The pre-
sent French Government is quite prepared to counte-
nance them in secret, in order that they may hereafter
furnish it with a pretext for declaring France an enemy
of the Constitutional system, both in Spain and Por-
tugal. With this view several French and Italian re-
fugees have secretly been directed to proceed to Ma-
drid; and to others who have been noted for the ex-
treme restlessness of their dispositions, overtures have
been made by the agents of the Police, in which
pledges of support have been held out to them, pro-
vided they would scatter themselves through the most
populous cities in the Peninsula. This is very gene-
rally known among the higher classes in Madrid,
though it is difficult to convince them that the real ob-
jects of France are of a sinister kind. In the Ma-
drid correspondence of our high Tory Contem-
porary, the Post, published yesterday; the fol-
lowing notification of the fact is given in a
letter from the Spanish capital, dated the 13th
instant—" It is rumoured that the French Re-
publican refugees have arrived in Spain, and that many
Italians are on the road to join their brethren of the
I secret societies." Now, one half the individuals as-
suming the garb of political emigrants, are secret
emissaries of the police, intended to work the downfall
of Spanish liberty. But we have no serious appre-
hensions as to the result. Spain will triumph, and
France will for ever tarnish her reputation by an in-
trigue alike disgraceful and contemptible. Fortunately
the men now entrusted with the direction of Spanish
affairs are no strangers to the duplicity which forms
the staple of the character of the Doctrinaire admi-
nistration.
They have not to learn the value of any
pledge given by the Citizen KING in either his regal
or his individual capacity. Senors CALATRAVA,
GIL DE LA CUADRA, LOPEZ, MENDIZABAL, and
RODIL are perfectly acquainted with the policy of the
King of the FRENCH, and the tools of the regal des•
potism which he honours with the empty title of Mi-
nisters. It is this knowledge we presume which has
forced them into the determination to watch closely
the proceedings of the emigrants, and to put down the
secret associations by the strong arm of Constitutional
law. We cordially approve of this determination. We
call upon the Spanish Government to grant no resting
place to those refugees, who seek to disturb the tran-
quillity of the people by the propagation of their wild
disorganizing theories. In each of them will be found
a spy and an emissary of the Doctrinaire Sovereign of
the FRENCH. It is stated in the Messager of Thurs-
day that a revolutionary spirit is about to be mani-
fested in Naples and Piedmont, which must soon ex-
tend to Sardinia, Sicily, and the Tyrol. In Naples
and Turin the populace are crying out for the Con-
stitution of 1812. The war of principle—of which
so much has been written in anticipation of conse-
quences—has commenced in Europe.

The French Foreign Legion in the service of the
Queen of SPAIN is in a condition still worse than the
British Auxiliaries under General EVANS. The fol-
lowing extract from the letter of a French Officer be-
longing to the Legion, which we copy from the
Memorial des Pyrenees, describes a state of wretch-
edness happily unknown to the British Auxiliaries, if
the last accounts' from San Subdstiatt be wol thy of
credit :--

f‘ The Foreign Legion is in a very critical position. For