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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM TILE DAILY

MORNING PAPERS,

August 30, 1822.

[MORNING
_POST.]

Tux KING.—:As the wind has hitherto been
tolerably favourable, his Majesty, in all proba-
bility, is by this time considerably advanced in
lsis voyage from Scotland, and may reasonably
be expected to reach London by Sunday at far-
:heat. The conduct observed by the people of
Scotland on the occasion of his Majesty's visit,
werves in no small degree to enhance the charac-
ter they had before so justly acquired, not only
for loyalty to their Sovereign, but for a correct
sense of moral propriety and decorum. The strict
purity of their religious sentiments was most im-
pressively evinced by their conduct on the occasion
of.his Majesty's attending Divine Service on Sun-
day last, when the most profound and reveren-
tial silence was observed by the whole popula-
tion while his Majesty passed along the streets,
on his way to the place of worship. Never cer-
tainly was a more impressive religious trait dis-
pl.ayed by any people. Feeling that boisterous
expression of joy would be a violation of the
solemn and sacred character of the Sabbath, they
testified their loyalty and affection to their Sove-
reign by taking off their hats and profoundly
bowing to him as he passed along—a demeanour
at once so religious and loyal as could not fail to
make a deep impression upon the mind of the
Kipg, and to raise the character of the Scotch
people higher if possible than ever in his Ma-
jesty's esteem.-

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It will be seen by the letter from the Agent to
Lloyd's at Gibraltar,—(See THE su. of Yester-
day)—that the Government of Spain has marked
its sense of the conduct of the United States, in
recognising the independence of the South Ameri-
can Governments, by commanding the States to
remove their depot of naval stores from the island
of Minorca. Spain could not, without a compro-
mise of her dignity, fail to evince displeasure
against the United States, on account of the re-
cognition of her revolted provinces ; but the step
of compelling the States to look around for
another depot in the i\lediterranean will probably
have the effectof inducing the Americans earnestly
to•assist the Greeks, from whom alone they can
expect to obtain a harbour. Should Greece owe her
freedom to the interference of the United States of
America, while the ancient free Powers of Europe
looked cold lyon thecontest,itwill afford them ever-
lasting glory. When Greece sunk under the arms of
AMurath, America was yet undiscovered, and the
Turks were the most formidable people in the
world. America has since passed from infancy
to-the strength of maturity, and now exercises a
considerable influence upon the affairs of Europe;
while the Ottoman Porte is sinking into the de-
crepitude- of old age. Greece ventures once
again to hope for independence, and her patriots
look for assistance to the country where a con-
federation of Republics seems to offer a. picture
of what Greece herself had exhibited in the
brightest period of her existence. We confess
that we should envy the United States the glory
of:giving liberty to Greece.

[TIIC TIMES.]
There seems reason to hope that the relations
between Spain and France are about to be re-
established on a more advantageous footing for
thr former, and on terms more honourable to the
latter Government. Public opinion in Spain
makes no scruple of ascribing to the Ambassador
to the French Court, M. Casa Irugo, such a bias
in favour of the Servile faction, as amounted to a
sacrifice of his great public trust as representa-
tive of the interests of the Spanish Constitutional
Monarchy. The consequence IS, that, as ap-
pears by letters from Paris of the 26th, M.
Casa Irugo has been recalled to Madrid.—
His successor is to be the Duke de San Lo-
renzo, a Brigadier-General in the Spanish
army, and who was a patriot during Buonaparte's
invasion. This Nobleman is, however, of mode-
rate principles, though of a firm and steady cha-
racter, and a strong supporter of the existing
Constitution. The choice appears to be of a na-
ture to satisfy
,all parties of reflecting men, who
are aware that the solid interests of the country
might have been as much endangered by the in-
discreet and inconsiderate violence, as by the
lukewarmness or duplicity, of the Minister
accredited to the Tuilleries. Casa Irugo was
supposed to be a strenuous advocate for the
establishment of a Chamber of Peers in Spain.
So were many wise and upright individuals in
the earlier stages of the revolution. We have
formerly been inclined to join them in that view
of a supposed reform for the Spaniards, but the
conduct of the Court, the upper Ecclesiastics, and
the Grandees, has been such as to impress us
with a persuasion, that 'until the present race
shall be extinct, an Uppar Chamber, formed,, as
it must be, out of materials inimical to the State,
must be employed as an engine for its overthrow.
The Spanish Envoy at Paris must be devoted to
the Constitution, and to nothing but the present
Constitution, or he will be %holly incapable of
fulfilling the difficult functions imposed upon him
by the joint schemes of French and of Spanish
ultra-royalists.

[NEW TIMES.]
In all Cabinets there must be some subordinate
points on which honourable and enlightened
Statesmen may differ; and that such may be the
case with the present French Cabinet we shall
not dispute : but we repeat that, on the question
of an invasion of Spain, there is not the slightest
difference among the French Ministers; no one
of them is in the least disposed to any such mea-
sure ; still less has it been proposed by Monsieur
to his august brother, the King, for adoption.—
We have reason to believe that on the internal
policy of France there is more diversity of senti-
ment in the French Cabinet. The English pub-
lic has seen with surprise the tardy and ineffec-
tual means that have been adopted to bring the
French 'traitors to pUnishment. No King sits firm
on his throne, whose Ministers dare not strike at

treason promptly and effectually. No Govern-
ment is secure, where the laws against every
class of offenders cannot be enforced ; or where,
if the law be palpably inadequate to the emer-
gency, the Legislature cannot or will not venture
on adequate enacttnents. Every succeeding Mi-
nistry iu France has been surrounded with revo-
lutionary advisers, who have paralysed the force
of authority in the restraint of treason. This
influence has indeed happily declined, and its
sphere has been very greatly narrowed ; but still
it exists. When Fouche was Minister, he himself
was at the head of the plan for annihilating all
Royalist principle. M. De Richelieu was com-
pletely blinded by the noble ideas of modera-
tion and clemency which his deceivers employed.
In the present Ministry there is only one indivi-
dual, M. De Corbiere, who is believed to be thus
misled; but as his department is that of the In-
terior, which directs the whole Police of the
Kingdom, it is obvious, that, if there be any
ground for this opinion, the consequences
may be very serious, in a country where the
Tribune and the Press have been openly
employed to promote those insurrections which
the secret Societies have prepared. M. De
Corbiere is universally admitted to be a most
honourable man ; but we doubt whether he
understands the effect of the Press ; and, still
more, whether he has not been treacherously
served by the Police Agents of his Departments.
If they had done their duty, it seems impossible
that the Secret Societies could have carried on
their plots in so many parts of France ; and if
they did not do their duty, the Minister should
not have hesitated to remove them from office.
The War Minister, the Duke de Bellune, has
shewn an example of strictness in restraining re-
volutionary principles atnang the subordinate
Officers of his branch of the Administration, and
his conduct has been followed by the most bene-
ficial results.