The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-29 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

The Forty-eighth Number of the North Ame-
rican Review, which is by far the most respecta-
ble periodical work published in the United
States, has just arrived in London. • It contains
some readable papers. One, however, on Euro-
pean politics, concludes in a way which is rather
laughable. In a review of Sismontli's Political
Views of Europe, the reviewer discourses con-
siderably on the state of England, and con-
cludes thus—after stating that the popular
power has increased in England—" The oper-
ation of our example is then to come in ! ‘Ve
will still apply to the English nation. They
read in almost every. Newspaper that cruces the
Atlantic from this country, of some' convention to
amend the American Constitution, &c. Sz,c. They
look across the Atlantic—they find this vast could-
try divided into sections, equal in population,
sending each its Representative to the National
Councils. Are these examples to have no effect ?
What is to hinder English people from calling a
convention, from meeting in convention ?" &c.
&c. Now all this is, as they would say,
" pretty considerable fine writing, we cal-
culate ;" but we beg leave to ask any of
our readers, Jacobin or Anti-Jacobin, how
many American Newspapers they have ever
seen in their lives ? How many of the few they
have seen were any thing but the most brutally
ignorant and stupid collections of nonsense that
ever were penned ? How many of theth were not
the composition of people who had good reason
to run away from this country from motives of
very natural dislike to its judicial, if not its politi-
cal, institutions ? 'With every respect for the North
American Reviewer, we must assure him that this
country's newspapers are seldom seen here by any
but us of the trade, and excite no sensation
among their readers, but a very slight one of
contempt. If we alter ouLGovernment, by con-
vention or otherwese, it must be by other in-
► ducements than those held out by the news-wri-
ters of America. The last sentence of the

American article is naive to the utmost de-
gree. The consequence of these conventions
which he recommends is to .be regeneration
among us, and then—" This done, an inti-
mate co-peratien with us" (the capitals are
all their own) " would follow ; and, in
the general result, it is not too much to say, not
only that Europe would be regenerated, but that
the empire of civilization might again be pushed
into Africa and Asia !! ?" All in consequence of
co-operation with us !—P. P., clerk of the parish,
never did any thing better than this. It is really
Yankee genu-ine !

tTIIE PUBLIC LEDGETIJ
Last night we received-the Brussels Papers of
Priday. They contain the copy of a Royal De-
cree, issued at the Hague on the 14th instant, by
which the subjects of the King of the Nether-
lands, destined for any of the learned profes-
sions, are interdicted from pursuing their stu-
dies at a foreign University, or College, upon
paid of being excluded, on their return home,
from appointments to public employments,.
or from the exercise of ecclesiastical func-
tions. This Decree, which is levelled chiefly at
the Catholic Clergy, appears, at first view, to
be inconsistent with the liberal character and
good sense by which the Government of the
Netherlands is characterised ; hut, on a nearer
view, its utility will he apparent, particularly if
the spirit of proselytism, and the contagion of
pernicious doctrines, be considered, which now
prevail in the French Colleges,-to which the Belgic
youth would mostly repair, were it not for this ful-
minating Decree. In France, they would be ini-
tiated, to a certainty, in the mysteries of Je-
suitism, by which they would become bad sub-
jects, and worse Ecclesiastics, particularly in a
country like the Netherlands, where the bless-
ings of civil and religious liberty are secured by
law. This Decree militates with the- opinion
of Dr. Magee, who, upon his examination
before a Parliamentary Committee, recom
mends a foreign education, as a corrective
of the factious spirit, which, he is pleased
to say, pervades the whole body of the Irish
Catholic Clergy. But, if his Grace were not
absolutely blinded by the very spirit against
-which he so loudly inveighs, he would not
dream of recommending a plan, which, if car-
xied into effect, might transform them into trea-
sonable subjects, those whom he now charitably
designates only factious. A Priest, who should
be trained up in the way he recommends,
would learn from his foreign guides to
look upon it as one of his first duties to un-
dermine the allegiance which _his flock owed to
-their lawful Sovereign, in order to prepare them
for transferring it to *a foreign Potentate who
should profess the Catholic religion. With a do-
mestic education, such as now exists,. this danger
is ideal, or exists only in the imagination of such
men as Dr. Magee ; and wesiherefore highly ap-
prove of the Decree just pull-fished at the Hague.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
By the French Papers which we have received
sknce our last publication, we learn that the
affairs of Spain have reached their expected
crisis. The standard of revolt has at length been
hoisted by the apostolic. party against their Sove-
reign. The insurrection was headediby the noto,
rious Bessieres, and the pretext was, that which
was taught him by tl►e French, viz. the delive-
ance of the King from captiVity in which,
it was alleged, he was held by his Ministers.
The-revolt had been for some time organizing.
The monks in every part of the kingdom have
been preaching against Ferdinand. VII. and his
French allies. Several acts of violence have oc-
curred in the provinces, in rash attempts to pro-
claim Don Carlos. It was known'that an exten-
sive conspiracy was actively engaged in making
preparations for a decisive blow in the capital.
It appears that on the 14th instant, a fanatical
monk, in a sermon which he delivered openly
in the streets of Madrid, denounced the King as
unfit any longer to reign over the Spanish people.
Ferdinand, he said, was a freemason, and therefore
wortl:y to govern a nation so purely and emi-
nently Catholic. The preacher- afterwards eu-
logised the talents and piety of I)on Carlos, and
predicted that all kinds of blessings would be
showered on the land when that Prince should
have ascended the throne. No one attempted
to silence or interrupt this seditious harangue.
He was patiently heard; and suffered td finish
his address at his pleasure: Two days. afterwards
Bessieres quitted Madrid for the purpose of
exciting the revolt for -" the deliverance of the
King." There can be no doubt now as to the
motives which led to the formation of the French
camps on the frontiers of Spain. The rebellion
of Bessieres, according to the statement of the
Eloile, does not seem to have been of a very for-
midable character. Yet it is remarkable that he
was not made prisoner, and the tone of the Royal
Proclamation indicates that it was issued in a mo-
ment of considerable alarm.

[MORNING. POST.]
We received last night, by. express, French
Papers to the 27th inst. and the Etoile. of Satur-
day. The most interesting and important part
of their intelligence relates to the situation of
Spain. The long predicted crisis in the desti-
nies of that unfortunate country seems at length
arrived, and yet it is more difficult than ever
to calculate its probable .results. Spain,: it
is true, is still divided into two parties, and
those parties are now openly in arms and coining
to blows ; but their relative position is so changed
that the whole has assumed a novel:aspect, out
of which nothing .like certainty can be drawn.
The chief feature of difference. is this—that
whilst the Ultras are more ardent and desperate
than ever, the Moderates, or to say the truth,.
the Liberals disguised under that name, have
gained no less an accession to their side than
that of the King. Ferdinand a Liberal may
sound absurd, after the manner. in which he
has abjured the Constitution and treated the
Constitutionalists but i, is the force of events'
and above all the defence of his authority and
his life, which have once more compelled him to
throw himself into the arms of the party best
calculated to secure his throne and to restore

• • DIED
At Southampton, on 'Wednesday, the 24th inst., George
Redmond Hulbert, of Aston-lodge, in the 'county of Derby,
Esq., formerly Secretary to the Right Hon. Sir John Borlw
Warren, Commander-in-Chief of his, Majesty's ships on the
American and West India stations.
On the 27th of July, at Leghorn; Mrs. Johnston, the wife of
Lieutenant-Colonel. Johnston.