The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-27 00:00:00

rise in the strength of her united energies, and wrest
liberty from the grasp of her tyrannical oppressors.
REYNOLDS, APNALLY, JEMMY O'BRIEN (who
was hanged for murder), WA TT Y COX, Pitch-
cap BERESFORD, Lieutenant HEM PENSTAL (sur-
named the Gallows-walker), whose amusement con-
: sisted in hanging the rebels over his own shoulders
till they were actually dead, and Majors SIRR and
' SlVAN—are names which every honest Irish-
man will hold up to the detestation of posterity.
In the bloody scenes of 1798 they outstripped all
competitors for an atrocious celebrity. REYNOLDS,
like M'NALLY, lived in Paris for several years before
his death, supported by a pension granted him by the
pious Sidmouth and Castlereagh Administration.
His character as sketched by CURRAN, in an address
to an Irish Jury on behalf of a client whom the villain
had falsely denounced as a traitor, and who was
doomed, on his testimony, to suffer the penalty of one,
is considered a master-piece of extemporaneous elo-
quence. " Are you prepared," exclaimed that great orator
and patriot, " in a case of life and death, of honour and
of infamy, to credit a vile informer ? The perjurer of an
hundred oaths—whom pride, honour, or religion could
not bind I—the forsaken prostitute of every vice calls
on you with one breath to blast the memory of the
dead, and blight the character of the living I Do you
think REYNOLDS to be a villain ? It is true he dresses
like a gentleman, and the confident expression of his
countenance, and the tones of his voice, savour strong of
growing authority—he measures his value by the cof-
fins of his victims, and, in the field of evidence, appre-
ciates his fame, as the Indian warrior does in fight,
by the number of scalps with which he ca❑ swell his
victory. He calls you, by the solemn league of
moral justice, to accredit the purity of a conscience
washed in its own atrocities ! He has promised and
betrayed—he has sworn and forsworn—and whether his
soul shall go to Heaven or to Hell, he seems perfectly
indifferent, for he tells you he has established an inte-
rest in both places I He has told you that he has
pledged himself to treason and allegiance, and both
oaths he has contemned and broken. At this time,
when Reason is affrighted from her seat, and giddy
Prejudice takes the reins—when the wheels of society
are set in conflagration by the rapidity of their own
motion—at such a time does he call upon a jury, in
Heaven's name, to accredit a testimony blasted by his
own accusation I Vile, however, as this execrable in-
former must feel himself to be, history, alas I holds out
but too much encouragement to his hopes—for, how-
ever base and however perjured, I recollect few instan-
ces between the subject and the Crown, where infor-
mers have not cut keen, and rode awhile triumphant,
upon public prejudice. I know of no instance where
the edge of the informer's testimony has not been,
fatal, or only blunted by the extent of its execution,
after he has retired from public view, hid beneath the
heap of his own carnage !

The French Papers of Thursday have been re-
ceived. A second edition of the Journal de Paris
published at a late hour on Thursday evening contains
the following official communication ;—" This day, at
three o'clock, MM. THIERS, MAISON, DUPERRE,
PASSY, SA UZET, and PEL ET (de la Lozere), placed
their resignations in the hands of the KING."
This important event was the result of a difference
of opinion between the KING and M. THIERS at a
Cabinet Council held on Thursday morning at Neuilly,
on the all-absorbing subject of French intervention in
Spain. The President of the Council, unmoved by
the late occurrences at Madrid, persisted in urging the
necessity of sending a French force into the Peninsula,
ostensibly to oppose the Carlists, but in reality to
enable the QUEEN to cast off what he regards as the
constitutional broke. The KING, more prudent than
the Minister, contended that the proclamation of the
Constitution of Cadiz in the capital, had entirely
changed the aspect of affairs in the Peninsula—that
to put down the Constitution by force would be tan-
tamount to dethroning the QUEEN—that such a
step would not be sanctioned by England—and
finally that having declined to interfere against the
Carlists, any demonstration of force against the
Constitutionalists would not fail to endanger the
internal tranquillity of France. In this view of the
whole Spanish question, the KING is decidedly right.
Nothing was more desirable than open and active in-
tervention, before the QUEEN accepted the Constitu-
tion ; nothing can be less so than such a measure
now, unless the auxiliary belligerents join the Spanish
Liberals in proclaiming and establishing it. This we
are not justified in expecting from a French army re-
presenting the political sentiments of LOUIS-PHI-
LIPPE, and the late President of the Council.
THIERS has lost all taste for Constitution-mongering,
since his installation in a Ministerial Hotel—the wor-
shipped of a hundred bowing secretaries, and the
adored of a thousand suitors for Court favour, and
Ministerial protection. His Royal Master has a still
greater horror of mobs and movements. He is now
not only KING of the FRENCH, but in reality King
of FRANCE—as absolute, by means of the Cham-
bers, as Lours XIV. was by means of his generals,
his armies, and the political prostration of his subjects.
Being now at the top of the revolutionary wheel,
he naturally enough dreads the appearance of whatever
threatens to put it again in motion. Lours PHI-
LIPPE has a difficult game to play; and unless his
eyes be for ever fixed on the board all is lost. This
difficulty is ten times increased by his love of intrigue,
and a species of busy-bodyism ever dangerous in a
Sovereign. He must seem to the world to do every-
thing himself—to have some grand scheme ever in re-
serve and ever undeveloped—and what is worse than
all, he does the simplest things as if there were some
mystery concealed in the performance of every act.
This is among the great oversights of all very clever
people who mistake a little natural shrewdness for
profound sagacity. The simplest and the most straight-
forward way of going to work is always the best ; and
nothing so upsets and confounds the plans of diplomatists
and political intriguantes so much as plain-dealing, de
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cision, and the absence of all ulterior views. A thousand

Gordian knots in diplomacy may be cut asunder by
one word emphatically and decisively spoken.
The Journal du Commerce notices a rumour which
prevailed in Paris on Thursday, to the effect that M.
DE MONTALIVET was to succeed M. 'THIERS as
President of the Council. We do not consider that
any change which may take place will be of long con-
tinuance. M. TRIERS will, in all likelihood, be re-
called as soon as the difficulty in the settlement of the
Spanish question is got rid of. Most probably he will
not remain so long out of office.
M. DE BOIS-LE-COMTE has been appointed Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary at Madrid. What his instruc-
tions are with respect to the establishment of the Con-
stitution we know not ; but we presume they are of
the true Doctrinaire stamp—" Be directed by events
—go with the current if you cannot make head against
it." The annexed extracts from the French Papers
include all that is interesting in the Journals of Thurs-
day

(From the French Papers.)
is said that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh has at last
consented to guarantee the third series of the loan for
60,000,000. The negotiations on this subject have lasted four
months. Two obstacles have retarded the termination ; in
the first place, the Russian Government, shocked at the scan-
dalous manner in which the second series was spent, demanded
that an account of its disbursement should be presented be-
fore the third was pal 4. tM. de Rothschild would not under-