The Sun.
London, England, 1813-07-22 00:00:00

VETUS (et ?mu t..) ATQUE PROBUS.

There is jay in Heaven over a repentant sinner
.---and we cannot refrain from im;tuting a celestial
virtue, and, even on earth, e:spressing-our sincere
gratification in tic tontrition and recantation of
tit It nelillat sinner Vr.xus, from whose Just let.-
ter we have, ibelefore, extracted the better part,
and beg to republish it in 1.1:!p„F,,,0N, for +.4le'bene,
fit of sound morldity,'as examule of Iniquity
not altogether hard-ued and confirmed, brought
to a due sense of the heinousness. of its inrmer
&fences, and the necessity of a public abjuration
of its errors.

Pi, Iql3.
Six,.---The extent and rapidity of the Northorn
Caizipaign,—its proximity to England, and to the
inti.*esiof Sogland,---wrou,:4lit upon our feeling;
with um Mitch violence, to admit'of its being ex-
ionined by the people of this country with temper.

preni4ioi), success. Likt a volcanic fire,

t matt.,,ed those who watched its d,evastatious.---;
Whatever pi tion Of good or evil,. therefore, May
be,entailed by the Armistice on our enemies or
one benefit mast result from thiA, transient
.pause amid the roar of battle. It gives.. to those,
whO from the .station of actors,, %have. ,sunk
into the obscurity, without enjoying: the tranqui-
lity, of speetatorS,—,to Anglishßen, of , rill
classes, it gives a leisure moment to deliberate—
one brief moment, in which they..mfiy recollect
calmly, what they have sea; hastily ; -learning to
appreciate, while undisturbed .by accident or tu-
mult, the changes which their condition has
ready undergone ; and to define the prospects
which await them.
That the Spanish war was to be a step towards
the invasion of Ireland,—that the war with Rus-
sia %,,aS to be preliminioy to thf invasion of ling-
truths which my Letters 23 and 24
were. destined to elucidate and enforce. Are -the

people of England ready to follow up this sub-
ject ? Are Ministers well prepared to digest the
consequences, as some of their official friends have
't hewn themselves to receive the' fact ? I trust
that. no left-handed ingenuity has been -employed
to misinterpret the drift of my former obsetvd.
tions If a strict investigation into the courie of
Napoleon's enterFizes led me to pronounce. that
s-mirge of hinnau• liberty, a tyrant :no less terrible
in wickedness than in power, let it 'not be
elwrged as an effusion of low- revenge, hot
.as
fair and, iovoluntary, argumentative dcduction,--
To those, who ore incapable of better tvarlare,
may he res4ctied the task or railing their fierce an-
tagonist iiltc justice, iatpotente, or peace.--7My
.referewa.'. to his character was interwoven with
the description of his policy; -find was pushed no
farther than seemed necessary to ascertain its'
connection wlth-the source:of all (Lit dangers.—
It.constituted a grand ingredient in the proof,
thatEugland ispow a prineipai in two, co--s
wars.;-..a principal in the same degree, and in the
. same fullness ot construction., as if the armies by
which Bnain and Rusi,ila have been howled were
eneamped widin'aight pf Dublin and of leldin-
taft-gh ;---a principal in that:eternal stake which
bangs on the issue of either conflict ;—a principal
in the e:taaliShment of fame and freedom—or in
,the base fellowship of deserted duties, of tarnigh-
ed honour, and of ruined hopes,
But if these tire/idiot agitations of the Conti-
nent. prtimis.ed to be only forerunners of a more
fatal concussion here ;—if the flux and reflux of
this tide of blood throughout Europe, were' but
the harbingers of a purple deluge upon their own
shores ;—if, in fine, the works begun upon the
Ebro and the Vistula were actually the piles and
tnttresses of invasion-.--the substantial members
of a direct attack upon the British Islmuls-r-it is
quite obvinais that thedtities of the English Go.
yernment ought to be measured by the interests
for which they 'fought ; anti the prime question
which offersitself to our examination ts—HOw'
they have "diScharged those duties ?
It animates nod cheers me to re-enter upon
this theme, when a ray of sunshine bids'fair to il-
luminate the darkness which has hitherto oppress-
ed it. The most delightful harvest is that of
hope, from a field which. was but lately over-run
With apprehension ; and to' a generouS mind there
is no prerogative. se r grateful as that of bestowing
sure confidence on thOse, who Ltd, once filled ns
with suspicion, disappointment, or (let:nail%
Minis,ers have within these few weeks, stood'
on' ground, which, if they had occupied it at nit
earlier season, would have enabled them .to repel
its .
a variety ot directions thelorce, ofpublic. tam
sure, 'The servants of the Crown; arc national
property. Theaccoistion of character to a States-;
matt, is stteogth to the State. At the Commence-
ment• of the rir::-ient Session,)ew men ht office ap-
-1- the eonntry ' with names more am-
hi;,.,otts, or leis to popularity than Lord
C,,sCt;latutOt. The love of power, without the
cave ot repl4Ntion, was Jscribed to him by these
11,q,9 Wine area. his :The love of place
vVithotitTower, time 4,enil'ine anahitinaa Of 'a slave,
,was affixed to him by those who were not ltig
friends. 'Fetus, though never his foe, was little
prep Ite,l to 1,11)6110 him—not-can his respect and
tl 1;011,100n ['Or some p;lrts of the Noble Viscount's
cnottet btu deemed less honourable to his Lord.L
ship, heeanie they have been hardly won. It:is
6,, privilege of an anonymtnis writer to ttse Uct
reserve in his expressions. In a matter of the:
biOiv.st delie,tcy, Lord Castiereagh is said' tO base
bvhavi,.il with transcendent 4i,rit. Pis Lordship.

—Ay oft n convict fl;rnseif of being a tnista,kin po-
t , hot in per ceivirl/ the essential difference
wee,, ~aniit and rectitude, I can»?t find, that (-?t)
tltc<l)l-ca..,.;0,1 a II ided to Ili: head or heart teas
t
wroiig. 'When filquiTY t)f tllc I.nost
isritenm tuittt,.e ilt.p;;lti to ove-rfeap;the first prnict-
i)te,,,t zuld to apprciach the confines
cf. Per, :t...titi!)ll,, it ottgbt to be lekturwledged by
u„ ;11111 111$011 ()Or Chihli:en, that a Ca-
;‘tiniiter tenrie.l,o 'the resignation of hie
se,ti n 1 tilu.r t i ii fill ;,,iippostli to coontetiATlCC: pro-
et., ,i,ll ~'ti 't lii 411tiibt!rat ely comiewitierl—rather
th,i,) •,itcrifitc. totil.s ft-Owns or biantlisbiltunt 3 Of
the pl;r1:-.4,,Afignity withilt his reovh---the
p,.„tectiou of titt...,retik ionov,ent, Lorwca,,
ticitt:l«,!-, may be assured that nolkartie,e,•of his

Merits 'is lost tiptin tit ise Nvlin taVe tiarrovviy ob-
served him. On the Catholic question he had,
through a ebnoirrenc,... of 'untoward circumqauces,
excited some doubts of his own, integkity,
roceat conduct has wholly removed them. By the
Consistent, mar;ly, and intrepid support which Etc
gave to the. Bill for enfranchising his _fellow-,sttb-
jbets, lie 'proved himself as much the frit:nil of
eqnti,liberty, as by his interposition in the former
ins,taitee,' he shelved himself the advocate of equal
justice. Bata was it,,t towards the 'Catholics
alone, that the Noble Viscount displayeafthe true
colotiring, Of his eintracter.. The great patr.ms
and managers of the treasure' in the House of.
Commons were, llenyv--Ctrat,tartcL-;nid the' Right
don. Mr. Canning. I}elie4Y frnbids Inc to do
more than hint at transaetions, notorious indeed
to :ill the woYld, but extinct, I'willingly hope and
believe, in the recollection of the partie,s them -
s:elves.- The relation long subsisting befween Lord
.Castlereagh and Mr. Cirattan in thc Irish Parlia-
Meiq—the, occurrences between Mr. Canning and
his Lord Ship bere—both Combined with 'his
meanone on the Catholic Question—Matit be,
however, slightly resorted to, -before we can de-
scribe, or estimate thetpuilities which belongtohim.
To yield othert„ and these his ancient rivals,
theprecedenee to which- he' might have fairly,
though perhaps not successfully, aspired, because
it Would coneiliatetheCath olie—to act under these
his rivals, as his leaders, and to take upon himself
theintroductionoiwhat was most Obnoxious to the
Catholic, because it would conciliate the Protestant,
cordially to facilitate, and vigoronsly tti enforce the
progress of a measure, destined to'nnutortali4t-his
adversaries—and to'-obscure his name by
Theetlidgence which itsbed round theirs--7such Were
,40t syniptoms. of an" ordinal.), nature—they could
Jfetult' from none, but an elevated and accomplish-
Pi Mind. These are my views, of Lord Castle-
:4ools course from the latter cntl-of Februaryto
the rcjection of the Catholic: Bill. They have de-
stroyed whatever disposition may once have pos-
sessed me, to' arraign the measures of iiisperular
department. Would 'to GM' had relieved us,
from the -necessity of arraigning them ! IVny
has he not selected a different Office i or by differ-
ent proceedings towards foreign nations; approved
the wisdom of his choke It is,, I suppose, an,
anwholesome indulgence to feast th;is keenly. on
his Lordship's principles, •since by wav of re-
medy we are to be drenched without remorse.. in
deep and Amp:datable errors •To trace the springs
of even partial failurc. in ottr policy, is at hest an
unwelcome employment.--.-but should the task -de,-
vOlve fi,a Vetus, it will be henceforth executed with
unspelkable regret. •
If we turn from the Ministerial,Leader in the
House of ConnuOns to the acts of the Cabinet at
large, this it will be confessed is precisely' the
moment at which the bliudegt partisan of the
Regent's Ministers would call foe an in vestig,atioii
of their merits. Were any man cold enough to
remain untnoVed by the glorious tidings frOin the
renit►sulta---at'is an,indifferenee which none would
he weak enough to avow, The triumph achieved
is equal to that of Blenheim—not inferior in any
of its aspeettr--superior in some. There is no ye-
cord at a veteran army, struck with at paralysis so
destructive of its military powers, by the 'mere
force of that Genius which assatthe4 and con-
fow!ded them. There is no recorded instance of
a hods' 470,000 veterans so reduced, inpue Short
hour, from the condition Ofa gallant army to-that
:of a defenceless multitude. 'Had Joseph and
troops been contending within' the
,frontiers of
France—and in the close vicinity of abundant ma-
gazines, their stores and equipment might lie re-
garded but as, secondary objects, 'and not won!)
risking the fateof the army for their preServation.
In that case the whole would have been at once
refurnisheci---.the cause would have survived with
the soldiers. Here, every thing' is reverted. 'ln
an 'enemy's country, exhausted and inveterate, an
army stripped of stores, ammunition, and Subsist-
ence, can be tin army no longer. consider the
French face: engaged at Vittoria as at present
ipsofaeto annihihited--The Gallic eagle tort: piece-
meal—,-and his plumage scattered ti) the winds.
• It would be presumptons to soil by 0110 breath
ol,panegyrie, the brightness of our General's
glory. He who has never lost a battle eau he;
come greaier only from misfortune—and except,
what Heaven avert 'that he should, exhibit—the
majesty of suffering virtue, lie has worn out every
topic of applause.
Nor. would it be more indicative of had taste to
expatiate in superfluous praises of the British
Chief, than Amcandid and illiberal to refrain front
due acknowledgments to those by whom at length
he' is stiPported, . Miniiters, sO far, as we yet can
judge, appear, in this campaign, to. have perform.!
ed their tint)? to the Peninsula: I never was in-
sensible to the difficulties attendant on a' rigorous
prosecution otthe Spanish' war. • lint jilt were a
ditficidt, it was a necessary laboutotte whose
pains bore little comparison to its imptirtanee.--,
However invidious,. therefore, it now they, seem,
it !Misr be highly salittary at least,' to, bring for-
‘vitrd ?Mine concise refiectiona upon a sOjeet., shit
of the most pressing and precarious Class.
VETUS.

•
CARnAcc4s,--Nlaruct of a 'letter from. Puerto
RicO, South America :—" We hear from Carracus
thilt General the Marquis of Tinto has marched
With the Royalists .under his command, amount=
log to 2000 :men, for, Cumunii. This army is
ttOniposed of Blacks, 'Mulattoes, 'and:Fieoch West
Indians. We also are giveo to understand, that
General Mowre VEant lately left the capital with:
nearly 5000 men tor Valencia. 'those Generals,
When united, intend to oppose 10,000 insurgents.
-from Santa F 6, who were advancing on the pro,
viuces latdy contittcred l,y those Getteralit.
tuts, it is reported, hai surrendered to - the insur-
gents but this isinot chArmed. In. the inidst
of. this confusion; fea's are- entertained that the,

aboriginal inhabitants will rush in, take posses-
sion of the country, and murder ail Europeans
with distinction.' We are in a very precarious
taation and very-poor here, nothing being in cir-
culation bat paper currency."
The following method of taking out grease
spots from %voile!) cloth has been recommended
Tike magnesia in the lump wet it, and rub the
grease shits ; in a little time brush it 011",
wilen no stain or appearance' of grekw: will be
lefts