The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Pious, DEC. 'ls.—Thterday 'morning our.
'Minister for Foreign Affairs received an extra-
.ardinary Courier .from 'Madrid. He left that
capital on the,6th. At his departure the greatest
-tranquillity prevailed. The two last sittings of
the Landahurian Society had, however, been very'
storm. Martinez San Martin, the Politlcal
Chiefrof Madrid under the late Ministry, against
whom` the Fiscal Paredes issued a writ on the
grolukd of 'his being implicated in the affair of
1it0,74.1i.0f July, and from the effects of which he
was saved by the Supreme Tribunal Of Justice
annulling the 'process of the Fiscal, presented
himself in the last of the two sittings. He was,
however, so ill received, that -he was under the
necessity of withdrawing immediately, to avoid
the imminent danger in which he was placed.—
(Journal de Path.)
On- Friday afternoon, the Duke de Montmo-
rency transacted business with the King. The
'Count 'de Clerinont Tonnerre, Minister of the
Marine, transacted business with the Duke de
Angouleme, the High Admiral.
Several persons attribute the depression of the
funds.whichtook place yesterday to the dispatches
received from Madrid ; but we are of opinion
that the fluctuation had its origin in other causes,
and we have some reason to -be persuaded that
the news from Madrid was not of a nature to pro-
duce this unfavourable influence.—(Mid.)
Yesterday evening the Spanish Ambassador
dispatched an extraordinary courier to Madrid.
The Duke of Wellington came, at two o'clock
yesterday, to pay his respects at the Tuileries, to
their Royal Highnesses Monsieur, Madame, the
Duke of Angouleme, and the Duchess of Berry.
It is said that his Grace will not set out for Eng-
land till the end of the present week.
We are assured that the Duke of Wellington
had on Thursday a long audience with the King,
after which his Grace immediately dispatched
a courier for Madrid.

His 'Excellency the Duke of San Lorenzo
.visited the Duke of Wellington on Friday. The
interview of these two personages was pretty
•long, and we understood that the Spanish Ambas-
sador came away very well satisfied, and with
new assurances of the continuance of peace.

The Count de Toreno had a similar interview
with the Duke of Wellington.
Baron Fagel, Charge d'Affaires of the King of
the Netherlands, died on his arrival at Lisbon.
—The diplomatic body have paid him the last
honours.

No. 571 of the 'Bulletin des Lois, published
iyesterday, contains an Ordinance of the King of
-the 27th of November last, calling into active
service all the young soldiers of the class of
1821, at present disposable, and which prescribes
their distribution into corps. According to the
3d article of this ordinance, the departures of the
young soldiers called into active service must
terminate before the 20th inst.

LieuL-General Tirlet •has been named com-
mandant of the artillery of the army of the
'Western Pyrenees ; and the Mareschal-de-camp
„Terye, commandant of the artillery of the army
of the Eastern Pyrenees.

• .(From the Joureatdes Debuts.)

" We have 'detailed the weighty, and, as it appears to us,
.decisive reasons which prevent France from declaring war
..against Spain. The all but impossibility of-deriving an useful
result, even from the most successful campaigns, precludes a
• constitutional and responsible Government from -'lncurring the
: hazards of an enterprize which may compromise all our national
interests, beginning with shat which. is the first of them all—
iegitimaey. All-our arguments are reducible to this one word.
If they had been calmly anti honestly weighed, no friend of the
•monarchical. cause could now remain in the fatal error.of de-

airing war with Spain—an error, moreover, shared by so small
• a number of persons, that it will, 'ere long, be matter of aStonish-
-ment when this number is known.

" But•what is the reasoning, and what ti tone, which is

employed against us ? In the 'first place, we are told inces-

santly of the dangers to which the Royal Family of Spain is
-exposed. Have we shown any insensibility on this point ?
Have not the authority and safety of the King appeared al-
ways in our eyes the first of interests ? Have we not dec:ared
that menaces aimed at his sacred person, and at the persons of
his august brothers, would.authorize immediate war.
" In the,present state of things, it is precisely the imprudent
provocations of the friends of war which would have the power
of exciting against the Bourbons of Spain that popular fury
which hitherto, without success, the Zztrriago has attempted to
: stimulate. Our articles, on the contrary, are calculated to
.maintain the idea,•happily general at Madrid; that King Fer-
dinand VIl. is the first element: of a free Spanish Constitu-
tion. • • * •

" Profound politicians a'sk us to whom unr sage counsels are
addressed ? 'We have said it twenty times. We address our-
selves to all. Spaniards who are Willing to 'bear the =voice of

reason ;:wito comprehend the union of Monarchy with true
liberty, and who can have any influence on the re-establish-
ment of order."
[After some observations of less general interest, the 'Journal
des Debats alludes as folloiv to the speculators on 'Change.]
" Some frequenters of the 'Change see in a newspaper ar-
tide nothing but the means of supporting hazardous specula-
tions : this class of persons reproach us With hot saying the same

thing every-day. Our answer is this—We always support the

Wile doctrines, the same principles;' but as to events and facts,
say, it rains,' when it does rain, and it is fine,' when it
is fine. If there are people ,who lay wagers on the rain and fine
weather; what use is it to them that a journal will tell them in
.. the,, morning that it will rain in, torrents, when perhaps the

sun will disperse all the clouds ?..One wager is as hazard-

ous as the other ; and we would seriously advise all those
wha hunt for the rise and fall in the news, of the journals, to
,pay their attention rather to the flight of ,birds,.which is a far

len deceitful kind of augury.

" There are persons who ask, with a simplicity highly amus-
ing*., whether the treaty, of peace. is concluded, and by whom
is.signed? We- are very happy to be able to inform them
• thit there has been no declaration•o£ war or hostility, and that
consequently there is no necessity for cancludiv nor sighing a
treaty of peace.

"We are accused of having-committed a great indiscretion
in disposing of the two Americas with an air of certainty.—
flow long hag the conditional mood been expressive of cer-