The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-27 00:00:00

,PIRIT OF T.

C JOURNALS.

Anything more disgracefurin point of good taste and ge-
nuine English feeling we never remember to have perused,
than the attacks made at the present moment upon the gallant
veteran warrior Soult, not only by the Quarterly Review,
but also by its worthy co-mate and fellow labourer the Times.
Age, covered with more than ordinary glory, coupled with the
mission which has brought Marshal Soult to our shores, ought
to remove anything calculated to give offence, and substitute
in its stead the warm and hearty welcome, which none better
know how to extend than Britons, who can appreciate valour
and devotion to his country even in a foe. Is this, we
ask, the proper season to rake up old feuds, which it is
wise should be buried in complete oblivion? Is it decent
to her Majesty thus to assail a venerable warrior, as well
as one of the most extraordinary men in Europe, who
has come to do her honour by his presence at the august
ceremony of her Coronation? Is it politic to excite feelings
ofjealousy and ill will between the people of France and Eng-
land, who are daily becoming mere united by common sym-
pathies, produced and ripened by a more intimate acquaintance
with each other, as well as by an amalgamation of commercial
interests, which we are happy to say arc hourly growing more
numerous and important? Sure we are that the Duke of
Wellington would spurn at the idea of receiving homage by
Insulting a brother in arms, who now comes among us the mi-
nister of peace and friendship from the French monarch. If
anything can alleviate the pang which conduct so disreputable
is calculated to produce in every well-regulated mind, it is the
circumstance that it has drawn forth the excellent letter of
Colonel Napier, one of the best qualified to judge of the re-
spective merits of a Soult and a Wellington.—illorning Ad-
vertiser.
Last night's Gazette contains the announcement of the
Peers elevated or created on the occasion of her Majesty's
Coronation. This official notification corresponds very ac-
curately with the anticipation which we ventured to hazard
on Monday. Three pre-existing Peers are advanced to a
higher rank than they formerly enjoyed. The Earl of Mul-
grave becomes Marquis of Normanby ; Baron King becomes
Viscount Ockham and Earl of Lovelace, and Baron Dundas
becomes Earl of Zetland. Four Irish Peers acquire the dig-
nity of a Baron of the United Kingdom. They are the Earl
of Kintore, Viscount Lismore, Baron Rossmore, and Baron
Carew. This, added to Lord Mulgrave's elevation, and the
Hon. Mr. Ponsonby's Peerage, to be mentioned presently,
is, we presume, the O'Connell part of the Gazette, and
a very large share truly it is. An English Marquisate and
five out of the nine new votes in the House of Lor
are not amiss. One eldest son of an English Duke, th
Marquis of Carmarthen, is called to the House of Peers
the style and title of Baron Osborne. Four English co
movers become Members of the House of Peers—the Ho
William Francis Spencer Ponsonhy, now Baron De Mauley
Sir John Wrottesley, Bart., now Baron Wrottesley; Charle
Banbury Tracy, Esq„ now Baron Sudeley ; and Paul Me-
thuen, Esq.,-now Baron Methuen. We said on Monday that
Ministers would not dare to elevate to the Peerage many
Members of the House of Commons, because they cannot
afford to lose votes in that assembly, and it is all but certain
that whatever vancancies they had created would have been
filled by the election of Conservative candidates. The batch
of Coronation Peers has at length been drawn, and, what we
believe is without precedent in modern times, it does not in-
clude so much as a single Member of the House of Com-
mons. We said also that one of the principal tests of
honour and of worth—which the Ministers of the Crown had
employed in the selection of the Coronation Peers was the re-
jection of county constituencies. The Gazette of last night
fully confirms our conjecture. Of the four commoners ele-
vated to the Peerage upon this occasion, two (Sir John Wrot-
tesley and Mr. Methuen), were candidates for seats in the
Nouse of Commons at tie last general election, and had the
miefortuae, or, as we ought rather to say, according to the
new Whig-Radical code of honour, the merit of being re-
jected by the counties to the representation of which they
respectively aspired. Scotland, it will be seen, is wholly ne..
gkitc.od. Scotland has no O'Connell. A Ministerial Journal
of last night censures the excessive moderation of .Ministers in
respect to the creation of Peers. The Globe does its patrons
less than justice. A little inquiry will suffice to convince our
Contemporary that Ministers have exercised their power to its
utmost extent. —Morning Post.
We have taken no part in the notable discussion as to whe-
ther the Duke of Wellington or Marshal Soult was the victor
in the battle of Toulouse, because we really thought that a
claim to the victory lately set up by some foolish Frenchmen,
for the army that fled from its fortified positions, was too eh-
surd to warrant any discussion at all. Some of oar Contem-
poraries have thought otherwise, and fought over again, ela-
borately upon paper, the battle which contributed the last
laurels of the Peninsular war to the brows of Wellington--
we say of the " Peninsular war," though the battle was fought
on the soil of France. We perceive that those English writers,
snore especially a writer in the Quarterly Review, who have
ss given to Ceesar the things that are Caesar's," have fallen
under the severe rebuke of Colonel Napier, who looks
upon the discussion of this subj,et at the present time
as an insult to that illustrious stranger, Marshal Soult,
now under the protection of the hospitality of England.
We have a ;great respect for Marshal Soult, nut only
as one of the ablest, but one of the most faithful of the
Generals of Napoleon; but if he has been insulted, or
place-I in an awkward position by the revival of the painful
subject to which we have alluded, whose fault is that ? Is it
the fault of English writers who have only answered the false
and absurd pretensions of those Frenchmen who have laid
claim to the victory, and proposed the erection, of a national
memorial to commemorate it, or of those Gallic worthies who,
with the most unblushing violation of the truth of history, have
attempted to pluck the well earned laurels from the brows of
Wellington and to transfer them t 3 those of his honourable
and distinguished, but beaten rival. If some of the French papers
speak truth Louis Philip has lent himself to this absurd
attempt by subscribing a sum of money to the proposed me-
morial, which is to carry down to future ages the fame of the
French victory of Toulouse! Which party deserves most the
reprobation of an honest censor—they who attempt to steal
the property of the true man, or they who enforce a restitution
of stolen goods ?-31orning Herald.