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London, England, 1822-07-30 00:00:00

THE LONDQN JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS. FII.OM THE DAILY TIORNING PAPERS,
July 30, 1822.

[THE TIMES.]
The attitude in which the French Government
and its armies on the southern frontier have stood
fir some time towards Spain and her popular in-
stitutions, must have been considered as, if not
in the -highest degree menacing, yet calculated
to. excite very grave, attention, and to justify no
small uneasiness among the friends of Spanish
liberty. The natural interest belonging to this
subject has been much .augmented since Wed-
nesday last, when General l'Foy took occasion to
-tax the French Ministers with a designing. and
deceitful policy, in maintaining a powerful armed
force upon the Pyrennees, bearing the name of a
Sanitory Cordon, but neither fitted, nor required,
nor destined, in fact, to fulfil the purpose which
its name described. The pestilential feVer has dis-
appeared for eight months, yet the-Cordon Sanitairc
remains immoveable. The position of Barcelona is
on the east of the Pyrennees, but the troops are
assembled towards the west, and successive trains
of horse and foot artillery, -with 'two divisions
(6,000) of cavalry, have been marched- to the
same quarter, which are not, as it• seems, the
•mosCproper instruments for repelling the ap-
proaches of contagion. We believi. it was ex-
pected that M. Montmorency, the Foreign
Mi-
nister, would have disclaimed the threatening
character Of, these Military movements, and would
have given whatever satisfaction may be thought
to attach itself to an official assurance, that the
force employed was puraly.a preventive of dis-
ease : but this, expectation was far enough from
being , answered by the Foreign -Secretary. On
the contrary, his speech is throughout, as it 'ap-
pears to us, an indirect avowal of those views
of political interference which, if they did not
exclusively cause this armament, yet mingled
themselves, according to M. Montmorency, with
less offensive motives for assembling. the force
" upon
,the Pyrennees. His first defence is,
that the King had pledged himself to maintain
the Cordon Sanitaire. 2d, That it was a pro.
tection not only against pestilence, but against in-
sults, which might be the fruit of frequent con•
filets on the frontier.—(He was answered here,
that it was the French Ministry which had
given rise to those combats.) The third justifi-
cation was, that although none could wish more
earnestly than the French Ministers for the wel-
fare of Spain, that welfare 'could not be found
but in the support of a strong Monarchical au-
thority. 4th, If new circumstances should call
upon the French Government to discharge the
duties of a: faithful Ally, the Government would
know how, to perform those duties. sth, In a
season of misfortune, " all our measures will
" tend to preserve those great attributes insepa-
" rable from Monarchies—the, inviolability and
" safety of Kings:" We have thus.selected from
the speech of M.-Montmorency • all the passages
which bear immediately upon the accusation of
General Foy, and4e are borne out in affirming
that the answer is a; confirmation of the charge.

NET TpIES.j.
By an Express from Paris, which arrived yester-
day, evening, letterS and.papers.froin..that capital
have been received- tO,:alate'liptir of the evening
of Saturday. Thc,ntiWi:fronif;the Spanish Capi-
tal is not of a later -date: than we had previously
received. We have, however,:: given an extract.
from a' most interesting private letter _ which
we have *received from Madrid, and which
may be irnplicitely relied on for the account
it gives of the general state of politics in
Spain. The Jaurrial de Prfris asserts that M.
De llardenberg and M. de. Bernstorff will leave
Berlin about the 15th or 20th day of August
to assist at- the Congress, and that M. De
Tatischeff and M. De NesSelrode will attend
the same distinguished assembly on the part
of Russia.—As the Session of the French Chant-
bet- of Deputies draWs to a close, the Demo-
cratic Members indulge in :more furious anti-
monarchical declamations. One of these gentry
-had the audacity to utter a philippic against the
ancestors of the present King ; another, with
.equal impudence, insulted the memory of, Moreau
,for having fought in the cause of .France and of
lawful Government against the Corsican Despot.
We say, "Mnreau fought for .France, Whilst his
detractors fought to enslave their country : be
was a supporter of his lawful King, and they
-of rebellion. Such is the decision of History.
A circumstance has come to our knowledge,
which promises to prove highly important to the
future prospects of Mexico.—Two Gentlemen of
acknowledged • talent and ability have, within
-these few days, 'quitted. fiavro for the place al-
luded to, whither they are. travelling in the as-
sumed characters of private Gentlemen. It
seems, however, to be understood, that they are
connected with the presenttFrench Government;
and in the event of their report of the state of
things in Mexico being favourable, it is generally
believed, in the political circles in Paris, that
agents will be appointed for the purpose of car-
rying on a diplomatic intercourse between the
two countries. It is also rumoured that arrange-
ments to the same effect are about to be entered
into with the Government of Colombia and
Chile.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Lord Holland,,in his eloquent and impressive
speech last night in the House of Lords, on the
subject of the Alien Bill, sheaved that instances
of very foul abuse had taken place in the execu-
tion of that abominable law, and dwelt more
particularly en the case of Las Casas. His Lord-
ship also met the argument of the measure being
necessary to prev_ent this country being the
heat re of plots against foreign Governments, by
instancing the case of Turkey. " Did the
Noble _Earl (he observed) mean to say that
any Greek who fled to England from the car-
nage and misery inflicted by the Turks on his
unhappy countrymen, and who was suspected—he
Would not say by the Turkish, but by the English
Government—of being active in the dissemina-
tion of principles calculated to rescue his native
land from despotism, would be a lit object for