The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-14 00:00:00

former dependent situation, is not so chimevical
as some scoffers pretend ; and that it is worthy
of the new Councils of his Catholic Majesty, will
not at least be denied. Of the amiable dissimu-
lation of that Monarch, the French Papers fur-
nish a striking instance, in the manner in which
he is said to have treated M. Zea Bermudez,
the last time he honoured that Minister with
an audience. We thought a cat carried away
the prize from all other animals in its play-
ful manner of worrying its victims ; but we were
mistaken, if this account be correct. M. Zea ar-
rived, as usual, at the palace, apparently uncon-
scious of the fate that awaited him ; and it is par-
ticularly noticed that the King was prodigal of
his attentions towards him. From eight in the
morning till seven in the evening he was per-
mitted to bask in the full sunshine of Royal
smiles. Even the farce was carried on so far as
to- allow him, according to custom, to pay his
court to the Princes and Princesses, who received
him as caressingly as their amiable and august
brother. This masquerade lasted till seven
o'clock, when it suddenly closed with the fulmi-
nating denunciation to M. Zea, that he was no
longer Minister, and that his successor was ac-
tually appointed.

[MORNING POST.]
We received last night by Express French
Papers to the 12th instant, and the Etoile of Sa-
turday. They contain nothing new from Greece,
except the return of General Roche from Napoli
di Romania to Paris, where he was probably re-
called by the Greek Committee, who publicly
disapproved of his Protest as an attempt to dic-
tate to the Government of a free country ; or at
least of a country whose freedom he was sent to
assist in restoring, instead of labouring to repress
it. The Journal des Debals, alarmed at the
progress of the Fanatics, who aim at ob-
taining the whole power in France, has at
last denounced them formally to the world.—
As the danger is not confined to the Conti-
nent, it may not be inapplicable to show what
idea Catholic writers and Statesmen (for the
Editors of the Journal des Debats are both) en-
tertain of this monstrous usurpation. " A party
has sprung up, whose pass word is, the destruc-
tion of our Religious and Political Liberties.
This party has i❑ its ranks, or to speak more
truly, at its head, an eloquent orator, an impas-
sioned writer, a Priest, as remarkable for the
heedless temerity of his ideas, as for his general
ability to express them. Around him, a crowd
of men without any avowed mission, have
grouped themselves. Isolated in the midst of the
Great Ecclesiastical Society, they act through
the agency of an invisible impulse, but with a
degree of concert which indicates an unity of
principle, a fixedness of plans for the present,
and profound views which penetrate far into the
future. This party has a public tribune, conse-
crated to furious declamations, to treacherous
delusions and to perfidious calumnies. It has a
principal station, which enlarges itself in a ter-
ryfying manner, and proselytes scattered in the
Departments, where they cultivate for the ad-
vantage of their own society, the ignorance, the
weakness, the ambitious inclinations of intrizuers,
and even the timid virtues of the credulous.—
Their doctrine reduces itself to this single point,
the proscription of the Charter. This is di?
simple expression of their wishes, for the Charter
once annihilated, it would be an easy task to de-
stroy our religious and political liberties."

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We have every reason to belive that our Go-
vernment has acted towards the French with great
candour and good faith in all that relates to the
recognition of the new States of South America.
A considerable time ago, a full notification was
made to all the European Powers, including
Spain, of the intentions of our Ministers on this
subject; but, with the exception of France and
Sweden, no one Government evinced any thing
like a disposition to concur in acts that might
prove offensive to Spain, or infringe the principles
of legitimacy. The invitations of the British
Envoy,and the clamours of the French merchants,
hoWever, called the attention of M. Villele more
particularly to this point ; but when it came to
be discussed in the Council of Ministers, besides
the minor objections which Mr. Canning has had
the courage to treat as mere empty verbiage, the
precarious situation of the French army in Spain,
should any thing be done to rouse the rancour
of the Clergy and Absolutists, appeared as an
insurmountable obstacle under the then existing
circumstances. M. Villele attempted, through
the medium of M. Zea Bermudez, to induce
Xing .Ferdinand to anticipate the intentions of
the British Government, by entering into bar-
gains with his quondam Colonies, and receiv-
ing from each a large sum for his formal re-
linquishment and recognition, in a manner simi-
lar to the plan pursuing with Hayti. This, as
well as all the other grand desiderata of which
the negociation ?was entrusted to M. Zea Ber-
;nudes, failed, although not till after every argu-
inent and every effort bad been exhausted. Un-
der the immediate auspices of M. Villele a nego-
ciation for the sale of the Spanish part of St. Do-
mingo to President Boyer had also been opened,
and it was thought 'that the poverty of the Ma-
drid Treasury would have rendered it impossible
to :resist the temptation. M. Villele and his
friends, have, 'however, found ,that the Spaniards
are obstinate, and moreover that they can go on
without the use of money. One fortunate
ciicumstance in the failure of M. Villele's
schemes, is, that no sums •of money will
now be ;paid to Spain • for an act of grace
that can easily he :dispensed with, and, conse-
quently, that,-,for:the present at least, we shall
not have the , London Market over-loaded with
any .new loans.for South America, or if any more
are brought forward, they will be for small
amounts, such, only as are wanted to pay the
interest on the old ones, for it is pretty well
ascertained that: no one of the new Government
is in a situation to do without borrowing, or likely
'to be .so fora number of years. So far we have
.tollink the Clergy and Absolutists in Spain ;
but as to France, she has now to consider whe-
ther she can safely acknowledge the independence
of•'South America before: her army withdraws