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London, England, 1822-12-16 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ZXTRACTS FROM THE DA ILY :MORNING PAPERS

December •15, 1822,

[BRITISH PRESS.]

The French'lsapers continue to express -sur-
prise at the war-delusion which they lately pro-
pagated with so much zeah The auke. Of Wel-
lington seems to hare terminated his high labours.
We have seen some absurd speculations about
his further services in Paris as assistant to Sir
Charles Stuart. This is upon the old idea, that
the French Government is valorously determined
to put an end to. the Spanish Revolution, and
that it is only the parental influence of his Grace
which can temper the courage of the Bourbons
with discretion.

[N c-W Tim r.s."l
The Journal des Dt'bals contains an article ex-
tremely important at the present moment. We
have extracted it in another column, and our
readers will form their own judgment on its im-
port, and on the inferences to be drawn from its
appearance. For our own part we confess we
are inclined to regard it as 'indicating a certain
change in the predominant opinions of the French
Cabinet. - We some time since stated that much
would turn on the disposition of the newly-
.elected Fifth of the Chamber of Deputies ; and it
would seem that these have rather inclined to
the opinion of M. De Villele, than to those
of M. De Montmorency on the question of a
Spanish war.. The presenc'e of the Duke of
Welliagton in Paris has no doubt contributed
much to the success of M. De Villele. We
must not, however omit to mention, tbiat one of
our private Correspondents states the great ma-
jority of the new Fifth to be inclined to war ;
and says, on that account, the 'opening of the
Session will be deferred till April. Time will
shew what foundation there is for such a state-
ment. One thing is perfectly certain—both M.
De Villele and M. De Montmorency, together
with their. respective adherents, are alike indig-
nant at the. atrocities of the Republican faction
at Madrid, and equally sensible that those
wretches cannot effectually establish their tyranny
without involving all Europe in Revolution ; but
it would seem that the opinion which has pre.
Nailed is, that the Republicans if left to them-
selves must fall, and that a reasonable modifica-
tion of the Constitution will probably be made
by the Spaniards. of more moderate views.

[THE TIMES.]
It seems to be now almost useless to accumulate
proofs of the defeat of the war-bigots in France.
Such, however, are to be found in the Moniteur
of Thursday, which arrived since our Saturday's
publication. That Journal, which did not think
proper to insert the last military meagrim of the
Etoitc, has faithfully copied its recantation, in
which, according to the ancient usage of all
offenders, it taxes its accomplices in error, and
says as little as possible of its own blunders. For
our own parts, we will frankly acknowledge,
that so far as the Ministers have, by their repre-
sentations and remonstrances, tended to produce
peaceful Councils in the Court of France, they
have acted wisely and rationally : but how much
farther would th:,y have carried the honour of their
country, if by this time—that is, after sev en years
of peace—they had had us placed in a situation to
compel France to respect the rights of nations, by
letting her know Nnit, at the very beginning of
the contest, if she dared to enter Spain to re-
establish despotism and the Inquisition, she
would find British troops among the foremost to
oppose her. Even under the existing circum-
stances, no Minister could have withheld Eng-
land long from joining the Spaniards. We recol-
lect with what enthusiasm we rushed into the
field to defeat the nefarious projects of Buona-
parte upon the Peninsula ; and equal or even
greater ardour would now also have been evinced
by us to defeat the no less nefarious projects of the
Bourbons, had not our wounds been still open
and bleeding, and no humane hand applied to
heal and cicatrize them.