The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-31 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNAV,.

LXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MOWAING PAPERS
December 31, I§:t2.

THE'
The inferences drawn from the instruction to
the French Minister at Madrid, which we will
allow is cautiously enliressed, are not at present
quite so uniform a might have been expected :
a little reflection wilt bring all reasonable people
more into one mind. First, it will be observed
that M. de Montmorency was the advocate of
war, and M.de Villele of peace, with the'Spanish
Government : it therefore undeniably follows,
that the production of the latter will at least be
more pacific than that of the former ; unless
people are disposed to draw an hostile declaration
from the pen of one who is opposed to war. And
what, we ask, under such circumstances, could be
Pxpec ted from M. de Villele ? That he should
declare that France would in .no case attack
Spain ? By no means. He is obliged to hint, in
guarded and obscure terms, that there may be a
conduct pursued by the Spaniards which will
oblige the French Government to invade the
Peninsula, but that in the mean time all the mea-
sures adopted by France are of a defensive
nature': this, as we observed yesterday, is the
general tenour of the docuMent. It begins, first,
by describing the troubles in Spain, and what does
' it infer from thence ? That France is to interpose,
and endeavour to put a stop to them ? Nn ; but
that she is simply to protect (or shelter) herself
from those disorders—(se mellre a l'abri)-L-a mea-
sure to which no one can object. The prospec-
tive object also of her present•armament is spe-
cifically defined by its past services : it has pre-
vented the. Violation of the French territory by
the entrance of armed bands.' " The events,"
it is said, " which have taken place since the es-
" tablishment of the Army of Observation at the
"-foot of the Pyrennees, have justified the fore-

" sight of the King of France:' That there are

also menacing passages in the paper, is equally
4ndeniable. The're is alWays, however, the re-
corded peace-maker if coupled to them.

[MORNING POST.]
It is evident from the 'anger of the French
Ultras, that they give to the very equivocal, or,
at least, conditional .Declaration of the French
'government, an interpretation wholly pacific.
They would not otherwise charge M. de Villele
with. having detaChed his country from the Holy
Alliance. Their hopes of war scarcely find any
encouragement in those parts of the Dispatch
which appear so hostile to those who justly think
that a nation sacrifices her independence if she
suffers her neighbours to interfere in her do-
niestic concerns, But though defeated in the
Cabinet, they evidently prepare for a serious
struggle in another place ; and confident in the
strength which they have derived from the late,
elections, anticipate a triumph over the Ministers'
as soon as the-Chamber of Deputies shall have
opened its sittings._ In this, howevor, it is most
likely that they will he disappointed, even with-
out any fresh appeal to the sense of the people.
The Liberals .have chosen to regard M. De Vil-
leie!s Declaration as decisive in,favour of peace.
They already give him the praises of their Jour-
nals,• and will not deny him the support of
their votes in the Chamber. Insignificant as
they may appear when dividing against the
eentre and Right of the Chamber, they are suf-
ficiently:numerous to insure the victory to either
Party with whom thermay be pleased to unite.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Journal des Debuts, supposed to be the
organ of 1-1. tie Villele, inserts, without comment
tht documents we yesterday extracted from the
Montteur. The other papers, however, make
amends by their observations for his silence.' It
-would -appear that the communication to the
-Spanish Government had. been variously inter-
preted at Paris. The Constilutionnel justly oh-