The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-28 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

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tXTRACTS PROM THE DALIN MORNING PAPERS
.IYovember 28 •1822.

THE TIMES.]
There are now collected, as an army of obser-
vation, about 40,000 French troops, of whom, as
the soldiers of Buonaparte have been rejected
from the King's service, there are; probably, not
more than three or four thOusand who. have ever
seen an enemy. The officers are Mostly of
royaliSt and noble families=--but here and there a
veteran to be found upon the list. Of all the
superior officers. distinguished within_ the last 90
years, we know not of one now commanding a
division of this army. But its: numbers—so far
from being sufficient for occupying or taking
military possession of Spain—would form a
scanty and inadequate garrison " for the three
frontier provinces. Suppose they push on
to Madrid in a body, where is their subsist-
ence in the midst of an enemy's country ? What
becomes, of their communications with France ?
And howler beyond Madrid can- even twice their
'number of foreigners venture ? If they stop
ihpre, they do nothing: the persons of the Royal
'Family, the Cortes., and the Government, are at
once transferred to Cadiz. If. the French dis-
Terse throughout the country, they are an-
nihilated piecemeal.. Remaining near .the Pyren-'
noes,- they make no impression on the Spa-
•Triards : abandoning the protection of the Pyren'.
flees, they are swallowed up amidst an armed
'nation. The
,French war-faction has boasted
-much of reckoning"on
.a large portion of fanatical
Spaniards as their auxiliaries :. if that hope had
been. well founded we should have said there was
' gOrne Meaning, though undoubtedly much wicked-
ness;
in their' invasion of Spain. But the. dream
of civil war is nearly ended, and the rebels will
Semi he crushed.' Thes'pattish General has not
sustained a check in his well-combined and ex-,
tensive operations, and. the self constituted in-
surgent thiniStry has fled to its line of safety—the
French frontier.
•

[M9I:LNING lIERALD.3
. .
If • the gpanish General Mina fights as he
Writes; those Who accused him of, dilatoriness as
a ,General must have.done him great wrong. his
Proclamation to the district in which he corn-
Mands, dated;'`With' an awe-inspiring solemnity,
":from where •Castlefellit . once stood," is very
striking for its combined use of fervid energy,
sarcasm, and ferret.. Mina is not the mildest of
inert, we believe. He was chiefly distinguished,
during the war of invasion, for the virtues of a
leader in irregular and relentless warfare, cou-
rage, vigilance, activity, and ferocity. It is
curious enough to observe those who, when
he practised against the French more than
the ferocity which he has hitherto only de-
. nounced, called him " the. heroic Mina," now
bestow upon .him the epithet of " the fero-

cious." If, however, terror and severity are

justifiable in war, under any circumstances, the
justification is much stronger where the war is
waged, not with foreign enemies, but domestic
traitors. Bat it is not likely, supposing the Pro-
clamation genuine, and honestly rendered through
the Frenc Papers, that he will.,execute his
menace of stinking and burnitig towns.and villages,
and shooting the Municipal Authorities,, under
even the very strong circumstances of treachery

or cowardice, which he specifies, and for this
:very good reason—the power vested in him by
the Government and the Cortes, acid in virtue of
which he professes to act, is strictly defined, and
falls far short of that which he is made in this
Proclamation to assume.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Proclamations issued by Mina, subse-
quently to the taking of Castelfollit, and dated
the 1)..4th of October, are published at length in
the Constittitionizei. O►e of these documents,
addressed to the inhabitants of the Seventh
District, contains the severest denunciations
against such towns and villages as shall either
afford succour to the factious, or surrender to
the rebel forces, except' in a case which would
not justify any attempt to resist their attacks.—
Should any important disadvantage result from
persons in authority neglecting to give the Ge-
neral information of the enemy's movements,
they are to be punished with death.

[MO NI NG POST.]
An express reached town yesterday with
fetters from the French Capital, which it left on
Monday afternoon. These communications state,
that although no news of importance had been
received, " the rumours of war gained ground
from the circumstance of the Government not
having given any contradiction to them." This
statement is incorrect. The amplest contradiction
was given to those rumours by the organ of Minis
tors, and all the other Loyal and even
Ultra Papers, as late as Thursday last ; and as
it is admitted that no intelligence of importance
had since been received, it could hardly be ex-
pected that the Government should take the
field against mere shadows, and should imme-
diately issue another direct contradiction of re-
ports which must be known to have no other
foundation than the imaginings of alarmists, since
they were not even countenanced by the arrival
of foreign news.

[NEW TIMES.]
The horrible_ Proclamation of Mina, which we
published yesterday, has opened the eyes of

numbers who have hen hitherto favourable to

burnt !!"—This is almost a literal copy of Buo-
naparte's Proclamation of January 1797, on en-
tering the Papal territories—" Every village, or
town, in which the Tocsin shall be sounded at
the approach of the French Army shall be in-
stantly burnt, and the Magistrates shot."—The
conduct of Buonaparte corresponded with his
threats.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We are sorry to perceive that the Greeks still
complain of. the ill offices of their neighbours, in
sowing divisions among, them, and aiding the
Turks in various other ways. We do not think
the policy of this country, under all circumstances,
likely to be promoted by thus alienating the.
Greeks from us. We must own, however,.that
the language of the Ministerial Journals of
late has not been so insulting with respect
to that interesting people as it formerly was.
'Whether this is owing to the low state of
the finances of the Turks, to their tampering
with the currency, which Ministers of course
cannot fail to hold in due horror, or to a newly
felt sympathy for suffering Christians, we do
not pretend to say. We wish, however, we
could witness the same improvement in the con-
duct of some of the men employed publicly abroad.
Now that they do not find a ready channel for their
communications in the Papers here, they betake
themselves to the Austrian Observer. The
letter from Zante, for instance, in the Austrian
Observer of the 13th, is understood to have
been written by a great friend of the Turks, well
known here, who has profited not a little by
them; for we are acquainted with the bills which
he received in payment of provisions and ammu-
nition, drawn by Jousouf Pacha, on the Porte,
and duly paid to him; and know also that a
vessel is now tiding at Ancona, by'one of his
brothers, on the same account. Another Chris-
tian at Malta, of the same family, is also em-
ployed in the same way.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS,

[From The Bury Gazette-, Nov. 27, 1g.22.]

If the woeful failure of the late attempt made.
by Mr. Hunt and his mob, to revive in the metropolis the
disgusting daemon, radicalism, have not paralysed his pro-
vincial mimics, it is probable the sense of the people will again
be insulted by a succession of meetings which, under pretence
of discussing agricultural distress and its remedies, will pros-
titute the public voice to purposes of election, intrigue, and
pseudo reform. Political busy-bodies, anxious for the affairs
of the nation and neglecting their own, have for some weeks
been gadding about in this and the neighbouring counties,
prattling of the necessity of county meetings to consider
the great question of the distress of the landed interest,
and the relief of that distress by a Reform in Parliament ! In
some instances, preparatory meetings have been convened, and
measures for further proceedings arranged, by men as ignorant
of agriculture as Lord Erskine, who mistook wheat for laven-
der, and just as well informed on subjects of national polity as
upon the cultivation of the soil. Yet these men will contrive to
vamp up requisitions, by scouring the country to obtain signa-
tures; and sheriff's will comply with those requisitions, and
call meetings of counties : and these men will present resolu-
tions of their own, which will be passed unheard ; and the
trash thus mamtfactured 'will be given to the world as the
fruits of the calm deliberations of a great and important
county ! Nobody at a distance will guess of what materials
the meeting is composed ; the fact, that all the thinking and
respectable part of the people treat such trickery with con-
tempt, will not suggest itself to any one unacquainted with the
art and mystery of meeting making. Unless the truth be
proclaimed, it will hardly be believed that nine-tenths of
the sage persons who volunteer their " most sweet voices"
&I Agricultural Distress never in their lives posiessed a
square foot of land, nor cultivated any thing beyond a
geranium or a daffy-clown-dilly. Absurd as it may appear,
it is nevertheless a melancholy fact, that the bulk of the
people who attend country meetings arc intruders,---who
by their presence, exclude those whose interests are at stake,
and by their conduct, prevent every approach to discussion or
argument. Can meetings so composed, and so conducted, be li
treated with respect ? Impossible. We are told that they have
been called farces ; but they are not so, they are lamentable
travilies ; for they pervert the rights of the people, turning
those invaluable privileges which were designed for the pro-
tection of the great body of the nation into a paltry engine to_
work the ends of a mischievous faction. By pestering and in-
sulting. the legislature with fantastic dogmas and domineering
dictation, they, prevent the peaceable, but real sufferer from be-
ing heard, and effectually preclude him from making known to
those who have the power to help him, his actual cause of
complaint ; by them, the right of petition is poluted ; and,
like the boy in the fable who called wolf in sport, their voices
have so often been raised unnecessarily that it is no wonder
they should be disregarded in the hour of real danger.

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