The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-15 00:00:00

by the former countries than by the latter.
Ni, : the apparent inconsistency must have an
European object. A recognition of Colom-
bia and Mexico blazons to all mankind the
physical impossibility of Spain continuing for
five years longer as she is. The delusion is
at once removed from the most ignorant and be-
sotted partisans of legitimacy, who have to this
hour trusted that despotism in Spain was to sup-
port itself on the mines of South America. The
freedom of America once acknowledged by
Europe, no means exist—we do not say of dis-
charging debts, or fulfilling the obligations of"
common honesty, but—of maintaining any pub-
lic functionaries, of paying troops, of feeding
courtiers, of procuring the most common neces-
saries for the King himself: in short, of carrying
on any one department of Government in Spain,
but by appropriating those resources which it is
the main passion of the men who rule both
branches of the House of Bourbon to preserve
untouched, amidst univeesal desolation—the
estates of the church—to the wants of the suf-
fering nation. This, we say, is inevitable. If
the veil be once withdrawn by a confession that
nothing more is to be looked for from America,
with the Spanish Church away goes Ferdinand
and his brutal system of arbitrary power.—
The Constitution of Spain must be restored in
principle, though not in form ; and the French in-
vasion, French boastings, victories, glory, wisdom,
and all the rest of it. together with the Holy Al-
liance councils in which they originated, are held
up to the derision of the Old World and of the
New !—As for Brazil, we are given to believe
that France towards her is willing to recant the
errors of which she stands convicted on the ques-
tion of Spain, and of the Spanish colonies. She
would even sign a commercial treaty with these
Brazilian rebels ! Austria forgets the Carbo-
naro in the son-in-law, and looks with compla-
cency on the insurgent Monarch of Brazil. As
for Russian despotism, it is of a nature so high
wrought, sentimental, and fanatical, that we de-
cline even to guess how it may act at such a
crisis. Old Ferdinand, King of the Two
Sicilies, is reported to be dead, leaving a vacancy
among the fishermen and lazzaroni, in the Bay
of Naples. His death is, at all events, of no
political importance.

[AtORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 13th inst. and the Eloile
of Thursday arrived last night by Express. The
latter informs us that Death continues to be busy
with the House of Bourbon. Another of its
members, the King of Naples and Sicily, has
closed 16.3 long and unusually chequered exist-
ence. Few Monarchs have ever lost and re-
covered kingdoms more frequently, and with
less difficulty than Ferdinand IV. Too weak
in arms and resources to direct or even to
oppose the course of events, he bent before
them as they came, and rose again when they had
passed. Possessing a refuge in the midst of the sea,
his was a kind of amphibious Sovereignty, which
prevented even a momentary extinction of his
dignity ; for, when he ceased to be a Continental
Monarch, lie remained King of an Island, and
unlike his less fortunate cousins of France and
Spain, could boast that he had never resigned
the sceptre. Of a kind and apparently of a liberal
disposition, he did not seek to resist the reduc-
tion of his power by the establishment of a repre-
sentative Constitution in both his kingdoms. Ile
accepted the institutions imported by the authors
of a Revolution unstained with blood or violence,
and accepted them with an intention, we really
believe, of. supporting and obeying them.—
Called to justify his conduct, by a Con-
gress of Sovereigns who arrogated to them.
solves the right of dictating laws to na-
tions and to Kings, he went, notwithstand-
ing the infirmities of advanced age, to defend
the revolution, at the head of which he had wisely
placed himself. But made in some measure a
Prisoner of State, by those who pretended to be
his friends and allies—compelled to disgrace
his venerable age by the breaking of the oath
pledged to his people, and consecrated to his
God—instead of being able to obtain the bene-
ficial object for which he consented to prostr,ite
the dignity of his station at the feet of a self-
elected tribunal, he was turned into an bistro-
. ment of foreign vengeance,, and reduced to
appear- to sanction with his name and pre-
sence the invasion and subjection of his
.own country ? Ilis son, who so mag-
nanimously fought the battles of the Con-
stitution, and did, every thing in the power of
a Patriot to save his fellow countrymen from
,the arms and yoke of Austria, has now passed
from exile to a throne. What will be his pre-
sent conduct it is impossible to anticipate;as he
is still surrounded with Austrian soldiers. His
first act, as Francis L is not one which can lead
to a decisive opinion, as it is merely a Decree,
confirming the existing Authorities in their re-
spective functions. It will be only when his
native soil shall be free from the foreign troops
by which it is infested, that the sincerity of his
regard for Constitutional Institutions can be fairly
put to the test. The fact of his coining to the
throne is however, we have no doubt, a matter of
serious regret to all , the Members of the Holy
Alliance.

[BRITISH PR ESS.]
The Prussians are quite happy that the balance
of trade with us, as indicated by the rate of ex-
change, has turned in their favour, and they
enumerate the causes of this change with evident
glee. Not long ago they were repining because
a contract had been made with Sir NV. Congreve
to light Berlin with gas. " By this agreement,"
exchi►ned they, " we are still further enriching
that fertunate island ;" and they seemed almost
to repent of the bargain they had concluded for
the supply of the light so much cheaper than
they had ever obtained it. before. They sus.
pected that, by paying less than formerly, they
would infallibly become poorer; but now, as the
rate of exchange on London has fallen, their feel-
ings will perhaps be reconciled to their interests.
As to our own welfare, we know that if the ba-
lance of trade be rather against us for a time in
Prussia, it will be the more in our favour else-
where. We have no feverish dread of these