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

the ascendancy in the French Councils—but
that the English and Russian Ambassadors
were no less deeply engaged and interested be-
hind the scenes. The disappointment of M.
Pozzo di Borgo is said to have vented itself in a
violent fume, in spite of the controul which the
inhabitants of the south can in general exercise
over their emotions a/. well as their designs. He
is a Corsican. It is worth remarking, that this
semi-barbatous and self-conceited Empire of
Russia is obliged to recruit from France, Corsica,
and the Isles of Greece, persons to carry on its
relations with the civilized States of Europe.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Lofty and noble indeed is the contrast sup-
plied by Mr. Canning in 1822, to the intemperate
precipitancy of Lord Grenville in 1792. Mr.
Canning has dune no more than his strict and
sacred duty, but where the temptations to failure
are so powerful, and have been so disastrously
successful in former instances, to have done one's
duty is ground of gratitude and rejoicing. The nil-
_ serable evasions and contemptible pretences of the
Journals, French and English, who wanted either
discernment to know, or honesty to avow the
pacific course of affairs, and who now would fain
conceal their disgrace by quibbling inferences
from M. Villele's ultra diplomatic note, we hold
to be utterly unworthy of notice. To have
driven the insolent swaggerer from the field,
must always be sufficient for him who is con-
scious of strength and victory. He scorns to
chase the fugitive into his lurking places, and to
expose the falsehoods by which he raises his own
reputation among his ignorant and credulous
friends.

[NEW TI M ES.]
The Note drawn up by M. de Villele to be
sent to Al. Lagarde, at Madrid, has given little
satisfaction to the Republican party at Paris.
They say " it-leaves too much to the hopes of
the partizans of war." In fact, it could not do
otherwise. It could not possibly hold out to the
Spanish Jacobins that they should be at liberty
to overturn their own• Monarchy, to plunder
their Church, to degrade their Nobility, and
to desolate their 'country so long as they
liked, provided that they did not injure
France; because they could not do all this
without injuring France : and the only question
was and is, whether France should interfere
forcibly, or should await the chance of a better
state of things arising in Spain ? It would be
madness in the French Monarchy to place
itself in opposition to all the legitimate Monar-
chies on the Continent, for the purpose of sup-
porting a democratical Revolution in Spain; but
it may be prudence to proceed more cautiously
in opposing the progress of that Revolution than
some other States may wish. On this point we
offer no opinion. We have repeatedly expressed
our wish that a moderate party might arise i❑
Spain, capable of giving their country a wise and
well balanced Government. If this can be done
without foreign interference, so much the better ;
but. at all events, in the name of Christianity, in
the name of humanity, we deprecate the predomi-
nance of a faction which could sanction the atro-
cious Proclamation of Mina, and the horrid mur-
ders by which it was followed up. A Govern-
ment which can tolerate one of its Generals in
massacreing one hundred and eighteen of his pri-
soners, in cold blood, within three days, is a dis-
grace to the age in which it exists, and cannot
and will not long be tolerated in Christian Europe.