The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-16 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

" The:Permanent Deputation of the Cortes
have lest, the confidence of the People':—such is
tie last account of the state of affairs in Madrid ;

and it elucidates in a remarkable manner the
progress of the Spanish Revolution. First, a
plot was formed by certain ambitious individuals

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belonging to the faction of Liberales to obtain
possession of the power of -Government under
colour of establishing, 'Constitution, 'Secondly,
some audacious spirits among the soldiery and
populate were bribed or flattered • into the
forcible attack which was to make may for the
more wary conspirators to attain their ends.
Thiidly, the attack having proved successful, a
body called the Cortes was got together, with
the help of the Liberates throughout Spain, to
carry the Constitution into effect. Fourthly,
by the influence of the Cortes, certain Minis-
ters were forced upon the King. Fifthly,
after the Ministers and the majority of the
Cortes had gone hand in hand for some time
in plundering the Church and degrading the
Nobility; the more active revolutionists amongst
the military and populace, under the name of
Communeros and Descamisados, began to shew
an intention .of setting aside King, Constitution,
Ministers, and Cortes, and establishing a Re-
public. Sixthly, the General Cortes being pro-
rogued, some of the most liberal Members of
that Body were left to act as a Permanent De-
putation ; but the more energetic Descamisados
remained on foot to force them on in the path of
Revolution. Seventhly, the events of the 7th of
July having given the Descamisados the com-
mand of the capital, they forced the Permanent
Deputation to join them in compelling the King
to discharge his first set of Ministers, and to take
another more decidedly Republican. And .now,
eighthly, they begin, as we see, to testify their
sovereign displeasure at the Permanent Deputa-
tion, who, therefore; .must either submit to be-
come the tools of the mob, in their frantic ex -
cesses, or they will soon be turned out of the
Chamber of their Sittings by some new Cromwell,
or some Riego-Buonaparte. ,

[I.IIE TISLE3]

" You know not, my son," said an old Swedish
Minister, " with how little wisdom the affairs of
" nations are conducted." Such was the first re-
flection that occurred to us on, reading an article
which we insert from the Conservateur Impartial
of St. Petersburg-h in praise of the Holy Al-
liance. When cool observers of the state of
Europe are informed that this league against
liberty is justified on the ground of its being no
more than a defensive league, they Kill natu-
rally ask what, and whence, is the aggres-
sion ? When they are further assured by
the Ministers of the Holy Alliance, that there
exists a conspiracy against established Govern-
ments, a " secretly organized conspiracy, which
embraces" in its fatal ramifications all Europe,"
and whose existence and object " every thing
proves"—the next questions which offer are,
" Who are the conspirators, and what is the
proof ?" Now mark, the conspirators are the
insurgent Greeks—the insurgent Spaniards—the
Carbonari of Naples—the Jacobins of France—
the Whiteboys of Ireland ! nay, the Inde-
pendents of South America are thrown in
as a make-weight to the already loaded
scale ! Is it not humiliating to mankind that
such rank insanity should assume to itself
the attributes of high state policy ; and mournful
to think that power is not wanting to enforce,
for a time at least, upon millions of reasonable
beings the dictates and resolutions of those whose
reason has deserted them ? What the nature of
the conspiracy is, and has been, will appear from
this—that in every part both of Europe and
America, where a continued spirit of resistance
against the Government has shown itself)
and where a revolution has within our me-
mory been accomplished or attempted, the
vice and oppression of the old Government
had been notorious, intolerable, and undis-
puted. Will it be said that the Spaniards
were well governed before Lord Wellesley and
his Colleagues in England excited and assisted
them to form their present Constitutl'ul ? or
that the now liberated Spanish Colonies were
wrong in throwing off the yoke of Spain her-
self? Will it be affirmed that the fraud and

tyranny exercised towards the Neapolitans
ought to have been endured by that much in-
jured people, or that England, who had once
encouraged, ought to have betrayed them ? Is
there any Christian subject of any one of the
Holy-allied Courts, enough of a renegado to
hear with patience that the Greeks ought not to
have rebelled against the infidels ?

DISCOVERY OF FIRE ARMS.—Yesterday after-
noon, previous to the Magistrates leaving the
Police Office, Hatton-garden, Limbrick, an
officer, came and informed them that he had then
in his possession fifteen stand of fire-arms, which
were found concealed in an empty house in Cur-
sitor-street, Chancery-lane, under very suspicious
circumstances, and which were supposed to have
remained there since the time of the Spafields
and other seditious meetings ; he then brought in
fifteen muskets, each with fixed bayonets in scab-
bards, with flints in each. The Magistrate
ordered him to examine each carefully., to see if
there were any of them loaded, to prevent acci-
dents. This was accordingly done, but none
proved to be loaded ; they were all in a very
rusty state, and appeared not to have been
handled for many months. Limbrick stated
that a man named Cole, a boot and shoe-
maker, had taken the house, No. 17, Cur-
sitor-street, Chancery-lane, which had been
shut up for a length of time, the person who
last occupied it having run away without paying
his rent, and there was no account of him. It
was supposed the house was taken for illegal
purposes, where an assemblage of traitorous per-
sons met in Thistlewood's time, and that the arms
so found were forcibly taken out of the gun-
smiths'
shops when so many were broken open
and robbed, at the time of the memorable Spa-
fields MeetiAg. He had not time to make search
if there were any ammunition or other matters
concealed which might lead to a discovery. Mr.
Cole corroborated Limbrick's statement so far as
to the state of the premises and finding the arms.
The person who formerly kept the house he knew
nothing of.—The Magistrate ordered Limbrick
to secure the arms, and instantly " set about a
strict investigation. Thus this mysterious affair
rests at present.