The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-05 00:00:00

DAILY

Extract; from the Morning Papers, Sept. 5, 1825.
[NEW TIMES.]
Those who are disposed to support Catholic
Emancipation on constitutional grounds, do it
from a sincere belief that the Protestant Estab-
lishment would be benefitted by the proposed
measure. There are others who follow Mr. Hunte
in their advocacy of the same measure, as a means
of overthrowing the Church of Ireland. Among
the latter we shall take leave to class the E4itor of
the 'Old Times, who allows no opportunity to
escape him of endeavouring to exalt the Catholic
Priesthood at the expellee of the Protestant
Clergy. In a late instance he has pursued this
course with an unusual degree either of ignorance
or of dishonesty. It is well known that the Ca-
tholic Priests of Ireland, about a year since, at
the instigation of O'Connell himself, attended,
uninvited, at several peaceable meetings of local
Bible Societies, and disturbed, as far as was in
their power, the usual course of their quiet pro-1
ceedings. About a month since one of these
Bible Meetings was announced at Carlow, in the ,
vicinity of which town is situated a large College
of Jesuits. Some of the leading men of this Col- ,
lege inquired if they could be allowed to speak
at this meeting. " Not to interrupt the proceed-
ings (it was replied) ; but they shall be briefly
concluded for your accommodation, and you shall
then be heard to the full extent of your desire."
Upon these conditions the Carlow Catholic ,
Clergy received tickets of admission. Their hearts
subsequently failed them, and they returned
these tickets and absented themselves. A short
time after they summoned, in their own chapel,
another Meeting:to take steps in opposition to
the Bible Society. But they gave so short notice
of it that the officers of the Parent Bible Society
at Dublin could not possibly reach the spot in
time. Matters having proceeded thus far, six of
the leading clerical members of tire Bible Society
drew up a written communication to the Carlow
Priests, offering them what they professed to
have been seeking, the opportunity of a fair and
open discussion of tire question at issue, namely,
the fitness and propriety of a free circulation of
the Holy Scriptures. It is this proceeding which
the editor of the Old Times has thought fig to
Censure. He represents it as a new proposal,
originating with the Protestant Clergy, and be-
tokening on their parts an aggressive spirit, and
a zeal quite untempered by discretion. I f he
had not read the letter of the six Clergymen, he
was censuring these respectable men in otter and
blameable ignorance of the act which; he under-
took to condemn. If he htid read their letter,
he must have known that the idea of a public dis-
cussion did not originate with them, but with
their opponents, and that in attributing it to
them he was guilty of deliberate falsehood.—
Again, he charges them with wishing to debate
before " a numerous meeting." If he had ever
read the proposal which he was condemning, he
would have seen that they particularly stipulated
for the admission of only fifty persons e-a each
side. If he had read it, therefore, he was again
guilty of deliberate untruth. Lastly, he bestows
the praise of possessing the greater discretion
upon the Carlow Priests for declining the pro-
posed meeting. Is he so entirely ignorant of the
whole matter "as not to know that these Priests
have already attended as many as twenty Pro-
testant Meetings uninvited, and have there done
all that in them lay to create disturbance and
animosity ?

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 3d instant reached us
last night by express. _They contain some parti-
culars of the movements of the rebel Bessieres
before his capture and execution. It appears
that when he informed his troop at Torrija of his
real intentions, some of the regulars abandoned
him, and returned to A lcela, where they re-
joined their regiment. He then found himself
too weak to venture on the public road, and took
cross-ways through which he successively reached
Horos, Trijuegue, and Brihuega, levying 100,000
reals in contributions, and obtaining accessions of
royal volunteers at each place, which raised his
whole force to 400 men, with whom he bent his
course towards Lower Arragon. The details of
his capture are not yet given, so that it is not
known whether he was able to make a struggle
with his pursuers, or whether he surrendered
without a blow. But from the delay of three
days, which occurred between his seizure and
his death, one of the French Papers infers
that 'something like a capitulation was con-
cluded, with a right of reference to the King,
by whom it was indignantly rejected, and or-
' ders given for his immediate execution, and
that of his chief accomplices. Vie also learn
by advices of the 22d ult. from Madrid, that
the celebrated Empecinado, the author of the
Guerilla system which did so. much injury to
Buonaparte's armies, was lately shot at Koa, in
Old Castile, within a few leagues of Valladolid.
But what is not less important than these execu-
tions, is the reported arrest of a Monk of the
Convent of Jesus, who was treasurer to the party
by whom Bessieres was put forward. A sum of
200,000 in gold reals is said to have been found
in his possession " for current expenses," toge-
ther with documents which prove that the Chap-
ters of all the Metropolitan Churches in Spain,
and a number of rich convents of the Orders
of Chartreux, St. Bernard, St. Jerome, St. Au-
gustine, and St. Bazil, had jointly raised a fund
of 14,000,000 reals, to defray the charges of
the plan, of which the execution had been
entrusted to Bessieres, and on the exact na-
ture of which some valuable informa:tion is
also stated, to have been discovered. If this
be true, it will afford the King fair means to
extricate himself from his financial difficulties.
For neither the Chapters nor the Convents, who
have subscribed for his overthrow, can any
longer plead poverty when money is ,required
for his service ; and if he does not seize upon the
whole of their revenues, as their conduct has
given him an undoubted right to do, they will be
glad to compromise largely for their lives and
property. Previously to the capture of Bes-

sieres, Ferdinand issued two new becrees. The
first declared that rebel a traitor, and deprived
him and all those who shonld follow him, of all
their titles, rank, honours, and decorations. The
other directed that certain Freemasons who had
been found assembled in one of their Lodges at
Grenada, be put' to death within days, conform-
ably to a former Decree against Secret Societies,
promulgated on the Ist of August, 1824.

[MORNING HERALD.]
That annual nuisance, Bartholomew Fair, com-
menced on Saturday. During its continuance, it
furnishes a jubilee to half the thieves, prostitutes,
and drunkards of the metropolis. It certainly
bespeaks a right feeling towards the lower
classes of society, when so much hesitation exists
in getting rid of the fairs in and about London ;
and if their mischief and inconvenience did not in
a tenfold degree overbalance any pleasure or ad-
vantage to be derived from them, and had they
not indeed long ceased to afford gratification to
any besides the above class, we should be among
the first to advocate their continuance. But that a
kind of Saturnalia of vice and profligacy should
thus continue, and that the whole town should,'
year after year, be inconvenienced, that the re-
fuse of all that is vile and infamous may revel in
a career of unbounded impunity, is a solecism in
police which we are unable to solve. So opposed
are we to any unnecessary interference with the
amusements of the common people, that we
should hail that man as a benefactor of the com:
triunity who would hit upon some new and per-
manent means of increasing and improving our
popular sports and pastimes, and furnishing ath.
letic games and sports to those who, for the want
of them, are driven to pass their leisure hours
in the almost equally pernicious atmosphere
of the gin-shop and the conventicle. But
this, we admit, becomes every day more and
more difficult ; for while we see the metropolis
every t►ay hemming in with buildings required
for its vast and increasing population, even a
space for air and exercise will soon become un-
attainable, unless Government interfere in time
to save the parks and other open places from in-
cessant encroachment, and reserve some portion
of the heaths and gardens near town for the pur-
poses we allude to, but which, we fear, is not
likely to he the case till Statesmen consider do-
mestic affairs as worthy of their notice as foreign
wars and intrigue. Perhaps it is one of the
drawbacks on our national character, that our
population can seldom meet in fairs and ether
assemblies of the kind witl►out gross pursuits,
without drunkenness and violence. Even at those
far removed from the metropolis, much brutality
often prevails, and at these London thieves and
sharpers attend, as the points at which John Bull
is to be found most off his guard, and ready to be
the dupe of their artifices—nor is there in the
fairs in and about London in particular, any -one
feature to counterbalance their manifest mischief.
That rational beings, who have time and money to
spend in amusements, should think of employing
the one, or spending the other in wandering among
sheep-pens and pigsties, eating hot sausages
in the clog-days, with gin and gingerbread—
associating with all.that is vile and disreputable,
and actually in momentary danger of plunder
and personal violence from the numberless per-
sons who resort there for no other purpose, is an
instance of stupidity which we should hardly
suspect would belong to the very lowest of the
community. We say nothing of the influence
upon the morals of those who frequent such
places. This is but too apparent. What we
wish is to see public nuisances like these a.!m-
lished, and in their stead some rational ;mtrie-
Intents, if it be possible, devised for the labour-
ing class of people, i❑ which they might enjoy
air and exercise, with a share of mental relaxa-
tion which can never be found where stimulat-
ing viands and infamous company form the sole
attraction.

[THE TIMES.]

The state of Spain is not a subject on which
any speculations can be discreetly hazarded.—
Bessieres has been shot ; and an end, we might
say, was made of one rebellion out of 50, if
there could exist a rebellion in a' country with-
out a Government, where the will of any tempo-
rary tyrant stands for law, and accidental force
for justice. Whether the party of Carlos gains
strength or not, there is no sufficient evidence.—
If Carlos finally dethrones his illustrious brother,
in what character will he be acknowledged by - •
the legitimates of Europe ? Divine right may be '•
represented hest by the principleS of Carlos, arid
she may favour accordingly in her heart the Ultra-
••
Royal ends of his usurpation ; but she is 'for-
mally identified with the person of his
ther, for Ferdinand is the living image of '
Divine right itself, and cannot consistently be
abandoned: such a ruler over mankind mush
indeed be a boune-bouche for the genuine
lovers of the monarchical principle. In him •
there is no such admixture of moral worth, or is.:*
tellectual eminence, as to cast a doubt upon the
chivalrous motives of that support which he en-
joys from the Holy Alliance. His Cro.liolic Ma. •
jesty forms, therefore, the best illustration of the
bent and genius of true legitimacy. His more
despotic brother must be discountenanced for
him ; and the substantial essence of a Spanish '-
monarchy, the existence of a state, without which •
despotism would have no practical*. object, loses
all its theoretical value, when the first canon o£•
the science, the indefensible supremacy of the
name of Sovereign, is in danger. If at the same
time any thing that wears a crown could be less
than sacred in the eyes of other monarchs, the"
successor of Charles IV. of Spain might, we
should think, be made no very unnatural ex.'
ception.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It is very generally asked whether the death:
of Bessieres will put an end to the commotion.
by which Spain is, at the present moment agi--
tated ? We certainly think not. Bessieres was
no other than the tool of a party spread through—
out the country, whose plans lie had been paid to.
execute, without, perhaps, knowing their extent
or the precise results to which success might.
lead. The great instigator to revolt in Spain is
the Apostolic Junta, the organ of all the Clergy,

• .
secular as well as regular, and joined by the fa-
uatics,,who would gladly re-establish the Inqui-
sition=the same party, in short, who invited the
French to cross the Pyrenees and destroy the
Constitution. Not long ago they raised the
standard of rebellion against the form of Govern-
ment established by the general voice of all the
intelligent and respectable part of the nation,
and they have now again unfurled it to throw
down the one they had then set up by means of
an armed force of foreigners ; nay, they would
even ;Mack the fundamental principles of legiti-
macy, and imbue their hands in the blood of their
Sovereign, in order to place the crown on the head
of his brother, because he is pledged to their inte-
rest, a,nd,known to be ten times more sanguinary
and servile than Ferdinand. Such is the hopeful
state to which the French have brought things
in Spain, and such the blessings they have be-
stowed upon their neighbours, " whose wounds
they wept to cure, whose anarchy they promised
to remove, and whose tranquillity and internal
happiness they boasted they had restored." To
what'length the Ultra-Royalists and Moderate-
Royalists will carry their struggle cannot yet be
ascertained ; but it is very clear that the revolt
has extensive ramifications, although its real ob-
ject is not at first openly made known. Death
to the French is the feeling throughout the Pe-
ninsula, for most of the calamities the people en-
dure are attributed to them, even by those who•
were lately their warmest partizans. It was
expected of the French that they should not
only destroy the Constitution but also re-
store the Inquisition, and burn all liberal men
in autos de fe. They have not done this,
and their former services are of no avail. When
the French first entered Spain, addresses were
sent up to the Madrid Regency from Bilboa,
Placentia, and many large towns, praying " that
the Inquisition might be restored with all its
rights, and in the full and entire exercise of its
former power ;" " without which double gua-
rantees," add they, " it will not be possible for
Spain to enjoy that tranquillity and repose of
which the enemies of the altar and the throne
have deprived her." These were the sentiments
of the whole servile party from the very com-
mencement of the French invasion, and they
have since become infinitely more general
through the activity of the clergy. The French
are supposed to have impeded the realization
of these views, and the disappointed are eager
to punish them for their remis,ness. Ferdi-
nand has been solicited, over and over again,
to restore the Inquisition, and he has not had
courage to do it :,Carlos, a more strenuous Ca-
tholic, has pledged himself to comply with the
charitable wishes of his countrymen the moment
he has the power, and hence do the fanatics now
seek to place him on the throne. The strength
of this party may be imagined when it is consi-
dered that in Spain, for every 5,914 inhabitants,
there are 100 clergymen and friars, zealously en-
gaged in the pious service of the apostolic junta,
.sirlditig immense wealth. How, therefore,
this singular contest will end, time can only
spew ; but we think the French army must be
somewhat uneasy, whilst the Constitutionalists
are quietly laughing in their sleeves.

[BRITISIT PRESS.]
Spain, it appears by all our accounts, public
and private, still goes floundering on, from day to
day, in her career of anarchy. How long the
insane despot, Ferdinand, will be able to keep
his ground, it is not easy to say, but that it can-
not be long seems certain. The present state of
things must soon have an end. With revolution-
ary projects ripening in all quarters, an explo-
sion must ensue. The seeds of revolt are so
thickly sown, that, although it may be impossible
to say " which seed will grow, and which will
not," enough will ripen to the harvest, and, we
fear, to a harvest that must be reaped with the
sword. Spain is at this moment, in effect, tribu-
tary to France. But for the troops of the latter,
stationed, as they are, in front, flank, and in rear,
the throne of Fer linand would not be worth ten
days' purchase. Even the broad shoulders of the
Priesthood could not uphold it. The whole frame of
despotism would fall to pieces; and, as it is, this
catastrophe cannot long be deferred. The imbecile
rashness of the Catholic Tyrant, cold-blooded
and cruel as he is, is too tame, and too unde-
cided to suit the remorseless bigots that surround
him. Clothed iu the garb of religion, and drink-
ing blood behind its mask, these wretches dare,
iu the face of Europe, to profane.the name of the
Saviour of the human race in the very proceed-
ings in which they spurn at the Majesty of God,
and, would intercept all mercy from man. " No-
thing is so fit"—say they in their public address
to the Spanish , people—" Nothing is so fit to
render men contented as the regulation of their
conscience, and accordingly the observance of
the law of Jesus Christ is the- best means of
teaching obedience to all those laws which
emanate from the supreme civil power, respect
to every authority, and the fulfillment of all
socialduties. Preserve then, in all its purity, the
•41Oly Catholic by eradicating errors
and teaching its true principles. The first of
'these great objqts will be obtained by re-esta-
blishing the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition,
-and that, and nothing but that, is capable of pro-
ducing, such salutary effects."—(Suppiement to
'Elitestaurador, distributed gratis at Madrid.)
-And..this doctrine it is, that, le Crucifix. a la
main, the Jesuits .are preaching with the most
ardent activity, to all the lower orders through-
out France! It is to the re-establishment
of, .tbe ancient Catholic regime that the
Ourbons look forward as the only main-stay
of their sovereignty. They have no resource but
in the Priesthood ; it was to aid their cause that
Frienc'h troops'weie sent to Spain ; it is to assist,
liy Their presence, the counter struggle for as-
cetidaiky dow so ferociOugly carryinfz on, that
these French troops are suffered to remain there.
cc Re-establish"—says tho oLlicial circular: we
have just quoted--" Re-establish the Holy Tr"-,
bdn'al of the Faith, that the impious may be
sliiick dumb and put to flight, and return( no
more to propagate their pernkious principles.—
FiliallyYdoniign the education of youth to the
Society of Jesus, to perform that duty in the
same manner as before its extinction, in order

that our tranquillity may thus be lasting." The
Bourbons, however, both France and Spain, may
rest assured, that could they " preserve, in all its
purity, the Roman Catholic religion," political
freedom will force its way. Associations are on
foot which will not only trample out theHolyTribu-
nal of the Inquisition, but extirpate its patrons.
It is in vain that the Archbishop of Paris intrigues
with the priests of Madrid ; the progress of
knowledge is an obstacle over which they must in
vain expect to triumph. They seem to forget that it
is only upon the ignorance of a people that credulity
can levy its contributions. From this ignorance the
kingdoms of the Continent are fast emancipating
themselves. It has already become unsafe to
drive them to extremities. This is a tenth which
the Monarchs, both of France and Spain, have
yet to learn ; it will probably not force itself
upon their reflection till it is-too late. They are,
apparently, like the fencer described by Demos-
thenes, who never thought of parrying a blow till
the stroke had been given.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
There is no leading article in this Paper -to-
day.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 3

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

J. Badcock, Watlinton, Oxfordshire, tanner, from Sept.lo to
Sept. 13, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners, Sondon.
BANKRUPTS. _ _ .

J. Adams, Bristol, grocer, to surrender Sept. 13, 14, and
Oct. 15, at one, at the Rummer Tavern, Bristol. Attornies,
Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, King's Bench-walk, Temple, Lon-
don ; and Mr. Goolden, Bristol.
J. White, jun. Bishop Weurmouth, Durham, iron-founder,
Sept. 16, 19, and Oct. 15, at eleven, at the Bridge Inn, Bishop
Wearmouth. Attornies, Mr. Blakiston. Symonds's Inn, Lon-
don ; and Mr. Thompson, Bishop Wearmouth.
C. .I. Bodington, Hook-Norton, Oxfordshire, innkeeper,
Sept. 19, 20, and Oct. 15, at eleven, at the Swan Hotel, -War-
wick. ttornies, Messrs. Humphrys and Porter, King's
Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London.
H. A. Harrison, Liverpool, haberdasher, Sept. 17, at twelve,
Oct. 1, and 15, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners, Lon-
don. Attornies, Messrs. Crowder and Maynard, Lothbury,
London.