The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, Nov. s.—At 11 o'clock his Majesty
gave audience successively to the Archbishop of
Paris, and to the Marquis de Reviere, Captain of
the Guards to Monsieur.

A courier from Verona arrived to-day at the
Hotel- of, Foreign Affairs. It is asserted that. the
English Ambassador has also received one from
his Court. Letters worthy of faith assert, it is
said, that on the 25th of October the Ministers
of the Great Powers had settled and signed the
notification which is to be addressed to the
Spanish Government. These letters add, that
England, through the organ of its representative,
has acceded to this notification.—(Quotidiennd.)
To take up the political world where England
left it,—to do that for the legitimate kings which
they do for us,-7-to spew that the reigning House
was hardly again on its legs, when it repossessed
all its force,—to announce by a political firmness
that we can' dispense with those resources we
give to others,—such was the system followed
when the whole of Europe seemed detached fl or%
its foundations to come within our walls to ac-
complish the work of restoration.
It was said at that time, that the Holy Alliance
—this great union of Monarchs—was formed
against France ; and they were right, in the
sense that the Kings were bound to unite against
the revolutiOn, and not presuming that it could
display itself in other places than in- places al-
ready marked by its ravages; we were, in fact, a
suspected people—a people watched by all.
Europe. Europe kept us in guardianship ; but
it is precisely to get out of that state so degrading
to us, so little merited since our political regener-
ation, that it was necessary, when the revolution
appeared in Spain and Naples and Piedmont for
us to call out the first—"bmarch against
them." It was to change the direction of the
Holy Alliance ; we had it before us, and we put
it on one side.

Providence itself, who seems to have always
had treasures of love in store for France, offered
us this opportunity of that we ought to hail- as
one of its benefits. In effect it was a common
.danger which brought on us the political scenes
and danger from which we were delivered, but of
which we did
,not wish other nations should be
the victims. There was something noble, gene-
rals, humane, in our forbearance. W e appeared
to cede to the voice of the heart, and not to cal,
culations of policy. Europe could not be jea-
lous—it was fur her that we acted. TO the
rights which humanity gives we added otherS not
less sacred. The two branches of the House of
Bourbon were menaced ; as in military opera-
tions, when the two wings are endangered, the
centre is exposed. The Revolution seemed at
the same time ready to tear from us all the fruit
of the labours of Louis XIV. in the South of Eu-
rope ; a i'amily affection, a sentiment of respect
and gratitude for the work of a great King, an
interest truly national made it our duty to fly
to their support ; and moreover, France, which,
has so long accused Europe of leaving her under
the Revolutionary yoke, could France, still more
guilty, remain inactive and frozen in her turn ?
The noise of chains heard at Naples, Madrid,
Turin, had it no voice for us ? Was it not the
same as that of which the vaults of the temple
have preserved the remembrance ?
Before even that these events opened us a
route into the midst of the interests of Europe,
the assistance of our Cabinet had been implored,
and also its mediation. It was said that not only we
should be permitted to appear on the vast theatre
where the fate of nations is regulated, but that
we were even summoned -there. The Spanish
Colonies at war with the. Mother Country,
fatigued with a contest which separated them
from their King, desired that France, as at the
time .when St. Louis interposed his justice between
the English Barons and their Royal Sovereign,
should be the arbiter of the quarrel which
threatened to separate the two Continents from
one another. Ferdinand, on his part, demanded
vessels to transport his troops to Mexico. Our
answer' was a double refusal.. We preferred
allowing our ships to rot -in our-ports, when they
would have carried Quiroga from Spain. Ferdi-
nand was obliged to apply to Russia. The rest
is known, and. can it now be demanded bow
Monarchies go to destruction ?
Was this inconceivable folly repaired ?—a neir
opportunity was soon offered. The Isle of Lemi
uttered a cry terrible to Europe. Sedition made
rapid progress ; it traversed a population sur-
prised and silent, till it reached the steps of the
throne. Our Ambassador asked to leave Madrid
—o.e Cabinet of the Tuileries gave him contrary
'A-tiers—he continued to represent our Monarch,
his King by the grace of God, to Ferdinand,
by the grace of the People. We approve nothing—
we blame nothing. A catastrophe changed every
thing, we remained immoveable. We have the
appearance of no longer comprehending the po-
litical world. We are foreigners.—lf it can for-
get us as we forget it, our ambition will be satis-
fied.-L-There is a necessity to find in self-forget-
fulness that events may pass without seeing ds.
It is true that at this epoch it would have been
difficult for. the Ministry which governed France
to have comprehended what was then done Else-
where, when it knew so little what was doing in
France itself. It rejoiced even in the misfor-
tunes of Spain—it employed them as a proof of
the impossibility of disputing with Revolution
the conquest of Europe. It was thus .that the
cowardly Britons, in .place of defending them-
selves, delivered to every invader theit treasures,
their lands, their crown, and their liberty.
M. de Richelieu, too wise to hear with the
same joy of the revolutions of Naples and Fled-

--moitt.,..bttt too inactive to declare himself against'
Ahem, Rooked on while Russia and Austria played
-a part which belonged to us. It was only on the
-day when a Royalist Ministry was formed in our;
ranks that it was permitted us to hope that the
..4)eutrality between Monarchy and Revolution'
, was to cease without, since it has ceased within.
A system would be incomplete, if it shewed it-
self hostile on one side, and indifferent on the
other. It would want harmony. Every Royalist
''Ministry mutt nedessarily appear at the Congress
"hat it is at,the Tribunal of the Chambers; and
I do not think it should strike Berton with oue.
-hand', and stretch out the other to Riego.
The Publicists, who defend the Soiereignty of
the People, through love, for revolution or
through error, whith is the 'same thing,—for
hen a revolution takes place we do not see that
there is the least difference between those who

have wished and effected it, and those who 'have
aided its while they said they did not wish it,—
. several Publicists, of these different sentiments,
have raised objections as to the right of Europe
to Make war on Spain. it is easy•to overthrow
them. We have already done so in the mass,
since we have established that the Revolution,
by help of an epedemic fanaticism, threatened
Europe with a general subversion, and imposed
on the latter the law of self-defence. It only
• remains for us to render the victory more com-
plete, to combat each objection in detail.
This is the first, " There is no right of inter-
fering in the internal concerns of a people."-
- This is in one word to tear to pieces all history.
When Louis XIV. extended his protecting scep-
tre over the head of the Stuarts, did he keep
aloof from the storms of England ? When this
same Louis. XIV. placed the sons of his race On
the throne of Charles V. and wished thus to
throw down the barrier of the Pyrenees, did he
abstain from interfering with the interests of
Spain ? In our days, when a head of the Staff of
Kings came at the swords' point to write on the
-walls of Paris that Buonaparte had ceased to
reign, was this without interfering with our
affairs ? Later, when an Austrian General broke
in Naples the revolutionary sabre of Pepe, did
he declare that his interferenCe was illegimate ?
In fine, when all the Sovereigns sanctioned by
their signature an act—so just did they think it,
'that they declared it holy—an act which is no-
thing else than a permanent declaration of war
against revolutions, did all these Kings imagine
that they could fight without leaving their
Palaces ? It would be to outrage the under-
standing of our readers to stop theM longer on an
objection which only seems to insure the triumph
of a principle, to shew afterwards that it has
always been violated.
• Let us pass to the second. " Spain is haughty,
independent, whoever threatens her irritates her.
- He who tramples on her soil should tremble ; it
is mortal. Every rock is a citado—each peasant
a soldier. She drove out the 'Moors ; Buona-
parte himself Wa-S' conquered there:" •
God forbid that I should not acknowledge the
bravery of this people which has always been our
Allies, and which, its the love it bears its Kings,
is in heart nulled to uS,. since the same Family
gives law to both kingdoms. But let us observe
that if Spain was unattackable on the South as
Russia on thelVorth ; if the Pyrenees• and the
Niemen are alike fatal to those who cross them,
the centre of Europe would be in some sort con-
quered by nature. The Romans and Carthagi-
r.ans had not this idea. Without having less
•esteem for the people of Spain they did more
justice to themselves.
But, besides, is it against' Spain that it is a
question whether we shall move our artillery ?
That people—religious—fanatical towards its
kings, which so lately lived and died for them
that people, so constant in its affections, has it
changed in a day ? Has the contagion been so
speedy and general, that not a faithful subject
remains ? We should not believe it if Catalonia
had not risen ; even if we should not see in many
'provinces the soldiers of the Cortes in arms be-
fore the stone of their Constitution. It is, there-
fore,
,not Spain that we should attack ; •it is to
tha aid of oppressed Spain that we should march
• --in a word, we should be allies, and not ene-
mies ; and why should not the white standard
float on the side of the standard of the Faith ?
• Have not both the same device—God and the

Xing?

It is also said that Spain, in its truth, repulses
the foreigner under whatever title he advances.
This-is not what facts teach us. Berwick, with
his French, commanded the Spaniards at the vic-
tory of . Almanza. In our days these same
Spaniards had their place in the phalanxes of
Wellington. At both epochs, they fought for the
throne of Philip V. Is it not for this same throne
that they would again fight now ? The cause of
,the Cortes, would it be in their eyes, more just
than that of the competitor of Philip, more sacred
than that of the terrible warrior, who pursued
the blood of the Bourbons from the ditch of Vin-
cennes, to the walls of Madrid ?
Two objections still require an answer—one
concerns the pretended necessity of leaving in
Spain an Army of Occupation ; the other is rela-
tive to our soldiers, who, inaccessible to stduc-