The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-16 00:00:00

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human reason can calculate.
Here, then, are additional reasons for desiring
that this war may not break out.—But of what
weight are reasons! All that we can promise our
readers is, that they shall be in possession of
events as they arise.
[.From the Constitationncl.]
Between two arid three o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon the Syndics of the Exchange-agents ap-
peared on the Exchange., and declared that the
llews from Spain was more favourable, that it was
ascertained that the Infants of Spain would not
lle put on their trial for the affair of July 7, and
that even an .amnesty was granted to all those
who had been accused in consequence of the
vents of that day.
Lightning is not more rapid than was the effect
of this semi-official communication. The funds
immediately rose to 88, and after. the Exchange
'they were in demand at 90. Such is the most
striking answer to all the adventurers of counter-
revolution, who for eight days had been uttering.
cries for war, and who rejected all peace with
Spain as a concession to 'liberal principles.
But this was not enough. The Etoile of Tuesday
evening, obliged to beat a retreat, instead of
secretly devouring the humiliation to which its
=retrograde march reduced it, still ventures to
insult the -constitutionalists, who have always
considered war as a scourge for France, and who
have dared, even under the harrassing fire of
'daily prosecution's, to maintain that peace was a
tylessins,r.
We have received to-day, by express, news
from Madrid up to the. 6th at noon, and the
. amnesty spoken of is not then announced. All
that we learn from them,-after an attentive read-
- ing of the most ardent speeches in the Cortes, is
. that the names of the King and of the Princes
. were never once mentioned in these political din,
.cussions. It is only from certain French Journals,
-such as the Etoile, that -we learn that there was
-ever any question of implicating then in any legal
proceeding.
We are far, however, from wishing to reject any
news announcing a sincere reconciliation among
.the Spanish Patriots. The Constitutionalists at all
times have been equally opposed to Ministerial
despotism, absolute -power, or the inquisition.
They are, therefore, all equally odious to the
fanatical advocates of counter-revolution : and
'the very divisions which have broken out in Spain
are, perhaps, the work of men who can no more
pardon the friends of the Constitution of 1822,
than the framers of it in 1812.
• For the rest, the Etoile, which two days ago
was boasting that •the rebels of Urgel were
figuring in its-ranks,-announces to-day, as a very
fortunate event, that thejudicial,prosecutions in
Spain would be directed against none but the
eleven military taken with arms in their hands.
- What appears to us equally probable with
the news from Spain is, that the news from Ve-
rona of the sth of November does not confirm all
those hostile symptoms that were believed to
exist, or that were wished to exist, in the private
. letters of October...3'h
Moreover we-had asserted that the rumour of
• war had -depressed public credit—that a single
.pacific word would promptly recover it. Our
adversaries, on the contrary, maintained that war
would 'raise the funds. They have called 'for
war with all their heart; we have protested
• against it with all our strength.
.Let the world now judge'between the Consti-
•tutionalists and the friends of counter-revolu-
tions. France will know who they are that wish
'for disturbance—who they are that wish for
repose.
-The following is the last night's postscript of
the hitherto warlike Etoile. After having first
announced that a complete amnesty was announc-
ed, it adds—
,..Cornmerciai-letters, received this morning -in Paris froth
Madrid, announce that on the 2d the visit to the prisons took
plate with the formalities prescribed by the laws. The pri-
sorrers being interrogated, multiplied charges against the fiscal
Parades. All the-vouchers for the suit (dossiers) were lull of
inaccuracies and irregularities.
" The visiting magistrates- prepared from them a proces ver-
bal, and addressed reproaches to the fiscal, Parades, so severe,
that be found himself s 9. ill that he could not assist at the visit.
Other letters of the 7th of November say, that M. Parades
has been suspended from his functions; that the.list of his pro-
scriptionS has been annulled, and that prosecutions sill be
directed only against-11 military men taken With arms in-their
hands on the 7th of July."*
As to what relates to M. Parades, and the Mi-
nisters accused by him, the -following is an ex-
tract of the Report made to the Cortes .on the
6th by the Special Commission, at the instance
-of M. Garelly, Ex-minister. It will be seen that
the only question related to the incompetence of
the-fiscal, without formally pronouncing on the
merits of M. Garelly.
',Here the Constitutionnel gives a brief but accurate abstract
of the Report, which will be found more fully in our article un-
der the head of " Spain:" I
We see with pleasure that our adversaries, hi-
therto so hard to be pleased, find, in a piece of
•this.kind, a motive for concord between the two
countries, the very idea of which, a few (lays
.ago, was criminal in their eyes. We are not ac-
customed .to see their humoUr so easy and accom-
.modating, and we sincerely congratulate them
on. a conversion which we were- far from expect-
ing. To conclude, a .private letter which has
just been communicated to us, and which comes
from good authority, would lead us to presume'
that certain pretensions on Majorca, sufficiently
disagreeable to a great maritime power, have no
Ic.ss contributed to these pacific news than the dis-
grace of the Fiscal of Madrid.
Vie are assured that explanations have been
-demanded on the subject of the expression Re-
gency of Spain, used in speaking- of the Ou'vrard
loan (now the Rougemont loan), seeing that the
French Government hitherto has recognised but
one Government in Spain—the Royal Govern-
ment at Madrid.—(Constitutionnel.)
[From the Journal (le Paris.]
An official prospectus has given confirmation to
the news which we just published respecting the
loan proposed by M. Ouvrard on account of the
Regency of Urgel. We were also correct in
stating, that the amount of the loan was four
millions of hard piastres (the piastre of .sf. 45c.)
It might at first be supposed that the news of the
conclusion of such a loan was well calculated to
give consistency to the reports which have been

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* The .21f4iteur of Wednesday and the other Ministerial
...kmrnals, copy this paragraph in a :Try prominent manner.