The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-07 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICE.

RIVINGTON'S ANNUAL REGISTER ;
the History, Politics, and Literature of the

We might justly reproach ourselves with a
want of feeling and a due respect for departe►.
worth, if we did not testify our sincere regret
that one of the Partners of the old and esteemed
firm of the RIYINGTONS has paid the awful debt
of nature since we noticed the last volume of
this truly valuable %York. The RIYINGTON Firm
is, we believe, the oldest in this country, and it
has supported its distinguished Literary, Poli-
tical, Moral, and Religious character from its
origin to the present moment. Indeed, so high
and so just is the estimation in which the House
is held, that nothing is ever expected from it but
what is calculated.to uphold our best interests in
Church and State. The deceased partner of this
respectable firm possessed such a character as
might be expected from a gentleman so inti-
mately connected with its interests and reputa-
tion. We are sorry that we had only a slight
knowledge of him ourselves, but all we did know
fully confirmed the general estimation in which
his judgment and his rectitude were held by
those who had the pleasure of being acquainted
with him.—lt is time, however, to direct our
attention to the work before us. The Historical
part is divided into sixteen chapters, and consists
of a copious, judicious, and' impartial statement
of all the transactions, foreign and domestic,
that occurred during the year. which it records.
The several heads of these chapters, which are
ample, satisfactory, and peculiarly convenient,
are classed together in a separate department.—
The Historical part is written with sagacity, and
is a comprehensive view of the state of Europe.
The reflections on the past are obviously the
result of attentive observation, and there is
no overweening temerity in the conjectural
views which are taken of the future. Nothing
seems to be omitted, or to be negligently treated,
which might properly excite the notice of the
Philosopher, the Moralist, the Politician, and the
Statesman. All the other departments of an
ANNUAL REGISTER-State-papers, Characters,
Philosophical and Literary Miscellany, Useful
Arts, Geography and Statistics, Antiquities and
Literary History, Poetry, &c., are selected with
diligence and taste, and the whole forms an
amusing and instructive Repository of most valu-
able information. The high character of the
work is duly maintained, and altogether we can
confidently recommend it to every class of Readers
who may be desirous of storing their minds with
important knowledge, and rendering themselves
capable of appearing with advantage in society.

ERRAT U.31.—1n the introduction to the Letter from the Bury
Guz.ette, in THE Su Isr of Yesterday, for Sussex read Suffolk.

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERE FAESUN AUDE,IT

LONDON,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1822.

[FROM A cJRRESPONDENT.]

CITY, Twelve J'Ciock.—Owing to the non-
' arrival of any expresses this morning, various re-
ports were in circulation implying that the French
Government had stopped therrr; also; that the boat
containing an express was lost at sea, in conse-
wwnce of which Consols opened at 791, and
remains steady up to this hour at 79
Half-past Twelve o'Clock.—A report is this
moment current that three expresses have arrived
from Paris ; but on inquiry we could not ascer-
tain it to be a fact ; it had however the effect
of raising the New Spanish Bonds to 594 1.

The Congress at Verona was dissolved on the
26th November. The final decision of the ques-
tion respecting Spain, therefore, is left entirely
to the discretion of the French Court ; and not-
withstanding the numerous motives which are
supposed to influence its Cabinet in favour
of hostilities, we have stronger hopes that
Peace may be preserved by the energetic re-
presentations of Great Britain at Paris, than
if the Congress still existed, to give its
collective impulse to the Negociations. It
is alleged, that the result of the delibera-
tions; besides remitting to France the execu-

lc
I
Con of such measures as 514 may thin °`
Greer
or,
a Vbw
of visible for Spain, has been to leave the
po
year 1821. Itp the mercy of Turkey, Turkey to the nierciri
Russia, and Naples, and Piedmont to the c:
tinned protection of Austria for three fed

I longer !
The Foreign .Journals received since our Wi.oof
are still destitute of interest. A. whole impress' if
ot
of the Constilutionnel has, it is true, been se'l
by theGoviinment ; but as from the statale°c
of ~he Editor himself in the following Nunibei
of the Journal, it appears that the offero
article was wholly of a speculative or argouleg'
tative nature, we have not lost much, perill;
by its suppression.—During the deficient saile
of intelligence from the customary sources,
have, however, obtained some informati°
which may be deemed of great importance
at the Present crisis. Three paintings, it sP;
pears, have been secrectl) executed by the Frenti
Artist I &yin, representing, Ist, The Cons6ti,,
ent Assembly, with portraits of the most canst,Pl,
cuous characters of the Revolution : c2d- 1411°J
ronationorliko.NtkpAßT/

LEON at the Ton.
French Soldier is
the point of his but
" N.," however, is t
Engravings of these piece
ch
subscription ; and, from the
the whole affair has been . „ithodi
olv
a prodigious number of ions are
cerned in the undertaking, .nd are t°
supplied with copies of the 2rints, it i 5
possible not to be convinced that a feeillih
prevails in France, which may burst f°rt;
with an overwhelming violence, in the erect
of a war with Spain, on the dt.ath of the Pre-li id
King of FRANCE, or on the occurrence of
thing calculated to produce an extraordn,
popular excitement. Our informant is an 5,
lish Artist of eminence, who has just. retti •
e
ed from France, where, in consequence of
, ale
professional connections, he accidentally
acquainted with the particulars of these realil r
tentous transactions. The number of s"
was unp.recedentedly great, an,'
beyond the bounds of credibility
profound secresy was observed by
of persons, that it is believed 0-
ment is wholly ignorant of a
indicates a feeling in the

ought to impress it with
• necessity for the utmost cal:
degree of alarm. If the
however, is really aware of •
to
have adverted, will it opPesitien
an
the declared wishes of L and in dee,
° to
of a formidable domestic clanger, to ploge
e.
a war that may produce a revolutionary co
t
sion at home, the violence of which inivb 0
second time sub vert the French Monarchy ce
is well known that there is a party in Fill: st
favourable to young BUONAPARTE ; and co
that party even calculates on the eventual seno
tion of Austria, to any attempt which 1115 f
be made to place him on the throne of 5t.14°11.1,:54
The extraordinary condescension of the
'Empress MARIA LnulsA to the Duk© 0f 1. or
LINGTON rn.,y also be ascribed, with greBte,r toe
pearance of reason, to her hopes and 1:1-10c1
prospects for her Son, than to the chit-014°1-os,
absurd views imagined by the Continental otirs
sips ! All the intelligence from Madrid °lice,
in representing that the most rigorous and tie
mined resistance will be offered by the eet
niards to any hostile force which may
into their country ; and as it is believed
the French Army of Observation enter SPai"..,to
one route, MINA. will immediately penetrate
red
France by another, and hoist the tri.coloebst
standard ; and as it must be at least probable
the
England will extend a protecting shield over to
independence of the Peninsula, it does a/Pe:110i,
us that a war is still very far from being
.11;
see
table, and that, on the contrary, France "'II ori;
so many sources of peril to herself in anY e:cfroo
aggression, that she recoil with horror
the enterprize.
h s (f¢'
A respectable Evening Paper, whicl •
01
quently asserted, with an air of confidence °l'd, •,
thority, that if Spain should be attacked, qr og
Britain would preserve an inviolable neutrali,i7
to
menir
length makes the following acknowledg
s,therto
"
last Number : "In the arguments we have ""
della
used, we have reasoned solely upon the fla 5
furnished by the' French Papers." The 0
ees
of course equally unknown to all
parr
or intentions of the British Governmeut
It is only from a comprehensive examine o_
f th
of the interests of the Empire, and 0-
:the
motives which must influence Ministers .ers,
discharge of their high duties, that any antic
k upon SPI
be placed by the meditated attack mti oeini
tcoautsi
cbiercfuomrmsteadn
instances
in theirw hpioclhi ctyhis undercoun: 11:1.iepi

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