The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-17 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ZAIII,OTS FROM THE' DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
December 17, 182'2.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.] ;i'
We received the Paris Papers of Saturday,
east night, by express. Their tone continues
pacific. Constantinople seems to have been the
scene of dreadful outrages, and the abuses have
been remedied in the usual manner. Some one
seems to have hinted to the Grand Seignor, in
time for him to retain his own head on his shoul-

tiers, that there was discontent in Constantinople;
•• and to be assured of this astonishing fact he
paraded the streets of that city by night in dis-
guise. Our most gracious Sovereign has this ad-
vantage over the Grand Signior, that he is under
no necessity of walking the streets by night.—
If a dozen of newspapers, which may be read
with every convenience, wilt give him a much
better idea of the public feeling than he could
get by walking the streets either by night or by
day.

[TILE TnuEs.]
The Paris papers of Saturday, which we re-
ceived yesterday, are very barren of intelligence.
They all make comments in the spirit of the
parties to which they respectively belong, on the
article in the Journal des Debuts of the preceding
day. The inference drawn by the Journal de
:Paris is,.'that the Journal des Debuts is now
avowedly ministerial, and that the other Royalist
Gazettes, which are styled " -the four Quoti-
diennes," are reduced to the state of party-papers.
The Quotidienne quibbles about peace being con-
cluded with revolutionists—asks whether they
will make peace—and observes that no positive
conclusion can be come to till the answer of
Spain is known ; thus absurdly assuming that
those who are threatened with attack are the
aggressors, and that they must have something to
concede, not because they have impertinently inter-
fered in the affairs of their neighbours, but because
they have been wantonly exposed to that kind of
interference. The Constitutionnel makes 3 Spa-
niard reply, by setting off a picture of the state
of Parties in France, against the state of parties
in Spain. The Universal, it is assumed, might
' easily show that party violence prevails as much
in the one country as the other, and that, in parti-
cular,. the fanatical party of France attack the
Royalists, who differ from them with full as great
bitterness as the Zurriagoists of Spain do the
other Constitutionalists.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The discourse of M. Vitlele upon the affairs of
Spain, as it appeared in the Journal des Debuts,
is as sorry stuff as a Bourbon Minister could
well sanction, and remarkable only for rooted
regret that Spain should have established an un-

assailable constitution. The generous bribe of
giving a Bourbon Emperor to South America
must reflect honour on the Holy Alliance. The
Papers of Saturday contain nothing worthy of
remark.

[NEW TIM Es.]
Our private letters state, that the Spanish re-
fugees, who are numerous in France, are about
to be immediately formed into regiments, and
taken into French pay ; and, in the mean time,
regular rations are allowed to every man of
them. The second pacific article in the Journal
des Debals was not inserted in the Monileur
of the day following, as it was fully expected to
have been. It is also believed that some ad-
vices unfavourable to the hopes of the peace
party had been received from Madrid. It seems
strange that any hopes whatever could have been
built on the answer to he received from the
Spanish Government. The Government is in
the hands of the Ministers, the Ministers are in
the hands of the mob, apd the mob is directed
by the frantic revolutionary clubs. There is but
one hope for Spain ; and that is, that a moderate
party may arise strong enough to put down the
club, mob, and Ministers altogether—but that!
Hope, we fear, is feeble.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 15th instant arrived last
night by express. The funds had risen consi-
derably, in consequence of the total defeat of the
Ultras and the triumph of the friends of peace.
The latter enjoyed their victory with modera-
tion, but the Ultras displayed their usual want
of temper, and seemed by no means disposed
to take the hint given them by the Journal des
Debuts," to refrain from cries which must prove
unavailing." On the contrary, they raise their
voices louder than ever, and instead of confining
themselves to lamentations, even uttered tones of
menace. Confident in the acquisition of strength
which they have derived from the late elections,
they boasted that what they had lost in the
Cabinet would be regained in the Chamber of
Deputies, where some " living proofs" would b©
given that their party had not dwindled into a
mere faction of opinion, as it had been repre-
sented to have done.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It is difficult to contemplate the neutrality of
this country even for a day, in a contest such as
. that recently, and still in a less degree, appre.
hended between France and Spain. How could
a maritime powee quietly look on, whilst a natu-
rally rival, or rather hostile nation, joined per-
haps with a Northern Ally, which has the ambi,
don at least, if not the means, of establishing
rinal force and character, was gaining exclu-
sive possession of Spain, with her naval re-
sources and 'the vast capabilities of her coast.
The more we consider this subject, the more
difficult we find it to believe that the conti-
nental Powers really yielded to France the dis-
cretion with respect to Spain which was set forth
in the Moniteur. Russia and Prnssia might. But
that Austria, should, is in the highest degree im-
probable. Austria is, on the Continent, and has
been from the sera of Cardinal Richelieu to Buo-
tiaparte, the great rival of France. It is extra-
ordinary that she should yield quietly to this
rival such art accession of strength as the occupa-
tion of Spain—upon which, moreover, , the Aug-.
Irian 'loyal Family have antiquated, but it is
said, unforgotten