The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-26 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]

We have heretofore stated, particularly in last
Tuesday's publication, that the country ought by
no means to infer that a dissolution of Parliament
was determined upon, merely because there was
a good deal of activity in certain boroughs ; that,
on the contrary, it was the desire of particular
individuals, who may be fond of seeing attorneys'
agents appointed, and meetings and dinners pro-
moted, all in furtherance of the views of five or
six candidates—two Members only being wanted
—to create and keep up the idea that a General
Election was at hand. It was their game, but it
proved nothing ; and events have shown that, in
what we repeatedly intimated, we were right—at
all events, there is to be no dissolution of the Par-
liament this year. Besides, the Cabinet Council
that was to take place, on the distinct and single
question regarding the dissolution of Parliament,
was to he in the beginning of October ; that was
understood to be the arrangement at the close of
the last Session, and on the Ministers separating
for different parts of the country ; whereas we
saw all the Ministers simultaneously moving to-
wards the metropolis, and immediately after
holding a Cabinet Council, which was very
fully attended, and which lasted for several
hours. The cause of such suddenly convened
Cabinet Council was Greece ; it was the
proffer from Greece to place itself under
the protection of this country that occasioned
the Cabinet Council. And as Lord Strangford,
now in this country, had the opportunity of giv-
ing personal information to the Ministers, it is un-
derstood to have been accompanied with an inti-
mation, that if England declined to grant the
proffered protection, there was a power that might
acquiesce in the reqnest of the Greeks. England
can have no desire to see Russia extending pro-
tection to Greece, and gaining the long sighed-
for influence in the Mediterranean. The Council
of Thursday was followed by one on Saturday,
and the subject of deliberation again was Greece.
The Earl of Elarrowby, lord President of the
Council, was at the Foreignsollice soon after
twelve o'clock, and he was soon afterwards
joined by Mr. Secretary Canning—they anxiously
awaiting the return of the Earl of Liverpool,
who went to Windsor after Thursday's Cabinet
Council, to have an audience of his Majesty.
The Minister of France was on the alert ; the
Prince de Polignac had some guess at the charac-
ter of Thursday's deliberations, and had a long
interview with Mr. Canning on Friday. During
these discussions the Ministers were not without
Lord Strangford's aid, that Noble Lord- tolerably
well knowing the movements of the Divan and
the views of Russia. There was,at first, ,a thought
of Lord Strangford being sent. back direct to
Constantinople ;- but it is now resolved that St.
Petersburgh, at no distant day, is to he his Lord-
ship's first visit.

IMORNING POST.]
We received last night by Express, French
Papers to the 24th inst. and the Etoile of Satur-
day. It appears by the intelligence from Spain
that the execution of Bessieres, prompt as it was,
did not prevent others from imitating his ex-
ample. •We had already heard of an insurrec-
tionary movement in the province of Valencia
headed by General Chambo : we now find and
that it has been followed by risings in
those of la Mancha, Burgos, and Grenada.
General Locho, who has taken up arms, in la
Mancha, and had not yet been overtaken at
the date of these ad vices, is represented as ;the
chief who excites most fear in .the King and.the
Gdvernment ; not only because the scene of his-

operations lies at a short distance from the ca-1
pital, but because he is considered as the most
daring and enterprising of all the Guerilla
Leaders who have fought since 1820. lie
had only fifty horsemen with him when he
proclaimed Charles V., but it was believed that
his numbers had since increased. It was even
apprehended at Madrid that the two companies
of Cavalry of the Regiment of St. James,
and those of Cuirassiers of the Guard who had
been sent in his pursuit, had joined, instead of
combating the Rebel. This was the more fear-
ed, as although four days had elapsed since
those troops had marched from the capital,
no intelligence whatever had been received
from them. Ortiguela is the Chief who has
taken the field in the province of Burgos ; but
the name of the third, who has created trou-
bles at Grenada, is not mentioned. These
troubles were subsequent to the discovery of an
alleged conspiracy, in which six officers had been
shot, and of which we gave some time since
the details. The information contained in the
Eloile, though it admits the existence of seve-
ral local insurrections in Spain, is evidently
intended to produce a belief that they had
been suppressed ; but little faith can be placed
in those assurances. A Decree had been issued
by Ferdinand at the request, possibly the demand,
of the French and Agistrian Charges des Affaires,
directing- that the houses of French merchants
established in Spain, and suspected of having
smuggled goods,should not be visited by Custom-
house Officers without the consent and aid of
the French Consuls.