The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-30 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

The MtmiteLtr of Friday last has been received,
and removes all doubt on the news which reached
London on Saturday last. A Council was held on
Wednesday evening by the King of France, at
which a Note was agreed upon to be sent to the
Spanish Government. A fter the Council broke up
the Duke De Montmorency tendered his resigna-
tion, which was accepted; and the Porte-feuille of
Foreign Affairs was committed ad interim to M.
Dc A/Melt., the President of the Council.—Much
false reasoning has been employed on this sub-
kct. It has been supposed by some that the
Duke's resignation (which they call a dismissal)
proves that the French Government are afraid
of Spanish Republicans, and have slunk
away from a contest with them ; and conse-
quently that the 'Republican cause must even-
tually triumph, first in Spain, and after-
wards (by anatuval consequence) in the rest
of Europe. This view of the case explains the
exultation of The Times—(the organ of Queen
Caroline's Mobs, and of the Neapolitan and
Piedmontese 'Traitors) .at the Duke of Montmo-
rency's resignation. But we are inclined to be-
lieve, and ccrtain.ly to hope, that this notion is
altogether unfounded. Referring to our Paper of

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The report of the marriage of his Majesty to
a fair subject gains more and more ground every
day. It was pretty generally, but erroneously,
supposed that the Royal Marriage Act restrain-
ed the Sovereign, as well as the rest of the Royal
Family, from marrying a subject. His Majesty
is, however, unrestrained by any law from
marrying whom he chooses ; but another question
arises—whether he could marry without the con-
sent otParliament ? This question will be solved
differently, according to the degree of extension
given to the maxim that the Sovereign can only
act by the advice of responsible Ministers. The
practice of looking abroad for wives for our Sove-
reigns, though uninterrupted since the reign of
Henry' the Eighth, has little in its favour, while
much may be said against it. "We marry
our Kings And Queens (as Mr. Wilberforce
observed) contrary 'to the law of GOD and of Na-
ture."—One of the evils attendant on these
marriages with foreigners is, that as all the fo-
reign Princes are more or less despotic, their
families cannot fail to be imbued with the maxims
received and acted on at their Courts, and as
that part of our education which we receive from
our mothers, has necessarily great inf!uence
on our future lives, the children of our Kings
are exposed to the danger of receiving improper
.because unconstitutional lessons in their infancy.
We have no doubt that the announcement of a
deviation from the established practice would be
received by the public in general with great
satisfaction, if the match appeared in other re-
spects a suitable one, that is to say, likely to be
conducive to the happiness eg the parties them-
selves, and to the promotion of the interests
of the country. It has sometimes been supposed
that the proposed elevation of the daughter of
any subject, however exalted in rank, to the
throne, would excite the jealousy of the rest of
the aristocracy, and render them hostile to the
design. But this we take to be an imaginary
danger. The popularity of the act, and the in-
vidious nature of any attempt to force the King
either to remain unmarried or to marry contrary
to the law of Gon and of Nature would ensure
the ,success of any proposition on the subject to
Parliament.

A robbery of 20 coombs of wheat was lately effected at Sib-
ton. Mr. WitrrE, the proprietor, a few days after received
the sacks, with a note containing the following lines :
" We have got your wheat,
" And you can't find it ;
" 'Twas a famous wind
" That helped to grind it."

On Saturday night, about eight o'clock, a hare
was seen running along George-street from the Il'est, pursued
by a number of dogs, of every species. The poor animal
squatted down behind a lamp post in Castle-street, where it was
taken without resistance, by a person passing, and died, seem-
ingly of fright, a few minutes after.— ( Edirantrgh Star.)
The soldiers' burying ground at Chatham, was.
lately, visited by some resurrection men,, who
robbed the ground of three bodies, which they
got -away without discovery ; a guard is 'now. set.
in the burying ground to prevent future similar
occurrences.

the 21st inst., we still maintain the opinion, there
expressed, that all then Members of the French
Cabinet were firmly united in those principles
which the interest and honour of their country
demanded, and that M. de Montmorency was as
desirous to maintain peace as M. de Villele would
be to undertake a war, had those interests and
that honour dictated one or the other of those re-
solutions. But, with a perfect identity ofiteeling
in this respect, these Ministers may have had
some shades of difference as to the language
which it was proper to hold to the Spanish Re-
publicans.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The contest in the French Cabinet respecting
the war with Spain is said to be decided. Pacific
counsels have prevailed, and M. de Montmorency,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, late Ambassador
of France at Verona, and the Cowhaus of the
war party, has retired. Such are the accounts of
the date of Thursday, which have been received
from Paris. We have as yet no official con-
firmation of their truth. The Journals of
Thursday do not bear upon this question,—
Their contents, as far as they have 'reached us,
are perfectly reconcileable with the truth or
falsehod of this most important intelligence.—
Those of Friday will, no doubt, determine it.—
We write this without having yet received,
hut in hourly expectation of receiving them by
express. As to the probable issue, it seemed re-
duced to equal chances. The question was placed
in such a state of balanced suspense—athleast
to the great public of lookers-on--that the in-
clination of either scale would be received
without surprise. If intelligence derives any
additional title to credit from being circum-
stantial, there is in this instance that presumption
of truth. A council is stateil to have been held at
the Tuilleries on Wednesday evening. The two
champions of the respective parties produced
drafts of notes, containing the demands and al-
ternatives which each advised' should be sent to
Madrid that of M. de Villele, it is said, mo-
derate and conciliatory—that of M. de Montmo-
rency warlike and peremptory. A warm dis-
cussion ensued, and the King of France, in con-
clusion, decided for that of M. de Villele, the
President of the Council. The defeated Minister
tendered his resignation, and it was accepted
shortly after. Further changes were expect-
ed, and would naturally take place. M. de
Chateaubriand is mentioned as the successor
of the retired Minister : This would be a
curious instance of alternate triumph and de-
feat, between those two personages. The
latter carried it hollow at the Congress of
Verona, and was rewarded with a dukedom on
his return to France. How capricious must be
the political climate of the French Court, when,
after a few short days, the same counsels are dis-
carded, the same Minister thrown aside, with his
Dukedom rendered historically ridiculous by the
singularity of the issue—and his defeated rival
invited to step into his place!. lie has, however,
one hope still. It is, that the same perverseness,
caprice, intrigue, or imbecility, which created
and kept afloat the bubble of his first success,
may produce another equally mischievous turn i
his favour.