The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-02 00:00:00

that degraded Portugal has lost the Brazils for
ever. Her Gazetteers may impute it to " Ma-
sonry," if they please, but not one stone of the
edifice of her former ascendancy remains, and the
state " Masons" of Lisbon will never be able to
construct it again, let them labour how they may.
They may try to flatter 44 Don Padro,"• by call-
ing him 44 August Prince," and impute his unfilial
affection to the wiles of this sect, but they
44 waste their breath in vain." The Brazilian
Emperor has enjoyed the sweets of power with
great complacency, and appears in no disposition
whatever to make any surrender of it to his con-
sistent father " Don John."

I-MORNING HERALD.]
We received the Paris Papers last night by
express. They are chiefly filled with the report
of the trial, by a Court-martial, of a soldier named
Simon, who, it will be recollected, was accused
of having shot a young man named Honein, for
having attempted to scale the wall of the Tui-
leries Gardens, on the 2d of December last, the
day of the Duke of Angouleme's triumphant entry
after his return from Spain to Paris. The Court-
martial was composed of a Colonel, who acted
as President, a Chief of Battalion, two Captains,
a Lieutenant, Sub-Lieutenant, and a Serjeant-
Major. The soldier admitted the fact of
shooting the man, but appealed for his justifica-
tion to the strictness of his orders, which were on
no account to let any person scale the wall, and
also to the provocation he received from the young
man, who, though frequently entreated to desist,
and even threatened if he should persist, only
insulted him, and being encouraged by the po-
pulace, called him by some approbious names,
one of which was a mechant conscrit, which
so fired the anger of the soldier, that he could no,
Longer subdue his passion, and shot the young
man. In the opinion of the Court this was a suf-
ficient justification, and the soldier was acquitted
by a majority of six to one. Walter Scott's new
work, " St.Ronan's Well," is already translated
into French, and was published on Tuesday last,
nearly as soon as it was published in London.—
The Journal des Debats says that it is to be im-
mediately followed by a new work from the same
author, in which will re-appear the principa
characters of "Ivanhoe." The title is to be
" The Siege of Ptolemy, Extract of a History
of the Crusades, by Josiah Corgill, Evangelical
Minister of St. Ronan."

[ lORNINS CHRONICLE.]
A circumstance has come to our knowledge,
which in some measure accounts for the singular
conduct pursued by Morillo in the affairs of his
country. That King Ferdinand acceded to the
Constitution in 1820 against hikown will, may
readily be believed, and it would require no
arguments to convince those who have watched
the events in Spain, that from the moment he
gave his consent to the re-establishment of the
new Code, he began secretly to plot against it.
The fact is, that it is well ascertained the grst
great attempt, viz. the noted revolt of the Guards
on the 7th of July, was the result of very gene-
ral combinations, and on that occasion Morillo
remained neutral, although commanding the gar-
rison of Madrid, as long as the affair
remained
dubious, and afterwards only placed himself at
the head of the troops to keep his ground with
the Constitutional party, so as to be able
to ren-
der his co-operation with the King more effectual
on some more favourable occasion, of which it
was seen he availed himself the moment he was
supported by the late advance of the French into
Galicia. It now turns out that Morillo came
over from Colombia at the request of the
King, and that he was expressly
sent for
to act the treacherous part which has stamped
him with infamy for the remainder of .his
life, and subsequently made him the victim
of that man's dissimulation, whose ready in-
strument he was. Ferdinand having once formed
his plan of creating a counter-revolution, and
overturning the Cortes and Constitution, inune.,
diately applied his thoughts to the choice of mot,
capable of executing it. The Eguias, Lottges,
Quesadas, &c. were men on whom he could
rely ; but they had not the necessary boldness,
nor had they the confidence of the Constitu-
tional party, whose efforts he sought to pare-
lyse, by gaining over to his own interests the men
to whom the latter would entrust the comtnand
of their main force, in case of any emergency.
He himself instantly fixed upon Morillo as one.
This man who, from an obscure serjeant of•
marines, by an accident, or rather a successful
ruse de guerre, had gained the rank of Colonel,
immediately obtained the confidence of the King
after his return from France, and with sorne
astonishment it was seen that the command of
the expedition against Venezuela was con-
fided to him. He was afterwards made
Count of Carthagena, and by every other
means bound to the King's interests. Every
thing led the King to believe that he would
be a willing instrument, and hence he was
called over to aid his scheme, and from the mo-
ment lie arrived, it was privately agreed that he,
should, in the mean time, temporize and keep
well with the Constitutionalists till a favourable
moment presented itself. How well he executed
his orders, and conformed to the plan agreed
upon, is sufficiently known to our Readers!

[THE TririEs.]
The proceedings in Demerara appear to kis:
tify, in more than one respect, the apprehensions
of reasonable men for the reputation of the Co-
lonial Government, and for the satisfactory set-
tlement of the Colony itself. Our readers will
find in this day's Times, a statement from the
Missionary Society, which calls upon them to
suspend their judgment, with regard to the guilt
or innocence of Mr. Smith, by the last accounts
under trial by Court-martial at Demerara. Mr.
Elliot, the other Missionary stationed in that
Colony, was taken into custody, not for the
crime of insurrection, but for disobedience
of orders, in " visiting Smith," after the
latter Gentleman had been thrown into pri-
son. Throughout Mr. Elliot's division, viz.
the western, there was not a single Negro, as
we are assured, who had taken any part in
the rebellion. If, therefore, it VIRS not the