The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-27 00:00:00

[mi.)RNING POST.]

It will' be remembered that Mr. Secretary
.Canning, when he lately admitted that .Govern-
ment despaired of being able to preserve Peace
between France and Spain, informed' the House,
that unless some material change occurred he
•would shortly name the period at which the
`rapers relative to the late transactions would be
laid before the House, and when he would ex-
plAin the course of policy pursued by Govern-
ment on this important occasion. It will now be
seen by our Reports of the Parliamentary Pro-
ceedings of last night, that the Earl of Liver-
,pool in the Lords, and Mr. Secretary Canning in,
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the Commons, untried the 14th of April as the
day on which they world submit those Statements
to Parliament. It is therefore clear that in the
judgment of Ministers nothing favourable to peace
has occurred ;. and the information wisely with-
held so long as a hope remained, is thus unre-
%serv,edly conceded now that hope i$ no more.—
Mr. Seeretary•Canning took this opportunity of
repeating the answer which he had given to a•
quotton put to him on the preceding night re-
specting the engagements entered into by this
coontry, in, relation to the Government of France.
Englund, he stated, had engaged to resist with
her Allies any occupation of the Throne of
• Franrp by the fladnaparte family ; birt btryond
.this, it had only ;ln further stipulated; that in
, the event olany new revolutionary movement in
~that country the Allies should immediately meet
And consult as to what ought to be done. The
Earl of Liverpool gave a similar explanation in
the 1100 e of 1,10p15.-,-Thpir Lordships have ad.
journed to the 10th of April., .The Commons
will alsu, adjourn this evening for the 'holidays.

[Tut ftimis.l •
The bfierip,rcrceodings .of„ the:House
,of,
,Lords ,
Jast...night,ipossess.serne ioterest., 'On Lord Liver•.
tn_oyApg, that. the papefs .telative. to :the'
Verotni.; 11e:064,09u ..laid„on the table ;on
_,lVlonday,,the 14,t,1r. of next :month,. Lord Grey
ode, An, inquiry. iamewhat to that of the
preceding evening ,by,. lord John I.4tpseil, but.
betttr sUcCess as to the answer. The point
iS now, frill understood, that we
tlefenti lii,rtZtsce against the return
of 800.4.14,-,tin4G, but that, we are not bOund to
,Olfenti her' t}y the Imposition of the Bourbons
longer than'she chooses to retain there. What
we+ should apprehend, speaking merely by
eonrctore, may give . Tvlinistere the .contidence
whiVit- they profess to feel, that they have
-preserved the honour ' the countr,
ttn-
ttiiinterl in compromising With the infamous in.
trvasiots,•of is .some, holloW ftSIIIIIIIICO. by
France, .that .she will not along .occupy Abe Catinr.
.try,
or usu.vp.:lta gesfernment„ or appropriate its
resources, premise whiclk.france,w,ouid•neither
have the will „nor even the.power to perform, if,
...which 'leaven Avert, ,siteovere,,,succesFfal. We
. do. not, love, to ..speak ottquesti orSPIAti,
even as .an hypothesis; fgt. we }now, the Preoch
..regple.,tri. be so enaKopred ,91;what
glory,, that. we ,ate ,not gertaip,.. clify
Imo anti to the enterpritter,i.wh,ether...they. ttrught
not 1)0'. ipelinecl. to 4-oerlpqk ita,.„crinunajity
.for the sake of, .the advantages. it, would,
persuade them-.
selves, that. the cottqueo 9f, Abe Penins.ul4.lll4bt
be effected even. by the i3ourbouo. ; :Yet, we. $Ol,l
still :venture to ,say,, that if,thV,-411w govern-
ment he.-.prescrihed, to •, he, p4ttiard3,, by., this
...French:army now. flu the PYreectes--if th,§pa-
414artls..,iencode one, .tittle to :the dread,,of that
array and its doughty Commander--thei.r;cooptry
becomes from that moment essentially a Prendh

province, whether Ferdinand be allowed to act
las Viceroy or,not: and WO must bear the .dis-
'grace and danger of suffering that union of the
two kingdoms, which it has been the policy of
:our best and wisest Kings to prevent; and against
which we successfully struggled, under the se,
veret sufferings, from the year 1808 to the end
of the last year.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Lord Liverpool in the Upper Hottie last night,
and Mr. Canning in the Lower, both gave notice
of their intention to move Addresses to the
Crown on the 14th of April, to lay before both
Houses the negociations so long depending in
the meditated war between France and Spain.
On this important subject of course a most
interesting debate must ensue. The French
armies' will probably before that period have
passed. the Pyrenees and entered Spain, and
our negociations will have closed, in the
French and Russian Ministers having assured us
respectively, of their high consideration, while
they laughed jn our face. So much for the di-
-Ilemacy of Mr. Canning, and the all-important
change in our foreign policy to' be produced
by his entry into the Cabinet. The Foreign
Secretary stated further, that he had since
looked over our precarious treaties of 1814
and 1815, and found his opinion of the night be-
fore, us to our guarantee of the Bourbons, con-
firmed. Lord Liverpoolstated, in answer to Earl
Grey, that he had only secured this family
against any attempts by Napoleon or his rela-
tions. Let the guarantee have beenagainst whom
it may, what right had we to be committed in it ?
What are the fanatic Bourbons to us that. we
should aid them ? 64 What's Hecuba to us,
,or
we to Hecuba, that we should weep for her ?"
On what plea or tie of gratitude, kindred, or
desert, are the fortunes of England to be
pledged for the maintenance of this worthless
family ? Mr. Canning, in reply to a question from
Lord Archbibald Hamilton, declared his inten-
tion to move on to-night for an adjournment for
a fortnight. Lord Archibald Hamilton gave
notice that he would oppose the motion ; he said
he thought the period of adjournment too long
in the present state of public business. We
agree fully with the Noble Lord, and do not
see why the House should be adjourned
at all. There have been no late sittings as yet
this Session; the House has not sate a single
night after twelve o'clock, and only on one night
so. fate: there has been no fatigue—nothing to
warrant this uncalled-for protection. In fact,
the House has done nothing this session yet,
except vote'the estimates, and Ave fear the history
of its labours at the close of its sittings will be
he same—"- Semper el idem," which Swift
ranslated, (4 Worse and worse."

LE I W T131E9.1
t appears from the Moniteur of Monday that
Marshal Victor, the French War Minister, has
been appointed to succeed General Guilleminot
as Major-General of the Army of the Pyrenees:
Aud accounts from Paris- state that the former set
off early on Monday morning to assume his new
command. It has been asserted that this appoint-
ment was occasioned by the discovery of a con-
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spiracy in the French army, and so far we are.
inclined to believe the report ; but we have
no doubt tire extent of the evil k very, greatly
exaggerated ; and such seems to have been the
general inipeession- yesterday oil the Sbock Ex-
change.. ;Spanish Bonds at the opening of the
market got up rapidly from 261 to 30; but as
the best informed holders appeared willing to sell
to any amount, at even less than this price, they
soon declined, and at the close of the market
were at 278.. Scrip was 37-.',- discount. In the
other Stocks little basineis was done. Consols
for Account opened at 74k, and closed at 74i.—
Our readers will remember, that so far back as
the llth inst. we urged " the necessity of aster-1
taining„ by minute inquiry, whether last year's
traitorous plots.of Belfort, Colmar, Saumur,
clielle, &c. had extended their ramifications toany
.of the French corps on actual service." We said
then, and we still:saY, 44 we believe that the gene-
ral disposition of the army is good; but we
.cannot
dissemble that much depends on the, choice.of lirui
and honotirable officers. :Po. Times positively,
asserts, that two ,Aides-de-Camp of General„
Guilletniuot have taken part in the plot, and in.
,sinuates that the General hiniself is
cated. The former, part of this statement is
probable enough : the latter we do not credit:
f7-0-eneral Guilletninot is n9t a' Frenchman
by birth, But a Belgian.. From, his. youth
tip, he has been inclined- to revolutionary.
principles ; having taken part hi the Belgian in.,
surrectien so. early, as 1700, , and served in the
'French army down to the Resteraton of 1814,
When he received particular honours and distinc-
tions iron} , the King ; notwithstanding which he
took an active part in the Rebellion of 1815, and
was. appuited Majoi-Groneral of Fouche's army,
in which capacity signed the capitulation of
Paris. lie has ever since been known as a Liberal;
and does seem r‘iithei' eitraarilinary that
such a man should be selected, above all ()Oars,
for the. important :;iinst of Major-General if!der
tbe Doke ! He tsl hoyievee, one
,of the best inforMed Officers in France ; and
we are inclined to think
;him tot') 'honeurable to
have engaged..perionally, in,.a.Conspiracy: 131.4 the
case is, very daTereut with his Aides-de-camp:
The .Conitectint4 Ofitich a man must, in all pro:
• babilitY, be .4ilßiffiteirliersens ; and our own
,eoniectiire is, thit,t Ci one ra G uillerninot,* On di's..
coveying.their,vrithitialiq, chbseil
to withdraw_from comniand, rathei than to corn-
promise his own claracter,_

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Tpo Frprich qoyernment ,eoms- to rush tiead'..
Emig uPOn' its fate, %% id) alu disdain of peril
and, prudence,Esery sitc,ci.l.4liog day's'experionce,
tends to show that it treads upon most dangerous,
ground: It is no -l-onger to the apposition likely
to; be encountered by the r rench 'army iu.Spain,
E r to the more remote, and 'more general results of
this profligate ,act of iigreSsiot4 "fltat'th. public
now
,look---,but 6...the. explOsiotia Wiltit;ll way,
froth one hou'r to another,'he dreaded in France.
Of the extent of the plot in the army of the Fyre-

inees, or of its precise object, we have, at the i
moment of ,writing. this, no specific account.— 1
Rumours prevailed, and we had been for some
time prepared to hear, of new military plots in
France, and 'not in the army of they Pyrenees.--;
it may be presumed, therefore, that conspiracy
is not conAned to that army alone, but is spread,
likettlrieadfoing and commercialrmerconspiracies, tiuoaugel s 1
in h
the garrisons.tegrea t
War might be expected to extinguish the spirit of
discontent in the soldiery ; but it is essentially
necessary to remark, that a war, such as that
with Spain, has nothing in it to excite or gratify
their ambition. But it is in the army that peril
and conspiracy might least have been expected,
because, there, least provoked. The political
minority in the one Chamber is trampled on,
and cast out—in the other it is slighted. The
commercial population is absolutely treated with
contempt and derision. The Duke de Fitzjames,
in the House of Peers, sums up the whole con-
troversy, by saying," War will always be unpo-
pular in the shops—but it will be popular in
the barracks." In the first place, there seems
every reason to doubt at present the popularity
or the war in the barracks, But what is to be
thought of a statesman, who sends the Peers of
France, deliberating under the Charter, to take
counsel of the soldiers in the barracks, and not of
the
towns and cities of the kingdom? The disgust
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given
majority to o
the f
t}lis
a Nationalrme d bo Guarddy 0 ifs anothercitizens
i,a sourcehated
of danger.—lt is evident that the great
' the Government for its attempt to stigmatize
the Civic uniform by an odious service in the

first instance, and now despise it, for not daring
to execute its own threat of bringing the ob-
noxious individual to trial.

PAR'S PAPERS- OF MONDAY.

PARIS, MARCH 24.

In our paper of yesterday we mentioned, from

the Pilote, the stopping at the barrier d'Enfer
of a stage-coach, in which were six persons, who
were taken to the Prefecture of the Police.
They were Camp-Marshal Piet, two other officers,
and three merchants, one of whom is from Lille.
They were lodged in the Salle St. Martin, and
have been examined by a Juge d'histruction.
Their papers were seized, and their contents
have caused the arrest of three persons more.

Early yesterday morning the Prefect of the
Police waited on the Minister for the War De-
partment, and had a conference of an hour and a
half with his Excellency.—(Journal des DObats.)
The columns of the Gazette of Lyons have for
some time past been tilled with details of trials
for seditious cries. The last number contains
five or six sentences pronounced on journeymen
artisans. The paper received to-day states that
the Correctional Tribunal has tried the cause of

two young men of Condrieux, occulted of forming
part of a band of 12 young men of the class
Isl 2, who, on the 14th of January, paraded
through the village of Roches with a drum, cry-
ing—" Down with the King !"—" The Emperor
for ever !" Finally, the Lyons dazetkannounces,
that on the 18th of this month the police arrested
ic2 persons who had possed the night in singing
seditious songs. On the night of the same day
the houses of persons suspected of collecting a
subscription in honour .of MM. Manuel and Mei.,
tier were searched.

[FROM TWE 'Obit:JAL Difr DinATS. I
]Extract of a Private Letter.]
" BAYONNE, MAUCH 1.8.7.---From St, Sebastian
it is stated that the Alcalde by a Proclamation,
she Wing the terror which has seized him, has
succeeded in frightening the inhabitants so as to
induce them to quit their houses, and. to set out
for the interior with their most valuable effects,
A similar measure has been adopted in Most •of
'the 'towns and villages. in the frontier pro.
.vinces there only remain those persons. who are
entirely devoted to the King, and •to order.—
Tlins the French, arrive when they may, may
not'find 'a single enemy.'..--The Militia' of Bilboa,
which was to consist of 1,000 men, • but which
only amounts to 200,-weat out to exercise within
these few days.—Endeavours are Making to rein.
force the constitutional army. For this purpose
-all the conscripts are ordered to, march upon
Vittoria, Bilboa, and St. Ander° ; but how can,
they reckon upon Children, who March with
'so mach repugnance ? The only corps which has
the appearance of a twit regulated troop, is that
of the infantry of Castile, formed entirely of
companies d'aite, and Which arrived on the `l2th
at Valladolid.--Front Corunna it is stated, that
there hitre arrived there, and also at Cadiz, some.
muskets toil, powder, sent by English merchants.,
The English Government takes no part in these
expeditions.—Bessitlres has divided' his army into
eight bands, which holds the two banks of the
Ebro. hitherto the Constitutionalists have: not