The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-14 00:00:00

and that she made the greatest exertions to
induce the Allies not to interfere with the

Spaniards, and that the Allies have assured
us, it gave them the greatest pain that they
could on this occasion comply with our wishes.
Mr. Canning will also, no doubt, endeavour to
chew that the country has little cause to regret
the issue of the negociations. If the French
Government should not succeed in its object, not-
withstanding the aid of the other Allies, the loss
will he theirs ; and, if they should succeed, we
can have no cause of apprehension, for the Allies
are our friends, and we know increased power
will not render them one whit more arrogant; or
less disinterested.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Times Paper of Saturday contains a most
delectable paragraph on " Louis le Gourmand." It is almost
as good a literary " ton bouche" as Louis's cold fowl for sup-
per with D'Avarey was in another way. It is easy to sec that
the disinterested correspondence of the " ancient editor," with
the venerable Blacas and his compeers, is not yet closed. What
Hattern of consistency is the Times! Stupid jests on Printe
ilt, and abuse. of all the Bourbons in one column, and the
most fulsome praises of the weak glutton now on the Throne of
France in the next.. The Times asks, how does Louis appear
in his work ? and it answers, " most amiable." We deny it.
This man, then • Monsieur, the brother of the Monaich, fled
in disguise to join the bands of emigrants in army on the
frontiers, who were confederated with foreign powers to re-
store .despotism anti the ancient regime of France. • . He
fled to participate in the Councils, and follow (as he did at a
subsequent day) in the train of the despots, who by the treaty
of Pilnitit were leagued to dismember trance of her most valu-
able possessions, Alsace, Lorrain, and Franche Compte, and
to overturn, amid universal blood and slaughter, the altars of
rising liberty in that cOuntry. If lie and the band of Bastards
who deserted their country in the hour of danger, had been only
moderate and firm, and remained, much of the misery France
subsequently endured, and the blood that was spilled, would have
been spared. These unhappy men expiated bitterly their errors
after they were led under Conde, and others, like sheep to the
slaughter. They formed alternately the vanguard and rearguard of
the armies of Cobourg and Brunawick, and were abandoned on
every occasion. They fought Most gallantly, as 'the Noblesse
always did, and were butchered in Im tidied s. Louis himself was a
destitute anti despairing wanderer for years, through every part
of Europe, from Petersburgh to Hartwell. Time and adver-
sity should have taught this imbecile old man a different lesson
from - that he is now practising, the unprincipled anti atro-
cious attack levelled at the liberties of a neighbouring nation.
The publication of the trash called his Journey to Coblentz
(which the Titres praises so immoderately) at such a period a's
this, is a proof of his utter heartlessness; indeed,. we never
knew a bloated epicure. to possess any feeling, and this is pretty
much Louis's case. " How pleasing (says the Times) is this
good-humoured jollity, when compared with the gloomy tem-
per, the unsocial habits, and the vulgar restlessness of the man
whom fortune afterwards placed on the throne." Yes, the
contrast indeed is out of all place and keeping. ,Louis can
be just as well compared with Napoleon as Alexander the
Coppersmith could with Alexander the Great ; but reckless as
Napoleon's ambition was, and atrocious as we know his attack
on Spain to have been lie never perpetrated" any thing more
abominable than old'ltouis's present invasion of that country.
The only difference is, that one was an act of well-combined
daring by a hold and successful Conqueror ; and the other is an
effort of fanaticism by a set of slavish imbeciles, equally un-
principled as the former, but wanting the power and talent to
support it. Napoleon's ambitious effort was the commence-
ment .of his ruin ; it recoiled with terrible efibct on himself.
Louis's campaign in the same field, under the wretched Angou-
lone,- is likely to be more speedily disastrous, and can never
be Mentioned but with execration.
" i)uni vult libertas mera deci
" Veroque versus."
What can the consistent Times say to this ?

[mouNtso POST.]
Paris Journals to the 12th . inst. have arrived
since our last. They have brought the first Bulletin from the
Army, and a curious document it is. Instead of describing bat-
tles, or even the passage of the Bidassoa' it only contains the
details •of an affair between the invading; host and a party of,Bo
French reNgees, over whom a glorious triumph had been
achieved ! 'I.. his Bulletin is signed by Gen. Guilleminot, as •Ma-
jor. General, so that it appears certain that the services of the
• lyoor Duke of Bethino have been rejected by the tieneraliff.
some It is dated from St. jean de Luz, the 7th 'tumult, at
halt=-past three in the morningoand states that a troop of French
and Italian •Refugees made their appearance the day before,
on the Spanish bank of the Bidassoa, and . by songs and sedi-
tious cries tried to instigate the King's soldiers to. desert. It
is evident, front the account of the Major-Gcneral himself, that
although no desertion took place (a circumstance easily ac-
counted, for, by the fact that there was a river between the in-
viting party and the invited, which would have rendered it
certain destruction for the latter to attempt to comply), the
French troops heard the call, and beheld the tri-eoloured
with more complacency than indignation. Gen. Vallin, pro-
bably alarmed at their silence, ordered a piece of cannon to 1w
brought, at the sight of which the Refugees cried " hive l'Ar-
tilleri ' . The. General replied by the cry of " live
Roi!"--a cry . which it is not said wb re-choed' by the
army. He then commanded the piece to be fired t this was
done three times, and eight or ten of the Refugees were killed
and wounded, after which the rest retired. Such has been the
first triumph of the War and it may, perhaps, be of good omen to
Spain, that the first blood which her unprmcipled.mvaders.have
shed on her soil, has been Frenelt blood.. Yet, trifling its.:this
affair may appear, it has been considered by the French Mon-
arch and his -11 Misters of ouch importance as to require its
being communicated by a special message to the Chamber of
Deputies. The Provisional Minister at. War, Count Dijeon,
conseuuently introduced it on Thursday last to the Chamber
in a pompons speech, in which he vainly endeavoured to
prove the justice and necessity of the contest, and ultimately
announced that the army had passed the Bidassoa on the at-
ternoon of the 7th, without meeting with an opponent, the
Spaniards having fallen back towards. Pampeluna. The im-
portance attached to a circumstance apparently so insignificant.
as the affitir with the Refugees, gives the exact measure of the
apprehensions entertained by tie King and his Ministers,
lest the French army should yield to their invitations,
and should turn its arms against the Government whose
mandates of ambition and injustice it is committed to ex-
ecute. The joy so publicly and unguardedly expressed is
founded en the idea that the army has now given a pledge of
fidelity which secures its future obedience, and renders it a fit
instrument for all the contemplated iniquities. But they for-
get that the act which they consider as a chain thrown round the
whole army, was that of a General, not of the troops themselves,
and that it is only when desertion is rendered possible by the
nature of localities and circumstances, and yet does not --occur,
that the fidelity of soldiers can be regarded as fairly established.
The Deputies who had probably .shared the apprehensions of
the King, also shared his exultation at finding that they had not
been realized, and. displayed it by general accletnations on re-
diving the communication of the Minister at Virat.

[THE HERALD.]
.
It gives us much pleasure to hear that the
farcical ' spreading o'er the surface of -15 years' Annuity Rill,
will be agaut opposed this evening in the house of Commons.
Should such a paltry Bill pass into a law, it will reflect great
diSgrace on the conottry. It is a species of bankruptcyit is a
begging of time. As applied to trade, it would be called a
failure. We are much surprisedjbat the present Chancellor
Of the F4ceilequer should persist in going on with this miser-
able scheme of the late Chancellor. What would be thought
of a man in trade, who in twelve months haul bills of ex-
change to meet to the amount, we will say, of 5001. the first
month ; 4501. the 2d month, and so on—less 50/. every month,
until the whole wire paid; and saying to the holders of such
I will not pay these bills-in twelve months, but I will take 45_
months to pay them in ; and on the principle of NO/. the tirst
month, 220/. the second month, and 60 on for 45 months
Would it not be said of such a man that he had oiled A
meeting of his creditors—.in fact, that he had failed ? If this
Bill pass, it may be said of this nation, that it has failed
and failures in payments too often go before a bank.
ruptcy. Bat the folly of the thing is, that while Mr. Ito.
binson is endeavouring, in imitation of Mr. Valisittart, to
keep out of the sight of the people this year, an expen.
diture of five millions for Army and Navy pensions, &c,
and instead thereof, wishes the public to see this year
the item. of two millions and three qusrters of a million
only,. he, like his predecessor, is contriving, by every meansit; his power, to have what is called a Sinking Fund of
'lvo millions. Of what consequence is it whether Mr. Robin.
son shows at the year's end a surplus of tive or three millions ?
If he abandon this stupid scheme, he will show a surplus of
three millions instead of five. But then; on the other hand, he
will be getting rid, as he ought to do, of that which, on the part
of Mr. Vantuttart (with bad taste enough) was called the " Dead
lltarge," in the period of twelve years, instead of the period of
45 years. Are gentlemen, for the best part of their lives, to go to
collega, and the result of their education to be such arithmetical
trickery as this ? And is it proper to give such Gentlemen the