The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-26 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Aug. '26.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Chateanbriand has lately published a pam-
phlet relating to the Ministry in France, and the
-restoration of the Censorship. To the people of
this country it is matter of little consequence
whether the French Press be free or not. On the
score of interest, it should not be free. This
Censorship is of a piece with the passport and
police system of France. The effect is to impede
the progress of commerce, manufactUres, arts,
and the various intercourses of life. The conse-
quences to England are, that it reconciles to their
own country those who, after having left it for a
time, return, and never again wish to leave it ;
because, in England, we enjoy the freedom of
the Press—are not liable to the vexatiousness of
the horrid passport system—and the police
troubles us but little, except we do something
wrong. This difference between England and
France is the reason why we progress in a manu-
facturing, commercial, and other respects, and
that France does not, in any thing like the same
comparative ratio. Therefore, as Englishmen,
and presuming that we like our own country
best, we ought to rejoice whenever we hear
that the French Government is so silly as to
throw such impediments in the way of the pros-
perity of the French people. Any one reading
this pamphlet may see that M. Chateaubriund is
, greatly galled in being turned out of the Ministry,
and his gall is probably increased by his finding
that France gets on without him. M. Cha-
teaubriand, in his day, has been much ad-
mired. Ile was worshipped, to it certain
degree, as a great man, and it is well known
that when such men fall they find that
their worshippers full oil too, which so enrages
them that they make a great noise. So it has
been with M. Chateaubriand, and has been with
thousands of others for time immemorial. There
has always been on the part of mankind too great
a worshipping of great men. But in France great
rnt;rl are more idolized than they are in England.
This arises from the nature ofthat Government—
it being more absolute than ours, more depending,
skid therefore, more subservient to any one man;
"tut even in France we see that after a great man
has been laid aside for a little time, another suc-
ceeds, him, and he, in his turn, becomes the idol for
the moment—not for his own sake, but for the
hope all people have of gaining some advantage
to themselves by being acquainted with a great man.
—Our Government being of so mixed a nature,
not depending on any One man in particular; and
as every body can pursue his commercial, manu•
facturing, or other pursuits, free from inter.
ruption, we are all more or less busily en-
gaged from tnorning till it is time to go to bed,
(for human nature left to itself is infinitely
snore industrious, and meddles much less with
the Government, than when it is fettered) and
have not time to spare to worship great men as the
French have, and therefore, when the great fall,
there is less fuss made about it.

L'en't TIMES.]
in vain that Ferdinand rakes up the
very sweepings of the English money-market for
UletitlS of destruction to the hest interests of Eng-
Jaod. Without pretending to the honour of hav-
ing already foiled, by our own exertions, the
wicked and baneful project of a new Spanish
loan, we can affirm, on undoubted authority, that
no one among the leading capitalists of this king-
, 'dom will condescend to treat with the bankrupt
Servile GoVernment. The chiefs of our monied hi-
terests have, we are well informed,refusedsomuch
as to investigate the condition of Spanish finance,
aro listen to a syllable that can be urged on behalf
orate wretched creatures who have ruined it. We
would, if we were able, infer from this rigour,
the prevalence of lofty sentiments of freedom
and philanthropy amongst our monied men. But
if political morality be at a discount upon 'Change,
prudence, we believe, is at a premium : so the
WO Inference may be, not that the capitalists are
• ashamed of a Spanish loan from any squeamish-
ness touching the characters of those with whom
:they might have to negociate, " but that they
tremble at the notorious insolvency of the bor-
rower, and at the wholesale destruction in which
their own friends and clients, who might buy up
his securities, would be involved. In the mean
while, a consciousness of the coming- catastrophe
'taunts and overwhelms the partisans of the le-
gitimate Court of Madrid in every corner of the
world. They are driven to desperation, and
they are acting desperately. That credit' which
they move the whole earth, and certain regions
under the earth, to bolster up, they know will,,
before they can find time. to turn round again,
have become a perfect by-word in every count-
, itig.house over the.face of Europe and America.

[BRITISH P 11.1155.3
The private correspondence of the Courier
Francais contains an interesting account of the
prevent state of Spain, and particularly ot the
landing of the constitutionalists, under Torrijos,
at Tarrifa. ,This affair seems to have excited cop.
siderable alarm in the Spatti4ii o,,ernment.
The feelings of the, popuhttion may he ascer.
tabled by the fact, that no opposition .whatever
appears to have been offered to Torrijos. It
wan not judged safe to employ the Spanish troops
*t St. Koch to suppress the insurrection.--
'rho only native soldiers Torrijos met with joined
1!!(1). If there had been no French garrison at
9adiz, another revolution might have resulted
the invasion of this handful of men. It
rig! at aHY .
rate decided the absolute and
immediate dependence of Ferdinand's autho-
rity on the presence of the
Constitutionalist', French army. 'I h e
or malcontents are evidently
the immense majorit f the population, no part
or whom can btZugirguiYatteotdhavrith arms to subdue an
insurrection, country is garrisoned
with French troops. A,
rinnOtir is mentioned of
a Congress of Sovereigos ateMtolan n, at
Tie which Fer.
dinand is to be present in person subjuga-
tion
of the American States "tasyfhn slO the
beads of the Allies, and fills them with. ',
That some plot is hatching we have ..
no doubt