The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-18 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOU4NALS.

DAILY
Extractsirom the Morning Papers, April IS.

[MORNING POST.]
We have given in a preceding part of our
Paper—(See THE Sus of yesterday)--the• Pro-
clamation issued by the New Provisional Junta
of the Spanish nation. It is a most salutary do-
cument, and the time of its appearance is pecu-
liarly propitious; for if there existed any doubt
in the mind of honest Spaniards respecting the
part which they should take in the difficult situa-
tion in which their country is placed, it must be
entirely removed by this publication; and they
will join heart and hand in the defence of a Con-
stitution, which, with all its faults, they must
prefer to the pure and unditguised despotism
now offered to their acceptance. The Address
and promises of the Duke of Angouleme might have
deceived and misled a few ; they might at least
have afforded that pretence fur doubt and inaction
of which timid minds are not sorry to avail them-
selves to justify their absence from the post of
danger and of honour. But the commentary, or
rather the positive contradiction, supplied by this
State Paper, disarms the hypocritical attempt of
the Bourbon Generalissimo of all its power, and
renders it as harmless as it is infamous. May
the enemies of Spain continue, thus to neutralize
their own arts and deceptions ; and they will
impart to the cause of their intended victim that
principle of union which was hitherto wanting,
and which will hasten the hour of their discom-
fiture and of its triumph. Another such Procla-
mation by the Rebel Regency, and if the
Spaniards are not wholly dead to sense and self.
interest, the very Army and Generals of the
Faith will become the Army and Generals of the
Constitution.

[sioamilic cuttoNicr.rq
'We can understand why Russia, Austria,
and Fiance should meet at Verona ; they are
Members of the Holy Alliance, and had a sepa-
rate rule to guide them ; but the Government of
England ought to know nothing of that Alliance;
and it is only agreeably to the terms prescribed
by public treaties that its representative was
authorised to enter into such a discussion as that
which took place at eromt. But as we have
seen, the proceedings at Verona were sanctioned
by no Treaty of which this country ought to
have any knowledge ; and the puke of Welling-
ton had, therefore, no right to participate in them.
When lie saw that the arrangements of Aux-la-
Chapelle did not form the rule of the proceed.
ings, he should have withdrawn instantly, and
protested against them.--It will be seen that
Lord Liverpool was altogether silent on this sub.
ject-he was apparently unprepared with an
answer.

[MORNING HERALD.]
After the extraordinary agitations in the House
of Commons last night, Mr. Plunkett persevered
in bringing forward his motion. After he had
risen, and expressed the determination to pro-
ceed, Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Fiume, Mr. Hob-
honie, General Ferguson, Sir R. Wilson, &c. rose
from their seats and left the House, in pursuance
of Sir F. Burdett's 44 protest " against the pro-
ceeding as a " mock debate!"

[Tin:
The affairs of the 'louse of Commons last night
are of too delicate a nature to admit-of our criti-
cising them. For his talents as a statesman, his
knowledge of business, history, or 'the British
Constitution, we shall never regret 'the loss of
Lord Londonderry : hut he possessed, from con-
stitution, a coolnesss in debate, the want of which
may be felt in men supplied by nature and study
with a loftier genius and more extensive attain-
ments. There is one general observation which we,
as Journalists, have had many opportunities of
making, and the imparting of which may greatly
conduce to the production of a quiet method in de.
bate. It is generally upon some supposed personal
insult, and some consequent loss of reputation
with the country, that men 64 fly out into heats."
Now, really, in contemplating the public men of
the present day, and on reflecting upon -all we
hear said of them in society, we should think that
very few of those who stickle most for reputation
have a reputation worth quarreling about. De-
sertion of party and principle, for the sake of
place—coalition with,and honourable mention of,
those who have been previously described as in-
competent, from the tame motive—whole par.
ties and families bought over by the lump, ac-
cording to the list of prohibited degrees in a
parish vestry. Do men suppose the country not
acquainted with these things? or that, knowing
them, it respects the persons implicated in them ?

[NEW TIMES.)
Consols remained steady yesterday• at 761+ ;
but Spanish Bonds declined, and closed at 304.
This latter circumstance is attributed principally
to a clause in the Proclamation of the New Re.
gency, which declares invalid all the acts of the
Revolutionary Government ; and it is of course
inferred that the Loans are included. how far
this may be open to future negociation or ex-
planation we cannot pretend to say. Some
talk still prevails of an injunction to prevent
the Contractors from paying over the money
in their hands for the Dividend. The bills
drawn by the Spanish Government, which became
due yesterday, were of course dishonoured. After
all this the nonsensical idea of bringing into the
market a new Loan—and that of Eight Millions
sterling—is only fit for Bedlam! Hitherto there
is not the slighteit appearance of any effectual