The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-21 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDlTOR—Leaving entirely out of the
question the all-acknowledged heinousness and
blindness of the present ambitious attack of the
French Government up-on the pacific unoffentling
Spaniards, the more deeply and dispassionately
one reflects on the issue at stake, the more con-
viction is forced upon the mind that this vitally
interesting and bloody struggle involves the best
interests,' the future safety of the British
Islands.

The merest tyro in politics knows that the
real object of those crafty Statesmen who guide
the French Councils is not the preventing the
people of Spain from enjoying an improved, en-
lightened, and free Constitution, but the perpe-
tuation of their old exclusive influence over that
country, through the means of the former despotic
and incapable admiwistration, which they are en-
deavouring to restore by their bayonets, and
which rendered the Peninsula in effect little
better than a most advantageous, because a
slavish appendage to France, always our rival,
and open or covert enemy.
For this reason,and because the French feel that
England particularly would be apt to derive extra-
ordinary advantages from Spain through her en-
larged and improved commercial intercourse, and
probable friendly independent alliances, when her
people were, as it were, resuscitated by a mild,
equal, Representative Government—King Louts
has been instigated to'mak; war upon those who
were so nobly instrumental in overthrowing the.
inordinate dominion of NAPOLEON ; but those
are the very reasons why the people of Great
Britain should, by all the means in their powery
mark their abhorrence of French, interference,
and endeavour to counteract the dark designs of
that proverbially lawless and restless nation.
Under Louts XIV. France played the same
domineering insolent part we saw her lately re-
act under BUONAPARTE,and now she has the will,
though, thank Heaven, not the power, to renew
the same audacity !
Britons gave a death-blow to her Navy at
Trafalgar, which she has not been enabled since
to recover : we thought we gave a death-blow to
her Army at 'Valeria° ; but, under the stale
pretence of restoring FERDINAND to absolute
authority, and thereby indeed strewing hiM to the
world the most perjured and jesuitical Prince,
she is creating the dethents of a formidable land
force, by sending her recruits to campaign In
f
peisecuted Spain, and by reviving the military
of the veterans, which was, we vainly
hoped, annihilated, for at least one generation,
on that glorious but dear-bought day, of which.
this is only the eighth anniversary : and we, Sir,
have a fine irresistible-and expensive army re-
maining idle at home,' while the BOURBONS are
pleased to make this moral and
modest experi-
ment.
Yeq, in furtherance of their experiment to
attach the French soldiery, by indulging them
with conquest and plunder, an unoffending Na-
ally of England, is converted into a
tvastion
ile larnei-house, and through the means of
every underhand and unfeeling intrigue, backed
with millions of money in the atrocious attempt,
lavished not only abroad hut (as there is too good
reason to believe) at home, that nation, Spain, is
gken up to all the horrors of civil and foreign
war.

..,4•The wand'ring babes from mother's breasts are rent,
And sutler ills they neither fear'd nor meant;
No silver reverence guards the stooping age,
Nor rule, nor method tie the boundless rage :
Nothing butfire and ;laughter meet the eyes,
Nothing the car but groans and dismal cries l"
The men of England are, however, at last
aroused from their apathy ; even our fair coun-
trywomen are exerting themselves in the cause
of Spanish justice; and that cause, let us rest
assured, will ultimately succeed over all iti
enemies.
June 18. %V. N. S.

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