The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-20 00:00:00

something of the tranquillity of the country,
'something of the' wisdcnn and justice of those
who exercise dominion over it."

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I. • z LARIVISIT P11188..1
Vengeance 'and retributive justice seem
mingling in the sanguinary scenes now corn-
' mencing through Spain: the brave and gallant
Riego, it appears,,has been condemned to die ; and
the traitorliallasterosis said tehave been arrestted.
The career of theirst has been unstained and pa-
triotic ; the second is a renegade,steeped in, infamy.
'Had -Ballasterosi who was :entrusted :with the
choicest forces that fought under the banners or
the tortes, held true, and hot treated with Mo-
litor, Arigotileme and •Bourdeseult never could
have' remained before Cadiz: Supported by.
Rieo Zayas and., Lopez-,Banos, the besiegers
would 'have been hemmed within their camp, pr
kept in constant apprehension and alarm. Cadiz
has. fallen through his,: treason ; and should he
perish tion .a scaffold, it be but a stnall
atonement' for the incalculable miseries and
disgrace the triple traitor has dragged, down on
Spain. L Morino will be the udxt to fall. This
Trans-Atlantic.cut throat, who realised a fortune
of several millions of reala by plunder and con-
fiscation in the Caracas and .Grenada, purchased
n large portion of the church lands set up to sale
by the Cortes. This property, in whatever'
hands, will now revert to its former possessors.
The purchase may form 'a ground of accusation
before the Inquisition against Morino ; and
the traitorous upstart, who prepared the way
for the conquest of Gallicia, by a series of
the foulest duplicity, may soon have to, answer
hirriselfi before an appalling tribunal, the double
charge of impiety and treason. It is not surprising
Riego should have implicated Ballasteros, when
he found his futteral-bell ,was about to toll. The
fallen chief may have wished for the consolation
of vengeance on his worst betrayers. Like Zangu,
he might have exclaimed— •
ItTligniet ;
" But others' groans shall teach the world mydeath."

Ballasteros caused his ruin, and he has pulled
him down with a-death-gripe. The condemna-
tion of the gallant Chief is itself an act of atro-
dons vengeance. If, he. falls, it will be a foul
murder, and' nothing can wash :his blond
from the hypocritical AngOuleme. Riego was in
no way amenable to the :tribunals of the Re-
gency ; when he was taken in arras he bore the
commission of the present tyrant',of Spain, and
was acting under his authority. Angouleme
has the power to sire him ; if he suffers Riego to
be sacrificed, the aciwill brand him with infamy
to all succeeding. ages. If, during the past, con-
test, the priibnets taken on both sides were mu-
tually
to have been considered traitors, and led,ito
the block, it would have made Spain u aicene of
blood horrible to nature." And what has the First
Patriot of Spain done to secure' him a- sanguinary
execution ? Nothing but that his enemies bate
him. Ceuta- and Tariffe are said to inive Nur.
rendered on the mandate' of Ferdinand; this is
not surprising, if true ;.both .both are in. the ininaedi'ate,
neighbourhood of Cadiz, and must have been
affected by its fate. , , ,

It is said to bb: in agitation to bring bills into
Parliament, in the ensuing Session; 41 restore five
or six of the Scots Peerages, forfeited by gcces.
lions to the Rebellions in 1715 ,and 1745, the
favour being (at least for the present) confined
to cases where lineal descendants of the persons
forfeited now exist. No personilt is preeumed, eon
object to the grace of the Crown and Legislature
being shown thus far ; but it does not seem easy
to discover a solid principle for the selection, or
to say why the same grace should not be extended
to collaterals.• Why those whose blood is, in the
legal sense corrupted, should be preferred to
those whose blood is pure.—(Edinburgh Courant,
Oct. Id.) - ' • .

PABIODICAp RISX.AND FALL, OF Tfilt:l3AlAeurttp..
(iolortel WitioUT, gembeEsof the Ceilori.literav and Agri.
cultural Society,, is said to haVe discovered'' 'th'a't Withici. the
Tropics, the mercury, rites end.fal4 twieelvithin.?4 lttirs, with
such regularity as to afford aliiiaat en opportunity of Measuring
.the lapse of time by this instrument._( Ceylon Casette.)

A rhirograph id runniutt-the round of the Lon-
don Ptipgru stating ttipakt :14-;*)? played` the Blind lifan in
Pizarro' and Ping a comic. sting at Art', m 1806. Fivin the
sOrprlsethe clrcumstanee'spem;s to have occasioned, it will pro-
bably make the Cocktil*s.stare"to'Peinrotmed that the grave
tragedian has Pot only sung songs; dan'eed hornpipes; and per-
formed in farces, Put haS been the harlequin of many'a.pan-
totnime on the Exeter stay, Odexcellently well he acquitted
himself in all.--(Plynunit Journal.)