The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-17 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

" CORN, EXCHANOL, C)01.
The arrivnis IhiN week are moderato—Wheat 3,40., 4 v
13
1,1(K), Oats 1100 plarterts ; Flour 4,7(M) *lrks. J. 'intiney
asked for tiue dry samples of. Wheat, and n116111)61- in same
few instanaes but the general trade is not any better, than, tat
Monday. Barley is more plentiful, hot finds sale sloiqty
Beans and Peas are rather dearer. Oats of a good qualify
meet a free sale at Monday's prices.

SMITIIPIELD AIAIIIiET, OCT. 17.
The supply at market was fully ~iillietent for the tradei and
the prices of all description of Cattle may be quoted udieli. ;lig
same as on lass Monday.
To sink the'Offlil, per stone of 81b. ' ,
Beef 4''s tld to 3s tin Veal As Od to. lis Ott
ISltittuu.... .. ...I t 4 3d, to li Ild Pork .....,,
Lamb Os (k to ON Oct. - '

HAY AND STRAW, VEIL LOAD.
£4 Oi to £4 18* Clover £s OA to.C3 Ws
Straw £2 Os to £2 63. ~

The nighbooritOod of Uoion.street, BorottPh
r.
WWI last night. thrown into the greatest alarm by the tits-
covery of a fire in the premises of Mr. .lories, umber.o4--
chant, Whiteeross.street. _The fire was first observed about
half-past eight, and so rapid was its progress, that ist
less than quarter of An hour the whole of the timber
was in flames ; 'and, although the, parish sod other engines
promptly arrived, the two next ad,jotriing houses were etinsurned
1c63 than two hours. The t»nber-yard is.m Il'hiteeretes.
street, hut the two other houses burnt were in Peter-street.
One of these buildings Was very large, and was let out in
apartments to persons of the poorest description ; it contained
about fifteen families. The other, which was smaller, was
inhabited by nine, fandliei„ all very petit.. Mr. Jories., we are
informed, is insured, hut whether to the. extent of hie loss
cannot be ascertained. The other sufferers were not . Mims.
cd, and are mostly ruined by this disustrtnis event. pie
tire is supposed to have originated in a saw-pit, from a eandle
having been left in it by some of the sawyers, who.ever
at work there with a light, We are happy, to state. thane
lives were lost. We understand all these streets are about ,(o
be pulled down in the progress of the improvernenti ot 1.114
quarter.

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ME LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

iiixtracts from the Morning Papers, October 17.

[NEW TibiESl
Anether Decree of the King of Spain has op.
feared, which, seems to have excited some sur-
pliseln this country-La surprise arising from
those false iMpressions of the state of Spain -Which
ear. litrerat -journals have so widely disseminated.
—What was it that made the ,previoas state.-
of The New Tunes, relative. to the war
4,Spiiie, tally so exactly with the events ? It
was simply our having contemplated the Spa-
nitiftli as they really were, and not veered
about from one extreme to another, calling them,
like that ignorant print The Times, one clay a'
brave and enlightened nation, and another day
A' sato( dolts and cowards. The King banishes
for 'ever, • to a distance of 15 leagues from the
espital and from any Royal residence, all the
Chiefs of the Constitutional faction. The term
Constitutionalists sounds ,very well in our ears ;
Out
,we must remember, that in SPain these
tentry are viewed in no other light than as Rebels.
Now, it is surely not very astonishing that a
.10iid King should not wish to see Rebels about
bis Court. It is said thiS is a sweeping measure.
True ; and the same observation applies to the
.Decree for rescinding all the acts, of the. Con-
stitutional:Government. They are both sweep.
ling measures. When our
,own Charles 11. was
restored, he,swept away at once all the " Acts
and Ordinances" of theftebel Parliament. They
form a tolerably large folio in the libraries of the
4:Orieus,.bot not a trace of them remains in our
statute Book. Be it remembered, however, that
the first care of the restored Monarch was to re..
enact sortie of those very laws thus abrogated—
aztiong the restour famous Navigation Act. Fer-
dinand will hardly do this—for a very simple
Ivaion—because the Constitutionalits enacted
stothing but folly. They had among them no
man with the reach of thought that Cromwell
possessed; and whatever may have been the ta.
lents of individuals, the acts of the whole body
were those of knaves and madmen. But though
Ferdinand ought to copy these fanatics, he
ought undoubtedly to keep the promises which
he ,made in 1814 ; he Ought to giVe his Peo.
pie laws calculated to secure their liberties as
lett as his own. As to his banishing from Court
All men whom The Times so roundly chargesl
with stupidity, imbecility, sloth, and, cowardicetl
why whb is injured by that ? What business.
Ova such men near a Royal residence ? Suppose
aunt: and Carlile, instead of being incarcerated,
the one in Elchester Gaol, and the other in Dor-.
ibetter Gaol, had been merely told they' must
that come within 45 miles of London, where
would have been the great harm to the nation ?
ant this is not conciliation I—No indeed :
and why should these Gentry be conciliated ?
--There may be amongst them one or
;we respectable individuals ~So there may :
and the King, notwithstanding his Decree,
will always ,be ftbk to linike exCeptions in
favour of those who deserve to be excepted.
This is a Matter which troubles us very little.
The essential Pitint is to conciliate, not a few
incorrigible Rebels, hut- the great body of the
Nation, and to do thiS consistently with principles
of genuine liberality and humanity. Whatever
May be thought in this country, king Ferdinand
rill find It no easy task in Spain to satisfy the
screat.vrtnjority of his people, without measures of
4,4tverne severity, against the rebels, who have rep,
dared themselves odious by their impieties, their
sacrileges, their robberies, and murders. When
ht,ard of Mina shooting 40 prisoners in cold
foood, we knew there must come a day of retri-
:ttfien ; and in such ckseti the lamentable evil is
that the innocent too often suffer with the guilty.
-rte earnestly hope 'that King Ferdinand will be
chile to prevent this. Let hint cense the laws to
be strictly executed against those who shewed no
0011 while they were in, power; but let him-
-4 he be ableL-i.eiti•ain all eicesSes of popular
vengeance.

[THU 'TIMES, j
We present to-day another decree, the second
*prtber, by the restored King of 3pain. These
documents were not wanting to make the man
known! There was a whisper at one time that
fl Meant to act with clemency • and we were the
Ant to publish, though distrustfully, some assur-
likes to that effect. We knew what his past
conduct had been, but we were still unwilling to
set him down es entirely beyond the reach of re-
formation. We confess that these decrees, cruel
and insolent as they are, do not give us pain;
nt2r will they do 'so till the author of them
kilns to riot, as heretofore in the blood of his
subjects. They, in fact,. continue the war;
knd they must, if the Spaniards are not baser
chin the, basest of mankind, bring on another
crisis. The country in which such decrees issue
from the supreme authority, could not be said to
be at peace, even if Hone of its people were in
arms. Ferdinand forbids all his subjects who
belonged to the late Cortes, or who accepted of
Attentions under them, to come within live
leagues of his road to Madrid, or ever to ap-
proach that city within the same distance,
Spaniards, native Spaniards, are forbidden, with-
out trial, ever to came near the capital of their
I),4*n country, by one who is a Bourbon in descent,
,end has been known to solicit a female of the
blood of nuonaparte, the Corsican, for his wife.
That the decree is merely vindictive, and not
)irocoutionarb is obvious; for ail those against
istoin it is to take effect have shown themselves
,
'too imbeeciler to be the objects of just dread.—
treatmeet may rouse their manhood,
iinteed, if they have any , hi them ; but as
:the Spanish contest is not to be suffered to
away—as vengeance succeeds to unmerited
;access—we hope the cause of the people, the
bause' of freedom and humanity, will be managed
1 Other persons than those who have hitherto
conducted and disgraced it.. What more corn.
tithdloas enemies, indeed, could the King 'of
fiPain and Ids worthy allies desire for themselves,
than the men who could surrender Cadiz without
a blow ? The Spaniards require a few more ,

Minas; and it is one among the many honours of
that Chief that he always scorned to hale any
communication with the late Cortes.

[MORNING eesT.]
Paris Journals to the 15th inst. arrived last
night by Express. They have brought another
Decree from Port St. Mary's, of the same tenor
as the last, but less extensive in its operation, as
it only affects the Constitutionalists in Spain,
whilst the former embraced all arrarigetnents and
treaties concluded with foreign Governments.—
Ferdinand, it is now evident, has derived no
wisdom from the past. Four short days of un-
limited power have proved that he is unchanged,
and that he has, brought from Cadiz the same
violent and persecuting spirit which animated him
at his return from France. After annulling in
his► first Decree all acts" clone by himself under
the Constitutional System, he now inflicts the pe-
nalty of banishment from the capital upon indivi-
duals of all characters and degree who have In any
capacity served underthe Constitution. This inter-
diction which is " for ever" as to time, is, how-
ever, modified as to distance. The members of
the late Cortes are only forbidden to approach
6 6 within live leagues of the road to Madrid."
The persons connected with the late Administra-
tion, with the Council of State, and the Tribunal
of Justice, all Commandants, Generals, Poli-
tical Chiefs, all subordinate Clerks in Public
Offices, together with the Chiefs and Officers of
the National Militia, are treated with greater
severity, and not permitted to come within fif-
teen leagues of the capital or of the Royal resi-
dence. If this he one of the measures of conci-
liation which the French had promised to advise,
and which the Madrid Regency meant to recom-
mend in its farewell address, it is a fair sample of
what may be expected to follow. The ground is
cleared, the foundations are laid, and the pro-
portion of the superstrpcture begin to reveal
themselves. If the architect be allowed to pro-
ceed, the edifice will no doubt be magnificent;
for never was man better calculated to raise a
temple'to Despotism than the restored Ferdinand.
That cowardice has been the motive of the present
Decree does not admit of a question. It is a vice
in which he is accustomed to indulge before he
ventures on the grander enjoyment of revenge :
and he would not have been so moderate (in his
view of the subject) if he had not thought that pru-
dence was still necessary. His prudence, however,
has not been greater, than his moderation ; for if lie
does not wish to render the occupation of his king-
dom by French troops perpetual, he ought not to
have commenced his persecution of the Constiin-
tionalists before they were completely disarmed
in every part of the Peninsula. Betrayed as
they have been, and faint-hearted as they have
generally proved themselves to be, he ought
to recollect that one of the reasons which
made them lukewarm in the cause might be
their reliance on the sincerity of his professions,
and a consequent disposition on their part' to
leave him free to act as he promised to do,
on just and constitutional principles ; and that
by depriving them all at once of that cherished
hope, and giving them up to actual persecution,
foretokening still more severe inflictions, he
migl.t remove the indifference which had hitherto
palsied their hands, and arm them with the
courage and energy of despair. For they would
feel that they were no, longer fighting for a par.
ticular form of Government, but for their liberty,
their property, and their lives, each or all of
which will soon be demanded from them by the
resentment of the Despot, when he shall find
himself firmly re-established on his throne.

[MORNING IiEItALD.]
Some of our contemporaries, cling to the hope
that Spain will yet be saved from the grasp of the
French. Their hopes are now fixed on Mina. lie
is to be the liberator. For some time, sanguine
hopes were entertained by them that, after the
Spaniards had allowed the French ti oops to spread
themselves all over,Spain and to take possession of
all the strong passes, the Guerillas were to assail
them from every point ; and that what the Spanish
Constitutionalists could not accomplish in a body,
they were to effect by means of guerillas that is
—the one hundred thousand well-paid and
well-fed French troops were to be de-
troyed by, the guerillas, though the latter had
arrayed against them not only the French and
Spanish Royalist troops, but also the King of
Spain, the Spanish grandees, the Priests, Monks,
Friars, and Nuns of Spain, as well as all the beg-
gars (synonimous with our poor) who were
daily in the habit of being fed at the gates of
the nunneries and monasteries. It is singu-
lar that the people of Eegland should be
so gulled by that part of the press of Eng.
lanai which with such solicitude affects to
watch over the interests of England. 'lime said
press in watching over these interests never thinks
of its own interest. It never puts forth in print
a syllable in order to sell its printed commodity.
It administers, comfortable things to the hopes
of the people of England, but it takes great
`care never to 'play upon their fears. The debt,
and taxation consequent on an increase of the
debt, it very wisely keeps out of sight, though it
well knows that it is this that has kept Ow
English Government and the English people
from forcing their Government to assist the
British Patriots who flew to the relief of the
Patriots in the Peninsula, though most of the
Spanish patriots were bribed long before
the British Patriots arrived to the assistance
of the Spanish patriots. Truth should be told ;
but it appears strange, and not a little paradoxi-
cal, that the monied interest of England should
have enabled the French to effect more in- one
year, in the subjugation of one of England's most
ancient allies, than Buonaparte was able to effect
in ten years. But the people of England seem to
be fast approaching to the same temperament as
the Dutch people, who, while their country was
at ear with England, sold gunpowder to the
English Government.