The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-27 00:00:00

PRICE OF STOCKS
THIS DAY AT ()NE o'cLocu.
India Stock
India Bonds

!lank Stnek _
3'per Cent. Rod. 74
3:per Cent. Cons , 7341
33 per Cent —
4 per Cent.
' • '•{ OIdCW ... ..... 931
4 93li
4 tier Cents. 17 V 7 —
Rank Long Ann. 19i 9-16ths
Imp. 3 per Cents. —

South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
Ex. Bills — pr.
Ditto Small . —
Bank for Act.
India tbr Con. Acct.
Cons. for Account.., 74i ii 74

PRICE,OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, Fxn. 27,
AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Five per Cents. 79i.
Six per Cents. 00.
/
Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
Ditto 'New 74.
Neapolitan
5 The per Cent. Bonds, 67.
Vial"), 72a.
Austrian ' Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
spatial ,
NFievwepeDirtt(o:,enst...ll.l.onds, 42.
• . • Scrip, 33 disc.
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Prussian • t Five per Cent. Bonds, W.
-Ditto New, 76. . .
Danish The per Cent. Bonds, 78h. ' •
Chili • 611.
Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 44.
Peruvian New Loan, 00.
Bank Shares 1:21 ss.
American Six per Cent. iio-90.
/
Five per Cent. 05h—ittii.
Three per Cent. 7U.

French

Russian

11 1(1 11 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
orning, 6 minutes after 4. I Evening, 21 minuteM after 4.

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SOLEM DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT

LONDON,
71.11UR5D.417, FEBRUJR.I7 27, 1823.

If there were no other means of ascertaining
the motives for the intended invasion of Spain,
than those which can be obtained from the decla-
rations of the French Government, and of indi-
Irldual Members of the French Ministry, it would
be impossible, even yet, to determine with any
certainty
the real causes of the hostile attitude
assumedby France, or the real objects for which
has undertaken to plunge into an ill-omened
War. Never were rear weakness, irresolution,

and inconsistency,:aaie,lialiiiibly betrayed; not.
withstanding the affectation of candour and mag-
nanimity with which the French War Party
acknowledge and attempt to justify the warlike
preparations which they are making on the
Spanish frontier !—A brief retrospect gill at
once prove their insincerity, and expose the ill
concealed dismay which hangs over them in the
crisis which their own tortuous policy has
created:

At the first, the assembly of an armed force
on the Southern frontier was effected under
the pretext of guarding against the introduction
into France of that real pestilence with which
Spain was unhappily visited ; and the appella-
tion of Sanitary Gordon was given to a line of
French troops, whose office was not so much the
preservation of the public health in France, as
the excitement of political convulsions in Spain,
in addition to the epidemic scourge with which
her population was already- afflicted ! When
the hand of Providence at length checked the
depopulating malady which had served as a pre.
text (a pretext most unworthy of a great nation)
for assembling a French army on the Pyrenees,
France was compelled either to withdraw her -
troops, or to make a partial disclosure of her de.
signs by continuing them in their cantonments
under a new designation ; and the title of Army
of Observation, which was substituted for that of
Sanitary Cordon, at once unmasked the hypo-
crisy with which it had been formed, and
indicated the hatred towards Spain which loured
from its standards. Still, there will no open and
undisguised avowal of hostility towards the Go-
vernment of Spain or its Constitution. Rebellion
was actively organizing in the Spanish provinces;
and France seemed to cherish the hope that that
might be effected by domestic treason, which she
so ardently desired, but which she hesitated to
attempt by foreign force. The successful opera-
tions of the Constitutional General Alisa, and
the expulsion from the Spanish territory of the
shattered and miserable remnants of the insur-
rectionary bands ycleped the Army of the Faith,
driven headlong within the French frontier by the
heroism of the national troops, annihilated the
perfidious hopes of France, established the
triumph of Spain over her internal enemies, and
,gave the pledge of her speedy restoration to
tranquillity, and of her secure enjoyment of that
liberty and repose which she had twice purchased
with her blood. At this moment,—unfortunately
for Spain,--the meeting of the Congress of
Verona furnished France with an opportunity
for seeking encouragement and assistance from
the assembled Powers Of Europe, or, if she was
nothing more than the instrument of a great
.4orthern Potentate of receiving her instructions,
for the commencement of that war of aggres-
sion, which she still dreaded to undertake
on her own responsibility and at her own risk !
At that very moment, too, let it never be for.
gotten, her First Minister has declared, in his last
address to the Deputies of France, he was desirous
ofremaining at peace, and, while he was asking leave
to attack Spain at Verona, would have the world to
believe that he was doing every thing in his power
to avert zoar at Paris and Madrid ! Then ap-
peared the Verona Circular, and the famous Note
of M. de VILLELE to the Count de Laomtnr,
in which France is made to complain, nut
of the institutions of the Spaniards,—not of the
captivity of their King,—not of the Spanish
Cortes or of the Spanish Ministry,—but of the
commotions which existed in the Spanish provinces,
and which commotions (represented as the only
subject of complaint), were alleged to compro-
mise the-interests of France! Then followed the
Speech of the King of FRANCE, on the opening
of the Session of the Chambers, in which his
MAJESTY, fur the first time announcine the reso-
solution to enter into a war, says nothing of the
commotions which had formed the previous pre-
text for hostility, but unequivocally avows that a
hundred thousand Frenchmen are about to march,
in order that the King of SPAIN may be enabled
to give to his people institutions, which they can-
not hold but from him! Subsequently, ho wever, the
motive for the war appears to be neither the resto-
ration of Spain to tranquillity, nor the restoration
of her Sovereign to his ancient authority, but the
apprehension, that, if France did not avenge the
insults which the Spanish Ministry had offered to
Russia, Austria, and Prussia, the armies of those
Powers would be marched through France
for the purpose of inflicting vengeance upon the
Spaniards themselves ; and M. ne VII.LELE
proclaimed to the French Legislature, that
they were forced to encounter war and to
seek danger in the South,.because he feared that
there was no other means Of escaping still greater
danger from the North !!! To crown these in-
consistencies,—these evidences of irresolution,—
these proofs of bad faith as well as of hesitation and
of doubt, we have now, in our present Pager, the

Speech of M. de VILLELE to the Deputies,on lift
proposition for granting the War-supplies, and
in which that Minister with one breath assigns
two 'different motives: for the war, inconsistent
with each other, and with the previous, declar
ations-of himself, his Colleagues, and his Sove-
reign,-,--the one, that France makes War pr
the sake of her own security, her honour, and
interests,—the other, that France only presents
herself in arms in the Peninsula, for the sake
of Spain hersey; and of maintaining the authori-
ty of her legitimate Sovereign ! ! !

FitENCII FtINI)3.—FEB. 24.
Five per Cents.
Lowest 79 1, 70 c.
Closed at 79 f. U 0 c.
Bank Stock 1430 f. c.
Neapolitan Five pet Cents. . 67A f.
Exchange on London—One Month 25 t. 55 c.
Three Months 25 f. 35 c.

German Papers came to hand at a late hour
this morning : they state that the Emperor
ALEXANDER arrived at St. Petersburgh on the
3d of February. The Conscreateur Imperiale
contains a long article, shewing the point of view
in which the Spanish Revolution was considered
at Verona by Russia, Au-stria and Prussia, and
the impossibillity which these Powers believed
to exist with regard to maintaining diplomatic
relations with the ,actual Government of the
Peninsula.--[lfere follows a Dispatch of Count
NESELRODE to Count BELGARI, dated Verona,
28th January.]

VIENNA, FEE. 12.—( Extract from a Private Letter.)—
Every thing tends to induce the belief that Austria will confine
herself to the suspension of her diplomatic relations with Spain,
and that her commercial intercourse will nut be interrupted.
If Austria, at the Congress of Verona, appeared to depart for
a mornelit from the desire to maintain peace, it was because it
was urgent to divert Russia from an attack on the East of Eu-
roPe, which she has long contemplated. In giving a kind of
tacit consent to a,war in the West, she as a consequence en-
gaged Russia to renounce the idea of a rupture with the Porte.
This pacific system explains the frequent "exchange of couriers
between Vienna and London.—(Consiitirtioutra.)

IFRONI CORRESPONDENT.]

STOCK ExcnANG F, .If Twelve &Clock.—
Most parties are busy this morning in settling
the differences of their accounts, in consequencei
of which there has been but little doing in the
Market up to this hour. Consols opened at 73k,
went up to 74, at which price they remain
steady up to this hour.--Two Expresses haze
arrived from Paris this morning, bringing the
French Funds 80f. 25c. We do not hear of any
more failures this morning.
FOREIGN MARKET.—Some business has been
done in the abnve Market this morning. Spanish
Bonds opened at 327 4, went bp to 33,—the
moment it was known that an Express had arrived
from Paris, they went to 34, afterwards lowered
to 33i.

STOCK EXCIIANOE, One o'clock..--Among the
many failures which have taken place in the
Stock Exchange, we hare to announce one who
was declared this morning, a Gdnttertian of the
Hebrew persuasion, of some consequence. We
understand that he pays 14 shillings in the pound,
and is allowed to keep his books. Consols are
rather lower-734 I-7, .