The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-07 00:00:00

it was by his troops Riego was °escorted from'
Andalusia to his dungeon in Madrid, and deli-
vered into the hands of his butchers. Serious
differences seem now to prevail between the
Tyrant and his Liberator. The Duke is with-
drawing, in consequnce, in disgust, from Spain,
and the French troops who will remain are aban-
doning the province altogether, and concentrating
in Cadiz and Madrid.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The speech made by Mr. Canning at Ply-
mouth is considered a splendid morceau of ele-
gance. The sentences were pointed and well
turned—some of them, perhaps, rather too stn.
diously rhetorical—but. allowances must always
be made for one who was a sort of idol of the
day, surrounded by his worshippers. We quite
agree with Mr. Canning, that he and the rest of
his Majesty's Ministers were wise in keeping out
of the war between France and Spain. At the
same time, had Mr. Canning let out the truth, he
would have stated to his worshippers,' that
but for the National Debt of England the
latter Power would have interfered. Had
England been in the saine state as in the year
1793, when the debt amounted to only 250
millions, when the three per cents. were beyond
the price of 100, and the monied people were
dissatisfied with the IoW rate of interest, and
wished for war or for any thing else that should
get up the rate, and cause them more employ.
ment for their unemployed capital—had England,
we repeat it, n year or ttvb since, been in such
a situation, we are of opinion that she would
have taken part In the Spanish question. It
cannot be England's interest to have France in
possession of Cadiz—nay, of all Spain, and in the
very vicinity of Gibraltar ; beside She con-
tiguity to Austria anti the remaining part of the
Holy Alliance, the members of which may even-
tually take it into their heads to play the satno
• game in Turkey, Greece, and Persia, that they
have played in Spain, Italy, and that they
are, perhaps, about doing in Switzerland.r—
May not this even be but the preliminary
to an endeavour to divide among then' our
East India possessions, or to throw open that
trade to the world generally, by restoring its
original highway. These, we think, will be found
among the results of the conquest of Spain by
France. Of these consequences Mr. Canning
affects not to be aware, though the French
Newspapers, under the intluenc.e of the French
Government, treat of it in a manner not very
pleasing to England. We again repeat it,
that the National Debt, or the fear of in-
creasing it, or the fear that when the people
of England were put to the test, they would
shrink from taxation, and be as clamorous,
through their Whig and Radical organs, to get
out of the war, as they had been enthusiastic in
its favour—we repeat, that these were the chief
reasons that stopped the Ministers. At the same
time there were, naturally, other reasons, though
not, in our opinion,of a sufficiently indispensable
nature to have, beefrput In the scale by Ministers,
in comparison with' the impolicy of permitting
France to add Spain to her territories. We mean
the civil war in Spain, and the necessity for
siding with that ,party Which called itself Con-
stitutional.