The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-22 00:00:00

TH LONDON JOORNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, July 22.

CM IC TIMES.:I
!the Potentates of Continental Europe are
,ariving at two objects, which, we begin to fear,
.they will not find wholly unattainable—viz. to
make Buonaparte's destruction of no use to
civilized society, and his reputation no disgrace
to. himself. The two characteristics of that
Usurper's reign were, a' contempt for juFtice
towards foreign States; and a dread of liberty in
relation to his own subjects. In both he has left
belsind him rivals, not less prone to imitate his
example, than they once were anxious to subvei t
hie power. The condition to which Italy has
been reduced, and to which Spain has long been
destined, is a proof which offers itself to all the
world of the respect entertained by the Holy
Alliance for the foreign policy of Buonaparte.
But in their attacks upon the free press of
Switzerland and Germany, they have combined
the spirit of aggression out of doors, with that
of inquisitorial tyranny within. Lest the slaves
of. 11011$1A and Austria should be taught to think,
the free inhabitants of Switzerland and of Wurtem-
berg must not be allowed to speak; and thus the
small and heretofore independent States of Europe
are as completely merged in two or three great mili-
tary monarchies, as they could have been by the
most furious exercise of force, or the most formal
deed of annexation. The extracts which we have
made from the French anti German Papers de-
monstrate the truth of this melancholy inference.
It is riot enough that one Wurtemberg Journal
should have been suppressed ; but they are one
and all to be extinguished, or worse than extin-
guished-r-permitted to earn a degraded life, in
abject dependence ou a censorship. From so
much of the cprrespondence as appears, we be-
lieve the Government of the King of Wurtem-
berg to feel the bitterness of the draught, and to
struggle with earnest though unavailing spirit
against the strong hand which prepares it. The
eagerness of the Austrian Minister in fixing a
construction upon the language of the Court of
Wurtemberg favourable to his own views, and
the allusion made to a note from Wurtemberg,
complaining of the resolutions of the Diet, show
that if the smaller State has yielded, she has
given way through weakness, and not from good
will.

[NEW TIMES.]
Tito accounts from all parts of Spain concur in
proving that the people are every where tired
of the savage domination of the Jacobin faction.
In Catalonia alone do' the partisans of that fac-
tion attempt, to fight for it ; but even there
General Sat4tield, who' had been appointed to
succeed Mina in. command (on account of the
illness of the • latter), had come over in per-
son, and submitted himself to Marshal Mon-
&eq. The garrison of Cardona in Catalonia had
also hoisted the Royal Standard, and admit-
ted a French detachment into the fortress.—
Two whole regiments belonging to the army of
Bal!asteros had gone over to' the French, with
shouts of " Ferdinand for ever !" So far back
as the 19th of June, General Villa-Cantpa, who
Commanded in Andaluaia, wrote to the Ministers
at Cadiz, announcing the open defection of great
part of his trOopOttid--itiying 44a large portion
of the people is convinced that it is the cause of
a faction which we defend." Thus have we seen
successively the Generals d'Abisbal, Morillo,
'4arsfield, and Villa Campa, that is to say, the
Cocimanders in Chief in Castille, Gallicia, Cata-
lonia, and Andalusia, declare against the usurp-
lug faction in the Cortes. It would be in vain to
say that all these Generals were bribed, that they
were treacherous •and dishonourable men. The
thing is not probable. In the whole course of
the war of 1808 not ime such instance occurred,
and yet Buonaparte had as ample means of cor-
euption as any Sovereign, and these very men
were all •opposed to him in that war. Surely
there is no reason to think them more traitors
now than they were then. On the contrary, they
even 'now testify an anxious desire that their
country should enjoy a fair and moderate consti-
tution : they are not the supporters of despotic
power ; they do not willingly join the foreign
forces which invade their country ; but they tied•
themselves compelled to do so as the only chance
of saving that country from utter destruction.—
On the other hand, -the democratic faction grow
more and more sanguinary in their desperation.
General Rotten, a worthy coadjutor of the blood-
thirsty Mina, has shot a number of persons in
Barcelona, chiefly Ecclesiastics ! A band 'of
Descamisados falling upon the defenceless people
of Montoro, massacred many of them ; and the
Prnclarnations of Quiroga, and of the Rebels at
Cadiz, breathe nothing but threats of death to
their loyal countrymen. It is truly lamentable
to see this sanguinary spirit predominating
amoug these men ;- but it is one consolation
to know that they cannot long maintain
their usurped authority : every thing announces
the speedy surrender of Cadiz and Barcelona,
and then the Revolution wilt be at an end. •

LNIORNING YOST.I
The French boast amongst their 'adherents in
%Spain, several men of very sounding title ; but it
does not even yet appear that they have been
atile to draw over to their cause one single indi-
vidual of influence and of action ;—for no sooner
has any 'Spaniard of authority taken a sisigle
step, even in appearance, approAimating 'to
'Junction' with the invader, than rthe influence
-he before possessed has deserted hire, as if
by magic—that he 'has become at 'once a naked
And unsupported individual—than those adhe-
rents on whom he most securely reckoned, have
trptiined at and renounced him. Abisbal, whilst
he maintained an unambiguous and unsuspected
fidelity to the Constitution, experienced nothing
but'obedience and respect; he fancied himself,
`and vvhilst he so acted he really was, a man of
Much authority and 'power ; but the moment that
he swerved,from his duty to the Constitutional
Giiveriirnehti, became' a' miserable and coo
temptible fugitive, despised and hated by the
troops he had been accustomed.to command,. a