The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-20 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 20.

[MORNING POST.]
Paris Papers to the 18th instant have arrived
by Express. The hopes which we had formed
respecting the issue of the attempt to execute at
Lisbon the infamous plot which failed on the. 7th
of July at Madrid, seem to have been realized.
The bribes of the French Government hive in
both instances only brought forth abortions, and
the exulting shout set up by all the Ultras of the.
Continent and echoed by one or two dissonant
voices amongst us, appears to have been as pre-
mature as it was unworthy. This pleasing intel-
ligence was brought yesterday by the Journal
tla Commerce of Tuesday last, which states
that letters had been received from Lisbon of the
second of June (the day posterior to the
pretended abolition of the Constitution),
announcing that the traitor Sampayo had
not only been defeated, but taken by the
militia and the citizens, who had armed them-
selves to defend the King and the Constitution.
Resolutions, it is added, had afterwards been
passed in the Cortes, with the approval of the
Sovereign, who displayed on this occasion a truly
patriotic aiplrit, by which the Infant Don Miguel,
the second rebel in his family, had been sen-
tenced to banishment. If, as we trust, all these
particulars are correct, the triumph of the Con.
stitutionaliamust have been most complete, as all
their enemies seem to have fallen into their
bands.

INEW TIMES.)
An idea prevails, how well or ill founded we
cannot.say, that an Order in Council will appear
in to-morrow's Gazette, prohibiting the exporta-
tion of arms and military stores to the countries
at war.—Such a warning might, perhaps, not be
improper in the present circumstances ; but those
persons very moth mistake who suppose that in
the absence of such an Order that they are at
liberty to make donations of arms to a Bellige-
rent, expressly for the purpose of carrying on the
war.—Once more we warn the individuals calling
themselves the Spanish Committee, and all other
individuals or meetings assembling for the purpose
of sending arms to a Belligerent, to assist him in
the war, that their avowed intention is contrary
to the common law of the land ; and that if they
attempt to carry such an intention into effect, they
will be liable, by that law, to be severely punish-
ed.—Their otfence is not to be confounded with a
trading in arms. Where a Neutral dealing in
arms follows his own profit in his accustomed
course of trade (not being specially prohibited),
then he only runs the risk of confiscation of the
contraband articles, if captured. Lampredi says,
" le Nazioni d'Eurepa, nel tempo the coll'arrni
alla mane predano' e confiscano i bastrimenti
4,4 carichi di merci di coutrabbando, non credono
" pero che, la. Nazione, a col essi appartengono,
" a che poteva impedirli, ebbia per queto rotta
t 4 la pace, o violata Ta Neutralita." But the case
is very different, where, with open, insult and
offence to one of the belligerents, a neutral sub,
ject ministers aid to the other belligerent to carry
on the war. The difference is as great as be-
tween. the conduct of a gunsmith who Sells a pair
of pistols to a chance customer, and that of a
person who puts a loaded gun into the. hands
of another, and urges him to use it iit abouting
his neighbour.

[DRITML NIESS.I
As we anticipated, the. faction in France were
roe confident in their wishes and assurances; but
the attempt at counter-revolution in Portugal has
again failed. The rebels, according to the Jour-
rut des Dads 9f Monday, had united at Seca-
vest, and it was probable, it added, that their
army had entered Lisben on the Ist of June.
The result, however, has been different. Let-
ters from, Lisbon to, the 2d of June, announced
in the Journal du. Commerce of Tuesday, au-
uounce that the traitor Sampayo had completely
failed in his attempt on Lisbon—that the militia
and citizens had armed to defend the Royal
residence—that the rebels were beaten,—and
these accounts add, that their leader was a pri-
soner in the hands of the victorious Constitution-
alists. These► letters, the French Papers add,
speak also of the resolution taken by the► King
and Cortes with respect to the infant Don Michel,
whose banishment was resolved on. The reserve,
adds the Journal du Commerce, which it is our
constant rule to maintain, induces us to wait for
official information to communicate to our readers.
Thus has ended, like the memorable 7th of July
last at Madrid, the second attempt made by a
band of traitors on the free constitution of Por-
tugal. Twice it has been assailed with armed
force, and twice have the friends and sup-
porters of liberty triumphed. Unless the
French succeed completely in Spain, they
will hardly make another effort. But if
Angouleme should be ultimately successful,
and despotism again throw its deadly night-shade
over Spain, Portugal will be openly attacked.
The French faction , will never suffer enslaved
Spain to have a free neighbour ; the example
'would be dangerous and contagious, it would
remind thu Spaniards too strongly and continually
of the invaluable. blessings of which they had
been deprived. But much remains to be done.
in Spain before that, country can be seb-
slued. Strong and wide spread opposition, to,
foreign force and tyranny is yet cm foot
throughout its provinces. The contest, if, per-
severed in, will be doubtful and prolonged, Red
• Portugal, in the interval, will. have time, to col.
Jeet all her strength, to appeal to, England, and,
rally her best-resources around her, She may be
assured of the deadly, hostility of the Ultra Fee.
tion and Despots or Europe, and, that they only,
'ent a plausible pretext to assail her, and carry
plunder and massacre into her provinces. If she
is taken unprepared with suet) warnings around
her, she will deserve to suffer. Englund is bound
by solemn treaty to defend her, but Portugal
must rely, mainly on her own resources, aced the
resolution of her people.

CatnaNlNG cnnorftc.t,E,l,
Want of.tipace will only 41)p.w us-to refer our
leaders to the important Debates last night in

both Houses.—The Duke of Devonshire pre-
faced his motion on the State of Ireland by an
able and eloquent speech, which it was impossible
to hear without regretting that he does not more
frequently deliver his sentiments in the House of
Peers. Nothing can be more. true than his
Grace's observation, that " its a country where
the laws are not respected by the people, and the
people not protected by the laws, the systemspf
Government must be defective." Ministers did
not go so far in answering him, as to deny the
fidelity of the picture he drew of the misery
of Ireland ; but they wondered how things
should be so, when they were always
conferring so many favours on that coun-
try. They had remitted taxes,, they had
contributed to Chartered Schools, they, had
allowed the exportation of produce to England
to pay the rents of absentee landlords; yet still
the people would continue miserable ! The
time for trifling seems, however,, now past !
The parties are preparing for a conflict, which,
however it end, must be infinitely calamitous.—
Indeed, we are afraid that the affair in the
county of Londonderry may be. considered, in
some sort, as the, commencement of hostilities.—
We are mistaken if, in the present agitated state
of the public mind, this affair do not lead &se-
rious consequences.

[MORNING Itiatm.n.]
The expresses. from Paris brought over a copy
of an official notice which has been posted on the
Exchange at Paris, on Tuesday, declaring that
the loans contracted for by the Spanish Cortes,
would not be ratified by the new Regency. This,
added to the uncertain state of the prices -which

the Spanish bonds fetched on the Parisian Ex-
change, tended to increase. the panic which
previously existed amongst the holders of the
Spanish Bonds here ; before 'the news re--
ceived by the expresses was made known,' the
Bonds looked rather better, but immediately
the copy of the, document alluded to got circu-
lated, the Bonds went down to 27-fr, 'and it is
said that one .or more bargains were effected as
low as 264. They did not, however, remain,
long at these low quotations, for: the appearance„
as large buyers, of several of the. leading specu-,
lators, who, a day or two ago, were foremost'
amongst the sellers, caused. a . sudden ; alte-
ration in the. market ;, the pews brought by
the expresses seemed at once forgotten ; the
Bonds rose gradually, and 'Puichaiers . cone'
tinning to come forward, the,!xise was .nlgirt-.
'taiued, and finally they... eltred.,_at',, 3011.—
The alarming fluctuations, of the last few days in
these Beide.: has caused , great.' consternation
amongst the' small jobbers as A those persons are
totally unable to pay the differences, and cense-,
luently may, of them hav*e to-day made their 1
exit—at least for, a time. Colombian Bonds have I
advanced in'price more than one per cent. to-day,
and the Bonds of ,Chili,' which generally follow
tlte,exatriple of .those of Colombia, have under-
gone the same improvement. In the other F 13..
faign Securities there has been but little business,
'and no alteration in the price.:.

:

• (TIM TimEs:3
t The accounts from Ireland are altogether
shoe:1011g. There is nothing like them in the
history of any other country on earth, and they
prove its condition to be every day declining
from one degree of wretchedness to a worse.,--
Hitherto--that is, during the last two years
—the south has been the principal scene of
outrage ; but an event has taken place within
these few days, which transfers this dis-
tinction to the opposite extremity of the
Island. The manner in which the factions
have been balanced against each other by a Go..
vernment which has just interested itself enough
in their feuds to inflame the passions of both sets
of combatants, and then, under pretence of nen-,
trality, left them to fight out the battle into
which they bad, been precipitated—that species,
we say, of shuffling policy has begun already to
produce a small part of those evils which are
likely to flow from it in endless and irremediable
abundance. The Orangemen, and Ribauduien, or
Catholics (for we fear that most of the lower or-
der of Catholics are to be found among the itiband-
men's ranks) met at the fair of Maghera, in the
county of Derry on, the llth inst. That parties so
inveterate in their mutual hatred should find means
to quarrel, was a natural consequence of their
meeting. They did so accordingly on this occa.
sion, when the Orangemen, being driven to the
barracks, (as some accounts say), there provided
themselves with arms and ammunition, and fired
repeated volleys upon the country people, of
'whom the most moderate calculation states that
from eight to twelve were shot dead, and that
from 16 1,1) 30 (others allege from 40 to 50)
were wounded : the Orange triumph was after-
wards celebrated by an attack on the houses
and. windows of Roman Catholics. What the
effect of such a catastrophe must be on the
feelings of the population throughout the whole
of Ireland, it is easy, but most painful', to an-
ticipate. In truth, the elements and materials
of convulsion are overgrowing that island on
every side. Not a 'day passes in which some
deplorable addition is not made to the general
body of mischief. If this late scene of bloodshed
be not the actual commeecement of civil war,
the spirit 91 which has so long been raging
between the lunatics of both parties, no rea-
sonable man doehts that such a war must
be th more immediate or more distant
issue of the uninterrupted convergence of so,
many interests and passions towards a single.
point. It is not, therefore, what a trimming
Government would wish to do, but what it
nil! be compelled to' do, that becomes the im-
portant question., If the Catholics arid Orange-
men go on es they have been, separating iuto dis-
tinct and hostile masses,, the desire of the
Ministry may be, no doubt, to prevent that cons
flict whichlhe latter, unassisted, must soon he
overpowered.; but let them beware lest the
opportunity slip away from them—lst, of pre.
serving the name of peace ; 2d, of saving
the weaker faction from en utter and. final
owe Now. The cabinet seems as blind: to, tits
actual condition of Ireland, which this, Court
has had the name of governing for so many cen.