The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-03 00:00:00

this occasion, as much talk has recently sprung up
about, the young Napoleon, do not endeavour
to draw something from our declaration, that
we make war 4C against Buonaparte attd his
family." But this phrase, used in one of the
documents, is explained in others. In the Bth
article of the treaty with Russia, the expression
is, " that the treaty has no other end in view
hut to support France against the enterprises of
Buonaparte and his adherents." Lord Clancarty
say s, " The Allies are in a state of hostility with
the ruler of France and his adherents, not from
choice, but from necessity, because past experience
has shown that no faith has been kept by him,' and
that no reliance can be placed on him," Sm.—
It is impossible, therefore, to deny the conclusion
(which absolutely assumes the solidity of a fact),'
that we fought, not to restore the Bourbons, but
to expel Buonaparte ; and, that our hostility to
him arose from our experience of his personal
I character, to say nothing of the danger to be ap-
prehended from his talents: but his personal qua-
lities and talents being intransmissible to others,
our hostility ceases with the death of him who
possessed them, and in whom they were for-
midable.

[WY TIMES.)
Consols remained steady yesterday at 741
with little business doing. At the close, the
market appeared heavier than at any hour pre-
viously, and the price was 74i buyers. Spanish
Bonds experienced a fluctuation of one per
cent., and sonic extensive transactions were
effected chiefly by the parties receiving Ex-
presses, of which three arrived in the course
of the day. The Bonds of 1821 were early
in the morning at 292, and continued nearly ,
stationary until the afternoon, when a sudtien
decline to 28+ took place,—they afterwards
advanced to 28i," and' finally closed at 281.
—Nothing was done in Scrip. The Agents
of the Spanish Government here must be
in a slate of great awkwardness, not merely
as to the contracts which they 'may wish
to wake for arms, ammunition, or provisions ;
but even for their own necessary and personal
supplies. Mr. Bernales, it is said, wisely holds
his hand, having already a claim on the Spanish
Government of at least 1'25,0001. We have
lately heard of bills being presented to him, the
reply to which was, that he had ceased to be the
agent of Spain : and these same bills, when pre-
sented to an agent at the other end of the town,
received for answer—" No effects l"

(MO►tNINU POST.]
The united action and the mutual contagion
of political disaffection, as it exists in different
countries, impart to it at the present day a de-
gree of strength and confidence which demand,
we are told, a combined counteraction on the
part of all established authorities, menaced as
they are by an equal and common danger.—
The union and contagion complained of are, we
think, so far as they exist, the inevitable re-
suit of the increased civilization and more
active intercourse of nations, and so long as
these go on to increase, if disaffection exist
at all, it can hardly fail to become more and more
united and epidemic.—A league of Sovereigns for
their general protection from a danger of which
the aggravating cause is permanent and in.
creasing, seems the most inappropriate mode
of Nsistance, not only , because it evidently
tends to augment that jealousy and discontent
of subjects which is the root of the evil, but
because it must, from the nature of things, be of a
temporary and uncertain duration. In considering
this Royal league with a view to estimate its ulti-
mate effect, it is obviously desirable to avoid any
particular allusion to the personal qualities of its
present members ; it is upon general principles,
and not upon individual character, that the tenden-
cy of political institutions may be safely judged.
This league appears then to us to have within it
the seeds of its own dissolution, in as much as its
continuance requires in every one of its members
an entire singleness of purpose, an utter exclusion
of.every separate project of greatness or ambi-
tion. We mean no satire when we say that this,
or even the semblance of it, cannot be long main-
tained ; individuality of object is inherent iu the
nature of man, whether he inhabit a palace or a
cottage. But it may probably be said that the
present advantages of this league cannot be
fairly contested on the mere ground that they
are not of a nature to be perpetual. And this
would be true, if it were possible for such a
league to exist, and from time to time to manifest
its power, without estranging the. Sovereigns who
are parties to it, and their respective subjects,
more and more from each other; without beget-
ting a sense of foreign dependence and a more
unrestrained accumulation of abuses in Govern-
ments, on the one hand, and in planting a
sullen and desperate discontent in the bosoms of
subjects, on the other. 'We lament the exist-
ence of this league, although it may, we admit,
for a time, and for a time only, prevent an explo-
sion in one country, and smother it in another,
because we believe it to add incessantly to the
general aggregate in Europe of explosive mate-
rial, and because we believe that every European
Government either possesses, or by studying the
welfare and happiness of its own subjects, may
speedily acquire a sufficient degree of municipal
strength to supersede the necessity of federal
protection. ............-.

tuniTmi pßEss.]
The die is at length irrevocably cast, and that
war, so long balancing in the scales, is decided up-
on. The French Cabinet has published its fanatic
Declaration of War against free and unotfending
Spain, and also its 'Manifesto on its armies enter-
ing that country. Ministers are in possession of
these documents ; how far they will influence our '
Cabinet is yet to be seen. We have no fears for
Spain ; every thing declares for her; she wants
present resources in money, but she has that
which no wealth can supply—her high-spirited
population are with her almost to a man, her
Ministers, are energetic, and her country gives
nothing to the invader and every thing to defence.
The baptism of her liberties will be by blood,
but a new manhood will dawn on her from the
regeneration. When the glorious contest has
closed, and the freedom of Spain is assured, she
will calmly look round her for those wretches

and fanatics who urged the maddening tide of
hostility on her frontiers, and she will--find them
exiles and vagabonds throughout Europe. Napo-
leon was prosperous beyond all former example
when fate led him on Spain; from that moment the
hour-glass of his fortunes ran with a rapid sand.
—disaster and disaster poured upon him—his
moral ascendancy -Was gone, and the strength
which held Europe captive fell soon after. The,
wretched Journals which the Bourbons hire and
protect would fain deny the tottering condition
of their employers, and the notorious, general
disaffection now prevailing in the, French army.
Yet, already, the Journal des Debuts has put
forward an article, attempting to prove that
England is pledged to support the Bourbons
on the throne of France at all hazards,
and through all changes, " mule qui coute."—.
Discontent is so general throughout France, that
alarm has already reached the Tuileries, and
these maniacs who, by their attack on Spain, are
dragging down collected ruin nu their own heads,
would fain persuade themselves,' and try to
persuade incredulous France, that England is
still bound to prop them on that throne
they have forfeited, at every hazard. Mon-
strous and ridiculous ! Our' church, in earlier
days, might just as well have leagued with
the enthusiasts, -and madmen who passed
themselves as saints, as our Cabinet now ally
itself with' Mt family, and faction, against
whom all France is at length arrayed of necessi-
ty. The question of Lord John, Russell was in-
deed most timely, most consistent, with the usual
good sense and discrimination of that excel-
lent young Nobleman. But for it and the answer
of the Foreign Secretary, we do not doubt
but the Bourbons actually persuaded them-
selves this, country was fettered by treaty, and
pledged to support them knee-deep in sin. Qur
expenditure previously had been so unexampled,
our subsidies so general and profuse ; millions
were scattered by us with so 'wanton a hand,
merely for the restoration of this dynasty of fools
and fanatics, that we are not surprised at any thing
they might anticipate from us after. But the day
has gone by for that; the dream of delusion is over,
linked as we were with a leigue of despots, their
own after-acts have cut the knot ; Russia, Austria,
and Prussia, have been latterly acting together,
without union or alliance with England. We
trust we shall never be leagued with them again.
The Bourbons must stand or fall without oar aid ;
they have drawn on themselves the indignation
of France and the detestation of all freemen
throughout Europe ; they have rushed into -con-
test with a neighbouring nation, only because she
fought for rational liberty ; and they who have
reflectingly done all this, must now abide the
consequences, they are not insured with use and
will meet neither aid nor indemnification.