The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-03 00:00:00

sion was the liberation of the Xing from a small I
bat violent faction. That object has been at-
tained ; and all that should now remain, accord-
ing to the first professions of France, is the recal
of her troops ; the order for which might be ex-
pedited from the Tuileries in a very brief space.
—ln this document is thrown out the first hint
that Spain is to pay the foreign troops, or at least
to provide something for their support; for it is
said that the conditions are not to be burden-
some to France. But as a similitude herein
exists between the present Army of Occupation
and that which was left on the Continent after
the expulsion of Buonaparte, there is another
point in which we fear there will be found a
woful difference. Our Army of Occupation re-
tired to the frontiers of France.—Will the
French adopt the same course in the case of
Spain'? Will they leave Madrid ? Will they
retire to the Pyrenees

[IIIOIINING IiEUALIL]
Is France to be indemnified by Spain for the
expenditure incurred in restoring Ferdinand to
his absolute throne ? There are those who
dream that M.deChateaubriand, relapsing into the
romance of his earlie; life, would disdain to hear
of a balancing of accounts upon such an occasion
as this. What ! the author of the Beauties of
Christianity demand a recompence for re-placing
his sceptre in the hands of a Bourbon,and shield-
ing the Church from the disasters with which it
was menaced? Such achievements, are they not
more than equivalent to the sacrifices which they
exacted ? Besides, is not the throne of the
Bourbons encircled by a new army, and strength-
ened more by this six months' war, than it would
have been by a century of peace ? Is not the
brightness of the Imperial regime overshadowed
for ever by the capture of the Trocadero, and
the spirit of revolution driven into the Ocean ?
Can it be that they who have occompthihed these
grand objects—more valuable, infinitely, to
France than to Spain—should stoop to calculate
how much they have cost, and indemnify them-
selves, for their outlays ? M. de Villole, un-
happily, is a financier, and accustomed to
dilute the Foreign Minister's figures of speech
with figures of arithmetic. Although it is
manifest, from her present tranquillity. Com-
pared with her feverish agitation sixteen:
months ago, that France has won advantages:
from ,the Spanish expedition, which vastly out-
measure her sacrifices, still the Finance Minister,
, will not be content with these. Ile will doubt--
less obtain a commercial treaty, by which France;
will be enabled to supply all Spain with her ma-
nufactures, and almost wholly exclude those of
England. This, indeed, has been already done
to great'extent, but it will now be perfected, and
placed upon a basis which nothing but a new re-
volution can overturn. Spain, it is true, hag not
much gold or silver, but she is opulent in other
products by which silver and gold may be made.
She has a population of nearly twelve millions,
who will amply re-pay the industry of France foe
ny augmentation of impost which the war may
iereafter impose upon it.

Plt 1,1451
• The iutelligence contirientiy announced' in the
Etoda, now the favourite paper of the Freuch
Cltias, is yet to be doubtfully received. What-
ever news the French Ministers wish to proclaim
on the Bourse of Paris, without' pledging them-
selves to its official yeracity,"they'send to the
Blade, :in 'place of the columns of 'the illonileur,
and' thus give it circulation %vithout any war-
ranty of its truth. At the same time it
is likely the Chiefs in Catalonia may have
§trubk the Constitutional banner on terms
which Moncey and Angouleme have guaran-
tied, but which, like the treaties with Morillo
and Ballasteros, are yet studiously withheld.
Mina and Milling' could not resist the united
ferCe of the •French armies, which would now ad-
vance on them from all points—denouncing, too,
their further resistance as treason to the treache-
rous Ferdinand, their liege lord. Barcelona is'
crowded with inhabitants ; and-ruin to thou,ands
amid Its close streets would follow on a bombard-
ment, heavy artillery for which Was coming up
under the superintendence of Lauriston, and
would deal'death and destruction 'in every part
of that fated city. The faithful Rotten has per-
formed his duty to his adopted country well, but
justice and humanity have imperative claims, and
could not be disregarded ; it would be madness to
hold out Barcelona, to fall in ruins. We
are confident, however, that all the Catalonian
Chiefs have surrendered only upon terms, though
the Floile does not state what they are. .The
Journal des Dials of Thursday, Villele's
Paper (for. each Minister in France has now his
Journal), has a long and prepared article, evi-
dently coming from authority, on the present
state .of Spain, and its relations, domestic and
foreign, with France and Europe. It asserts
that the infamous decrees of Port St. Mary,
Xeres, and Seville have been modiffed—" De-
crees," this Paper says, " imprudently conceded
to passions which the Revolutionists had cruelly
provoked, and which have been already Modified
by the council, of a more calm and generous' po-
licy." It then speaks of the military COlk ention by
which occupation is to be taken of Spain by the
French army, and varnishA over the ambitious
tenure, with specious but -false professions. It
subsequently labours hard to prove that Great
Britain has not recognized the independence of
the South American Republics ; and attempts to
give the formula of the Address from our Minis-
ter to the recognised Authorities of these States,
to which we have just sent Consuls, and whose
political existence the French Ministerial Paper
pronounces must form the deliberation for an
European Congress. But the independenceof these
great States, as well as that of heroic Greece,
is now beydnd the' fiat of the continental despots.
The acknowledgment of this country will not'be
fettered by their interested councils its resolves
have already been taken and acted upon, and will
be maintained at all risks. The piece of French
sophistry will have no effect within thevt shores.
Great Britein, at length, with wiser councils
than she le,retofore acted upon, is separating
herself from an alliance that has long been baleful
and degrading, to her; and she is prepared 'to