The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-05 00:00:00

entry of the Duke d'Angouleme. The price'
of Spanish Bon& of 1821 at the close of
Winless w:►s 27. J sudden advance took plaCe
thOSe denominated Bonds of Beruales, the
lownesil, of their price inducing parties to pUr-
chase an tspeculation : the last price was 18,1.
In.other securities no alteration has occurred in
our market worthy notice. The prices of!
Poreign Securities upon the Continent con-
tinue to improve,, whilst the value of those articles
which bad, suddenly advanced under the up.
prehensions of a war, in which this country would
take part, have returned to their former
The whole of the Foreign Brokers returned yes-
terday to the Royal Exchange, where they con-
tinued to curry on their operations until a late
hour.

tifonivise
We received yesterday theEtoilc of Tuesday
last. It contains.intelligenCe from Madrid to the
261.11 ult.,.by which it appears that the Kink of
Spain, instead of recalling his unjust and inju-
rious DeCreei; bad pertly annulled the only one
which had a beneficial tendenty is it suspended
the epuralions ordered le be made in all classes.
The Official Madrid Gazelle speaks at last in
plain and intelligible language on the subject of
South American independence. After alluding
to the manner in which Naples and Piedmont
were put down 44 at the approach of a respect-
able force," it asserts that 44 it wilt be the same
in the New World." This is a direct admission
that an attack on the independent States of
South America is intended, but where will Fer-
dinand find the " respectable force " which is to
work such wonders!

[MORNING HERALD.]

We have in the LishOn Papers a fresh instance
of the sort of Protectorate which the Emperor of
Russia arrogated to himself, not only
over the diplomacy of Europe, but over the
internal relations and obligations between
Sovereigns and subjects. The Russian Charge
d'Affaires at the Court of Lisbon asked, and of
course obtained, leave to present himself before
the Prince Don Miguel, the chief agent—at least
ostensibly—in the late counter-revolution, and
communicated to him a message of approbation
' &dm the Emperor, his 4C august Master." It is
not easy to imagine duties of more delicacy and
importance than those of which his Russian Ma-
jesty aisumes the right to take cognizance. First,
he compliments the Portuguese Prince upon his
46 enterprize ;" that is, upon an act of military in-
surrection against his Sovireign—of disobedience
to his father; and, next, upon the filial respect
with which he gave up to his father the power of
which he bad possessed himself. There are two
inferences which obviously present themselves
here : first, that the principle of military insur-
rection becomes legitimate and commendable,
when it suits the views or wishes of the Emperor
of Russia ; and next, that when he arrogates
the right of approval, be, by implication,
usurps that of expressing censure. Buono.-
parte, in all the insolence of his conquests
and 'his power—and its the exercise of a Protec-
' tortite, which, however imposed by force, wus still
the acknowledged law of Europe—did not go this
length 'in dictating to his satellites. It is true
that this is but one of many 'instances of Russian
assumption. The 'August Emperor has vouch-
safed his patronage to the Kings of Naples, Sar-
dinia, and Spaiw. The case before us, how-
ever, is more glaring and alarming. It is an
interference between a sovereign and subject--a
father and son. It is evident that no Sovereign
is master in his own kingdom, whilst a foreign
Monarch makes himself the judge of the service
and allegiance of his subjects individually. But
it is in France that the Emperor Alexander
made `the most decided stride in this way. Had
the French Government at the time an atom
of spirit, it would not have tolerated the in-
terference to whiCh we allude—in the very
delicate matter of the administration of jus-
tice, which is one of the functions of sove-
reignty that an 'Executive Government should,
least of itill,, share with, or submit to, a fo-
reign Power. Airing the prosecutions for treason
in France, instituted against General Berton and
his accomplices, the French AttorneyoGyneral
displayed an excessive zeal, and went so far 'as
to criminate French subjects, Members of the
Oilambev, not at, all before the Court.—
Some of these instituted preceedings against
the Law ,Officer, as having slandered their cha-
racters. It is stated that all this, whether right
or wrong, was matter for the French Govern-
ment and tribunals. But the Emperor of Russia
stepped in, and bestowed his portrait set in dia.
moods upon the French Attorney-General, us a
reward for.the manlier in which be had conduct-
ed the prosecutions. The fact was, notorious,
and boasted of as an honour by the Magistrate.

A recent CoMmercial letter from Naples, says
—The crop of cotton wool, is productive ; oil
also is promi3ing ; fOr corn there is literally no
demand. Indite Provinces the scarcity of money
staggers belief. Instead of receiving the imposts
iii money,'Gbvernment is obliged to take grain,
which, in all probability must be exported to a
'foreign market before it can 'be realized.
thin) PAltiSn, Consul for the United
states• of America, tit AntWerp, has resigned that
'oftiee: he 'is sot eeedo 'by CIIA it LLS BA Itt'i,
E ( NOW YOrk, Paper, Oct. 10.)
CowEs, DEc. Q.—Yesterday an inquisition was
held at' the Castle public-house, at *East Cowes,
before. Thomas Sewell, Esq., coroner, on the
body of a seaman, who 'was unfortunately drowned
'on Sunday:iii: ht Inst. I.t seem that the poor
'felleiv,.who belonged to an 'American brig,
,Was
Proceeding along, the'quay to his vessel, which is
lYingtit wharfi:with skidds to the shore; tsszt in
CCMepee of 'the darkness of ihe bight he
'could not' perceiVe'the skidds, 041'01 overboard
from the wharf and sunk instantly.. As,a'cuiaom:
house- oilicer,*h
o was on board the ►heard
something fall into the Water froib' the 'shore, he
proceeded to' the spot itnnwdiiitely with a ,light,
bit' could only 'lee 'a hat floating -on the/
water. Verdict" 'Accidental Death."

LITERARY NOTICI.

THE RETROSPECTIVE RETIEW,-,(Nti. XYIi)
The publication of 7,lhe itekospective Review'
is like a quarterly meeting with an old friend, the,
friend of our youth) one who has grown grey with
us. All his talk is of old times, and we discuss
over again the amusements and tasks of our early
days. 'Phis Iteview, indeed, may be justly com-
pared to an old book-learned gentlernau, who
loves to chat over his purchases, his discoveries,
his recollections, and all his gossiping lore. Like
the old gentleman, too, the Review, though its
general deportMeitt is grave, loves a joke, and oc-
casionally relaxes its muscles in a very edifying
smile, not to say grin. Among other good things
in this number we may quote a forcible account
of a famous and eloquent nonconformist divine,
Tnostas Reeve. We (Molt there are some strik-
ing features in him, which may ,be aptly com-
pared with the preacher who has made more
noise (not to speak irreverently) than any other of
our times. Our readers need not be told we are
referring to the eloquent Minister of the Caledo-
nian Chapel.
" Happy man he is ! full of his subject, and
his subject full of matter, and his matter full of
importance ; but how he could contrive, with all
these appliances and means to boot," to spiel out
his sermon to such ea enormous length is truly
surprising. Dr. Isaac Barrow pressed hard against
the patience of the Citizens of London, when he
once preached a sermon of three hours long, but
T.Reeve must have preached for 3 weeks together
before he could have bestowed the full InMefit'Of
his text on his auditors.; and the most assiduous,
patient, and practised stint or sinner must have
been parched up in his Lecture solisti6e. A ser-
mon is in general but a very dry affair, but we
entreat our readers not to alarm themselves at the
threatening aspect of worthy 'Thos. Reeve's 'titles
page ; the lambent flinne of 'dulness plays not
around his head, and dutoess and insipidity are
strangers to his pages. God's plea for Nineveh is
any thing .but dull; it is full of spirit, though of
au extravagant kind, and Is occasionally, if not
eloquent, something very much like it, and would
have really been so, if it had been chastened by
a ,better taste. There was
,a sort ,of eloquence
amongst our non-conforming preachers (and it
still prevails in certain classes of them) which
may be called physical, arising more from a pas-
sionate arid vehement temperament, than from
intellectual power, and which, although despised
by the educated and refined, yet produced con-
siderable effect on the persons to whom it was
more especially addressed. It is fervid, earnest,
and above all, has the appearance of sincerity,
of being the result of heart-felt conviction. It
abounds generally with imagery : is 'garnished
with flowers of rhetoric, hastily collected and
rudely thrown together ; its passionate tone is
made more solemn, and its denunciations more
awful, by frequent quotations from holy writ.
This species of eloquence, to the uninformed and
moody votary, is deeply impressive, overwhelm-
ing by its paroxysms, and convincing by its ve.
1 heinenee ; it vanquishes the feelings, but has lit•
tle to do With the reasoningiactilty. To the re.
hement declamation'of this class, Reeve bears a
nearer resemblance, than to, that bold, rich, and
manly eloquence, ut once addressed to the heart.
and the Understanding, whiCh distioguishei some
of our ancient theologians, and one or two that
we could name of our modern preachers. Reeve
possessed an ardent disposition, or volubility of
language, and a vehemence of expression,"which,
in conjunction with great information, and a
tinge of the gloomy spirit of religion, has pro-
duced a singular combination both of matter and
style. 'His mode of teaching is more Common
than' eligible ; he would lash us into repentance,
and crush us into goodness. He seems to think
the work but half done if he only annihilate sin ;
there must be some " spiritual contusion." " The
penitent," says he, " must be as it were for a
while in hell, and feel, though not specifically,
yet analogically, seine of the torments of the
damned, before, he can have a sense of inward
satisfaction !" Thus he would rather anohirand
irritate 'the wound with caustic, than • pour into
it balm or soothing oil. Fear, and not reason,
is his instrument of conversion, and he uses it
like a .tietilpiogsknife, to revenge 'and disfigure,
rather than to reclaim ,and dinend. lie is not
,he man to entice children, from. play, and 014
amen frOnl the chininey7corner„ with the sweet
rood of sweetly-uttered knowledge, WitWwordi
of hope and promises of kkre ; he would drive'
Owns into the sanctuary, terrify them with!
his theological trumpet, blast them, with Itiis
pulpit lightning. If people would be saved, says
he, they must it out a `threateiting Berman, and
hear a rebuking priest with!patience,!sayi6g, with
Iloniface, to Saint Augustine, "I receive thy
words full of truth with trembling, though every
sentence doth seem to scourge me ;" and, in-
deed, lie speaks loud enough to exercise the pa-
tieb,w of the best disposed auditory : " The lion
bath roared, who can but fear 'i", .lie scatters Ms
denunciations with a prodigal hand, without
order or selection, at one time terrible, attia-
other extravagant or puerile ; he sothetbacis
startles us with, a rapid succession: of interroga-
tions, and at others with his quick transition from
allusion to allusion---from story 'to ' story ; his
similitudes .and illustrationS are drawn from
homely„aud, not unfrequeotly, striking ohjetts,
but then they are ordinarily without justness or,
propriety in the situations in which they are
placed. Reeve's •diction is florid and wordy ;
and we SOIIItItiMOS Ftlf/Vt with new expre4siOus
(for ho has a mint in v,hich he,can coin words. at,
his -Own sovereign pleasure) and now combina-
tions of old ones. But he •neverrappeara to be
'satisfied until he has exahusted epithets 'being
chiefly soliciteus to give good.heaped-up mea-
'sure, and caring less for the sentiment, than the
'sound. We Must, however, do him the justice'
to•say, • that he -neier largeta that-he lms to -de-
claim on the jubject of repentance..; and although,
when he commences a:paragraph, ,he is ii Lc a
(teal running down a' hill unable, to stop hi,,, ~if
'unit
he gets to the betteio, yet !le invariably r.!.
Adios' to the emir-se with unabated. vi,,our - , again
to run the same race.