The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-01 00:00:00

SOLICM QUIS DIOERE YALSUM AUDICAT

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1823.

The French Papers are unusually barren of
intelligence. We have, however, this morning
received the subjoined interesting communica-
tion from one of our best informed friends in
Paris:—

" Plats, DEC. 27, 1823.—0ur Ministry have
at last, partly by threats, partly by entreaties,
obtained an Order of Ferdivand's Counci! that
'the Douce of Amnesty shall be published imme-
diately. They seem to think that the Decree «ill
set every thing right throughout Spain ; but in the
mean time the people are exercising their private
vengeance against their enemies, and whole
provinces are reduced to. the extremity of
want and distress. The Spaniards, however,
may starve, or cut each others throats,without any
dangerof French interference for at least 3 months
to come. The elections for the new Chamber of
Deputies occupy all the cares of the Ministry.
They are not satisfied with the enormous

itiliL.,,nce they possess by means of Prefets,
Maires, Cures, and the cohorts of the visible
and invisible Police, but, they employ the
most illegal and the most impudent mea-
sures .against the Electors not in - their pay.—
Every voter in Paris, who is known for his
attachment to the Opposition, or for any friendly
feeling towards Benjamin Constant, Manuel,
or any of the liberal Deputies, has already
received anonymous letters ordering: him to
keep quiet ; for that there will inevitably
be victims among those who impiously Op-
pose the wishes of Government. The Com-
missaries. of Police are already making the
.tour of the Hotels garnis, to inform the own-
ers, that if they do not vote properly, their
hotels 'Will be shut up; and 'it is known that no
coffee-house, shop, or hotel, can be kept without
the permission of Govertnent. It is rarely that
Government exercises arbitrary acts in the capi-
ta!, on account of the superior spirit and intelli-
gence of the inhabitants; but when it acts here in
this undisguised manner at present, what must be
the excess of its tyranny in the provinces ?
" Since the Chamber has been disOlved, great
anxiety bas been shewn by all parties, to uscer.
taro whether the present Ministry are to re-
main in stela quo. It is not thought that
•.; many of the Members will remain. M. de
Villele feels the 'strong necessity of having an
able debater in the Chambers, for at the pre-
sent moment the Ministers have not a single
Member to put forward, with the exception of
M. de'Martignac, and it would be necessary to
give him a seat in the Council. If M. de Villele
t.ould follow his own views, he would have
:,rut M. de Peyronnet adrift, and put Martignac
his place. But Peyrounet is supported by
the Pavilion Marton, and M. de Villele having
110 other place to dispose of, is at this moment in
• great perpleiity. Since' he cannot make M. de

Martignae Minister of Justice, Villele intends
to make him ililinis.ter of Marine—thinking, with
the Turks, that. when God gives a place' he
gives the talent to .fin it.
" The creation of 27 new Peers has set all the
mob of nobility in the Faubourg St. Germain upon
the qui vive; they are all determined to be Peers.
Petitions, demands, threats, are poured in gallant
Confusion upon M. de Villele, and scarcely a de-
puty of the right side (cote drat) but thinks him-
lel; aggrieved by not. being included in the late
batch of the fiailiffisl. M. de Villele gives them
411 promises, knowing the difficulties of the pre-

sent crisis. He says be will soon make another
promotion, though it is believed he does not intend
to keep his promise': But the wily President
will be forced to it by the united influence of the
puppy-loving Dowagers of the Court,—that
if he expects them to exert their talents for in-
trigue in the approaching elections."

PAlus, DEC. 9.%.—The gay Lord BIRRYMORE,
died here last Thursday.
The post between Paris and Malaga is extremely irregular ;
and, froin answers not being received in Paris from accurate
correspondents there, it is supposed it has been interrupted by
banditti.

hauntsTox has written to the father of the lad who was
shot in the Tituilleries by the centincl, on the Duke of Azioou-
LEME'S arrival, that the KING has granted him a pension of
1,000 francs, which on his death is to extend to his wife.
Letters from St. Petersburgh state that the affairs of Greece
are now occupying the anions attention of Government, and
the ultimate important decision will soon be learnt.
Yesterday Prince Iloitietnoux received from the hands of
the Kixo the insignia of the Order of St. Louis.
One of the tribunals in Paris is busily occupied at present in
a case between Mansti and ROCHZ, and Count STACIPOOL,
who received in France letters of naturalization and title of
?Count, for the recovery of large sums of money ; and much
eloquence has been displayed by the lawyers for the parties.

The National Guards are to invite the Duke D'A.wootiLLll
to a dinner in the Hotel de Vile, and this will finish all the
fetes, and restore the Capital to some degree of tranquillity.

Notwithstanding the private intelligence from
Paris, which represented the French and Spanish
Governments as being at length disposed to treat
with the South Americans, on the basis that the
new states should pay a sum of money as the
price of an acknowledgment of their inde-
pendence, it is still believed in well-informed
political quarters that the design exists of send-
ing out a Spanish Prince with Royal Powers to
organize a Government, and to endeavour
to retain the sovereignty of some part at least of
the ci-devani Spanish Colonies in the Bourbon
family, if the hope of re-annexing them to the
Spanish Monarchy he entirely abandoned. It
would be vain to deny that such an enterprise,
if supported by French gold and a Spanish arma-
ment, might be successful.

CITY, Tooke o'Clock.—Consels opened this
morning at 8614-7, at which price they remain
steady up to this hour, with little doing. We
do not hear of any Express having arrived from
Paris, .which must be attributed to very little
variation of the French Funds, or to the stormy
night. The Austrian Loan is expected to come
out to-morrow. We have no reports nor any