The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-19 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

[From the Dublin Correspondent, March 15.1
Every stratagem appears to be used by the
Paris Editors to spirit up the army on the enterprize it is about
engaging in against Spain. The force and success of the
Royalist brigands are every day magnified, in order to impress
upon it that the task it will have to perform is of easy accomplish.
ment. The Royalist General, Bessieres, is at one time stated
to threaten Madrid—then to have some thousands under his
command and—next to have defeated all the attempts of the
Constitutional Generals to bring hing, to an engagement.
This last is the only part of the statement that wears the face
of probability. This Bessieres is' after all that is said of him
daily on the Paris Papers, only a desperate leader of some few
hundred of these brigands, who stopped in between the Con-
stitutional troops in Arragon and Navarre, and made some
demonstrations in the neiobourhood of Madrid, but is unable
to maintain his position in any one place. What does all this
shew but that the nature of the country is such that it gives
every advantage to the Guerilla mode of warfare, , which the
Spanish Government itself means to adopt ? Yet is upon
such a flimsy basis as this—namely, the escape of this
brigand leader from defeat, that the founds all its
hopes of the success of the French army. Let only these fa-
nalichrigands " have iron and gold enough," says this paper,
and it gloats upon the carnagethat mast follow insuch a civil strife.
Nothing can equal the recent prostitution and debasement of
this Print. It has the hardihood to compare the glorious deli-
verance of these realms in 1688 under King William, with the
present aggression of Louis XVIII. against the independende
of Spain. No two cases can be more dissimilar, or more op.
posed in principle and in circumstances. William came to de-
liver a people from a frantic and imbecile tyrant ; Louis sends
his army—and this is another distinguishing
.characteristic—to
restore the tyranny of Ferdinand, equally as infatuated and su-
perstitious a Monarch as James. 'William came to restore those
ancient laws and liberties which were filched from the people
by James. Louis sends his mirmydons across the Pyrenees
to deprive the Spaniards of their ancient laws and li-
bertithe restoration of which they wrung from Ferdinand.
The people, and the army of England both, heartily joined in
receiving ;;William as their deliverer—the army and,people
of Spain unite in opposing the French army as invaders.—
Could any two historical facts be more contradistinguished
from each other? No—the fact is, that Louis XVIII. is now
acting the part his ancestor, Louis XIV., was then performing,
and which, we apprehend, this bigotted family is always des.:
tined to act. He is supporting a Tyrant who has lost the con-
fidence and attachment of the people over whom he is placed,
and endeavouring to uphold a Monarch who appears unequal
to his situation, contrary_ to their wishes, just as Louis XIV.
supported James in his various efforts to regain that Sovereignty
forfeited by his weakness and' folly.—We are at a loss to con-
ceive how any Print which advocates such shameful principles
as these, and resorts to such gross and palpablesophistries in their
support, can receive the countenance and support of the people
of England. Here their feelings and sympathies are attacked in
thernost tender points—here theirunderstandingshould be roused
to assert it superiority, and shew that they cannot be made the
dupes of such egregiously false assertions. Yes, this Print
would have France conquer Spain, for Ferdinand to give it
such " principles of liberty" as James would have bestowed
upon England, if allowed to pursue his besotted career, or if
successful in his subsequent exertions to regain his Throne.
The principal argument of the in favour of French ag-
gression is, that a country that finds itself reduced to the ne-
cessity of adopting such onerous precautions as an armed force
upon its frontiers, must possess the right, if it have the 'power,
of relieving itself altogether."—Here the question necessarily
turns upon, whether France was reduced to this necessity ? is
it not rather to be concluded that her Government created the
necessity? Did it not at first repeatedly declare that this force
was collected only to keep out decease, and that it had no ul-
terior object of sittackingSpain in view. When, therefore, and
how was the new necessity created for converting this ferce
from its original purpose ?—These are questions which neither
the'French Government, nor its advocate, the —, can sit.
`.isfactorily answer.

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