The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-11 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOUPNALs,

TxTitAcTs FROM TUE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

April 11, 1823.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.I
The Paris Papers of Tuesday communicate the
important intelligence that the French army
crossed the Bidassoa on Monday last. The
passage of this river, like the passing of the Ru-
bicon, must long be famous in history. Let the
expedition termination when it mar, the conse-
quences must be infinitely important. Whatever
may be the opinion with respect to the degree of
resistance the French are likely to meet with,
there is but one feeling among the people with
respect to the odious character of the aggression.
That certain classes do not sympathise with the
nation, is, however, sufficiently- proved by The
Coutier and New Times, who of course must have
readers who can relish the odious doctrines they

promulgate. The Orange Marquess and the
favourite of Royajty now at Paris (to congratu-
late, we suppose, the Sovereign of France on the
auspicious commencement of his undertaking),
ate able, no doubt, to give some precious ?en-
seivrements on this subject.

t was expected that some questions would be
ad:el last night; in one or both douses, on the subject of the
War, and the negotiations which preceded it. In the Corn.
1110D3 a question was put by Colonel Davies, merely with a
View to ascertain whether it was Mr. Canning's intention on
Monday to enter at length into the course which had been
pursued by the Government. Ile observed, that as it was
impossible to be fully prepared to answer' on the instant, a
statement, should he choose to make one, it would be bet-
ter .merely to lay the Papers on the table on Monday, and
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to fix a future day for their discussion& Mr. Canning inti-
mated that it was his intention to subMit a statement. to the
House on Monday, when he laid the -Papers on the table, but
he promised to deliver " a plain unvarnished tale," which he
thought would call forth neither contradiction nor opposition.
The tale does not require much- varnishing one should think,
totix the attentioit of a British Parliament; but if the tale (and
a sttange one it must be—it Needs no varnishing) be received
patiently but phlegnnatically, the House of Commons must have
a won,lerful command over itself.—The Committee on the 31i.
litary and Naval Pensions Bill was postponed.—(lLid.)

[TIIE TIMES.]

Scarcely an Irish paper comes to. band

which we do not find reported one or more trials
connected with, and growing out oP, the, distarbed
condition of the country. In consequence of the
attack upon Mr.. Ring's house, near Mallow
(county Cork), on, the 17th ult., which was so
bravely and successfully ;resisted by that gentle-
man, his son, and daughter, a fellow of the name
of Coghlan was seized, and under the Whiteboy
Au, put on his trial at the late Cork Assizes
(4th lust.) After an interesting series of testi-
mony by the several members of Mr. Ring's
family-, and a determined alibi on behalf of the
prisoner, set up by one Fatty, a witness for the
Crown, Cu ;plan was acquitted, from its being
conceived possible, that Miss King, who alone
had sworn to his identity, might have been
mistaken. The ignominious cowardice
.of the
wretches who make these nightly assaults
on
,men's habitations
,throughout Munster, was
never more visible than on this occasion—when a
eng of ruffians,
,sufficiently numerous to fill air
ball besides surrounding the house, were coin-,
pletely beaten and put to flight by two men and at
woman, each of whom Moreover, was taken by
surprise, and compelled to fight without the ad-
vantage of fire arms. A little personal resolu-
tion, now and then, wouldobe no bad pacificator
for Ireland. It is said by the Orange papers,
that the, Grand Jury who ignored the bills for
the, playhouse conspiracy, and Forbes, the leader
of it (against whom we imagine that; in one sense
at, least, ignorainus" would be a significant end
proper, finding), are to present petitions to Par-
Ihment, but for what purpose appeareth not.

[New TIMES.I
The settlement at the Stock Exchange yes
terday passed without any remarkable incident
It seems now fully understood that all The vapour
log and boasting of the Spanish Descomisados
will end like the threats of the *Neapolitan Car.
bonari. The same infamous and unprincipled
Paper, The Times, was the organ of both, as it
has been of the Manchester Radicals, the •Queen's
mob, and every other facticius confederacy against
public order and tranquillity at home and abroad.
Nay, it yesterday ventured even to advocate
thp cause of Buonaparte ! This was indeed
shelving the cloven foot I Buonaparte it seems,
was' " invited" to Spain !, lie came there
cc as an Umpire !"----G I. Let us turn to his
Proclamation, in the Monileur of the 18th of
June 1808, and compare it with the Proclama-
tion of the Duke d'Angouleme. Buonaparte,
with that-monstrous egotistic vanity which mark-
ed ever/ act in his conduct, attributed to himself
alike the will, the power, and the right"to dis.
patib'a Spain as he thought tit. " Spaniards,"
said he, " your greatness makes part of mine."
4i, year Monarchy is old, .t will refresh it."---cc
will improve all your institutions."'"-" I will
place your Crown on the head of my second
self."---Ile does not so much as pretend that
they have any will which ought to be con-
sulted. He treats them openly and bare.
faced ly as so many cattle, whom he hands
over, with the land, to his brother Joseph.--
Had the present French Government been to.
dined (we do not sarmise that they were) to
follow this profligate example, they well knew
that. Great Britain would not have tolerated it.
In inch a case we should have been among the
first to declare that British honour called on the
Nation to take ap arms. Butr our Ministers
acted with the prudence and firmness which so
important a conjuncture demanded. They dis-
tinctly sh‘wed their resolution not to permit any
h.& ine,emeut of the Law of Nations, and accord.;
iugly the Proclamation of the Duke d'Angouleme,
confines itself strictly within the letter of that law.

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DIOUNING -
The accounts received yesterday from Paris,
add little that is material to the intelligence re-