The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-15 00:00:00

SPANISH DECREE OF AMNESTY.

Fronzths Journal des Dibais of Wednesday.)
PARIS, MAY 12.---The work of our venerable and -wise Mo.
narch is consummated. The Duke of Angoulenie obtains the
only reward which lie has deinanded for his glory, his labours,
and his perils; a general amnesty has been just published in
'Spain. All the subjects of his Catholic Majesty, not comprised
in the legal exceptions fixed by the articles of the amnesty*, will
be set at liberty ; the prisons are about to open ; and this war
of six months, which sufficed to stifle a threatening revolution,
extends its generous influence beyond its termination. The
augiist Allies of our Sovereign also demanded, in concert with
us, the Decree of Amnesty. When one conceives the difficul-
ties of all sorts which environ the Ministers of Ferdinand, it
wili not be surgrising that such an act of policy, as well as
clemency, has not been sooner proclaimed. It appears that
the Spanish Government wish to s,ee the continuance of our
troops in the Peninsula prolonged beyond the Ist of July (the
date fixed for their retreat), and that the Ambassador of France,
taking advantage of this circumstance, observed that his
Christian Majesty would be more disposed to yield to the wish
of the Spanish Government, if the act which was to reconcile
-the children of one family, put an end to disquietude, and
fixed the future fate of a noble and loyal people. Difference of
opinion may have been entertained previously to our enterprise
--with Spain, but the manner in which this enterprise has been
conducted, completed, and crowned, does immortal honour to
France.

We think ourselves bound to give the sort of Royal Address
which is at the conclusion of the- Amnesty, and which in the
cfiginal is written wholly with the hand of Ferdinand. It does
.honour to that Monateh

t Spaniards
!—lmitate
the example of your King, who par-
don!: errors, ingratitude, and offences, without other excep-
tions than those which the public welfare and the safety of the
State imperiously require. You have conquered the revolution,
and revolutionary anarchy ; but there remains yet a not less
formidable evil, to be thoroughly conquered—discord. Sacri-
fice your resentments, and your personal injuries, to the in-
comparable benefit of union and henna] peace. Forget not
that disunion and civil discord have been the ruin of the most
powerful empires of the earth. 'Without tranquillity, without
a perfect submission to the laws it is impossible that the Go-
vernment can be cemented on solid and indestructible founda-
tithie, and that the exhausted springs of public prosperity can
revive. • It is, above all, impossible to re-establish con-
fidence, the mother of industry and wealth, the only sup.
aort• of credit which multiplies the resources of States.—
Without it your capital and your orals would go to fertilise and
eesrich a foreign soil, leaving desert and uncultivated this land,
which the virtues of our ancestors have converted into a classic
land of honour and loyalty. Act so that the entire reestablish-
rActit of order in the Peninsula may be the prelude of recen-
oiklation between you and yOur dissident brothers of America.
Descendants of the great men who founded and aug-
mented our glorious Empire, and who made the Spanish name
resound in all parts of the earth, do not leave to your children
a distracted country and a debased name ! Exert your na-
tural energy to raise Spain from the dejection into uhich de-
-1 orabie circumstances lniVe p!united her. The yjgonr of the
-GOA:term:lent will preserve you for 'the future from revolutionary
agitation and subversion, and the sword of justice will unspar-
ingly smite those who shall strive to reproduce amongst us
past disorders. But repel the hateful passions aad perfidious
counaels of those who are perhaps interested in disuniting in
order to ru'n you, and in order to prevent you froM ,stretching
ftit your arms to lend aid to your brothers of America, who
era victims, as you have been, of revolutionary anarchy, and
the ambition of inexperienced and ill-intentioned demagogues.
It,-by an impenetrable decree .nf Providence, so many days of
bitterness were reserved for your King during the first years
oC his reign, aid him, that those which follow may be clays of
prsperity and happiness, and that . they may be consecrated
tofotterin4 the arts of peace, and in restoring to Spain her
pristine glory, to my crown its lustre and splendour; to re--
lig-ion and to my people, tormented and fatigued, the repose
anti the abundance of which they are so worthy, by their signal
loyalty anti heroic constancy.—Aranjuea, May

• The principal exceptions are, The heads of the Military
`lnsurre:etion *of the Lde of Leon ; the Members of the Cortes
wit° proclaimed the King: abdicated at Seville; the heads of
?erlitary Insurrection in cifrerent parts of Spain, at Madrid,
&c. ; the Assassins of Yenuea,.the Judges of Ehio, and the
A thars of the Inattsacres of the prisons of Grenada.

The Deputation for obtaining the Act of In-
.corporation for the Leeds Gas Light Company,
will, we underst:u repair to London forthwith,
and the Bill is expected to come before the Com-
mittee of the House of Commons this Tuesday.
• In the course of last week several meetings have
taken place between deputations from the Coal
Gas and the Oil Gas Companies, relative to the
clauses proposed by the former to be introduced
into the Bill'of the latter, now in Parliament ;
and all the ClauseS 'inserted in our last Paper
knave been 'abandoned, or made reciprocal,except
the last, which provides, that nothing in the Act.
for incorporating the Oil Gas Company shall be
construed to defeat, abridge, alter, or obstruct,
or in any way or manner interfere with, or pre-
judice the rights of the Leeds* Coal Gas Light
Company, except in making of Oil Gas. It is
mutually agreed, that as the Oil .Gas*Company
is to be restrained from making gas from coal, so
the Coal Gas
Light Company is to be prohibited
from makin as from
he Independent.)
ROTIERT Srm.—Tg g
crime of this atrocious
wretch—an attempt to murder his sweetheart,.
under the mask of .arranging their marriage, was
correctly stated in our Paper of the 95th of De-
cember. lie is a robust 44 dour-looking" man,
something marked in the face by part of the E.
gnid he dashed about his victim. When he was
r,y Lord.
asked to plead, he replied, " ta
1 am sorry for it, and refer myself to the mercy
of your Lordship." Sentence, to be publicly
whipped through Arbroath, on Saturday-, the fifth
of 11lay, and transported for 14 years. Agness
Mill, the victim, who is still pregnant, and "a'
hihits on her neck deep traces of the struggle
which she will carry to the grave,.seemed deeply
affected at this result of the trial ; and said she
could even yet marry him if his sentence were
remitted.---(Dundee Adivrliser.)