The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON

sings of TroiidenCe from the people to enrich
a few greedy fools, we conclude, in conformity
with all the experience of the human race at all
times, that it must be pernicious. An immoral
or a dishonest action that were productive of good
would be a contradiction ; it would overturn lan-
guage, and establish a mental anarchy.

The Emperor of CHINA has offered a reward
of a hundred thousand dollars and promotion to
the fourth rank to any one who shall send him, for
preservation in the Imperial Museum at Pekin,
the head of Captain ELLIOT. But for the un-
seemly habit in which his Imperial MAJESTY in-
dulges, of severing the beads to which he takes
a fancy from the shoulders, we should recom-
mend the merchants engaged in the China trade
to address a petition to our Gracious SOVEREIGN,
praying her to make the Emperor of CHINA
a present of the ex-Plenipotentiary. Indeed the
Celestials must entertain a prodigious opinion
of the disinterestedness of the British residents
in China, seeing that the offer of a hundred thou-
sand dollars failed to purchase from them the most
incompetent and mischievous head in the foreign
community. Not to take a hundred thousand
dollars for a head which they would have gladly
given five times that sum to get rid of in any
way more consonant to. European ideas, must
have argued in the minds of the Celestials extra--i
ordinary disinterestedness. Let but the Em-
peror of CHINA promise to allow Capt. ELLIOT'S
head to remain on its own familiar shoulders,
and let the dollars and the promotion he be-
stowed upon him, and we have not the slightest
objection to his " gratifying the Imperial glance"
by the appearance of the ex-Plenipotentiary at
any of the six Boards to which the Son of Hea-
ven may promote him. The brood of ELLIOT
is happily one which we need indulge no fears
of becoming extinct in England ; and if, in the
process of time, the EMPEROR should desire to
increase the stock in his Celestial dominions, it
is more than possible that we shall be able to ac-
commodate him with as many as he may require..
As for Captain ELLIOT himself, his proclama-
tions addressed to the Chinese prove how severe
a student he is in all the arts which constitute
the requisites for exalted office at the Court of
Pekin. His bombast is unrivalled in the
full and swelling volume of its inflation.
His enumeration of his titles is performed
with a self-complacent minute exactness
which bids defiance to Celestial rivalry. We had
thought we knew something of Captain ELLIOT'S
rank and pretensions here, but on glancing at his
proclamation to the people of Canton, dated the
9.2 d of May, we find that his Excellency is of
quite a different opinion. He there styles him-
self " the high officer of the great flourishing
nation," " a public officer and a great Minister"
—titles to which the people of England have for
some time suspected hie claim. These titles the
ex-Plenipotentiary several times repeats, and to
prove to the Chinese the terrible consequences
of provoking his wrath, he assails them with a
distich of doggerel worthy of a Pekin Court lau-
reate. The admonitory hint to the people of
Canton, expressed with the true Mandarin gra-
vity, " 0 ye people, try and think a little !" is
one which they had little reason to expect from
such a quarter. Should the Emperor of CHINA
decline to receive him on the conditions
we propose, his proclamations alone ought to
obtain for him, and his heirs and successors last-
fully begotten, from his own countrymen, the
distinguished title of Mandarin ELLIOT.

Sir LE FLEMING SENHOUSE said that he would
rather have died and been buriei under the

walls of Canton than have signed the dis-
graceful terms of the 27th of May for the
evacuation of that city; and the Canton Register
states that the ruin of his country's honour
and interests in China caused that gallant
officer to die of a broken heart. There cer-
tainly never was a greater sacrifice ofinclination,
and of the promptings of an enlarged patriotism,
and a sound policy to the dictates of strict
military subordinate duty, than in the re-
tirement of the British forces from Canton at
the command of such a nineompooli as EL-
LIOT. The lively indi4nation which the im-

becile conduct of this functionary has every
where excited, has prompted some of our
Tory Contemporaries, not only to insist upon
knowing the full extent of the powers entrusted
to him, but likewise to demand how it hap-
pened that the late Government promoted him

to a trust so responsible. They seem not to know
that Captain ELLIOT was not sent out from
England as Principal Plenipotentiary. He was
but one of three Commissioners, and only ac-
quired the power which he has since so shame-
fully abused by the resignation of one of his col-
leagues and the ill health of the other, which
obliged him to quit the country.

The Paris Papers of Monday, which did not
reach London till late yesterday evening, con-
tain a considerable quantity of intelligence from
Spain, which we give below. On the 3d inst.,
(says the Journal des Debatsy which is the date
of the news from Madrid), the movement of
General O'DONNELL was not known in the capi-
tal, though intimations of an unpleasant nature
had reached it, and measures of precaution had
been taken. No insurrection at that period had
manifested itself in the capital, but at Paris, pro-
bably, by those in the secret, such an event was
anticipated. General ALCALA, indeed, accord-
ing to the French telegraphic despatch, has spead
a report that the insurrection had been suppressed
at Madrid, which may be the truth, and that
ESPARTERO was on his march to the frontiers
with a considerable army. In that case an in-
surrection must have broken out; but the tele-
graphic dispatch from Bayonne is unconfirmed
by any details, which states that Madrid was
tranquil on the evening of the fifth.
Prom the frontiers the news is, on the whole,
favourable to the insurrection. Nothing is gained
to ESPARTERO by St. Sebastian remaining true
to him, but his opponents gain much by two
regiments of Guards on the frontiers having
pronounced in their favour. General O'Dozi-
NELL has been reinforced, too, in the citadel of
Pampeluna,- by a considerable body of troops,
and his party has gained various other trifling
advantages. Overflowing as Spain and the fron-
tiers of France are with discontented
the insurrection will find plenty of -1'
_Lers,
it will probably require time - -ament, and
it down. And energy to put
According
soldier- _ the Opposition press in Paris,

....•thr the cause of CHRISTINA are there
-..penly.enlisted, and forwarded to Spain: Ac-
cording to the Ministerial 'papers) the rttlath
Government has given ordets to remove all the
Carlist refttgres Arum the frontiers. The
Jekifitt des Debats, however, is somewhat too
anxious to have it believed that the Fren6
Ministry has preserved a strict neutrality, not too
excite a suspicion that the fact is different.
At any rate, if the French Ministers
have been neutral, the JetwAtel eks Del•fas
is well acquainted with Iliese who ought
to have, but have not bccn, as neutral as it
wishes the public to believe the Ministers have
been. At the same time it betrays its own
partiality, by endeavouring to make out a ease
against ESPARTERO, while it really casts suspicion
on the French Government, by a great anxiety
to prove that insurrection is, as it were, natural
to them, and need not therefore have been ex-
cited by LOUIS PHILIPPE. The following extracts
from the papers of Monday relate almost exclu-
sively to Spain ; of France itself they contain no
interesting news.

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SPAIN.
P-tßis, OCT. IL—We find in the Ministerial evening
papers the following telegraphic despatch :
6' BAYONNE, OCT. 10, SA.N.— The Chief of the Ma-
ritime Office to the Minister of the Marine.—They wrote
to- me from Passages last evening, as follows: Opinions
are divided at San-Sebastian. The garrison of the cita-
del has given up a post to the militia, which is contrary
to the movement, and is master of the town. Hostili-
ties have commenced lietweeu LTrbistondo and General
Alcala. The latter hai circulated a -reliort., that the.
.movement is repressed at Madrid, and the principal in-
stigators chastised, and that Espartero is inoviritliiwards
the provinces with 14 battalions, and a, regiment of ca- I