The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-26 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, MAUCH 25.-Wind N.---Carne down from the
River and sailed, the Amelia, Storey, far Bermuda; Lady
Juliana, Smith, for St. John's, N. IL ; and Lark, Orfeur, for
Cadiz.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind' S.E.—Arrived of the
port the Active, Patterson, from St. Vincent's in 34 days ;
Fortune, Callow, from Faro in 20 days. Arrived the Francis
Freding packet from Jamaica sailed the Ilth of February ;
and Duke of York packet, from St. Thomaes : sailed the list
of February. Sailed the Crown, Watson, for Ahncira ;
Cobham, Mitchell, for Newfoundland; New Albion,'Pow!,
for Malta and Smirna; and Ann, Swinton, for Gibraltar.
PLYMOVIII, Mauch 24.—Wind W.N.W.—Salled the
Wanderer, Waygood, for St. Andrew's, N. 11.

I'oll.llltolllll, 11lattett airs from the.soutn--
Arrived the Charles Grant, Hay, from the Downs fur the
Mauritius, &e. ; Nile, Fisher, from ditto fur Bethke. Sailed
the General Palmer, Truseott, ,for .Mattraa ; John flowatti,
Smith, for St. Aliehael's ; Alinerva, :,41otley, for Gibraltar ;
anti Balloon, Smith, Baltimore.

The Abraham and Moses,, Potts, from Boston, foundered
near Aldborotigh on Monday ; crest saved.
l'he Aurora, APKinlaY, from Greenock and St. Thomas's
to llonduras, Will% taken and carried into Porto .iticv the Hat
ult. by the Scipio Spanish privateer.

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS MOM TIU %ICY MORNING PAPERS,
March 26, 18'23.

[THE TIMES 4
The news from Madrid, arrived in various
ways since our last, is of an highly hiteresting
kind. The most remarkable incident is a bare-.
heed trick of the miserable Ferdinand to elude
the joorney to Seville. It is obvious that this
man, who has already once resigned his crown
and given up his country to French domination;
would a second time more gladly unite himself
to the foreigners who come to ravage and
pose laws on Spain, than join in, or afford his
countenance to, its defence. Buonaparte having
made him abdicate the throne, kneel down
to him, kiss his hand, and- abuse his own mother
(who, by the way, deserved all the abuse
that ,could be lavished upon her from any one
but her son), sent him to the rear, as no longer
tit for his service. This refuse of a Corsican, it
is thought, would do honour to the Teaks of a
Bourbon, when engaged' in the same profligate
enterprize of ittyading Spain : such are the
changes in the capacity of men, though there
are none in the morality of the measures.—
Bence this stale trick of Fertlinantlf in protend-
ing inability to move, from a fit of gout—a fit of
gout, which the Commission appointed to ex-
amine these pretences ascertained " not to pre-
" vent the patient from taking his usual nourish-
" meet, and enjoying sleep!" in this trans-
"action however, we have a fresh proof of
the temper and Moderation of the existing Go-
vernment in Spain. it receives this plea of ill-
ness, which it knew was to come in due time—
listens to it with 'a becoming gravity, and provides
for it with equal decorum, by allowing his Ma.
jest), to stop three, days longer at Madrid than
was, at first proposed, namely, from the 17th to
the '2oth, and by portioning out •to him his
journey in such short stages, that we believe he
might even walk it in the time, if he pleased.
lie may at least eat, drink, and sleep as he has
been doing during this illness—that is, as his
b:thit is when in perfect health ; and what more
can be required for him We know not.

[NEW TIMES.]
Yesterday vas a period of considerable agita-
tion in the city. Tuesday seldom brings Ex-
presses frern Paris, because it is a day corre-
sponding with Sunday, and of course can afford
no notice of variation in the French. ft Was
known, however, at an early. hour that a courier
bad arrived,, and' in consequence a variety. of
absurd and exaggerated rumours got abroad :
an insurrection of the National Guards—an
illness of the Duke d'AngoulOme—a resignation
of General G lleminot—a general disaffection of
the French Army,. &c.

ino ft N 1 NG POST
It is sufficimitly evident that the people of
Franco are decidedly opposed to the monstrous
and horrible Iniquity which its Government is
about to, commit. The people see in the medi.
tated attack upon Spain en exhibition of tyranny
and injustice, in the naked deformity of those
vices, unattended by any portion of that brilliancy
of conception or of that boldness in execution by
which the projects of unjust ambition have been
often enabled to dazzle the imagination and con-
found the judgment of mankind. To the minds
of the people of France the aggressive policy
of its Government presents, not the splendid
picture, of ambition sweeping onward to the
attainment of its ends with a noble daring,
unmindful of the obvious dangers which in-

tercept its progress—but it presents, on the
contrary, the contemptible image of tyrannic
power wishing to domineer over a victim which
it deems helpless, and which it therefore resolves
to sacrifice. The invasion of Spain comprehends
every thing revolting to the judgment, and
nothing exalting to the imagination of the French
people. On this account merely it could not fail
to lie an extremely unpopular measure in France.
But. the French nation has yet stronger and more
home.felt motives than this, to withhold its con-
currence to the present polio. of its rulers. The
adoption of this policy proclaims the triumph of
a Faction, inimical to the feelings and the inte-
rest of the present race of Frenchmen, with re-
spect to the foreign affairs of the country. 1t is
a busy and aspiring Faction,, and if its triumph
receives no cbeck, it cannot be long ere the do-
mestic concerns of Francis will expesience the
fatal effects of the ascendancy, It is a very nar-
row view of this- subject which embraces only the
contest between France and Spain ; there is ano-
ther contest, at present Less open and conspi-
cuous, but not less important, nor less violent,
constantly going on between the ancient and
the modern interests of France herself.—The
war with iipain, interesting to Europe as it is,
forms,• notwithstanding, but an episode in the
%real epic—the conflict which it may yet take
years to decide between din ancient regime and
she modern. constitution of France.-

broctstivr, CURONICLE4
Private advicea received yesterday from Paris,
(Ilford us a distinct confirmation of the account
that very close but urgent negociations are at this
moment carrying on between our Envoy and the
Court, of St. l'etersinrgh, respecting the war;
negotiations v,hicit, it would appear, our Cabinet
commenced as won as they despaired of being
able to make any impressien on the infuriated
French Ultras, so as to stop them in their mad
career, It appears very singular to us, that
these negociations have been delayed so tong,
—can it be possible, after the long and re.
pealed conferences at Verona and other
places, on the subject of the Spanish invasion,
that our Government is not in possession of the
real and positive sentiments of the Russian Em-
peror on this subject, and whether it is his 'lite!).
tion to remain neutral, or "take an active, part in
the events preparing to disturb - the tranquillity
of Europe ? If the character Alexander is de-
termined to assume is a neutral one, what are
these negociations at so late an hour intended for ?
and if, on the other hand, he is firmly resolved to

Fllpport the pretensions of France (or rather urges
on that power), and to become a party to the war,
what new proposals can we make that can be
successful, unless such as are founded on the
humiliation of our Peninsular Allies, proposals
to which, as will be seen in the sequel, we can-
not
give effect ourselves ? The French Ultras
are sanguine in their expectations that no nego-
ciations with the British Government can under-
take will be able to prevent the completion of
their hostile views, for they are cunning enough
to know, that the propitious moment has passed
by, and that every thing that has occurred on the
present great question, has materially tended to
decrease the influence of England over the Conti-
nental Powers. They are also'senible that the
recent change in the sentiments of the British
Cabinet is owing more to the demonstrations of
popular feeling in England, than a conviction of
the badness of that policy by which the Cabinet
of Si. James's have been guided for several years
on Continental topics, and that it will conse-
quently now be very difficult to change the
seutitnents of the Russian emperor, as ex-
preSsed in' his Circular and on so many
other occasions. Our Ministers have at length
discovered that they have been forestalled
in Russia by the French Ultrasi and they are
now trying to make up their leeway. It is cal-
culated, in Parisi that the result of these nega.
ciations will reach the French capital about the
end of the month, and the nature of it is confi-
dently expected to be so very favourable that the
Duke d'Angoulgrne will then no lopger be de-
layed in the pious and magnanimous work he
is about to commence, under the auspices of the
God of St. Louis.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Reports have been spread for some time of the
retirement of M. de Villele from the Presidency
of the Council of Ministers, from ill health. The i
French Minister's political pulse may not be ex-
actly in that state his dependants would wish,
but as far as bodily, health goes he is, we un-
derstand, more than " passing well." M.
de. Villele's pulse is a kind of political baro•
meter, rising and falling between that part of
the Tuileries where the son of St. Louis is
lodged, and the angle of that building, the scene
of the cabals of an all-important party,and called
the Pavilion Marsan ; but it is also known that
the relations between him and our Ambassador,
Sir Charles Stuart, are not of the best descrip-
tion. Previous to the assembling of the Chamber
of Deputies, M. de Villele, it is said', called on
Sir Charles Stuart, and assured him that the
King's Speech would be of a most pacific nature.
On this official information Sir Charles Stuart
wrote that ovening to his Cabinet, stating the
important information he had received, and assur-
ing our Foreign Minister that the idea of war by
France with Spain was abandoned. But the
British Ambassador had to. deal with worse than
the 44 Arnica fides," or Villele himself was out-
witted by the furious Ultra party, for on the
next day appeared the formidable denunciation
of the French King, rolled into the Chumber,
appealing to the God of St. Louis, and
threatening the march on Roncesvalles of w
hundred thousand Frenchmen, It is not to he
wondered at that Sir. C. Stuart was most indignant
at this deception, and felt deeply the, ruse prac-
tiSed on him, and through him on his Cabinet.—
lie is said to have gone immediately to the house
of rthe. French Minister, and reproached him
with the duplicity of his conduct in terms
so marked and strong, that all future correspon-
dence of necessity ceased between them. This,
with the animosity of the Ultra Party, is,
as we understand, the true cense of the political
bad health of the vacillating M. de
In truth,. the boasted majesty of England has
Weighed light in the scales on the present occa-
sion ; and could we augur of the future from the
negociations of the last three months, her political
importance, after such an expenditure of blood
and treasure, must be light indeed with the un-
grateful Bourbons, and, we fear, not only in
France but throughout Europe.

[MORNING ILERALD.I
The cautious reserve observed in Parliament on
the subject of our foreign policy, In the first
weeks of the Session, led the shrewdest of our
politicians to suppose that Ministers had entered
into a compact with the Opposition. The con-
strained silence of the leading Members of the
latter in the lower house, though it was made
the tlieme Of panegyric by the Treasury Bench,
excited some astonishment outside the walls. The
sparing luestions put to the Right Hon. Secretary
for the Foreign Department by Mr. Brougham
and Sir James Mackintosh, after some waste
of words in complimentary prefaces, could scarcely
be considered a. violation of their concerted
silence. A truce of that sort was not unreasonable
during the alleged pending negociations for the
continuance of peace in Europe. We concur,
however, in opinien with those who thought that
the success of those negociations for so de-
sireable Pan end would be better insured by
the use of a bolder language at home, by the
assumption of a fiercer spirit, and even by
the indication of our high displeasure at the'alter-
native. But after the acknowledged failure of
those efforts, the leading Members spew less for-
bearance and use less ceremony. Last night a
most important question was put by Lord John
Russell, and an ,answer which will surprise
many was elicited. The question was, as may
he seen more fully in our Parliamentary Report,
", whether this country was bound, by treaty to
guarantee thy• Crown of France to the present
family on that Throne ?" Mr. Canning, stated,
from recollection of all the treaties between
ibis country and the Holy Allies, that we
hail stipulated to come into immediate action,
in conjunction with the other Monarths, in
order to preserve the Crown to,Louis, in rase
of an attempt by the family of the dethroned
Emperor. But in case of a revolution breaking
out in I ranee we had bound ourselves only to
consult and concert with the Holy Allies. The
Right Hon. Gentleman repeated withan emphasis,
that we stipulated only to consult and concert.
ills scarcely a question, whether the meditated ag-
gression on Spain by France would not release

us from a more direct guarantee of the Bourbon
Dynasty. It is satisfactory to know, that by the
words of the treaty we only stipulated to delibe-
rate—to consult and concert. In the event,
therefore, of a revolution in France, which is
not improbable, arising from the dissatisfaction
of the people with the unprovoked attack on the
Peninsula, Louis might have cause to tremble for
his crown, and might appeal in vain to the faith
of treaties. The apparent acquiescence of Eng-
land does not imply approbation of the policy of
France, and we believe that four parts out of
five of the English people think as Lord John
Russell does, 44 that it was now incumbent on
this country to clear herself of all stipulations
with France."