The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-21 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Feb. 21.

[NEW TIMES]
Poor Mr. Hume ! he has been for some time
industriously labouring to destroy the little re-
putation he had gained ; but in no instance has
he been so successful in exciting the ridicule of
his antagonists and the regret of his friends as he
was last night. The Hon. Member astonished
the House by moving that there should be a re-
duction of 10,000 men in the proposed military
force'of the country. Even Mr. Calcraft was in-
dignant ; and on a division there appeared a mi-
nority of ten in favour of the motion—against it
a hundred and two ! For the details of the differ-
ences between the Army Estimates as voted for
1823 and submitted for 1524, we must refer our
readers to the Parliamentary Report. They will
be found in the highest degree satisfactory. In
such conduct as this on the part of Ministers,
there is a complete disregard of the feelings of
their opponents, which almost amounts to abso-
lute cruelty. Surely they cannot be altogether
ignorant of the sufferings some persons experience
when they can discover no plausible pretence for
finding fault.

[THE TIMES.]
By our private letters, which accompanied the
transmission of the paper containing the decree
respecting the late Spanish Colonies, we learn
that the French Minister Talaru, roused, per-
haps, from his inaction by the unexpected deco-
ration of the blue riband, and the sight of an
intruder on his domain (in the person of Mar.
cellus,) was labouring hard to obtain from the
Court of Madrid the publication of an amnesty.
As the French Government is now taking credit
to itself for inducing the King to grant that free-
dom of commerce ‘‘ith America which it was not
in his power to withhold ; so it is no doubt sin-
cere in its efforts to obtain a little popularity by
extorting from him an act of amnesty which will
cost him just nothing, and which, for all purposes
of protection to his obnoxious subjects, will
be nearly as nugatory. it will, however, be
a good thing for the security of the French
troops now in the Peninsula, and for the repu-
tation of the French Ministers now on the
eve of a general election. M. de Talaru has,
therefore, received positive instructions to press
the measure with all his diplomatic zeal, and
from the eagerness with which he is proceeding,
has inspired the Spanish fanatics with an idea
that they are required to abdicate some of their
privileges of intolerance and vengeance. Hence
he has received the consent of the more liberal
portion of the Spanish Cabinet (if the word
" liberal " may be so abused) to the publication
of a qualified amnesty, and finds his views op-
posed by the carmarilla, the priests, and the
misguided rabble. M. lleredia, the Prime Mi-
nister, is said to have given his word of honour,
that if this conciliatory measure does not speedily
obtain the King's consent, he will not remain in
the Cabinet, and the King's friends are endea-
vouring to counteract him by assembling fanatical
mobs around the Royal Palace, and raising the
ferocious shout of 44 No amnesty !—Death to
the partisans of Amnesty I "—lf this coalition of
the King and the mob do not prevent the publi-
cation of the measure, we may easily foresee that
it will prevent its execution, and that Ferdi-
nand's oblivion of wrongs will be as little to be
relied. on as his recollection of services.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The manner in which Ministers met the mo
tion of Mr. Grattan on Thursday night, was, to
say the least of it, extremely disingenuous. If,
instead of having recourse to paltry shifts and
evasions, which can deceive no one, they had
frankly owned the truth, that the Goverunientof
Ireland has hitherto been conducted on a prin-
ciple of division and exclusion ; that the ascend-
ancy party, who have always had the monopoly
of offices and employments, are closely leagued
together, and strenuously exert themselves to
prevent that monopoly from being in any case
broken in upon ; that the exclusion serves to
mark out the one sect as a superior, and the other
as a:degraded race ; and that, without removing
the exclusion which leagues the Govern-
ment with the Protestants, it is a matter
of the utmost difficulty to find any opening
for Catholics—if, we say, Ministers, instead
of their evasions, had frankly avowed this, they
would have given greater satisfaction to both Ca-
tholics and Protestants. The instances they
quoted with a view to show that they did not
confine their choice to one party, were, it must
very unfortunate ones. They were
be owned,
forced to recur for these instances to the ap-
pointments made in 1806, during an Administra-
tion determined to act on other principles than
those orexclusion. But Sir John Newport, when
he satisfied Mr. Peel of this circumstance, over-
looked in the hurry of debate one point, which
rendered all that Mr. Peel had said totally irre-
levant to the question—for among 27 classes
of employments enumerated, Collectors are not
to be found, and Mr. Troy is a Collector. As
to Mr. Darcy Mahon, we understand, though his
father was a Catholic, he has always been consi-
dered as aProtestant ; and even for the new employ-
ment he is going to receive, or has received, the
Irish Administration deserves but little credit—
for, having been of infinite service to that most
useful body of Englishmen, the Commissioners
of Inquiry, they made it a point with the Irish
Government that he should be rewarded.

[BRITISH PRESS.
The Paris Papers of Wednesday, and the Etoile
of Thursday, reached our office last night. The
Journal des Mbals, and the other French Mini-
sterial Papers, triumph at the rise of their Rentes
above par. Such an occurrence, the former Pa-
per says, is new in the annals of French Finance.
Thus ti illele has thrown Louvois and Necker
completely into the shade. Under the ancient
regime, this Minister's Journal asserts, the rentes
never passed 84 ; and, under Napoleon, never
were higher than 94. It was reserved (this jour-
nal, with singular modesty,adds) for a Constitution-