The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-08 00:00:00

to the rash and unprincipled Writer of the article
signed G. The production of yesterday outdid
all the former extravagancies of that person : it
was a most gross and shameful libel on the Duke
of Orleans, to' whom it ascribes intentions and
Motives which if lie did not disclaim with in-
dignation, he would be for ever disgraced in
'the eyes of. Europe. The' Duke of, Orleans 'is
net only a French subject# and a Priem of
that Royal House of which Louis XVIII.
is the head, but he owes to his Relative and So.
vereign unbounded gratitude for personal favours
of the most indulgent and liberal kind, Yet it is
held out to public credulity by the writer in
question, that this Bourbon Prince is ready to
become a traitor, an usurper, and to bathe his
hands in the blood of his benefactor and King !
There is something so monstrous in this, that
it makes the blood run cold. It brings before
us, whether we will or no, the horrid vision of
Philip Egalite rising in 'the Convention, and
shocking even his brother Regicides, by voting for
the death of the amiable and virtuous Louis XVI.
Aud who can' this G. be ? What writer can have
so' thoroughly divested himself of every feeling
of integrity and manly honour, as to suppose it
possible that the unfortunate son should tread
in tlie steps of the detested father?' We know
nothing of Mr. Bowring, except by, name, as a
iarson of literary habits ; but he hits been pretty
ntelligibly hinted at by The Courier' at the
writer of these odious articles, and lie does not
disavow them!: This is passing strange! Mr.
Bowring was represented as a harmfess traveller,
a, total stranger to politics, who was most ufl
reasonably suspected by the French Govern-
ment of meddling with plots against their safety.
The detention of this innocent Gentleman was
magnified into a national insult it was brought
forward in Parliament f the Secretary for Foreign,
Affairs was called upon to interfere ; and it was
made matter of negociation by his Majesty's Am-
bassador at the Court of France: But if we
could suppose it possible that Mr.. low ring and
G. were iderttical, what would become of all the
protestations of innocence so loudly made by
the former? It Would be manifest that he was
an agent and go-between hi the blackest treasons
of a foreign State ; and that the French Go-
vernment, in suffering him to escape, had spared
a life most justly forfeited to their violated laws.

[fittrrisn pRE99.j
Yesterday evening the French Papers of Sa-
turday, with our private letters, reached us from Paris by ex-
press. Our letters from Madrid state, that the Cortes and
Council of State quitted that capital for Seville on the 24th,
and that all was then perfectly tranquil. It is said that Am-
bassadors from the three coalesced powers of the Holy Alll-
- are to proceed to the head-quarters of the Duke of An-
goultMe forthwith, for the purpose of recognizing, on be-
half of this league of tyrants, any regency or constitution
the Ultras of France may attempt to force on the Spanish
people at the point of the bayonet. Lord Fitzroy Somer-
set had arrived in Paris from Madrid, and may be hourly
expected in London ; he states, we understand, that all negocia.

don has closed, and that war is inesquible. The Duke of An,
gouleme arrived at Bayonne on the 31st. The Journal des
Debate, the organ of V tillele and his party, states that the French
army will make its first movement about the 7th of April, and
that Oudinot's corps will. cross the Bidassoa on the 10 h. Or-
drrs have been given for the construction of a line of telegraphs
from Bayonne to Paris, which are expected to be In full motion
by the,lsth. The feeling throughout France is certainly most
'strong against the war, and among the better orders a petition
has been presented in the Chamber of DepUties, signed by
a great number of merchants, manufacturers, and principal
'artists from Lyons, praying that peace may be preserved with
Spain. y The inhabitants of Grenoble resident in Paris, called
on Messrs. Savoye-liollin and Telssierc, Members of the Cot 6
Gauche In the Chamber of Deputies, to congratulate them, in,
the names of a number of their fellow-citizens, on their conduct
during the present Session, and particularly during the remark-
able sittings in the beginning of March. The letter of congratu.'
lation was tilled with more than three hundred signatures, among
whom were those of the most distingnished advocates, mer-
chants, notaries', and bankers in Grdhoble. The Prefect
of the Gironde has announced, by a proclamation addressed
to the Inhabitants of Bourdeaux, that the Duchess of An-
gouleme -would arrive in that city on the 6th. The Duke
of Belluno arrived on the 29th of March at Bayonne ; and
at Boordeaux the report was general that the French army
would make a forward movement by. the 7th. The Jour.
nal des Debuts states, that a courier arrived on Friday from.
Petersburgh to the Russian Ambassador, Pozzo di Bow,—
Gen. Guilleminot has certainly been superseded by the War
Minister, Victor, and is, recalled to. Pans. Some
of somaviolent
clis-
turbancea wok place at,Brest, owing to the conduct
the Swiss soldiers. A 'proclamation was issued by the Mayor
on the occasion, strongly reprobating the conduct of these mer-
cenaries, and promtaing that justice should be exercised agttinst
those who were guilty. .
[MORNING
Paris Journals of Saturday arri'ed yesterday.
Their contents are not without interest. Lord Fitzroy Somer-
set had arrived at Paris from Madrid, and upon his arrival all
hopes of peace, if any can be said to have been still in exist-
ence, vanished. He is said to have announced that negocia-
tlon had been wholly abandoned. A new day is now named in
the, Paris Papers for theipaisage of the Ilidassoa--the 7th inst.
It appears doubtful, however, whether the .frontier will be
crossed even then. Some accounts is the Paris Journals, from
the head-quarters, and a Bayonne paper also, state that though
the troops might be ready to march, yet there was not arrived
a sufficient train of waggons to convey the baggage, and other
aPPurtenancee to an invading army, on so early, a day. The
delay is scarcely of importance, considering that the invasion
seems irrevocably decided. The Duke of Belluno (Minister
of War) arrived on the With, and the Duke of Angouletne on
the 30th ult., The hater inunediately issued from his Head-
quarters at Bayonne un Order of the Day to the troops of
which he had just assumed the command. This document,
insignificant enough in itself, derives interest from the pe-
culler circumstances under which it has been put forth.—li is
the first occasion, on which the French troops have been ed.;
dressed on ,the eve. of battle, by a Meinber of the House of
Bourbon, aloeathe Restoration. The Duke of Angouleme (or
his.military penman) has Fad the bad taste to out4lerod the
peculiar style of which Btionaparte was the,inveri tor in his bulle-
tins, distinguished by a cot tam bold nessihrevit v, and seritentiditS
pomp. Theo bohemia, thii`they som etllll.o rem; e d the darbi g
vation and stirring energy of Martial eloquence might yet be cha-
racterised generally as bombastic; bat that which was only bom-
bast in the bulletins of Italy and Egypt, becomes downright bur-
lesque in the tinier ofthe Day addressed In the Anny Of the Py-
renees, It begins, " Soldiers! I arrive among you I' The event
announced is sadlydisproportioned to the pompous brevity of
this period. It is singular enongh that though Marshal Victor
(Duke of -Helium)) must have superseded Gen. Guilleminnt, as
Major-General of the Army, on the 29th, yet the .Order of the
Day, dated time 30th, is signed in that capacity by the latter.—
The al!pointtristit, of Victor. as Major.Generel was officially no-
titled in the ;11foniteur. Movements indicative of approach..
log hostilities are vaguely ..announced, anti the Ultra Jonr-,
oats make the • most promising representations .of the
numbers and steal of the bandsof the Faith. The Liberal,
:Journals, on the other band, renresent thetwas inaking a piti-
:ful exhibition on the • French aide, and partly routed by the
.oonstitnliona4iata, partly ,by, the Can amongst each other, on
the Spanish side of the Pyrenees, Mina and .nalligelvs are.
it is said, to form a cordon of observation en the Ebro, and are
to be attacked by Marshal idoncry.