The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-14 00:00:00

more than sufficiently false and inflated. "God,"
says this weak and presuming old man, " has
hitherto too visibly protected the most just of
causes—not to hope that he will continue his aid
to it."

[TILE TIMES.)
If a sober-minded individual were asked for
his opinion upon the degree of success which has
actually attended the French invasion of the
Peninsula, we conceive that he would be seriously
puzzled. In the way of fighting there has been
nothing done—a fact which the enemies of the
Constitution will explain by saying that there
was no resistance. Now, it is possible that the
invading army may not be forced (any where but
in Catalonia) to fight a single battle—that it may
capture every one of those two or three and twenty
fortresses (not one of which, however, has yet
fallen)—that it may, in short, have military posses-
sion of Spain—and still be quite as far from fulfill-
ing the object for which it crossed the Pyrenees, as
before any army of observation or cordon mi..
Loire was formed. The truth seems to be, judg-
ing only from what materials the French Jour-
nals themselves afford us, that the establishment
of a Regency composed like that of Madrid
has made no small increase to the perplexities
of the Generalissimo and his advisers. So
long as the King be less than absolute,
the Inquisition curtailed of its privileges,
and the revenge of either against individuals, or
classes of men exposed to the slightest restraint
or hindrance, these Spanish Ultras will cry out
that nothing has been done. Whereas, if their
wild schemes and wicked passions were indulged,
every thing would have to be done over again
from the beginning. One falsehood is, we be-
lieve, fully ascertained, viz. that story said to
have been brought round to Brest by a Cap-
lain of a man of war, from Admiral. Hame-
-1 lin, off Cadiz—to the effect that there had
been before the 22d of June a disso-
lution of the Constitutional Ministry, and
that the Minister of Finance had run away.—
Well-informed people consider this whole narra-
tive, one of the numberless official humbugs
which have disgraced their propagators since the
beginning of the war. Martignac, the French
agent, has been recalled, his " mission being
fulfilled." What was the purpose of his mis-
sion ? Miba has been reinforced, it is said)
by the corps of Maim), recently decease.—
This admirable officer has traversed Cata-
lonia front the Seo to•'l'arragona--that is, from
north to' south—and, according to Moncey's own
dispatches, unmolested. What his next under-
taking is to be; his enemlfs are manifestly
ignorant.- The private correspondence from
Madrid of the 30th ultimo, affirms that Mo-
rillo had had' two engagements near Astorga,
and leaves the result to be judged of by the
fact that the French troops quartered at Sala-
manca had' left that place with much precipita-
tion, to march in the direction of Astorga. The
Empeclnado, it is added, immediately entered
Salamanca, and raised a contribution of 300,000
reals. If this be false, it is very ingenious, and
s equally important if true.

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MOIISIINCt eon.]
We received last night, by express, Freud'
Papers to the 12th instant. They contain accounts of Cris.
With, ances at Lyons, which show the inflammable state of the
public mind in that city, and the inability of the Police and
Government to keep It down ; for notwithstanding the acti-
vity of the one, and the large garrison maintained by the
other, it breaks put afresh on the slightest opportunity. The
seizure of a drunken soldier by some non-commissioned offi-
cers, to convey him to his quarters, was, according to the
Quotidienne and the Journal (le* Debats, the cause of this
new ebullition of populer feeling on the 4th instant. Immense
numbers collected and took hit part, exclaiming—" Ile has
done nothing; they shall not carry him away." On the attempt
for removing him being continued, that exclamation was
changed for the more hostile cry of " Down with the Chas-
stuns ! Throw the Chauseurs into the Rhone ! Get stones !"
Acts followed threats ; the non-commissioned officers were
seized ; their clothes torn ; and had they not drawn their swords
to defend themselves, they would probably have been thrown
into the river. A superior officer of the same corps, who en-
deavoured to persuade the crowd to disperse, was surrounded,
seized, hissed, struck at, and dragged towards the Rhone,
with the ferocious cries of " Throw the Officer into the Rhone!
down with the. Clutsseurs ! Bring stones !" Ile contrived,
however, to wound some of his opponents, and the arrival of a
strong piquet of his own regiment effected rescue and the
ultimate dispersion of the crowd. " This is the fourth time in
the short space of a month," says the writer, " that a similar
event has occurred. We shall make no reflections on conduct so
unheard of and so blameable ; they would not be to the advan-
tage of the, people of Lyons Wise men, who love their
country and
peace, will lament by anticipation the conse-
quer-,s
"which may result from a system which seems to be
suffij.ently connected and continued to have been prepared by
malcontents, in whose hands the people is only an instrument.
It would appear, however, from the following singular rela-
tion, also given by the Quo!idiennc, that if the spirit of disaffec-
tion displays itself by popular tumults at Lyons, it works in
a more silent, but perhaps more dangerous mode in the centre
of the capital itself. Our readers will recollect that the Palace
of the Efysie Bourbon is the residence of the Duchess of Berry
and of her son tho young Duke of Bourdeaux, whom, if the
account be true,
it was probably intended to carry off
" Last night (July 10), about one o'clock, five individuals
having secreted themselves in the garden of the Blume Bourbon,.
suddenly rushed upon a grenadier of the Guard win) was mount-
ing guard, threw hint down, and gagged him. One of the assas-
sins, ss, holding in one hand a purse, winch he said contained 1,000
franca,
and in the other a dagger, commanded the sentinel to
give him the pass-word, and to cry Vive l'Empereur. The i
gre-
nadier having refused by signs to obey, received several blows
front the d g er, which his belt and gorget partly stopped, lie
then strugg
himself an ed so violently, that he succeeded in unengaging
calling out for help, when the assailants took to
flight. A shot was tired at them by another sentry, and on
hearing the report the guards on duty at the Pont-Tournant
also fired. Patrols were immediately sent out and scoured the
Elysian fields but without success. The Grenadier, who is
slightly wounded, declares that the man who stabbed him was
decorated, and that all five had used the precaution of taking off'
their shoes."

BIRTHS.
At Edinburgh' on. the 9th instant, the Lady of Sir James
Montgomery, flart. 51. p. of a son.
At 'Ungulate, in the East Indies, on the 15th February last,
the Lady of Quarter-master Coats, of his Majesty's 54th Re-
giment of Foot,
of a son.

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IVIARRIEb.
On the tat inst , at Dublin, Capt. M. O. T. Liarisay, of the
78th Regiment, inst.
Harriet Annie, .eldest daughter of Lieut..
(.o). Bali C. E. It. S. A.
On Saturday, the 12th inst., Mr. George Shepheattl, of
to
Twickenham, Alias Anderson, of the same place.
At St. G M
George the Martyr's, Queen-square, r, George
James Robinson, toilartiett Sophia, eldest,daughter of John
Smith, Esq., of the Sii Clerks' Office, Chancery-lane.
(n Saturday' ast, at Ealing Church, Charles Delaeour, Esq.
of BOrton.Crescent
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to Caroline Cecilia, eldest daughter of the
Bev. Dr. Nicholas,,Cl 4
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DIEM
On Tuesday lam at Bath, after it lingering illness, Hugh
Wilkinson, Lig of 'the Bengal Civil Service, in the 4titit year
of his age.
On the Ilth of February last,. on board his Najesty's ship
Liffey, at Trincomalee, in the Island of Ceylon, in the 23d
year. of his age, Anthony Henry Cooke, 'Esq., third stm of
-
the late Bryan,Cooke,Xsq., of Owston, in the county of York
On Thursday, the inst., at Hocklifll4 Bedfordshire,
Eleanor; the wife of the Rev. John Robinson.
On the 9th inst., the infant daughter of Wm. Compsoni
Esq., of Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.