The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-10 00:00:00

it was easy for 'Ministers to deprive the
only Power by which an attempt on South
America can be made with any chance of success
of the means of embarking in it, we Should like,
in that case, to know what they
,can urge in their
justification ?—We beliei,e, there is not a man ca-
pable of thinking on .the subject, who will refuse,
to allow that the war between France god Spain
might have been preNented, had Ministers been'
desirous of preventing it. Had they separated
themselves from the Holy Alliance; and boldly
condemned the war, it never would lithe been
undertaken. in the outset the French Govern-
ment were in a state of great uneasiness with re-
spect to the disposition of their army ; they knew
too that the money for the undertaking could
only be obtained in this country, and to have
entered on the war in spite of the marked disap-,
probation of England would have been little
short of madness. But the French knew that
the i‘linistry secretly favoured them, and they
had heard, also, of the cemplitnent paid by a
certain Personage to their Representatives in this
country. But the favourable issue of the war in
Spain was sure to lead to the attempt on South
America. Flushed with success, and backed by
all the' Sovereigns of the'Cuntinent, it was not to
he expected that France would then abandon
designs which she announced under circum.
btances'ao much more unfavourable. We might
have frightened
.her from her attempt on Spain;
we cannot frighten her from South America.

[BRITISH PRESS. J,
Spain will be now, to all intents and purposes,
a province of France, with Molitor as the Mili-
tary Prefe'ct, or Pro-Consul. British commerce
will gradually be excluded from its ports, by
restrictive duties, mid a monopoly given to
Angouleme arrived at Madrid on the
3lro of October, escorted by thirty dragoons of
the guard, and as many Dens d'artnen. tie is
preparing to quit that ill-fated conutry, which
was free when he entered it, and which le; now
leaves divided, desolated; and enslaved, Forty
thousand of his mercenaries, however, will retain
possession of every important point and for-
tress, and hold Spain in military vassalage. This
is but the first step in the 'career of ambition.—
The standard of Gallic conquest again flirts the
sky, and the march of its followers will go on.—
The armies and their composition are the same,
with little exception, who heretofore carried
blood and dominion into every kingdom in lu-
rope, and planted their eagles triumphant within
the walls of their capitals. Angouleme has
been profuse of decorations ,and promotions
to conciliate their attachment and vanity ; they
have teen put at his command without limit
in France ; and the grateful Ferdinand has
placed at his disposal a farther distributiou
of the crosses of Charles the Third and Saint
Ferdinand, without any restriction as to nurn-
her. The modest Duke of Ideated° has eritteu
a letter to Ferdinand, which will be found in our
columns, requesting, to be relieved of the dignity
of President of the Reps! Council, which " en.
forces him to a world of care." He is unequal, lie
states, to the toil of the two situations placed on
his laden shoulders, and cannot perform the duties
of Commandent of the Royal G +lard eel President
of the Council too. He therefore se;',,ilicates the
considerate Ferdinand to exempt from the
latter. The tyrant and his 'confessor are labours
lag hard to extirpate every trace of the Revolu-
tion of IRO, now stigmatized in all his decrees
as a flagrant rebellion. A circular just issue.d
by the Minister of Justice to stop the admi-
nistration of the confiscated church property,
commences by saying, The King, wishing
" all memory of the acts of the rebellious
Governmitnt to perish ;" thus attainting the
Constitution, and all the proceedings•for three
years under it, which he had voluntarily and re-
peatedly sworn himself to maintain, But oaths
are nothing to the tyrant—his p;reat uml!sement,
How is turning into ridicule the latiguage and
proceedings of his former Ministers and the
-leading Deputies of the Cortes. Like the tiger,
he fawns over the agonies of his victims be ere
he dips his bands in their blood.

[SEW TIMES.]
Consols left off oti Saturday afternoon at 8.3.
This small depression (for they closed on Friday.
at 83k) is to be attributed to a prevalent idea
that. 'the Great Continental Powers in -general
would assist the , King of , Spain to recon-
quer South AmeriCa. ,We are aware that
this nation has —obtained considerable circu
latipa at Pails ; but we own we ciiiitior
see any great reason to give it credit..t,.No.
thing but art absolute and imminent danger to,
tier own institutions would have led- France to
incur 'so heavy an expence as that of the late
Spankh War. '!'he other Continental Powers
tire still more btirthetted with finattc,ial•dilliculties
thin 'France is. They know by experience,
that netwithsta,nding all, th
, e idle decla;na-
tion about our National Du bt. nugland is
the
,coautry most abounding in Capital of ,any
tit t;n are. well aware that in
the eve,itt of their adopting a policy hostile to our
interest ii, the blow would. recoil with tenfold
weig!..tt 'on themselves. Now, the only motive
stlggested by the alarmists for the aupposed de-
terinliiation of the Confliv.tntal Pow to setkiu.
gate South America, is their Itcastility to .the
interests of Great fear, it is said,
that, we Should trade 14rgely with'thenew
dependent Siate.i. A. mo.,t ve.Kue and 11041teili.
gible applehensh.ti t VW by should it be, supposed
that ,tli..t Cocitinunfal Sovereigns have been sod.,
seiztid: with so, strange, a blindness
I 111;t1ling to .pryile it tit arty part of, their
avowed policy, They have since the.. peace.
;run a race with us in couirverce. They halts
!eyiri6iti a COriVietitili that commercial pursuits
ar favoUrable to the peace and tranquillity of
the world. It far.more likely that
.they
should desire the,l,or4s 91 South Atnerica to be
perieu o to' their own 140, together with ours,
•
than that they wiall them to be, shut to all but the
flog or gaits.—ft i vutry u.ou eivable
,that the
tc10ri7ir,...11.3 may wisit iletuocratbntl.
prevented from spruailing and..
`taking rout either in .the Old or New
fait •this nott,...t have reasonable Jicnitsi---